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5 Most Blinged Out Men in the Music Industry

Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but a few of the music industry’s leading men have proven bling knows no gender. These five artists have proven that a little sparkle is always in style.

#1: P. Diddy

Sean “P. Diddy” Combs is perhaps the most open male artist about his love of diamonds. He is well known for wearing rings, necklaces, earrings, and watches with multiple carats. But Diddy’s latest add to his collection might be considered the most lavish yet — a diamond-encrusted iPod with over 120 stones. Talk about “rocking” out!

#2: Elton John

Elton John is another artist famous for his love of diamond bling. This extremely large statement ring is just another example of the wildly flamboyant musicians taste in jewelry.

#3:Liberace

Liberace may not bee too relevant to today’s music, but his love of “bling” still lingers on. It has been said that the crooner often wore a gold pinkie ring in the shape of a piano with over 20 carats of diamond jewels.

#4 Jay-Z

Rapper and business mogul Jay-Z is known by fans to be one of the most “blinged out” men in hip hop. His style even includes layer necklaces combined several dozen carats of diamonds each.

#5 Kayne West

Just like his friend and mentor Jay-Z, Kanye West is no stranger to diamonds and bling. He has even been known to rock jewelry with diamonds, without diamond, and layer it on.

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Most Blinged Out Female Musicians

So many young girls dream of becoming a famous singer or pop star. Each year hundreds, maybe even thousands try out for American Idol on TV or try other ways in hopes of “hitting it big time.” Only the lucky few make it through.

With the money they bring in from record sales, appearances, concerts and in many cases, their own fashion lines, these female rockers can afford an extensive collection of shiny baubles. They love their bling, and it really showed at this year’s 55th Grammy Awards. It was almost hard to tell the sparkle of the bling from the flashing lights of the cameras!

Carrie’s Diamond Necklace

Carrie Underwood gets this year’s “Bling Award” for her knock-out $51 million necklace. It is a total of 381 dazzling carats of multi-layered marquise, oval and pear-shaped white diamonds. She also wore a stunning ring, but it pales a little compared to the necklace. It will no doubt become her most famous “ice.”

Carrie’s career as a country rocker sky-rocketed after winning first place in the 2005 American Idol competition.

JLo’s Five Million Dollar Bling

Jennifer Lopez flaunted more than a gorgeous leg with her black high-split dress. The lovely Latino singer-actress wore $5 million in bling.

Jay Lo’s 10 Carat Diamond Studs

Jay Lo sported 10 carat diamond studs on her lobes. Her other baubles included diamond bangles and a diamond bracelet handcrafted by Norman Silverman. She also wore plenty of famous “ice’ on her fingers, including diamond pinky rings.

Jennifer Lopez “hit the big time” when she became the first singer-actress to have an album and a movie as number one hits in 2001. She served as an American Idol judge for two seasons.

Jay Lo’s Diamond Ring and Pinky

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Spotlight on: Oz the Great and Powerful Jewelry

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Those of us who grew up with the Wizard of Oz will never forget tornadoes, the wicked witch, flying monkeys and having our pet taken by an old woman on a bike. The Wizard of Oz however left us with some incredibly powerful positive memories as well. The beautiful Glinda, magic ruby shoes and the fact that good will trump evil even in your dreams. It may have left us with the impression that REALLY short people can be scary, but if they sing happy songs, they are appreciated.

Well a L.A. jeweler has created a new line of jewelry dedicated to the Wizard of Oz remake, Oz the Great and Powerful, starring James Franco, Mila Kunis and Michelle Williams. Jewelry designer Joe Vilaiwan has invented some necklaces, cuffs and earrings inspired by the tale.

Vilaiwan has created 6 separate collections that will appeal to fans of the movie. The six collections include:

  • The good witch collection
  • The bad witch collection
  • The yellow brick road collection
  • The Emerald City collection
  • The china doll collection
  • The garden collection

The collections include 22 carat gold over brass, 14 carat white gold over silver, and items that include crystal along with precious and semi-precious stones.

 

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The pieces will run from anywhere from $150 to $3000 plus, and are available at boutiques across America. Oz is obviously great and powerful and it is demonstrated in this new collection.

