Pearl jewelry is often handed down from generation to generation. They never go out of fashion. We offer hundreds of styles of pearls. Whether your customers want classic white or want to get a little funky with silver-grey, our variety of colors and styles will have something for everyone. Pearls are perfect to pair with a black dress for a cocktail party, a gown for a formal affair, or just a blouse for work. Our pearls are effortless and timeless. Go ahead and find the best affordable pearl jewelry at Alamode Fashion Jewelry!
You are asking your partner to marry you. How exciting! You put the ring on her finger, but you find out it’s the wrong size. How embarrassing! Marriage is a big step. You can do everything right like bring her to the perfect restaurant or gather family and friends for a special party, but an ill-fitting ring can ruin everything. How do you figure out her ring size while keeping the surprise? Here are some tips to help you on your special journey.
1. Grab her ring
If your fiancee-to-be wears a ring on her left ring finger, you are in luck. You can just secretly borrow it and use our online ring size tool to figure out the size. But if she wears that ring every day, you can try another method.
2. Tie the knot (literally)
You can wrap a piece of string or print out our ruler on a strip of paper. Wrap this string or paper around her finger and mark the correct point to measure her ring size. We suggest you can do this while she is sleeping to maintain the element of surprise.
3. Ask her friends
Another great way to find out her ring size is to ask her your partner’s friends to take her shopping and try on some rings for fun. You can get her accurate ring size after hearing back from her friends.
Every woman is worth a wonderful proposal. We hope the above information will be helpful, and good luck!
Any other tips you’d like to share with us? Let us know in the comments below!
You may have seen movie stars wear exaggerated rings with huge gems walking down the red carpet at the Oscars. Or maybe at a fancy party where immaculately dressed women show off their big colorful rings while holding a glass of red wine.
Appropriately enough, these rings which pair so well with formal drinking occasions are actually called “cocktail rings”.
The United States in the 1920s was a time of social change for women. During that time, women were able to progress and achieve newfound freedoms that they did not have before. Women started to attain the freedom of vote, the freedom to work and even the basic freedom of enjoying fashion. At the same time that new freedoms were being obtained, others were being lost. This was also the time of prohibition and alcoholic beverages were banned. However, this law did not cause the desired outcome of a full renunciation of alcohol. Instead, prohibition forced drinking underground with alcohol still flowing at illegal drinking parties and speakeasies. This illegal alcohol was often expensive and these parties could be glamorous affairs. Attendees would dress to the nines. Many women would wear huge gems on their fingers to draw attention to themselves while drinking their forbidden cocktails. This is how cocktail rings got the name.
Cocktail rings soon became a symbol of a woman’s capabilities and competence from the freedoms attained from the 1920s. Cocktail rings came to represent women’s independence in the economy and in society. While the left-hand ring finger is most commonly associated with wedding rings, the right-hand ring finger has become a signal of independence and competence.
As time passed, cocktails rings evolved to become a way for women to show their unique personality and identity. At the same time, the designs of cocktail rings started to become more diverse. From flower motifs to chunky-blend elements, these unique designs reflect a woman’s self-confidence, respect, love, and beauty. Now you can pick your favorite cocktail ring to show off your personality and distinguish yourself from the crowd.
To show “YOU”, you can choose a cocktail ring that reflects your personality. The color and style of the unique statement pieces are the full deep meaning of you.
Easter is the time of new beginnings with nature showing its beauty again after the winter. Go ahead and celebrate with our collection of beautiful flower and butterfly jewelry! Nature and butterfly jewelry aside, our Easter collection also features crosses and more. Stock up on our Easter themed jewelry today! We’re sure that shoppers will love to buy them for themselves, family, and friends.
Wearing a ring can certainly draw attention to your fingers, but did you know that that beautiful ring not only shows your fashionable tastes but also reveals a bit about your personality? While people may no longer adhere to tradition quite as much, it’s still fun to find out what wearing a ring on a particular finger might say about you!
Thumb
Meaning: Self-confident, straightforward, and bold.
Our Picks: A chunky ring is a great choice to show your confidence and fashion statement here.
Index Finger
Meaning: In a relationship and ready for marriage.
Our Picks: Be bold and be beautiful with a sparkling cocktail ring to attract the attention of people around you!
