I don't buy for myself very often but when I do it is often an impulse buy. I recently bought these beryl semi precious gemstones with a view of making myself something with them. Beryl is the generic name of aquamarine, morganite, heliodor, maxixe, goshenite and emerald.
Interestingly the dark green beryls are known as emeralds whereas the lighter tone ones are just called green beryl but aquamarine is still called aquamarine no matter the depth of the blue colour.
I am happy that I have quite a few aquamarines on this strand. I know they are only bead quality but they are aquamarines nevertheless! Some have more clarity than others but the saturation of colour is pretty good on most of them.
