The phrase 'less is more' does not apply when it comes to jewellery.
No matter how many dainty gold hoops or statement silver chains someone may have in their jewellery box, there is always a place for more. And that is the beauty of this kind of gift.
Presenting a sparkling diamond embellishment is a surefire win, no matter the occasion. At Christmas, anniversaries and birthdays, going down the jewellery route guarantees success, especially if you take a traditional approach by honouring a first anniversary with gold, second with garnet, third with pearls and so on.
There's a simple reason for this. A flash of sparkle can transform any simple ensemble and inject personality and intrigue into a look. It is a sentimental investment that will make them think of you each time they put it on. Whether your giftee keeps it minimal with just one delicate pendant hanging around their neck or no finger is immune to a ring stack, no one has ever been disappointed to unwrap major bling.
Jewellery also makes for a timeless purchase. Sure, there are trends that come and go but these are often far more enduring than the fashion cycle. Just look to the pearl renaissance. The gemstone is ubiquitous on contemporary styles but has stood the test of time from the 1920s and as far back as 420BC.
The current status symbol is the move to oversized creations that are destined to be donned during the party season – drop earrings, chunky chains and cocktail rings especially.
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Rebecca Vallance Mariella crystal-embellished drop earrings
Australian fashion designer Rebecca Vallance has added jewellery to her collection of elegant formalwear essentials and the result is as sparkling and eye-catching as you would hope. These drop earrings will instantly transform a black-tie ensemble with crystal embellishment and a drop design.
Buy now £195.00, MyTheresa
Gold Vermeil Name Pendant
These pendant necklaces from Otiumberg are made to order and take a unique approach to spelling out your name through the vertical design. While remaining affordable, each order is designed and handcrafted using sterling silver or 9-karat solid gold. Due to the custom approach, it does take slightly longer to arrive so bear this in mind if you’re shopping for a gift.
Buy now £120.00, Otiumberg
Missoma Engravable Heart Signet Ring
Missoma has an ever-growing selection of jewellery that you can give a personal touch through engraving. This spans necklaces, bracelets and rings. This heart signet ring caught our eye as a romantic way to pay homage to your loved one. You can embellish it with the initial of your choosing and it comes in 18ct recycled gold plated vermeil on recycled sterling silver.
Buy now £89.00, Missoma
9ct Gold Initial Liberty Signet Ring
Whether you’d like to wear yours or your best friend’s initial on your finger, this nine-karat gold signet ring from Liberty is a fantastic choice. Each ring is made to order and small batch crafted by artisans in Italy, making these delicate pieces even more worth your while.
Buy now £350.00, Liberty
By Alona Gardenia 18kt gold-plated and leather choker
The finishing touch to any warm weather look, this flower corsage-inspired design has taken the classic 90s and Y2K-inspired style and brought it to a high fashion place with a feminine feel and luxe polish. The creation from By Alona is made up of a leather cord that is adjustable and set with a 3D floral applique in 18k gold-plated bronze.
Buy now £120.00, Matches
Vivienne Westwood Orb silver-tone brass and faux-pearl choker necklace
This Gen Z-approved choker comes with Vivienne Westwood’s signature Orb emblem. So popular is the style that you’ll be hard-pressed to find it in stock, so add to basket while you can. With its punk roots, the necklace is still overtly feminine with a string of faux pearls and the gemstone adornment on VW’s emblem.
Buy now £195.00, Harvey Nichols
Roxanne First Happy or Sad Flip Ring
This is not a mood ring in the traditional sense in that it doesn’t have a colour-changing stone but Roxanne First has created a covetable ring where you can choose to display one of two emotions.
The flippable ring has a happy face on one and a sad face on the reverse that is created with sparkly diamond details. The 14ct yellow gold setting has white diamonds of 0.02ct and rainbow sapphires of 0.08ct to create the mood-boosting creation.
