JR quartz and crystal stones...

Judith's JR2 line has a mix of crystal and real stones....doublets too. Her canary things are canary crystal but the color is fabulous! Now she has expanded into pink crystal, purple crystal.

If you want true stone, you will find it. Just know she does both. I tend to look for her quartz pieces and real stones...onyx, amethyst, peridot, sapphires, turquoise,rubies and diamonds when possible.

Her canary crystal are the only crystal pieces I have.

If you really love the piece, the stone may not matter....only you can decide that. But be thrilled with it no matter what!

I have many of her Champagne pieces and love them...they are beautiful. They are quartz.

Quartz is a stone, crystal is glass. Pretty universal, although I bet there are some designers that don't stick to this.

Very pretty enhancer! Enjoy! Classic JR for sure.

BTW - I have and enjoy a lot of crystal pieces; canary, pink and light blue. The canary is my favorite! There are also other colors now that were used in the JR2 Estate line - sapphire, emerald and ruby (colored crystal, not stones). I think she also did a wide cuff with real blue sapphires that I once saw in Bloomingdales and it was gorgeous.

I have also gone with purple crystal doublets in the Brite Nites collection, and they are gorgeous! In a doublet form they look just like amethyst to me, and the design is beautiful.

I have this enhancer and it is indeed a champagne quartz (with dmq stones). It is lovely! JR does both crystal, which is essentially cz, and quartz (some of her quartz is synthetic, some natural, and some treated). She also uses corundum (which is lab created blue, pink, red sapphire or ruby)...when she uses actual rubies or sapphires, she identifies them as such.

Thanks for all your feedback! I love the color of the champagne quartz. It's very neutral and not too much color. The pink crystal looks a bit garish in photos. Is it a bright or a soft pink? I guess crystal is OK as a drop earring, but it doesn't seem like it would take much wear and would get dull, and worn looking as a ring. The champagne quartz pieces seem to be priced higher on Ebay, than the other quartz. I assume though that since quartz is used in watch faces, and also in other non jewelry uses, it's not an expensive stone. The quartz she uses seems to have a lot of life and sparkle though.

On 7/28/2014 smarty said:

JR does both crystal, which is essentially cz,

Crystal is glass, CZ is cubic zirconia. Completely different.

ennui, JR refers to her cz as "crystal"

On 7/28/2014 smarty said:

ennui, JR refers to her cz as "crystal"

She shouldn't do that, then.