First and foremost treat your jewellery with care! Caring properly for your jewellery will keep it looking great and lasting a long time. As a rule, everything else should go on before your jewellery. Creams, make-up, hairspray, perfume and the like have chemicals that can leave a film on the jewellery as well as cause harm to the metals and gemstones that your jewellery is made with.

It's the answer I give to a question I get every once in a while. I got en e-mail form a client recently in a slight panic after he saw some scratches and nicks on his brand spankin' new wedding ring.