Buy now £1295.00, Roxanne First
Hey Harper Nassau Gold Necklace
Whether worn solo or layered with pendants, name necklaces or additional chains, the snake chain holds its own. The style is a favourite among the likes of Hailey Bieber no doubt for its ability to be paired with ease and its ability to toe the line between statement and subtle. The Nassau is Hey Harper’s take on the trend and is one of the most hard-wearing bits of jewellery on the market. We have been wearing ours for over a year and through beach breaks, marathon training, and every single day without ever taking it off and it looks good as new.
The brand is known for its waterproof jewellery and trend-led styles across necklaces, earrings, rings, bracelets, anklets and even watches.
Buy now £43.00, Hey Harper
Edge of Ember Bolt Diamond Stud Earrings
If you’re looking to create a curated ear, look to Edge of Ember for its collection of layerable gems that can be mixed and matched with a new look each time. These lightening bolt studs are set with lab-grown diamonds to add a subtle shimmer to your style. This sparkle detail has 0.04 carats in the pair. They are set in 14 karat solid gold and there’s a one year warranty included.
Buy now £275.00, Edge of Ember
Astrid & Miyu Cosmic Star Bold Huggies
You’ll need to get up close and personal with these huggies to see the star detail engraving. The celestial-inspired design brings an understated bling to your earrings curation with cubic zirconia stones set within the 18k gold plated creation.
Buy now £55.00, Astrid & Miyu
Astrid & Miyu 2023 Advent Calendars
There are a trio of advent calendars available at Astrid & Miyu this year in different price brackets. Within each of the three reusable keepsake boxes on offer, you’ll find bestsellers from the high street hero’s jewellery collections as well as exclusive designs that you won’t be able to shop at any other time.
The first is over a 12 day period (£325, worth £604), the second for the full 24 days of advent season (£650, worth £1,240) and the third is a premium option containing just 14k gold pieces (£995, worth £1325). This is the first time this latter option is available.
Buy now, Astrid & Miyu
Missoma Classic Pave Huggies
These are some of the most helpful earrings you can own in your arsenal. They are ready and waiting to be stacked with any of the pieces above as well as any other stud, hoop or drop style that you already own. The pave detailing makes them look far more expensive than the price tag, while the 18ct gold plated vermeil on sterling silver should keep them in good nick.
Buy now £75.00, Missoma
Crystal Haze Jewelry Gold-plated cubic zirconia necklace
Norweigan label Crystal Haze is likely best known for the gummy bear charms adorning its necklaces, pendants and bracelets, so in comparison this is a more demure offering from the brand.
Yet while opting the minimalist aesthetic of the hugely popular paperclip necklace, in its signature way, it is still bringing intrigue to the equation by adorning each link with glitzy cubic zirconia. Due to the nature of the necklace, you can get creative with the length.
Buy now £139.86, Net-A-Porter
Hey Harper Iconic Set
For hard-working jewellery staples that will stand the test of time, let us be your official introduction to Hey Harper. The brand has a lifetime warranty on its collections and is entirely waterproof so will stay the shimmering gold hue for years to come.
Combining classic and geometric designs, this set will become the foundation of your stacking whether you choose to layer up the twist, square, oval and hexagonal shape together or use it as the statement or second piercing. The composition is 14k gold set on stainless steel.
Buy now £114.00, Hey Harper
Missoma Harris Reed Moonlight Pearl Earring Set
When it comes to dressing up your ears for all occasions, the combination of pearls and sparkle does wonders - and these two embellishments take a starring role in fashion designer Harris Reed’s collaboration collection with Missoma.
The set includes a moon and star shaped hoop pendant with pearl huggies to boot. They are crafted from 18ct recycled cold on brass and set with pearl and cubic zirconia.
Buy now £220.00, Missoma
Annoushka
Fine jewellery label Annoushka is best known for its elegant charm bracelets - A$AP Rocky gifted one to Rihanna to mark the birth of their first child - and this can form the basis of your birthstone jewellery collection.
The singer’s included 10 charms each of which represents a personal message including the Lucky Clover for, well, luck and the Evil Eye for protection, but the stand-out is the Emerald Lovelocket to mark the baby’s May 13 birthstone.
