Rainbow moonstone and peach moonstone bracelet, high quality 12mm moonstones and OPTIONAL solid sterling silver moonstone pendant!

Note: You can choose to not have a pendant hanger on your bracelet. You can also have your bracelet made with silvery stainless steel or gold-plated stainless steel hardware. ** I think this bracelet would be beautiful hand-knotted, so I’m giving you that option too! Sterling silver gemstone pendants and charms are NOT included but can be found in the “Gemstone Pendants” section of my shop.

NOTICE: These are GENUINE gemstones! In addition to using genuine gemstones, I also use durable components that will outlast every elastic bracelet on the market. Elastic bracelets will wear out quickly and break, whereas my bracelets will give you years of wear!

Be noticed wearing this eye-catching, non-traditional 100% natural moonstone bracelet with BIG 12mm alternating white moonstone and peach moonstone beads! Every bead has the telltale and distinctive glow you love, with a blue glow in the white beads and a white glow in the orange beads (this glow in moonstone is called “adularescence”, from moonstone’s mineral name “adularia”). Please keep in mind that I’m not a photographer and that moonstones are stubbornly difficult to photograph, so I GUARANTEE this bracelet will look multiple times more beautiful in person!

Let me mention again that this bracelet isn’t dainty - its granddaddy bead size will get you noticed AND complimented for your confident sense of style! The pendant isn’t included, but definitely gives it an added flaunty flair! As pictured this bracelet is 7” long, so yours may have more or less beads depending on the length you choose.

“If it’s not good enough for me, then it’s not good enough for my customers. If I wouldn’t wear it, it doesn’t belong in my shop.” - Heather Constable 

Why I Love It:

I love the soft glow that emanates from within this stone, and just as moonstone holds secrets within it, I find life lessons within the qualities and characteristics of this gemstone. Some moonstone beads in my jewelry pieces have very small spots of leftover matrix (matrix is the rough rock in which the stone was embedded and from which it was mined). I actually prefer to craft my moonstone pieces with less-than-perfect beads, because as I select each stone’s place in a particular piece I am reminded that life is beautiful despite its “flaws”. And just like moonstone, we may have come from a rough beginning, but every one of us is valuable and precious for our inherent and uniquely individual qualities! My hope is that you will be reminded of your own intrinsic value every time you wear your moonstone jewelry, and that you will not think of your imperfections as flaws but as beautiful inclusions that make you precious and one-of-a-kind!

Information About This Gemstone: Most people are familiar with this captivating gemstone and know it by its common name, moonstone, but its mineral name is adularia. Natural moonstone occurs in many different shades, but all moonstone is always rich in feldspars, which are the transparent to lightly colored mineral “building blocks” of the rock creation process. The feldspars interweave as moonstone forms and are responsible for this coveted gemstone’s distinctive shimmer. When ultraviolet rays from the sun are reflected off the feldspar inclusions and into the human eye a mesmeric glowing effect is produced (an effect mineralogists define as “adularescence”). The finest moonstone specimens are colorless and completely transparent and harken from Sri Lanka and southern India, and due to their clarity and  rarity can fetch over a thousand dollars per carat! 

While I use very nice quality moonstones in my jewelry pieces they are not $1,000 per carat specimens, but they nonetheless have the telltale adularescence that makes them instantly identifiable as moonstones. White moonstone bracelets are almost always strung on clear or white elastic string, but I prefer to use pastel string because it complements the stones themselves. More importantly, using colored string really makes their glow “pop” because light enters the stones, gets blocked by the opaque pigments in the thread and is deflected back through the stones, which amplifies and showcases their beauty!

I absolutely love all stones that produce an “essence” - adularescence, labradorescence, opalescence, etc. However, the natural inclusions in these prized and valuable “essence” gemstones that give them their beauty also give them a weaker molecular structure compared to some other gemstones. Mineralogists use the Mohs Hardness Scale to rank minerals and gemstones from 1 to 10 according to their susceptibility to damage from a harder mineral. Moonstone ranks squarely at 6 on the Mohs Hardness Scale, making it more durable than tooth enamel and a traditional pane of glass (both 5 ), approximately as durable as opal, but not as durable as diamond (a solid 10). For this reason you should treat your moonstone jewelry with relative care and avoid collisions with hard objects, although you can otherwise wear it on a daily basis with no special precautions.

Fun facts: Although white moonstone is closely related to labradorite, it is NOT “white labradorite” as some people think (which is why you will sometimes see white moonstone mistakenly sold as “white labradorite”). While both gemstones are categorized in the feldspar family, they have different mineral compositions. Moonstone is composed of two types of feldspars called orthoclase and albite, whereas labradorite is composed of the feldspars anorthrosite and albite. Gem quality moonstone is semitransparent to transparent, whereas labradorite is always opaque (having no degree of transparency). Lastly, as mentioned above the glow of moonstone is called “adularescence”, whereas the blue, purple, green, red, gray, brown and/or golden glow of labradorite is called “labradorescence”.