Purpose Jewelry's Buy One Gift One Bangles Campaign

Starting today, 8/11 through 8/18, Purpose Jewelry is running their Buy One, Gift One campaign. Anytime a customer purchases the bangles bracelet, they can gift one completely for free to a friend of their choice (the bangles set is available in silver and brass)! All Purpose Jewelry are handcrafted by Indian women survivors of sex trafficking, read more about their mission here.

Baroni Jewelry Custom Necklace Giveaway

Baroni Designs creates beautiful and intricate jewelry, and I'm fortunate enough to have gotten to customize my own necklace as well as a bar bracelet, and I will be giving TWO lucky winners their choice of a Baroni chain and two charms as apart of FFF's 4-Year Blog Anniversary giveaway series.

Founded by artist and designer Sarah Baroni in 1991, Baroni has been dedicated to and pouring her passion into creating jewelry designs that reflect the human spirit, intellect and body; and doing so with a 'green' business in order to practice sustainability to support her local community and the planet. I haven't added a charm necklace to collection for awhile and wanted to make my newest addition of Baroni charms extra special. I wanted the charms to be a daily reminder to keep being me, my authentic self; to follow my dreams; and work hard. Upon opening the package, I fell in love with the impeccable presentation and care of my jewelry pieces. After peeling away the metallic silver wrapping paper and bubble wrap which protected my jewelry, I found that each piece was individually wrapped in either a beautiful cloth envelope or jewelry box and sealed in a poly bag with a tarnish strip. Here are the pieces I selected:

Personalized Bar Bracelet in gold with customization 'my heart' text
Saturn Chain (24k Gold Plated) 22-24"
Petite Gold Initial in letter 'A'
Petite Silver Initial in Letter 'S'
Dual Tone Heart Charm
Large Personalized Square in gold with customization 'AMANDA' text
Large Personalized Circle in silver with customization 'dreamer' text
Long Personalized Rectangle in gold with customization 'do work' text

For a limited time, use code blogsave20 and receive 20$ off your Baroni purchase!

Want a chance to win your own chain and two charms of your choice? Enter FFF's Baroni Giveaway below! Two winners will be chosen, and giveaway runs Monday May 25, 2015-Tuesday June 2, 2015 12 am PST. Must be a US Resident to enter.

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VSA Design's Piccolo Collection

Jewelry label Virgins Saints and Angels asked me to stop by their LA showroom to check out their newest collection, Piccolo, featuring LA Blogger, Ruby Element! I even got to chat with designer Cheryl 'Finn' Finnegan about the current and upcoming collections as well as try on a few, or maybe many pieces. Piccolo features a selection of dainty San Benito Lucia pendant necklaces, rings, and cuff designs, and the Lucia Charm Necklace is currently available at Nordstrom.com!
Designer Finn was such a pleasure to get to know; her designs are very bold and have an almost 'gothic' look to them, all influenced by the culture of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico where she currently resides. VSA has been seen on countless celebrities, one being Britney Spears who rocked a VSA belt buckle back in 2004, thus launching the brand into stardom. Discover more about VSA here!

Together by Gravity Bracelets for Children's Education in India

I was so excited when Sarika reached out to me from her jewelry label Together by Gravity based out of Newport Beach, CA. She designs the most exquisite earrings, necklaces, rings, and men and women's beaded bracelets made from precious and semi-precious stones, wood, diamonds, 18k gold, and sterling sliver; all inspired by ocean and earth's natural beauty, Sarika's Indian heritage and travels, with the most important aspect of her brand being that she gives a portion of her sales to support children's education in rural India. Since the company started less than a year ago in April 2014, Sarika has already been able to support 260 children allowing them to attend school for an entire year. Why Together by Gravity? The method of how a star is formed -- when the force of GRAVITY pulling in on the cloud is greater than the strength of internal pressure pushing out, the cloud collapses into a star. Sarika designed my very own three-bracelet set including onyx and peridot (my birthstone) beads, and she even included the meanings which wrote in a sweet hand written note. Also see how I styled the bracelets below!

Onyx: a stone for inner strength; it is worn to defend against negativity that is directed at you
Peridot: a stone of balance; worn to show compassion and uplift energy of all kinds

Shop all jewelry here, and the bracelet collection here; let's spread the word about children's education in India, doing good one bracelet at a time.

Thank you to Shawna at Bleudog Fotography for capturing my bracelets along with outfit and super rad hair which was styled by Dee of Swell Beauty and a tutorial will be posted soon.

Jumpsuit, Ann Taylor Loft
Onyx x Peridot Custom Bracelet Set, Together by Gravity
Jewel Cake Necklace, Mint & Lolly
Heels, Zara
Hair, Dee of Swell Beauty 
Photos, Shawna of Bleudog Fotography

Katy Perry's Eat Your Heart Out Collection at Claire's

I got to check out the Katy Perry's recently launched Eat Your Heart Out Collection at the W Hollywood Hotel. The collection which included a vibrant and animated array of cell phone cases (the macaron and pizza cases are my fave)and delicious assortment of food-inspired jewelry was on display along with other Katy Perry collections styles fitting for the upcoming festival season. Aside from the yummy baked treats and birthday cake specialty cocktail I enjoyed, I got to take home a bag filled to the brim with goodies (one of which is Katy's PRISM album, LOVE and can't wait to jam out to it).