Then in the later processing of pearls, what is toning and what is dyeing?
Toning refers to washing and bleaching the pearls that have just come out of the water with a lot of impurities, without changing or slightly changing the body color of the pearls, improving the luster, transparency, and durability of the pearls, preventing the white pearls from turning yellow too quickly. Black pearls fade too quickly, etc. In the pearl market, the act of toning is recognized, and the toned pearls will be clearly pointed out in the appraisal report.
It is more common to see Akoya sea pearls for color tinting in the market. The price of color tinting in the market is higher than that of no color tinting, because the cost of color tinting is higher and the cost is much higher. It takes many procedures to achieve this chromaticity, not All Akoya sea pearls are tuned to perfection!
Dyeing completely changes the body color of the pearl itself, such as dyeing white pearls into various colors of pearls, which will fade over time. This kind of behavior is not recognized, and wearing dyed pearls for a long time will also be harmful to the body.
In fact, because of the needs of the market, basically most of the pearls will be toned or dyed. Because natural pearls are rare after all, and consumers have great demand for perfect pearls! More than 90% of Akoya pearls go through the process of toning.
Toning is allowed and approved in the pearl industry! You can think of it this way: human skin is like untinted Akoya pearls, and applying skin care products to your face to make your skin more beautiful is toned Akoya pearls.
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