Middle Finger
Meaning: Ready to fall in love, engaged in the moment
Our Pick: A classy and elegant ring that makes the wearer look formal and upbeat
Ring Finger
Meaning: Engaged, married, committed
Our Picks: The ring finger is reserved for a wedding, engagement, or a serious promise. The most popular styles are classic solitaire, romantic, and heart shaped.
Pinky Finger
Meaning: Single, carefree, independent, playful, proud
Our Picks: Adorn your pinky finger with a delicate ring as cute as you are!
Before you go!
Before you go, let’s play a game! Do you know why we wear wedding rings on the fourth finger?
First, open your hands and place both of your hands together. Second, bend your two middle fingers together, and leave others fingers touching together.
Your thumbs represent your parents. Now separate your thumbs. This represents when you first move out of the house and start life on your own.
Your index fingers represent your siblings. Separate your index fingers to represent your brothers and sisters branching off and starting families of their own.
Your pinky fingers represent your children. Separate your pinky fingers to represent your children leaving the nest and starting their own family with somebody in the future.
Finally, try to separate your ring fingers. You can’t do it, right? This is because ring fingers represent how husband and wife are destined to be together forever.
This explanation comes from an old traditional folktale. Fun isn’t it!
After dominating for the past few seasons, minimalist dainty rings may be on their way out. The classic cocktail ring has been taken to new extremes on the runway in the Autumn/Winter 2019/2020 season. Check out these audacious and ostentatious cocktail rings from Dolce & Gabbana, Balenciaga and Oscar de la Renta.
Dolce & Gabbana
Balenciaga
Oscar de la Renta
The move away from minimalist, dainty jewelry is evident on the street as well. At this year’s South by Southwest, big and exaggerated was the name of the game for rings and accessories. A heavy emphasis on crystal and turquoise displays the trend toward oversized shapes that suggests a mystical and bohemian look.
SXSW 2019
Looking for similar styles to fill out your collection?
Whether you’re looking for some dramatic drop earrings, or opt for elegance with modern stud earrings, you’re sure to find it at Alamodeonline.com. Our exclusive DAVANO collection has a huge selection of glistening cubic zirconia earrings in every style, all at affordable prices. Whatever kind of earrings you might be looking for, you can be sure to find accessible fine jewelry with us.
You finally did it. You found web hosting, you bought the perfect domain name, and you have set up your first online store. Even though you designed everything yourself, it looks professionally made.
Great! You got your first customer inquiry. But oh no, you’re still answering emails from your personal Gmail account you set up in 10th grade. Sure, some people might not notice that you’re answering their questions as garfieldfan1992@hotmail.com but then again, you would have noticed. You can probably get “youstorename@gmail.com” and call it a day but it’s still not THAT professional sounding. People are already suspicious about buying from a new online store. A Gmail account might not make people more suspicious but it certainly doesn’t help. To make matters worse, you already bought that perfect domain name for your website, why can’t you just use it? Below we are going to compare some of the top ways to get free email hosting for your custom domain using email forwarding, Zoho, and Yandex.
The typical way… go with Google
But before we get started, let’s just go over what most people do. Google’s G Suite includes productivity apps like Google Docs and Google Drive but also includes a version of Gmail that lets you use your custom domain. Best of all it’s free… if you signed up before 2012.
Given that you’re reading this now, you are probably too late for the free version. At $5 per user, it’s not a terrible price for the convenience of Gmail and the included productivity apps. But then again, these are the same apps you get already get for free as a normal Gmail user. Also, $5 per user per month is not a lot for just one person but might add up if you have a few friends or family that could help out with customer support. Also what if you want an admin@email.com account or a support@email.com or an info@email.com account. While the costs are still small, it could still add up to a few hundred dollars a year for something that FEELS like it should be free. So what are the alternatives?
Email Forwarding
The simplest way to get your custom email domain routed is to use email forwarding. In essence, this isn’t much different than having one mailbox with your domain and just automatically pressing “Forward” to every email that comes in. Since these emails are forwarded, you can actually send all these emails to your existing Gmail account. With the right configuration, you can also, more or less, send emails as your custom domain directly from your Gmail account but it might show up to the receiver with a message saying “sent via gmail.com”. In all, this is a fine solution if a little bit of a “hack”. Many people have used this method for years with no ill effects. You can find detailed instructions on how to do this here.
