The newly launched SocialBuy will allow YOU to score the best deals on everything from designer labels, fashion accessories and facials to four-star dinners and cruises.  We are talking about deals that can save up to 90 percent.

SocialBuy offers a local “Deal of the Day” for consumers, including popular Los Angeles shops such as Sprinkles Cupcakes, Dolce Group, and Sunset Tan and even SparklesForever.com.

So take advantage of this deal for SparklesForever exclusive offer for a limited time, you can get $50 worth of jewelry for only $25.  The whole site is half off*  Share this deal with your friends and if they sign up, you even earn reward points that can be applied towards future deals.  Sounds like a great Social Deal to me.

** deal can not be applied towards Final sale items or be combined with any other coupon.

Costume jewelry is a relative newcomer to the world of jewelry - less than a century old.  It was a result of the changing times marking the end of the Victorian era and World War I.  With the 1920s came a resurgence of fashion in clothing.  The old, classic, expensive fine jewelry couldn’t keep pace with the fashion.  So the glitzy, trendy, inexpensive alternative of costume jewelry was born.  Supported and glamorized by famous personalities like Coco Chanel, it gained immediate acceptance.

Today’s costume jewelry ranges from plastic pieces costing less than a dollar to intricate creations costing thousands of dollars.  In general, costume jewelry can be divided into three types:

• replicas of classic gold jewelry designs
• plastic pieces created in fashionable of colors
• showy pieces with unusual metals and imitation gems

Costume jewelry is still strongly linked with the fashion industry.  In fact, it is most often sold in specialty fashion dress stores, department stores and online jewelry boutiques like SparklesForever.com rather than fine jewelry stores.

Costume jewelry offers many unique advantages.  First among them is affordability.  Although designer jewelry pieces can run to several hundreds or several thousands of dollars, most pieces fall into an affordable range.  This affordability allows you to experiment with costume jewelry.  Mistakes made in buying costume jewelry are not nearly so costly as those in bridge or fine jewelry.  Another advantage costume jewelry brings with it is fashion forward designs.  No matter what the clothing industry’s changes are, costume jewelry is quick to meet them.

One Life to Live debuted on the ABC Television Network on July 15, 1968. Forty years later, the Agnes Nixon-created soap opera remains one of television’s longest-running programs. The show was the most honored show at the 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in 2008, with 13 nominations that garnered six wins, including Outstanding Writing, Directing, Lighting, Costume Design and two wins for Original Song.  One Life to Live has been lauded for its groundbreaking exploration of social issues, diverse canvas, award-winning performances and innovative storylines. Along with the history-making week of live shows in May 2002, One Live to Live is responsible for many “firsts” in Daytime television, including stories of interracial romance, illiteracy, medical misdiagnosis, racial prejudice, lupus, gang violence, and homophobia.

If you’re a loyal OLTL fan, now you can share the same jewelry looks from your favorite OLTL celebrity.  OLTL loves SparklesForever fashion jewelry.  If it’s good enough for your favorite TV show, I’m sure our costume jewelry will be approved and loved by their fans.

Champagne is not just for the ball drop - drink the bubbly whenever the mood strikes.

Join a private one-night only elegant experience at POP Champagne & Dessert Bar, Pasadena’s newest hot spot and Southern California’s first and only Champagne bar.  POP Champagne and Piper Heidsieck Champagne have collaborated to bring bubble lovers together for a complementary pairing of hors d’oeuvres, desserts and Champagne.

It will be a sensual event with a live silent auction of SparklesForever glamour cz jewelry and Champagne Lovers art, provided by Kathy DeSilva.

*100% of the jewelry proceeds will be donated to the local Pasadena Susan G Komen for the Cure Foundation. 

This will be an event that you don’t want to miss, R.S.V.P. early as there are only 50 spots available.  (First come basis).

Information:  POP Champagne & Dessert Bar, 33 East Union Street, Pasadena, CA 91103

When:  Tuesday, December 29th, 6-8pm

Fee:  $25 per person.

Please RSVP on EVITE.  Hosted by:

Cubic Zirconium oxide, stabilized by the addition of 15-18 percent yttrium oxide (Y2O3) or 5-8 percent calcium oxide (CaO).  It is an artificial product, not corresponding to any natural gemstone.

Cubic Zirconia is produced by the skull melt process and looks like an association of somewhat irregular crystals produced by the cracking of homogeneous, transparent mass, with a light, opaque crust (the wall of the “skull”).  It is perfectly transparent and usually perfectly colorless as well, but it may be faint, brownish yellow, due to impurities.  It can also be obtained in different colors, such as yellow, violet, red, and pink.

It has a hardness of about 8.5, which is good, but less than that of corundum.  The density is about 5.65 g/cm or 5.95 g/cm, depending on the stabilizer used.  The refractive index is about 2.17, therefore too high to be measured by ordinary jewelers’ refractometers, but nonetheless a bit lower than that of diamond.  On the other hand, the dispersion of 0.065 is higher than that of diamond.

This involves the use of very advanced technology.  At present, it is only produced in the United States, Switzerland, and the Soviet Union.

Together we can make a difference in this world. Let’s start with our local children. Hope to see you there and please spread the word and share this with all your friends and loved ones.

Location: Livingston Park, Long Beach

Date: December 5th, 2009

Time: 11am-4pm

City, State: Belmont Shore, California

Happy Holidays and thank you!

Think of this, what if every time you shop and sparkle could help women and girls around the world?  You can by entering the code S4C1 at check out.  Every time you shop at SparklesForever.com, 10% of the proceeds will be donated to help a women’s or girls cause to make a difference in their future.

Inspired by Oprah and the book “Half the Sky, Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide”, written by winners of The Pulitzer Prize, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, SparklesForever.com will donate 10% of proceeds to help women around the world.  The 10% can help rape victims, save a slave, teach a girl or even help her start her own business.  SparklesForever wants to share this movement with all women of the world and together we can help other women in need of help.

We can help accelerate change if we open our hearts.  Let’s all sparkle together knowing that we are making a difference in this world, one woman at a time.

Every donation counts, no matter how small or big.  Perhaps you may want to make your own donation or would like more information.  Take a look at our Sparkles for a Cause Campaign for more info.

This season, the hottest jewelry buy on the market are the Tiffany Keys.  A key can symbolize access to something that has been locked away as much as it does access to opening new opportunities.  This is a perfect gift for someone who is going through a rough time during these hard economic days.  Remind them with a Key necklace that when you open a new door, new opportunities await.

Oval key pendant in sterling silver $175, Tiffany & Co.

Sterling Silver Oval Key Pendant Necklace, $55 by SparklesForever.com

You can splurge on this H2 at Hammerman White Sappgire & 18K White Gold Necklace for $2600.00, available at Saks Fifth Avenue or you can save big with this Cubic Zirconia by the Yard necklace.

H2 at Hammerman Necklace, Retails $2600.00

CZ by the Yard Necklace, Retails $120