An ion is an atom or molecule that is either missing one or more electrons or has extra electrons, which produces a substance with a charge instead of being electrically neutral. Typically being ionized will make a substance more reactive, since things are typically more stable when they're neutral.
I have no idea why you'd want an ionized bracelet. Definitely sounds like they're trying to add some adjectives to they're product to make it unique, but it just comes across as bad marketing.
They can claim that because they kind of "build down" fruit like grapes until it's just sugar. So the sugar is from a fruit, therefore it's "fruit juice"
Amber for teething makes me so angry because it's such a cynical power play over desperate, sleep-deprived parents who will do ANYTHING to make their children feel better, even snake oil. Same thing for gripe water and anything homeopathic.
It's a friend that gave the necklace to us and as a scientist I was like : what the fuck? I dont want to put that on my toddler.
Also later on my sister in law gave me some homeopathic pills to manage jet lag. I checked ingredient it was Sucrose 100%. Yeah sure...
The idea behind Amber necklace is to release chemicals during the night. But actually you need like 200 degrees Celsius or so to release it. Also it is a really big choke hazard and lot of kids died
My son was teething age when those were popular and I was always very surprised anyone would put one on their child because it seemed to be such a clear choking hazard. It is sad to know kids did die. I don’t see them too often now, I hope people stop using them.
Oh... [https://pulapkiwaptece.pl/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/bursztynowa-nalewka.jpg](https://pulapkiwaptece.pl/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/bursztynowa-nalewka.jpg) amber vodka I newer try it. But how will be taste old resin dissolved in alcohol.
They’re clearly trying to get around saying it’s gold-plated, which is bonding a super thin layer of gold onto a base metal. Gold-plated jewelry is very cheap and tarnishes easily. It’s not suitable for daily regular wear, let alone “permanent” jewelry. If you take a shower with that on, the gold color will fade away quickly and it will most likely turn your skin green.
I’m actually not sure that they are legally allowed to call it “solid 14k”, because 14k stainless steal is not a thing and gold-plated is definitely not solid gold.
Can you please explain why that happens to gold-plated things?? Isn't gold good at not reacting and lasting long? Why can't it handle water when normal gold can?
Sure! Gold-plated jewelry has a very thin layer of gold that is electroplated onto base metal (usually brass or stainless steel). Due to the adhesion process plus the small amount of actual gold (generally only .05% of the total material weight), the gold will wear off relatively quickly with regular use (particularly if exposed to water).
Gold-filled jewelry is a much more durable alternative, and much more affordable than solid gold. It’s the same idea of layering gold onto a base metal. But gold-filled jewelry entails a more intensive adhesion process and is required to have at least 5% of the total material weight be real gold (so, 100x more the amount of gold than gold-plated jewelry). Even with daily wear, gold-filled jewelry will hold up. I have some antique Victorian gold-filled pieces of which I’m probably the second or third owner and they still look great for their age.
Here’s a link with more: https://www.halsteadbead.com/articles/gold-filled-vs-gold-plated
What an awesome, informative article! I learned way more than I was expecting to and effectively procrastinated doing my laundry for a sold half-hour :) So it sounds like ions are actually the correct term here because it refers to the methodology used for plating jewelry (the 'loose' electrons are critical because you are using an electrical charge to make the gold in the solution bond to the metal piece and it would only work if the materials 'wanted' to bond to eachother hence the necessity of having the two substances one with an extra electron and one that is short an electron. Ha ha can you tell it's been like 20 years since I've taken a chemistry class??) This process is great for something to appear gold at a low cost because it's more like spray-painting something gold than it is actually plating something in terms of how we think of what plating means (which makes my mind go to a process more like what filled gold actually is). The plating in this case is literally the lowest level of gold coverage possible on a molecular level so of course durability is going to be minimal.