Pros:
Easy
Can still use Gmail
Can send and receive as your custom domain
Cons:
Kind of a “hack”
Your domain registrar needs to support email forwarding
Some domain registrars might limit the number of forwards
You have to configure Gmail to allow a “less secure apps” mode
People still might receive a message saying that your email was “sent via gmail.com”
Zoho Mail
Zoho is an Indian productivity software company with their US headquarters in California. They are probably most well known for their CRM software that is a more inexpensive alternative to Salesforce. With their bundle of products, they also offer a version of their email services with custom domain support that is free for 5 users. The free option is a little hidden on their website but you can find a link to sign up here.
Much like G Suite, Zoho offers a variety of other free productivity applications when you sign up but most are arguably worse than Google’s offerings. The email client is fine. There is a small learning curve but some features are, in my opinion, easier to use than Gmail, such as group email accounts.
The big downside to the free Zoho Mail account is that there is no SMTP or POP access. This feature is only available in their paid version and this basically means that you will not be able to access Zoho mail from 3rd party apps. They have their own email app for both iPhone and Android which is decent but if you need to have all your emails in your current smartphone app then this might be a dealbreaker.
Pros:
Full email services
Includes suite of free productivity software
Not a hack – won’t have issues with weird sender addresses and forwarding
Cons:
Limited to 5 free accounts
Limited to their smartphone app for free accounts
Yandex
Yandex is essentially the Google of Russia. As such, they offer very similar services, which includes a Gmail equivalent that includes custom domains for free. You can have up to 1000 free email addresses on each domain each with unlimited storage. There are free API integrations (which you probably won’t need, but still nice to know it’s there). Yandex includes SMTP and POP3 access or free which means you can use your preferred smartphone app to receive your emails. If you wanted to, you can even configure your current Gmail to send and receive your email through SMTP and everything will be synced. This syncing means that there would be none of the issues that you would see if using email forwarding.
The only potential problem is that the service is based out of Russia. While it is possible that your data might be more at risk in Russia compared to the US, Yandex is a well-established tech company and is probably well prepared to protect your data against attackers. In terms of privacy, given that many US firms are currently in the middle of data privacy scandals, I can’t say they would be better than an American firm but I also can’t say for sure that they would be worse. In terms of government surveillance, the Russian government certainly does not have a good track record, but personally, I don’t think the Russian government cares my emails nor do I care if they see them. I do not plan on going over there any time soon.
With that said, privacy is not my main problem with Yandex. The biggest problem is that their servers are physically located in Russia. Most internet traffic coming out of Russia is benign but some organizations will mark all internet traffic coming from a certain location as spam and automatically block that traffic. While this is not a good practice and would not happen if you were emailing someone using a major email provider like Google or Yahoo, this might still happen to very cautious and conservative organizations that run their own emails servers. Specific examples that come to mind would be hospitals and government agencies. Even though even among these organizations, this blanket blocking is rare, it can still happen and can be a real headache if it occurs.
Pros:
1000 free email addresses
Unlimited storage
Free productivity apps
Can use your existing smartphone and desktop email apps
Can be synced with your Gmail account
Cons:
Is physically hosted in Russia
Conclusion
So in the end, what should you do? If someone were to ask me, I would tell them to just forget the headache and pay for email from Google or Microsoft (which is a little cheaper at 5 emails for $100 a year). With that said, when I personally set up email for a new domain, I use Zoho. Are all the little annoyances worth $5 a month? To me, yes it is but ultimately, you will have to make that calculation for yourself.
As always, if you have any questions, feel free to write a comment down below and we will get to you as soon as possible!
Amazon is one of the easiest platforms to use… as a customer. As a seller, the story is quite different. If you have ever listed a product on the Amazon marketplace, you know how frustrating it can be. Waiting 15 minutes for inventory updates to show, pictures not uploading correctly and cryptic error messages. These are problems you will run into constantly if you use Amazon’s selling platform. However, the worst experience is when you are trying to do something that’s non-standard. Today we will do run through one of these activities by creating a new fashion jewelry listing without a UPC.
The problem
Amazon expects you to list an item by looking for an existing universal identifier such as a UPC or their own Amazon identifier ASIN. They do this to provide a better experience to end users since it would reduce the number of repeat listings. This is great for customers but what about new items that do not have a UPC, like jewelry.
Amazon does allow items to be listed without a UPC but often an exemption is required. For some products, like unbranded jewelry, Amazon gives a blanket exception and allows you to list against an ASIN that they generate for you. However, at the time of this writing, the Amazon Seller web interface no longer lets you do that.
