How to Wear Jewelry: Part 1. Go for the Color

When we decide to wear jewelry we usually tend to forget just how many ways it can be worn. The supply is huge, the styles are countless, materials vary from plastic to diamonds, so it is not always easy to decide in the morning rush what would best go with the clothes we plan to wear.

I will try to guide my dear readers through the several styles and ways of wearing jewelry - from the most simple to the most creative ways.

The message of the first chapter in this series is: Go for the Color!

This is the easiest way to get those pieces actually dress you up and to get the most out of them. No big secret: just match them to the color of your outfit, accessories, or sometimes even to your skin tone or hair color. Manageable, right?

The best example is the style you see on the far right (dress by Pucci): the turquoise color of the bracelet just repeats the color of the dress.

Same story on the next photo: have fun and put on a pair of earrings in exactly the same color of the dress but play with the style.

Be careful, this needs a bit more experienced hand, don't go too far from the style of the dress, just make it all funny or eye-catching (dress by Nina Ricci).



You can do the same with the necklace. Even a formal dress can get a bit lighter if you spice it up with a playful necklace in matching color.

Make sure that one of these is matching: color or style. If both are exactly the same, you can get a boring result but if neither of them is really matching, you can end up looking like a joke (dress by Nina Ricci again).





Easy to know why it works again (dress by Prada): same color and a spoonful of fun. Look at the shoes that break up the monotony of purple. You don't want to dress up in purple from head to toe either, do you?


Wonderful texture, rich materials, necklace exactly in place on the neckline. This is how the perfect statement jewelry looks when it is chosen based on the color.

Can you imagine the same dress with a simple silver necklace? Boring! But this piece brings out all of the simple dress and makes it even more special (dress by Oscar de la Renta). If you also have a piece like this in your collection, don't overuse it, but save it for the best occasions when they can work with all their power.

Now, let's move forward as you can not only match your jewelry to the main part of the outfit but also to the accessories. Easy, if you have a webshop like Csinicsomag in your internet bookmarks where smart angels make the composition for you. With a jewelry collection wisely expanded, you will also have this option at home.







But have you ever seen anything as lovely as matching the jewelry with the color and the shape of the ornaments on the dress (and do you recognize Natalie Portman here)? Looks easy but can get just too much so think twice before you throw anything circular on you when you wear a dotted skirt. The pieces really need to match. Choose only one piece of jewelry and even if you put on some more, refrain from repeating the ornaments all the time. For an ordinary weekday one such perfect match is perfectly enough.




However, for the sophisticated, here is the ultimate matching worn by Naomi. And now we have arrived to the next theme in this series which I will tell you about in the next chapter very soon - you can hardly go wrong if you go tribal with your jewelry.

Coming soon...

5 Things You Can Do When Your Job Is Eating Up Your Life (And It's Not Too Late Yet)

This list might seem to be a good joke which lacks any seriousness but don't get misled by the funny way I put it. This is bloody serious: you have only one life and nobody else will have fun in it or discover your limits instead of you.

So what are your options?

1. Be a Waiter/waitress or Tourist Guide in Greece

I was lucky enough to try both and it was one of the best periods in my life. I left a serious job with a promising outlook for months of complete freedom and full of discovery. It cleared up my mind and I came back knowing exactly what I wanted to do - and it was not what I had left behind - so I put my life on a completely different new track.
This was years ago and by now Greece is not the best destination so you can replace it with Mallorca or Phuket upon your wish.

2. Sell paintings in Portugal

If you work in sales or marketing, this is your chance to get back to the roots and see things from a different perspective. You will literally work for every cent. But your office will not be neon-lit anymore: you will change it for the beach or the avenue where lovers stroll in the evening. If you are lucky, singles will also stroll your way.

3. Become a zookeeper

Not the cleanest job, we must admit. But just imagine all the kids looking at you with envy and respect when you feed the penguins! Be careful, being a zookeeper for more peaceful and harmless animals is much funnier than feeding the polar bear so you might get a good use of your networking and negotiation skills you had developed in the multinational environment before.

4. Volunteer!

If you are as lucky as to be able to afford this. Use the internet, discover the opportunities and get on the road! There are so many fields that need volunteering work: disabled kids' camps, saving endangered animals, day-care of AIDS-infected, and so on, but there are also programs that offer consulting and free know-how to developing countries' rural people in the field of agriculture or small business management.
The choices you can make are countless but the result will be only one: the most useful time of your life ever.

5. Self-employment

This needs dedication just like any of the mentioned options but here we must also consider dedication in financial sense.
Make a good plan, prepare, save money, research your market - in a nutshell, use all the skills you use in the office every day. You can open a private nursery or make goat cheese - there is no limit to what a person's creative and entrepreneurial side can achieve when it is used to all its effectiveness. Probably this is the one of all the above listed ways of escaping that needs the most preparation. You will be taking risks and might not have a single day off for the next couple of months or years to come. Think about all this, discuss it with people you trust and when you get really excited - jump!

And for the rest of us, whose lives are not eaten up by our job: be nice to waitresses, tourist guides and zookeepers! They might be your boss next year!