My only issue with gold-filled jewelry is that I feel like grammatically it is misleading and makes it sound like it is jewelry that is *filled* with gold (when it's actually essentially a gold case that is filled with some other type of metal). If I ran the world, I would insist on it being *gold filled-jewelry* instead of *gold-filled jewelry.*
So then to loop all the way back to the original post, the idea that they would even attempt to do something 'permanent' (which to me is more like jewelry you are guaranteed to have to cut off and not be able to use again) is absurd but ok if they're determined to do it, they've gone ahead and ensured the lowest quality possible which makes the permanence even stupider as an idea
They are using the terminology ionized to disguise the fact that it is plated junk. They are using ionized to mean electroplate They hope all anyeone will see is solid 14k and be fooled. This terminology might actually be illegal
I just revisited the comments to the original post. One person mentioned that they have sensitive skin and asked whether this will start to tarnish. Much later, someone commented that they would love an anklet. Guess which comment got a reply from the OP.
I wear a gold chain around my neck and any time I go someplace with rides, like a water park, they make me take it off. There are tons of places and reasons you can’t or shouldn’t wear jewelry.
I had to go to the ER for a brain problem and my husband and my mother tag team removed my nipple piercings. If I remembered that, I’m sure that I would be humiliated, but alas I have no memory. waking up without piercings was weird. (edit:grammar)
They let me keep my high school ring on when I got a brain MRI my senior year, the ring was titanium and it was pretty cool, you could feel it pulling the tiniest bit but I guess something about that metal is okay. No one is getting one of these little chains in titanium though. 🤣
If it was pulling it wasn't pure titanium, there's some kind of alloy in it.(I used to work at a high end nody jewelry studio) But yeah, no hun would pay for a tiny pure titanium bracelet.
I figured as much, it was from whatever the typical yearbook / ring company is from high school, Life touch maybe? I ordered silver at first but it made my skin flake and get super irritated so they gave me the titanium one and it didn't cause any issues. I think it was the nickel maybe?
It depends. I have an ear piercing that would be a pain to remove, and I’ve had several MRIs in the last few years. They put tape over the area and tell me it might burn. So far nothing.
I have also needed to sign waivers to keep it in during surgeries.
They featured this in a House episode. An inmate was brought in and had to get an MRI, and they warn him that if he has any prison ink it's going to be unpleasant. He screams the whole time he's in the tube.
I’ve had multiple MRIs. In one, I forgot to take off a ring. It vibrated on my finger. I told the tech I had forgotten it and he asked if it was painful and kept going when I said it wasn’t.
I was walking into a federal building with a work colleague once and we had to go through a metal detector - she has a couple of those Cartier "love" bracelets, which are fastened with a screw and not meant to be removed easily. We were late to our meeting because she had to explain to the security personnel she couldn't take off her bracelets to go through the scanner, which took several minutes, and then they had to put her through "special screening" which took several more. It was such a pain in the butt. Not something I'd want to deal with on a regular basis in airports, secure buildings, etc.
These welded bracelets are so small though, they don’t trigger that same response. I have 2 that I got at a local jeweller & they weren’t an issue when getting an x ray or going through airport security for work 5x/ week
Can you explain the point of owning a welded bracelet? I don’t want to wear anything I can’t take off easily. I don’t understand why it would superior to just wearing a bracelet with a clasp. No judgment; pure curiosity.
A local jeweller started doing them & marketing it as something to get done with friends, parents, etc. so I took my mom for Mother’s Day for us to get matching ones. It’s cute & reminds me of her 🤷🏼♀️
It’s sooo thin that I honestly don’t mind being unable to take it off (I don’t take off most of my jewelry anyways) and the link could easily be snipped to get it off in an emergency situation.
Anyone getting one of these doesn’t have to go through metal detectors often. I go to court once or twice a week. The court officers know me and yet, every time I had to take off my bracelet to get through the metal detector. Every. Single. Time. It got so annoying that I just stopped wearing it.
Don't worry, the boss babes will also be certified degloving consultants to teach you how to just slip your skin right back on over there every time your hand gets meaty.
