You love wearing gemstone jewelry, but you are unaware of the aesthetic and semantic codes in this area? Jewelry made from natural stones is not chosen at random. Do you want your fashion jewelry to benefit both your look and your morale? Follow the guide and discover all the advice from the Satellite Paris team.
Lithotherapy: the power of natural stones
Before knowing which stone to choose, one may want to learn more about the virtues and benefits of natural stones. For this, lithotherapy is quite popular!
What is lithotherapy?
Lithotherapy is a technique and belief that dates back to ancient Egypt. Its method relies on the properties of natural stones to heal or, at the very least, bring well-being.
The virtues of jewelry made from natural stones
According to the principles of lithotherapy, the energy contained in the stone acts on two levels: the psychic level and the emotional level. The human body being inseparable from its mind, acting on one has effects on the other. By "healing" your mind through the effect of wearing a natural stone, you would also be benefiting your body!
How does lithotherapy work?
The vibrations emitted by natural stones are said to have an effect on the spiritual, psychic, and, consequently, physical levels. Therefore, finding the stone that suits you is essential. The stones that are right for you can help release your tensions.
How to choose your stone?
You do not choose a natural stone. It chooses you! Hold the stone in your hands and be attentive to your sensations and feelings. If you feel well-being and calm, you have found the stone that is right for you at this precise moment in your life. It may be your lucky stone. Let your intuition guide you!
Choosing a natural stone based on its meaning
To choose a natural stone worn as jewelry, you may also pay attention to its meaning.
Find your natural stone according to your birth month
Would you like to wear a natural stone from your birth month? In lithotherapy, each natural stone is associated with a month of the year:
- January: garnet;
- February: amethyst;
- March: aquamarine;
- April: diamond;
- May: emerald;
- June: pearl and moonstone;
- July: ruby;
- August: peridot;
- September: sapphire;
- October: tourmaline;
- November: topaz;
- December: tanzanite.
Choose your natural stone jewelry according to the meaning of the color
The color of a natural stone is also believed to have specific virtues:
- black color: resilience and composure;
- brown color: stability, ambition, and grounding in reality;
- red color: strength, confidence, and courage;
- orange and yellow color: liveliness of spirit, dynamism, and energy;
- green color: well-being, harmony, confidence, evolution;
- blue color: serenity, anti-stress, confidence;
- pink color: love, healing;
- purple color: inspiration, imagination, spirituality, serenity;
- white or translucent color: calm and spirituality.
Three criteria for finding your natural stone jewelry
While choosing your gemstone based on its meaning is important, let’s also consider the aesthetic dimension of combinations, the harmony of colors and outfits.
Choose your natural stone jewelry according to your look
The choice of your outfit may impact that of your gemstone and vice versa. Consider matching colors, brightening your outfits with colorful natural stone jewelry, or conversely, opting for a bit of sobriety if your look is already extravagant.
Choose colors that enhance your complexion
While it is easy to determine your skin color (light, medium, or dark), it is more delicate to know your undertone, subtle hue. To ensure that your jewelry enhances your complexion, and vice versa, you can select colors based on your skin's undertone. Experts agree on three categories:
- warm tones: your skin tans in the sun and does not redden;
- intermediate or neutral tones;
- cool tones: your skin reddens in the sun and tans slowly.
To identify your skin's undertone, you can observe your wrists in natural light, where the skin is very thin. If your veins have a purplish hue, your skin's undertone is cool. If your veins are more blue or green, your undertone is neutral. Finally, if the color of your veins leans towards a more pronounced green or olive, your skin's undertone is warm.
How to choose the right natural stone and metal for your skin tone?
- a light-colored natural stone to highlight warm tones: a gold fashion piece of jewelry with a stone like quartz, mother-of-pearl, or moonstone. Garnet or peridot pair particularly well with darker skin tones;
- a cool-colored natural stone in harmony with cool tones: a silver piece of jewelry with a stone like agate, garnet, or amethyst;
- any type of natural stone for neutral shades.
Pairing the natural stone with the right metal
When opting for jewelry made from natural stones, the combination with the metal color is an important criterion to consider. There are indeed successful combinations and others that are less obvious. Some pairings are sure bets. These include:
- amethyst with yellow gold, rose gold, white gold, and silver;
- peridot and rose quartz with all metals;
- garnet with rose gold or yellow gold.
Now it's your turn! All you have to do is choose your favorite piece of jewelry from the natural stone collection in the Satellite Paris catalog.
Find all our tips for choosing and caring for your jewelry, along with numerous style ideas on the Satellite jewelry advice page.