For every month of the year, there is a charm, signet ring, drop earring, cocktail ring or eternity rings that will be symbolic and personal. The colourful gemstones are square-cut and set in 18ct gold. The Lovelocket birthstone ring even opens to reveal a hidden chamber where you can further customise the piece with a note, photo or mini sentimental talisman.
From £500.
Buy now, Annoushka
Mejuri Wishbone Stacker Set
Things are more fun it twos; a fact jeweller Mejuri knows and appreciates with this double ring set. Designed to be worn together, the wishbone-shaped bands are both set of 14K solid gold, with one finished with a string of pave diamonds, sourced from socially responsible suppliers who offer conflict-free stones. Comes with a two-year warranty and is available in a selection of sizes.
Buy now £350.00, Mejuri
Daisy Jewellery Personalised Year Necklace
With 90s and 00s nostalgia dominating the fashion agenda, you can mark the decade by adorning your neck with the year you were born. It is set on the brand’s Figaro chain and comes in sterling silver or 18ct gold plating that is crafted entirely from recycled materials.
Buy now £99.00, Daisy Jewellery
Missoma Jewellery Advent Calendar
Missoma is bringing more variety to its advent calendar line-up than ever before. Joining the silver and gold jewellery editions is a fine jewellery offering that includes 14ct solid gold and diamond pieces that are new and exclusive. All three are housed in boxes you can reuse for your bling present and future.
The gold advent calendar (£395, worth £917) includes the likes of the Lucy Williams Tiny Orb Hoops, Pave Star Bracelet and Amazonite Mini Pyramid Charm Hoops, while the silver (£365, worth £803) plays host to the Harris Reed North Star Pearl Necklace, the Bobble Chain Choker and more where all the pieces are handcrafted from recycled sterling silver.
The fine jewellery edition is worth a whopping £3,436 and will set you back £2,295. But it does feature Fine Diamond Heart Stud Earrings, Fine Pearl Huggies and the Fine Twisted Short Chain Necklace with a mix of bestsellers and brand-new styles.
Buy now £365.00, Missoma
Missoma Double Claw Stud Earrings
Whether you see a lightening bolt or two claws pointing in opposite directions, Missoma’s studs deliver a touch of edge to any otherwise unadorned lobe.
Made using 18kt gold plated vermeil on sterling silver, they’re an enduring design that will stand the test of time.
Buy now £55.00, Missoma
Cartier Panthère de Cartier Pink Gold Diamond Watch
Why buy a house when you can buy a watch? If you have a spare £27k, then this Cartier timepiece is a true investment. The 18-karat rose gold watch comes complete with a silver dial, a diamond-tipped crown and blue steel sword-cut hands.
If that wasn’t enough, the item has a two-year warranty period and is part of Cartier’s iconic relaunch of the Panthère de Cartier collection that debuted in the early 80s.
Buy now £26400.00, Net-A-Porter
Fitbit Luxe Special Edition
We love the delicate chain strap of Fitbit’s Luxe, which lives up to its name. The style combines all the sporty know-how of a Fitbit with jewellery-level looks that are smart enough to wear to work, the gym and your packed social schedule.
This Fitbit really shines when it is time to get sweaty, though, monitoring heart rate, pace and distance and even giving a ‘daily readiness score’ that shows when you should give your all and when you should focus on recovery. The sleep stages and slumber mode will keep an eye on your kip, too.
Buy now £179.00, Currys
Casio Unisex Vintage Bracelet Strap Watch
Offering bucket loads of unisex appeal, the classic Casio shows not only the time but the date, a stopwatch and an alarm on its digital face. There’s also a backlight to illuminate when light is sparse.
Buy now £45.00, John Lewis
Hey Harper Single Letter Huggies
Sitting pride of place in your jewellery box for years to come is Hey Harper’s mission and the brand achieves this through its waterproof bling that doesn’t tarnish with wear.
The letter huggies come individually so you can get creative with your spelling. They are made from stainless steel with a 14k golden colour PVD. You never need to take them off – no matter what you have in store, whether showering or swimming.
Buy now £22.00, Hey Harper
