Let’s speak about new fakes + misconceptions available in the market lately, particularly round Blue Rose Quartz.
In the event you’ve been scuffling with working together with your crystals successfully, realizing the way to keep away from misrepresentations, fakes, and CONFUSION will make you rather more confident. Avoiding the “Fakes”, errors or misrepresentations will flip that wrestle round —
and preserve you from losing time with fakes that don’t even work or might not be what you assume it’s. No surprise you’re not getting constant outcomes!! Shopping for into these things finally ends up losing your power and a ton of cash too.
I can’t say it sufficient…
I’m so grateful to our Hibiscus Moon Licensed Crystal Practitioner college students who convey these things to my consideration! (That’s how I preserve my finger on the heartbeat of this crystal misrep-stuff.)
It’s been my gig all alongside this crystal journey — to level out that there appeared to be a little bit of an info-gap in our crystal group on some good, stable, easy-to-understand information relating to this kind of factor.
Being a former science division head, having studied geology on the Masters’s stage, and being a crystal creator plus the founding father of the Hibiscus Moon Crystal Academy, with a comparatively giant following provides me an excellent purpose and platform to teach about crystal fakes.
My objective is to teach our crystal group on what’s at the moment fooling us or being misrepresented available on the market so we will make clever shopping for choices. In the event you really feel keen about this, too, please share this put up in any method you like. (By the best way, there are some “SHARE” buttons you need to use under).
Alright, let’s dig into what I take into account to be a MAJOR misrepresentation:
GROUND RULES: Please don’t name out any sellers within the feedback. No names, no hyperlinks. Please don’t present hate in the direction of anybody. That is about empowering and educating ourselves. ❤️
Blue Rose Quartz
What within the HELL?
Yep. Right here we go.
It began after I had a rash of my CCP college students asking me about this “new” Blue Rose Quartz popping up all over the place available on the market.
It’s supposedly “Blue Rose Quartz” from Madagascar.
Thanks to Graphic Designer and College, Alexis from Workforce HM for sharing these footage of “blue rose quartz” with us
I did some poking round my regular geology haunts/golf equipment and discovered it’s additionally typically dubbed as “Girasol,” opalized Quartz. (Opal begins out as silica [SiO2] dissolved in water. When the silica answer fills an empty pocket, possibly left behind by one thing that dissolved away way back — identical to Jell-o poured right into a mould; it might probably harden to type an opalized copy of the unique.).
Did ya know?: This complete opalizing course of might be lab-forced too.
This is also the results of heating a low-grade Amethyst above 932°F (500°C) which not solely bleaches it out (sure, we’ve carried out experiments, and you’ll strive it too) however may end up in an opal-y, milky look, leading to so-called ‘neon blue quartz’ or simply “neon quartz”.
Even larger warmth will bleach out the lilac shade fully, and tiny water droplets could type within the quartz, which is what creates opal, aka Girasol.
Girasol
Nonetheless, utilizing the time period “Girasol” will get a bit complicated.
In Italian, the phrase refers to a “turning solar” and immediately interprets to “sunflower” (cuz, ya know… it turns with the daylight). Now in geology, this refers to an opal stone with a cloudy bluish-white glow, a ghost-like impact attributable to gentle scattering. Gems corresponding to Moonstone and opals, and different sorts of feldspars can exhibit this phenomenon. It’s characterised by a luminous reflection of sunshine, showing as white or coloured (typically bluish) gentle, and it might additionally happen as a shimmery sheen that may solely be noticed in particular instructions — attributable to the diffraction and interference of sunshine. The girasol impact describes a mineral impact produced by a scattered gentle impact that strikes or seems to shimmer.
Moonstone pendants show the “girasol impact.”
I seen that a few of what’s being referenced as “Blue Rose Quartz” is technically a bluish-white translucent Opal/Girasol or maybe combined with some mottled type of lower-grade hazy Quartz with typically reddish or rainbow reflections.
SIDENOTE: These items all the time existed. It’s not new!
Lilac or Lavender Rose Quartz?
Picture courtesy of CCP Amber Curl of Little Crystal Firm
Whether or not they use the descriptive shade “lilac” or “lavender,” I see these things most frequently being touted as “high-quality.” Let’s get into {that a} bit.
As I discussed above, sturdy heating will bleach out the lilac shade fully from a low-grade Amethyst or milky Quartz and yield tiny water droplets forming within the Quartz = Girasol. *sigh*
Little Lemuria, (owned by ultra-phenomenally good proprietor Jessica Watson, who I acquired to have a number of geo-geek discussions with whereas speaking about this subject) had a geological assay report carried out on the fabric that that they had. You may verify that out right here.
BTW, do you might have ANY concept how impressed I’m by this kind of dedication?