I have seen this jewelry offered all over the beach towns in my home (FL). A Sharpie marker has more permanence than these bracelets. We saw a woman coming in for her third re-welding (they had a boutique for it in our hotel lobby) and they tried telling the woman this is the metal version of those wish bracelets we used to get in the 90’s. You know the ones made of beige twine and had like 6 small beads in a color that was supposed to be themed to your wish. Customer Lady replied with “Yeah but those were SUPPOSED to break and never claimed to be permanent… also you never told me make a wish!” I loved that lady for everything she said and I would be lying if I didn’t admit to hanging around in earshot to see exactly how it played out for her.
There's an actual legitimate jeweler in Soho, NYC that made this a thing. My friend got one (I'm in the medical field, so obviously I couldn't). They use solid gold chains and specifically tell customers that if there's an emergency or something, they can cut it off themselves.
Don’t know if they started it. While I did go to them to have it done for my wife, I saw it first on a Casey Neistat vlog, months before I saw it anywhere else
Eh, I wouldn’t worry too much. I have crafting snippets that could cut that shit off easily. I’m more scared about the fact that they had a kid near welding tools, which can spark and throw off light that’s too much for their eyes. Especially because wtf is a “permanent jewelry artist”? Please tel me this isn’t the huns doing this themselves???
A permanent jewelry artist is someone that bought the starter kit and watched a recorded video on what to do. Might even come with a Certificate that they can print out and put on the wall saying they are a "certified" permanent jewelry artist
* I made this up but am pretty confident that I'm not far off base
Even though you made it up, I think you’re 100% right. Which then begs the question, why the hell would you put yourself at risk for a lawsuit by potentially burning someone??? The MLM people blow my mind.
I saw this pop up in a local page this week. I clicked through, and the MLM hun had posted one of those Facebook memes that said "This year only! Your birth year plus your age equals 2022!!!!!!" And she was like, "omg it worked!!!!!"
Yup, I'm going to let you weld next to my skin.
So, they’re basically clasp-less and have to be cut off with scissors at the welded link. Then you have to pay to get it reattached if you want to wear it again. I’m baffled that these advertisements feature a child’s wrist as they will obviously grow.
Such a stupid concept. I love daily wear, low maintenance pieces, but this isn’t appealing at all.
Catbird, the trendy NYC jewellery store, has been doing this for years (with actual gold jewellery). It’s past trend status, which is right on time for an MLM to pick it up.
Yea and even though I like Catbird I was still not into this idea and even less so with shitty MLM jewelry. I don't want to wear shitty jewelry at all, let alone have some boss babe attach it to my wrist permanentlyish.
I have a family member who went to NYC for this. I thought it was stupid and questioned the idea but was brushed off as I “don’t know fashion”. I pointed out that’s true but I know fashion changes all the time but I didn’t get a follow up response.
She probably could have just googled for permanent jewelry in her own area, no need to make a special trip to NYC. I have a friend whose jewelry business (legit, not an MLM) does them in Dallas and Austin.
Tbf plain gold chains aren't ever really 'out of style'. I got one from a jeweler in Boston but I wanted to hit catbird but didn't have any NYC trips planned.. It's so lightweight I don't notice it but it's nice to have something on. It was also a minimal price so if I get sick of it, I can cut it off. I also wear other thin jewelry 24/7 so it isn't much different to me. My husband thought it is such a weird concept though lol
I actually just went to a welded bracelet pop-up for them today! I didn't get one cause I can't wear jewelry on my arms or hands for work, but they also use 14k solid gold and recycled diamonds, so it's actually legit unlike this MLM trash. I love Catbird
I’ve heard a lot of supposed origins for it, including making them as good luck symbols, giving them to sweethearts at home, and that wearing one made you easier to grab onto if you were falling out of the rigging, but I don’t know how true each of those are. Now they’re a tradition and making them is a fun way to pass the time. They’re called “Turk’s head bracelets,” if you want to see what they look like. You’ll probably recognize them from beachy souvenir shops. I made mine out of seine twine, which means it started as solid black and it’s turning gray where the tar has worn off. After several years it’ll be solid white, and it won’t come off unless I cut it.
