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Sale Price:  $45.00   Retail Price: $65.00
 
This 16-inch beauty, made of Keisha pearls and Chilean Lapis Lazuli, can be worn dressed up or dressed down. Finished with a three circle, extender clasp which will lengthen the necklace to 17 inches.  Lapis lazuli value is determined exclusively by color. A deep, intense, blue with violet tones would be at the apex. In the Renaissance period, Lapis Lazuli stone was often ground and used to create blue paint. In powdered form, the stone was also used in blue eyeshadows in Ancient Egypt, most famously by Cleopatra. Lapis Lazuli crystal was also used to adorn burial sites for royalty, and King Tut’s sarcophagus was said to have been decorated with Lapis Lazuli stones. Besides resembling the blue eyeshadow, he wore, the Lapis Lazuli meaning was believed to help guide souls into the afterlife.
 
Keshi pearls are quite unique in the way they are formed, when compared to the standard method of pearl formation. Usually, a pearl is formed when a substance such as a piece of shell becomes embedded in a mollusk such as an oyster. A type of infection ensues, and the oyster heals itself by developing a layer of nacre over the intruding substance, walling it from irritating further. Keshi pearls – also known as poppy seed pearls or seed pearls, as keshi means poppy seed in Japanese – may result from either freshwater or saltwater pearls. Keshi pearls are usually quite small in size. There is usually a large degree of variance in the shape of keshi pearls.