Unique Design Traits

Top quality bi-color tourmaline are highlighted with a diamond halo. 

Pear shape rainbow moonstones grace the top of each earring highlighting the colors from the bi-color tourmalines.

Highest quality moonstone will be transparent without inclusions and clearly visible blue sheen. Most Moonstones tend to be included and/or semi-transparent. 

Moonstone is plated in metal underneath helping to display the billowing adularescence (sheen/glow) of the moonstone. 

Perfect for a day to night earrings as they can be dressed down or up.

Gemstone Details

Tourmaline

Tourmaline is a gemstone that comes in a seemingly endless variety of shades and colors and in fact can occur in almost every hue. Many colors have inspired their own trade names, such as the pink, red, purplish red and orangish red tourmalines known as ‘rubellite’, while dark blues, violetish blues and greenish blues are referred to as ‘indicolite’. The vivid green shade of tourmaline is known as ‘chrome’ although its color is usually attributed to vanadium, not chromium. Parti-color and watermelon tourmaline will display multiple color-blocked hues. 

First reportedly discovered in the 1500s by Spanish explorers in Brazil but mistaken for emerald; it took until the 1800s for scientists to distinguish it as the green variety of tourmaline. Its name even reflects this confusion, derived from the Sinhalese word toramalli, which means ‘mixed gems’. For centuries tourmalines have adorned the jewels of royalty. The Empress Dowager Tz'u Hsi, the last empress of China, valued the rich pink colors above all other gemstones. 

Recent discoveries of new hues in Brazil have propelled tourmalines’ popularity among gem and jewelry lovers, particularly the vivid blue of Paraíba tourmaline. Tourmaline is one of the few gems to be mined in the United States, with significant deposits found in Southern California. 

Tourmaline is a birthstone for October and the gem of the eighth anniversary.

Rainbow Moonstone 

A member of the feldspar group, orthoclase, moonstone is known for its distinct sheen under certain lighting conditions called adularescence. Rainbow moonstones are from the labradorite species of the group. Labradorite feldspar is most often associated with mining in Labrador, Canada, but Madagascar is a top source for rainbow moonstone which has a lighter or more transparent body color than traditional labradorite. Both traditional moonstone and rainbow moonstone’s adularescence is caused by light reflection of twinning planes. This layering causes an interference of light as it enters the stone, reflecting back as the sheen beloved in moonstones, making them appear to glow from within. 

Legends say the stone provides good luck, Hindu legend believes it was formed by moonbeams, and in Arab countries, women historically sewed moonstones into their garments to promote fertility. Properties often associated with the moon have been applied to this gemstone, such as romance, femininity, intuition, dreams and love. 

Long been a favored gemstone in jewelry, designers of the romantic Art Nouveau era, such as René Lalique and Louis Comfort Tiffany, heavily featured moonstone. Like most gemstones, the most prized moonstones contain no visible inclusions; they will also have a colorless, semitransparent to nearly transparent body color with strong vivid adularescence. 

Moonstone is one of the birthstones for June.

Design Details

Bi-color Tourmaline, Rainbow Moonstone & Diamond Earrings
18K Yellow Gold
2 Bi-Color Tourmaline E/C 8.63 ctw. (13.55x7.70mm) - Heated
2 Moonstone P/S 3.10 ctw. - Natural
104 Diamond Round 0.96 ctw. - (E-F/VS+)