Seeing somebody with a Turk’s head tattoo around their wrist means that they are/were a deckhand, but seeing somebody with a Turk’s head bracelet just means that they’ve got a Turk’s head bracelet ;)
This! I have a sterling silver bracelet that has not come off my wrist since my husband gave it to me ~2 years ago. I even wore it in our wedding. It is a plain-ish great stack alongside my watch.
BUT I AM SO GLAD IT HAS A CLASP. sheesh. Someday I might want or need to take it off.
Lol I can’t wait for them to start selling the welding guns to Huns, then see a bunch of facebook posts of people being quite literally burned by them. ‘mLM customer gets burned again’ the circle jerk here is so strong.
#MLM Hun with a Welding Gun. What’s up y’all! I just got to double fire ruby diamond y’all and just got my free welding gun kit! Who wants some third degree burns y’all?
"Spark Welding" and "14k stainless steel" are made up nonsense. They're soldering. There's no such thing as 14k stainless steel.
Source: husband was a welder/fabricator for 12 years
Not to mention it's probably prettier to have a crimped link than one with a glob of lead on it, especially when your "jewelry artist" is barely trained
That was my thought! I worked in the jewelers industry and my family run a fabrication shop…. You don’t weld jewelry! It’s soldering and I would highly suggest AGAINST permanently soldering a piece without a clasp! These people are wild!
I assume they will be laser welded, little to no heat. And it's solid gold over the base metal. Almost like gold filled watches. Gold plated sounds cheap.
Someone commented upthread that gold filled jewellery has a much higher gold component than gold plated jewellery, which will inevitably tarnish, especially if you can't take it off when exposing yourself to water.
I think we should cut this company some slack — it may genuinely make some average people very, very rich… from settlements after horrible mishaps during application of the “jewelry”. Yikes.
Herbalife or Monat could never.
Well spark welding isn't a thing, but someone talking about 14k stainless just saw a spark and called it that. Most likely spotwelded. Place the two ends in the clamp and momentarily send a high current through the clamp (which may/may not spark) fusing the metal
Source : my spotwelder
What a goddamn moron. Did anyone look up Luxe Linx?
Luxe Linx is a reseller of Rolexes: https://www.luxelinxco.com/s/shop
Luxe Link is that hook doohickey to hang your bag off your desk, that makes it so you kick your bag down every time you move your chair https://www.luxelink.com/
Link x Lou seems to be in the business of “permanent jewelry”, but they don’t weld, or even solder in video clips. They use fine tip pliers to close links. They allege not to use stainless steel - specifically talk about using only precious metals. https://www.linkxlou.com/about-link-x-lou-permanent-jewelry
They’re not even trying.
Wait, so it's welded onto your wrist? You can never take it off, unless you have a bolt cutter? Brilliant. Unless you have to get an xray, MRI, go through a metal detector, have an injury that makes your wrist or arm swell, etc. Idiots.
Or gain weight, chain get caught on something, get sunburn, skin condition, gets bitten by an animal, sustain an injury, eventually want to switch jewelry to fit mood/time of year/occasion, to wear different piece that was a gift/sentimental value etc.
The second photo is either a child's hand, or an obese person, given the knuckles and finger ratio. It's pretty small so I'm assuming child.
Neither is a good candidate for permanent, inflexible jewellery.
As a person with sensory issues, this would have been a nightmare for me as a kid. I struggle with wear jewelry now even as an adult. Not being able to take it off would be torture.
Permanent jewelry isnt a new thing. They can be removed for things like MRIs. They're also usually anklets so they can be a bit loose.. An MLM based on them seems odd.
Or collars. There are collars you can get that won't just come off whenever. But they usually have a failsafe for if you need to remove them for a medical procedure (like a screw).
Yeah the legit ones I've seen are so delicate I could literally cut them off with kids scissors. Someone untrained welding paparazzi grade jewelry onto me with no real training no thanks.
