the ring i brought was over £200 and it faded so i took it back to the shop and they re-rodeumed it. is this what should happen to white gold or should i go to trading standards. also im allergict to nickle and it makes my fingers itch.
2007-03-27 11:05:05 · 11 answers · asked by vicky r 1 in Beauty & Style ➔ Fashion & Accessories
Yes, it does tend to happen to white gold. It need re-coating every few years.
2007-03-27 11:08:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Okay, there are two types of white gold: ones with nickel and a rhodium plating and those that are mixed with palladium. The most common type is the first. The rhodium plating gives the jewelery a whiter, shinier look (and is cheap) so it is found on most jewelery. When the rhodium plating wears off, you're getting a reaction to the nickel.
You can also get the other type of white gold (also called gray gold) which is mixed with palladium (from the platinum family). This does not have a coating so you don't have to get it replated every couple years like you do with the rhodium. This isn't as shiny as the other type of white gold and isn't very common in the US. You'll most likely find it on luxury watches.
If you don't want to get your jewelery rhodium plated every few years, look for jewelery that doesn't require it: platinum, gray gold, yellow gold, red gold. You didn't get ripped off, so don't worry about that.
2007-03-28 02:58:35 · answer #2 · answered by hotdoggiegirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rhodium is one of the platinum family of metals and has a high reflectivity and good metallic white colour and is hard with good wear properties. A thin electroplated coating is often applied to white gold jewellery to improve its white appearance.
This is legally allowed in many countries, including those with Hallmarking regulations. Such a coating, if not subjected to undue abrasion, should have a lifetime of, typically, 3 years before it wears through to reveal the gold alloy underneath.
For many consumers, the colour of rhodium has become the norm for the colour of white gold, because that is what they are used to seeing on jewellery described as white gold!
The nickel skin allergy problem
Unfortunately, many people (around 12-15%), the female population especially, are allergic to nickel in contact with the skin and this gives rise to a red skin rash or irritation. This problem applies to costume/fashion jewellery, white gold and steel jewellery, zippers and fasteners and other body piercings.
The European Union countries have enacted legislation (under the EU Nickel Directive) valid from the 20th January 2000 that limits nickel release from jewellery and other items in close and constant contact with the skin. Thus, in Europe, nickel white golds are being phased out and being replaced by palladium white golds, although low nickel alloys that meet the nickel release requirements of the Directive are still in service. This does not guarantee that a nickel-sensitised person will not suffer an allergic skin reaction if wearing jewellery made from such conforming, nickel-containing alloys!
2007-03-27 11:18:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
White gold is an alloy of gold and another metal which is then coated in rhodium to make it shiny. The rhodium will wear down and need to be replated at intervals so no, you werent ripped off.
2007-03-27 11:16:12 · answer #4 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have a promise ring that is a combanation of white and yellow gold. I cost my boyfriend about 500$. and the onl I got him was platnium. His has not faded nor ha mine, but the lower the grade, or quality of the metal the more likely this is to happen.
2007-03-27 11:37:10 · answer #5 · answered by skatingdevil 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thats weird - white gold isnt supposed to fade. Its probably a really low carat number cuz that means it contains a lot less gold than it should. You might want to get your money back if you can and go get one with a higher carat number
2007-03-27 11:09:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
the carat number must be low or it must be fake. i have a white gold wedding ring of my great grandmothers (not MY wedding ring, since i'm only 15) that i never take off, its 18K, and its 75 years old now and she was not very well-off money-wise, so i doubt it was ever, definitely not recently, re-polished or re-coated or whatever, and it still looks great.
2007-03-27 11:48:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think it should go dull as it is gold. the lower the gold carat the more other metals it has mixed in with it. If it is making your finger itch then you really should not keep it. Try and take it back they did sell you faulty goods after all, just tell them that you're allergic to whatever they did to it and you cannot keep it.
2007-03-27 11:08:55 · answer #8 · answered by weezyb 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Thats probably not white gold. You should have it looked at by a sales merch. at a bigger store. They will let you know if you were ripped off. I have a 10k white gold ring that has never faded. I clean it on a reg. basis though.
2007-03-27 11:09:18 · answer #9 · answered by Morbid_Engel 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, white gold tarnishes easily.
£200, was it a designer ring shape? 'cus my D shaped 18 was like £130
Add, there is no recoating it, its pure not coated! its like a scale an polish.
2007-03-27 11:08:58 · answer #10 · answered by Whatever. 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