Let’s speak about new fakes + misconceptions out there just lately, particularly round Blue Rose Quartz.
In case you’ve been fighting working together with your crystals successfully, understanding methods to keep away from misrepresentations, fakes, and CONFUSION will make you far more confident. Avoiding the “Fakes”, errors or misrepresentations will flip that battle round —
and maintain 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 vitality 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 carry these things to my consideration! (That’s how I maintain my finger on the heart beat of this crystal misrep-stuff.)
It’s been my gig all alongside this crystal journey — to level out that there gave the impression to be a little bit of an info-gap in our crystal group on some good, stable, easy-to-understand knowledge relating to this type 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 offers me cause and platform to teach about crystal fakes.
My purpose is to teach our crystal group on what’s presently fooling us or being misrepresented available on the market so we are able to make clever shopping for selections. In case you really feel captivated with this, too, please share this publish in any method you like. (By the way in which, there are some “SHARE” buttons you need to use beneath).
Alright, let’s dig into what I think about 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 in all places 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 photos of “blue rose quartz” with us
I did some poking round my typical geology haunts/golf equipment and came upon it’s additionally generally dubbed as “Girasol,” opalized Quartz. (Opal begins out as silica [SiO2] dissolved in water. When the silica resolution fills an empty pocket, perhaps left behind by one thing that dissolved away way back — identical to Jell-o poured right into a mould; it could possibly harden to kind an opalized copy of the unique.).
Did ya know?: This entire opalizing course of could be lab-forced too.
This may be the results of heating a low-grade Amethyst above 932°F (500°C) which not solely bleaches it out (sure, we’ve finished experiments, and you’ll strive it too) however can lead to an opal-y, milky look, leading to so-called ‘neon blue quartz’ or simply “neon quartz”.
Even larger warmth will bleach out the lilac colour utterly, and tiny water droplets might kind 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 mild scattering. Gems akin 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) mild, and it could 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 mild impact that strikes or seems to shimmer.
Moonstone pendants show the “girasol impact.”
I observed that a few of what’s being referenced as “Blue Rose Quartz” is technically a bluish-white translucent Opal/Girasol or maybe blended with some mottled type of lower-grade hazy Quartz with generally reddish or rainbow reflections.
SIDENOTE: These things at all times existed. It’s not new!
Lilac or Lavender Rose Quartz?
Photograph courtesy of CCP Amber Curl of Little Crystal Firm
Whether or not they use the descriptive colour “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, robust heating will bleach out the lilac colour utterly 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 sensible proprietor Jessica Watson, who I bought to have a number of geo-geek discussions with whereas speaking about this matter) had a geological assay report finished on the fabric that they’d. You possibly can test that out right here.
BTW, do you’ve gotten ANY thought how impressed I’m by this type 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? Surprise why that’s?) This grading system’s similar to how diamonds are assessed and assigned letters. As an example, “AAA” is the very best grade whereas “D” is the bottom.
Is it Lilac or Lavender Rose Quartz? It is a stone I offered in my Etsy crystal store again in 2009. I labeled it as Pale Amethyst; D perhaps C grade at greatest!
Generally, it’s not even crystal however simply straight-up glass.
I’m simply gonna say it:
This, for probably 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 “non secular/ethereal”!
Above is Licensed Crystal Practitioner Amber Curl of Little Crystal Firm speaking with me forwards and backwards on Instagram about this very difficulty. Have 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 think about it lower than. I’m attempting to convey that this was thought of by the stone-selling business as a lower-quality of rose quartz (or maybe amethyst) primarily based on business requirements. That does NOT imply that it delivers much less pleasure or energetic affect in any method as I mentioned on IG right here:
(In case you’d somewhat eat this entire “Blue Rose Quartz” rant in a sorta humorous InstaStory that I’ve turn out to be well-known for, I’ve created a Spotlight for you right here.)
CCP, Amber Curl of Little Crystal Firm
I knew she was one among our Hibiscus Moon college students with out even understanding 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 offered to her as Black Rose Quartz on the left and what was offered to her as Lavender Rose Quartz on the suitable.
If that is what we’re OK with doing and we don’t attempt to cease it now, as I discussed above…
we are able to anticipate no less than a thousand extra advertising names for varied Quartz colours within the close to future.
And it gained’t ever cease.
Are you OK with that?
Metaphysical Properties of this Materials
Nicely, what concerning the energetic traits of this materials?
I did nonetheless 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 it’s essential determine for your self.
However, we’ve made an affect.
Since my in style pretend weblog publish sequence 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 affect 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 bought to remain on our toes. I’m passing the torch to you on these things! OK? I’m not going to be round subsequent yr in any respect. It’s now as much as our Crystal Household to maintain the fakes fires burning.
My Blue (or some other colour apart from pink) Rose Quartz Conclusion?
It’s sleight of hand trickery, a gimmicky advertising title to promote stuff customary from a comparatively (previously thought of unattractive) low-quality high quality quartz — a advertising ploy.
Now whether or not we think about it enticing or not, I don’t care. Magnificence is at all times within the eye of the beholder.
What I’m up in arms about is that this was at all times comparatively ample and offered cheaply earlier than. Is it proper to only state that it now not is and, subsequently, falsely inflate the worth?
By definition, Rose Quartz is a pink type of Quartz because of explicit nanofibrous inclusions of one thing carefully associated to dumortierite.
However all that geo-speak is splitting hairs anyway. Rose Quartz is Quartz.
If it’s blue (or some other colour apart from pink to your eyeball ️), it can’t be referred to as Rose Quartz.
To me, if the pink hue just isn’t there, it’s not Rose Quartz. Finish of story.
As at all times…
Purchaser Beware: Who’re you shopping for from? Are they respected? Do they know what they’re speaking about? Is the worth too good to be true? Are you doing your individual due diligence + analysis? One of the best ways to guard your self is thru schooling. Preserve this in thoughts: At all times 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 can also make a well-informed choice relating to the way you select to work with these stones. At all times use your widespread sense, and the most effective safety from that is to be well-informed.
All of us love the attractive jewels that Mama Earth creates, and also you don’t know what you don’t know…
till you already know higher.
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Crystal Blessings,