Again within the day, we used to have a grading system that was in widespread use with stone sellers (it’s nonetheless round however I don’t see it getting used that a lot any longer. Hmmmm? Marvel why that’s?) This grading system’s similar to how diamonds are assessed and assigned letters. For example, “AAA” is the best grade whereas “D” is the bottom.
Is it Lilac or Lavender Rose Quartz? This can be a stone I bought in my Etsy crystal store again in 2009. I labeled it as Pale Amethyst; D possibly C grade at greatest!
Generally, it’s not even crystal however simply straight-up glass.
I’m simply gonna say it:
This, for essentially the most half, is D low-grade Rose Quartz! In my humble opinion: it appears clearly extra profitable to forgo the grading system and rename it one thing “religious/ethereal”!
Above is Licensed Crystal Practitioner Amber Curl of Little Crystal Firm speaking with me forwards and backwards on Instagram about this very subject. Take a look at her go!!! I’m so proud.
Earlier than we go any additional… please enable me to make clear: after I say that it’s low-grade rose quartz, I don’t imply that I wouldn’t work with it or that I personally take into account it lower than. I’m making an attempt to convey that this was once thought-about by the stone-selling business as a lower-quality of rose quartz (or maybe amethyst) based mostly on business requirements. That does NOT imply that it delivers much less pleasure or energetic impression in any method as I mentioned on IG right here:
(In the event you’d somewhat devour this complete “Blue Rose Quartz” rant in a sorta humorous InstaStory that I’ve change into well-known for, I’ve created a Spotlight for you right here.)
CCP, Amber Curl of Little Crystal Firm
I knew she was considered one of our Hibiscus Moon college students with out even realizing who this was at first. I may inform simply by how flippin’ devoted she was to figuring this out. 😉 Our Crystal Household is thought for not letting this junk get handed them!
Black Rose Quartz. Ummmm… What the Heck is Occurring Right here?
Yeah. There’s a “Black and Blue” Rose Quartz too!
@AbbyHasHeart shared this with me. What was bought to her as Black Rose Quartz on the left and what was bought to her as Lavender Rose Quartz on the precise.
If that is what we’re OK with doing and we don’t attempt to cease it now, as I discussed above…
we will count on at the least a thousand extra advertising and marketing names for varied Quartz colours within the close to future.
And it received’t ever cease.
Are you OK with that?
Metaphysical Properties of this Materials
Nicely, what concerning the energetic traits of this materials?
I did nevertheless work with the previous inventory of “lower-grade” rose quartz and amethyst after I had it and to me, it was simply as highly effective as my different rose quartz or amethyst with slight nuances, as is the case with ANY particular person stones I work with. So that is actually one thing you have to determine for your self.
However, we’ve made an impression.
Since my well-liked faux weblog put up collection that I began again in 2010 (and lots of others prefer it)… our group began calling this shit out, and sellers instantly began altering their descriptions. That is the impression our Crystal Household has had. THIS is how a gaggle of empowered go-to crystal specialists makes change occur. Actually, first-world issues, however you gotta begin someplace, proper?
We’ve acquired to remain on our toes. I’m passing the torch to you on these things! OK? I’m not going to be round subsequent 12 months in any respect. It’s now as much as our Crystal Household to maintain the fakes fires burning.
My Blue (or another shade aside from pink) Rose Quartz Conclusion?
It’s sleight of hand trickery, a gimmicky advertising and marketing title to promote stuff usual from a comparatively (previously thought-about unattractive) low-quality high quality quartz — a advertising and marketing ploy.
Now whether or not we take into account it engaging or not, I don’t care. Magnificence is all the time within the eye of the beholder.
What I’m up in arms about is that this was all the time comparatively considerable and bought cheaply earlier than. Is it proper to simply state that it now not is and, due to this fact, falsely inflate the value?
By definition, Rose Quartz is a pink type of Quartz because of explicit nanofibrous inclusions of one thing intently associated to dumortierite.
However all that geo-speak is splitting hairs anyway. Rose Quartz is Quartz.
If it’s blue (or another shade aside from pink to your eyeball ️), it can’t be known as Rose Quartz.
To me, if the pink hue just isn’t there, it’s not Rose Quartz. Finish of story.
As all the time…
Purchaser Beware: Who’re you shopping for from? Are they respected? Do they know what they’re speaking about? Is the value too good to be true? Are you doing your individual due diligence + analysis? One of the best ways to guard your self is thru training. Maintain this in thoughts: All the time use your widespread sense. Don’t merely depend on what the vendor is telling you.
I simply need us all to have the geo-knowledge first. Then you may make a well-informed resolution relating to the way you select to work with these stones. All the time use your widespread sense, and the very best safety from that is to be well-informed.
All of us love the gorgeous jewels that Mama Earth creates, and also you don’t know what you don’t know…
till you realize higher.
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Crystal Blessings,