Raymond Z for Raymond Lee Jewelers, South Florida’s premiere source for buying and selling luxury watches and designer jewelry.

 

Palm Beach Jewelry Art and Antique Show Recap

This year’s 10th anniversary year of the Palm Beach Show Group’s Palm Beach Jewelry Art and Antique show. Each February for the past 3 years, the RLJ team has joined the rest of South Florida’s elite estate jewelers and antique & art dealers to show off our most prestigious collections. We love the Palm Beach show because it presents a massive variety of luxury. When 17th century French furniture, original masterpieces and royal jewels collide, you know that a) You’re definitely in Palm Beach and b) it’s going to be a fabulous show.

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From Friday’s VIP preview reception to yesterday’s final hours, South Florida’s most discerning jewelry lovers strolled the aisles of the Palm Beach County Convention center checking out everything from rare Patek Philippe watches to impeccable Ceylon sapphires.

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Raymond Lee Jewelers’ booth certainly boasted our fair share of jaw dropping gems and diamonds (not to mention pre owned luxury watches by Cartier, Jaeger Le-Coultre, Oficine Panerai, Audemars Piguet and more). In fact, we had by far the largest selection of iced out Rolexes in the entire show. But our fellow exhibitors brought their own stunning selections.

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Yafa Signed Jewels brought some of their most stunning large precious gemstone pieces. We liked their attention to rich yellow gold pieces, which were displayed prominently. The chunky gold and diamond necklace in the bottom left of the photo definitely caught our eyes, but then we saw this:

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Hello, Bvlgari gold and diamonds!

Of course, exquisite signed estate jewelry is everywhere you turn at the Palm Beach show, and we were blown away again by Moira of New Bond Street, London.

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The perfect dinner party tiara.

You know we love a good tiara, and this one certainly doesn’t disappoint. Nor does the large diamond bracelet front and center, nor the three row tennis necklace we spy in the corner. Moira kept their showcases exactly how we like to keep ours: chock full of jaw dropping diamonds. And we spotted another familiar showcase style in Yvel jewels.

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Slice, Slice Baby.

We’ve developed a slight slice addiction here in our Boca jewelry store. We’ve been stocking up on the most incredible natural gemstone slice and diamond pave pieces. Those turquoise and pave earrings we featured last week? Slice & dice.

 

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Just wait until you see the emerald slice earrings, mother of pearl slice earrings and sapphire slice jewelry we’re debuting soon! But enough about us – one other booth is always one of our favorites to swing by, and that’s Only Authentics’ booth.

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Chanel Heaven

Only Authentics is our second favorite estate and pre owned luxury handbag boutique (first place is our sister boutique, Sell Your Handbag.) We never miss an opportunity to check out Only Authentics’ amazing collection of Chanel purses, Hermes purses, Gucci, Louis and more.

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Of course, there were a ton of other amazing exhibitors. In fact, way too many to cram into one post. So, we’ll be profiling some of the other amazing estate jewelers and art dealers from this year’s Palm Beach show on our on page blog!

Chopard Boca Raton Offers Virtual Red Lantern Valentine’s Experience

They say that marketing is no longer about insisting that your product is the best, but that your product is unique in some way or other. Chopard is offering lovers a new way to express their warm feelings for one another this Valentine’s Day with digital red lanterns offering a magical, if virtual, experience for Valentine’s recipients.

Chances are you’ve seen those beautiful videos of red lantern launches on the web. These Chinese New Years inspired lanterns are created out of paper and candles and launched into the sky like hot air balloons at night, creating beautiful, floating lights against the starry sky.

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The new app allows husbands looking for the perfect gift to brows through romantic gift ideas through a virtual sky.

Sending a message with a real red lantern would be pretty much impossible, so until the time comes when we can attach a remote control navigational device to one of these things, the digital red lantern valentine is the next best thing to one of our Chopard Boca Raton selections.

The app is open until February 14 so that anyone who wants to pick up a great gift for their Valentine’s Day sweetheart will have a chance to grab that special something for that special someone.

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