Trying to add an item without an existing ASIN does not allow you to save. The same problem occurs when trying to add a variation, which is all but necessary for items that require sizes such as jewelry.As long as a section up here stays red, you can’t save your new product.
In the past, when you listed an item, like jewelry, without a UPC, you can choose to use an ASIN and the system would generate an ASIN for you. You could then add the product under the newly generated ASIN. As you can see in the screenshot above, this is no longer true.
Even reverting back to the original interface also does not work.
You still have the option to return to the old interface. Still can’t save in the old interface.
So officially, you can still apply for an exemption or you can use a third party ASIN generator to get the ASIN to input into these forms, but that can be very costly and time-consuming.
The Workaround
Fortunately, we still have a workaround. We can still use upload templates to create new listings without having to use UPCs. Today we will walk through how to upload a new fashion ring listing with multiple size variations into the Amazon Marketplace using a template.
1. Download a template file
First, download the correct template from Seller Central.
Choose the appropriate category.
Since we are going to want to create a product with a size variation, make sure to select the “Advanced” template.
Choose the Advanced option if you are uploading a product with variations. If you do not have variations then you can choose the Lite option.
2. Fill in the necessary fields in the template
The first row will be the “parent” listing. The parent listing won’t have a price or quantity but the “child” listing underneath it will. In our case each child will be a different size variation.
Each child should have a different seller SKU. These can be anything you want since it will only be visible to you but it would be useful for you to name them so you can easily track your products. In this example, I will make each child SKU the parent SKU with the size appended at the end. You don’t have to have a different Product Name for each item, but it would be a good idea to add the size to each title to make it easier for customers differentiate your listings and for yourself when it is time to fulfill the item. Choose “ASIN” for the Product ID Type and leave the Product ID field blank.
You can leave this field blank. You can leave this field blank.
3. Add image links
Be sure to add an image link in the Main Image URL field, even for the Parent listing.
The Main Image URL needs to be set for the Parent listing as well
This URL should be a publicly accessible link, so if you are using Google Drive or Dropbox, make sure that the link has the proper permissions set. If you are uploading an Alamode product, you can find our image links on the product page. You can also find all image links in our inventory list.
Our product page links are publicly accessible so they can be used directly on the upload template.
4. Fill in the parent child relationships
Not all fields need to be filled out, but make sure to fill in the “Variation” section and mark the first row as “Parent” and the following rows as “Child”. Each child will need a Parent SKU. In this case, the parent SKU will be the value of the “Seller SKU” field of the first row. Note that the Parent SKU and Relationship Type fields of the parent row should be left blank.
5. Check your file
After filling out any other optional fields, such as the bullet point descriptions, size, and quantity you can check your file. Although optional, it is recommended that you check your file for errors before you formally upload it. While this does add an extra step in your workflow, it is a lot easier to fix errors before your official upload than to try to fix errors after the fact.
It is recommended that you check your file before final submission.
The results of your check will be available on the next tab. It might take a few minutes to generate your results.
If you have a very large file, you might want to use the email alert feature to be monitored when the report is complete.
6. Upload your final file
Once everything looks good, perform your final upload in the section below the file check section on the first tab.
And that’s it! You can monitor the upload on the third tab. If there are no errors, the final tab will show you if your listings have uploaded successfully. Be aware that it can take up to 15 to 30 minutes before your listings show completely. Very often listings will appear without images. Give it a few minutes, if the images do not show up then you can edit the listing manually.
Conclusion
I hope this guide helps you list your products on Amazon more easily. If you have any questions, be sure to leave a comment below or send an email to service@alamodeonline.com and we will try to get back to you as soon as possible!
We are proud to introduce that Alamode Shopify App Beta. We have been hard at work trying to simplify your experience uploading and managing your online store. We know that a lot of our customers use Shopify as their content management system and it can be very time-consuming to add new products. With this app, you will be able to import new Alamode products into your Shopify store with a simple click, instead of laboriously downloading and uploading individual pictures and descriptions. Check out how easy adding new products can be in the animation below:
Add new products and images into Shopify with just one click!
Because the app is still in beta, it is not yet available to download from the Shopify App Store but it is still available to install. If you are interested in installing the beta into your store, email service@alamodeonline.com with your Shopify store name and we can get you set up!
This app is still in its early stages so please let us know if you would like to see any features in comments below.
