TYPES OF RHINESTONES – PriceLess Is A High QUALITY BRAND

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Adding rhinestones to clothes, shoes, and accessories has increased in popularity. While you can buy blinged out items, often they’re expensive and made with lower quality rhinestones. Yet, applying rhinestones to clothing and accessories is easy and fun. However, when sorting through the many different types of rhinestones, how can you choose the best one? 

Meet the PriceLess Rhinestone

Certainly, for some shoppers, only a name brand will do. Purchasing a name brand offers the guarantee of a quality product. For many years, Swarovski was the premier brand. However, in 2021 the company removed itself from the retail market due to increased pressure from other manufacturers.

Also, sometimes you may not want to spend a lot of money. Perhaps you are simply looking for a cost-effective way to add excitement with bling.

One such cost effective, high quality rhinestone is the PriceLess brand. It has precise machine cut facets of the highest crystal and sparkles beautifully under the lights. Moreover, it’s available in dozens of sparkling colors and several rhinestone sizes. It’s a great Swarovski alternative that won’t break your budget.

Various Types of Rhinestones
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When buying rhinestones, you’ll find different kinds with varying price structures. Usually, less expensive bling products have a lower rhinestone quality. Comparatively, one of the factors affecting price is the raw material. Generally, manufacturers create flatback rhinestones using one of three different materials:

• Plastic
• Glass
• Crystal

Acrylic, resin, and jelly rhinestones fall into the category of plastic. These are the least expensive types of rhinestones made by injecting or pouring the plastic compound into molds. Glass and crystal are easy to mix up because crystal is a type of glass. Both involve the same manufacturing process. However, crystal manufacturers add lead to glass for a product with more clarity, strength, and beauty. Crystal also bends light to a greater degree than glass giving it the ability to separate it into individual colors. Today, many crystal manufacturers use zinc oxide, potassium oxide, or barium oxide instead of lead.

Also, within each rhinestone category are grades or quality measurements. For example, some lower grade flatback rhinestones may appear cloudy with bubbles trapped inside. Others may vary in color from batch to batch. Sometimes, lower quality brands may even yellow or blacken with age.

PriceLess Rhinestones are quality, machine cut crystal. Every size and batch display a consistent hue. You won’t find a more cost effective crystal rhinestone with this much sparkle on the market.

What’s the Best Types of Rhinestones for Crafts, Clothing, or Shoes?

Aside from price, several other characteristics can help you choose the best rhinestone for your bling project. Typically, plastic rhinestones are softer and prone to scratching more than glass or crystal. Additionally, manufacturers use molds to create plastic rhinestones so there are fewer facets with less definition.

Fundamentally, facets create the play of lights or sparkle of the rhinestone. The smooth surface of a facet causes reflection. As light hits a facet, some of the light bounces back to the viewer. The rest travels to the interior of the rhinestone. Once inside, the light bounces around sometimes exiting in a different direction. If the rhinestone is crystal, some of the interior light will bend and separate into different colors.

Generally, higher quality rhinestones have a greater degree of sparkle. This is due to the number of facets and their arrangement on the embellishment affecting this play of light.

Where Can I Buy Quality Rhinestones?

Rhinestones Etc. has been selling high quality rhinestones online for over a decade. With outstanding customer service and fast shipping, we want to be your source for sparkle. Browse our selection of colors and let us help you dazzle.
 
 
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