IfShe Journal

Ask what the stone in a birthstone necklace is made of and there are three honest answers — a mined gemstone, a lab-grown gemstone, or a lab-made lookalike — plus a fourth answer that is vague only because someone chose to keep it that way. The three honest ones are all legitimate. The fourth is the one worth walking away from. This guide names the materials: what cubic zirconia physically is and why it throws more colored fire than a diamond, why a lab-created ruby is chemically a ruby rather than an imitation, how hard each of the twelve traditional...

There are two honest ways to carry a photograph around your neck, and they are not competing versions of the same thing. A photo locket is a small hinged case: you open the cover and a printed picture is inside. A projection necklace holds the same picture sealed inside a clear domed stone, invisible in normal light — you hold it toward a window, a lamp, or a phone flashlight and look through it, and the image appears. On this store both formats sit side by side: photo locket necklaces run to 31 designs, from CA$79.95, and projection photo necklaces...

Most name necklace listings tell you the price and show you a photo of somebody else's name. Neither answers the two questions that actually decide whether the piece works: how many names it can physically hold, and what metal sits underneath the finish. Those are the questions this guide is built around, using measured numbers from the 11 designs in our own name necklace collection, which run from CA$69.95 to CA$139.95. A name necklace is unusual among gifts in that it cannot be swapped afterwards. A ring can be resized, a chain can be shortened, but a pendant cut to...

Ordering a personalized necklace from outside Canada raises questions that buying one downtown never does. Who pays the border charge. How many days it really takes. What happens if the engraving comes back spelled wrong — and whether that is your problem or ours. This page answers those questions for orders placed on this store, using the same wording our policy pages use. Where a figure is set by the Canadian government rather than by us, we say so instead of guessing at it. Nothing below is written to reassure you; it is written so that you can check it....