Gold Ring. Mine. Preciousssss.
I just bought myself a gold ring. Oh my god. A. Gold. Ring. Real. Gold. Ring.
I just had my first pay and borrowing a tradition from a friend where you buy something memorable for your first pay, I was tossing up between getting a custom bra or jewelery. Don’t know how I drifted towards jewelery. Then going with the jewelery option, I was undecided between an ID cuban chain link bracelet or a ring.
My mother and I went to Michael Hill yesterday just to get an idea of what sort of rings I like and not like. The guy looked a bit sleazy in my opinion (but then again, what jewelery sales person are not sleazy?) but I tried on a lot of rings. I really liked a gold ring with the diamonds embedded in the ring. That sales person was already pushing the different ring sizes on to my finger, getting out the log book and all that and I’m like “Dude, we’re just looking.”
So, today, we went to another side of town which has both Michael Hill and Pascoes. The Michael Hill store was doing the whole “we’re so 133t, we need the bodyguard to herd the customers into a single file like a herd of animals”. So I told my mother since Michael Hill is doing something like this, I’m not going in. I’m a customer wanting to buy jewelery, not some fucking barn animal being lead into a single file by a bodyguard.
Walked into Pascoes…came out with a receipt for a gold ring. The Pascoes sales person was giving us a whole lot of important information while Michael Hill were just “buy buy buy”. Next time, I’m going to Pascoes first. It was actually a fun experience buying my first real piece of jewelery. My mother and the sales assistant really liked a white gold ring with three diamonds placed slightly higher than the ring. I was really ‘iffy’ on the diamonds placed higher. I wanted them IN the ring but the sales assistant said that if I get them resized, the pattern will go out of shape so it’s best if I went for something like a princess style or a solitaire set because my finger is tiny.
The sales assistant saw how much I really wanted the diamonds embedded that she finally said, “Perhaps since you like it not so much ‘off the ground’ (diamond placed higher than ring), would you like to try on the plain gold bands?” Me = “YES.” She explained that these were not on display because they’re plain gold bands made mainly for wedding rings. But all I heard was the rings calling my name. I nearly bought a ring which was quite rounded before I cast my eyes on to the shelf again and tried a “flatter” ring on. Mother thought that the flatter one looked better.
So now, I’m a proud owner of a plain gold ring band, mainly for wedding rings, 9ct gold. I wanted a higher content of gold but 9ct was the highest they had. Pictures when my re-sized ring arrives.
I’m so excited~~~!
Oh yeah, tips when buying ring:
- If you’re buying white gold, remember that every 3~4 years, you’re going to have to bring it into the jewelery store and get it back to top shape. Yellow gold does NOT need this.
- If you are buying rings with patterns, always ask if the pattern will be affected when resizing.