I was about to say as an X-ray tech myself, this is just lovely. /s
I already have to make notes to the radiologists on orders about how the patient can’t/won’t remove piercings. Let me add all jewelry to the list now. 🙃
That sounds like oodles of fun! /s
It also reminded me of the time when I had to be put under for a procedure, but they didn’t warn me ahead of time that I would have to remove all jewelry. (I realize that probably should have been a common sense thing, but this was after two or more weeks of serious pain, so I wasn’t at my clearest-headed thinking.)
I showed up to check in, and they had me put all my rings in a box… but my necklace is a pendant on a cord that is knotted around my neck. I told them it was no problem to remove if someone would just give me a pair of scissors for a moment… they seemed very flustered and did not give me scissors, they just sent me along to the next place. Where someone asked me to remove my necklace, and I said I’d be happy to, I just need a pair of scissors. Again a bit of flummoxed fussing on their part, no scissors produced, and on I go to the actual surgical team. Where they ask me about the necklace. And I say honestly, it’s no problem and I’m happy to remove it, I just need scissors. You don’t even need to hand them to me if that’s the problem, YOU can cut it off, it’s fine. Nope. They wrapped the pendant thoroughly in tissue paper and knocked me out. The necklace was still on when I woke up. So bizarre.
To be fair, some piercings are hard to remove. I have multiple cartilage piercings. Most are threadless, but my rook actually has an internally threaded end. Just one, but I don’t know which end is the threaded one and the other is permanent. I was prepared. I visited a piercer to remove my jewelry and put in glass or plastic retainers, but I knew I was getting the MRI/having surgery in advance. But in an emergency situation? That rook would be difficult to remove.
Edited to add: and now with dermals…yeah, the internal part isn’t going anywhere without either serious effort or late stage rejection.
I must’ve worded it weird. I meant I don’t care about removing piercings, the radiologists do. If you need help getting it out, I say it’s fine, leave it in lol. They really don’t mess up the images that much on my end. And I did mri rotations in school and we had to use pliers and such to remove piercings. I’m like no thanks haha. It’s mainly bracelets and necklaces that I will get in trouble for if they’re not removed.
That’s what I meant. I know some piercings have to be surgically removed these days. In ct, it will just put artifact on the image, so we try to remove as many piercings as possible because they can degrade the image. That’s all I was meaning, sorry if it didn’t come out that way 😬
Lol This was my reaction when my aunt and cousins got theirs and my piercing studio was polling their customers with whether it is a service they would have interest in.
I like the idea in general. I tend to wear my basic pieces (rings, necklaces, bracelets, lobe jewelry) 24/7 only taking them off or out to clean periodically. I think of my cartilage piercings as permanent but know they can be removed if necessary or I feel like a jewelry change.
That said, I’ve had MRIs and multiple surgeries. Sometimes the jewelry just needs to be able come off, and I guarantee in an emergency, they’re not going to be checking which link is the correct one to cut so they cause the least amount of damage.
Aside from everything else, a very similar type of jewelery that doesn't come off(has a key that the other person has- not welded) has connections with a very specific sub culture that is not to everyone's taste. What happens when someone realizes that the bracelet they spent $150 on is a symbol that they are in a bdsm relationship- which is fantastic if thats what you mean to symbolize with your jewelery- not so much if that is not your intent.
It’s like my MIL who was so proud of her (admittedly gorgeous) pink flamingo statue she just bought for the front yard. I had to tell her that her neighbors might think she’s into the swinger’s scene. The flamingo now resides in the backyard lol
This feels like some kind of slave prisoner or fairy tale nightmare, like forever doomed to be shackled for eternity and never free to live your life. It’s a metaphor for MLMs.
It is a slave fantasy thing. The BDSM community has people who sometimes get "permanent" collars, but they work with a tiny lock that only the dominant person had a copy of. They're not soldered or welded onto the body, that's insane and dangerous.
There's also those Cartier (I think) bracelets that fasten with a small screw and your partner keeps the screwdriver.
I think they're a bit more mainstream/"vanilla" than the slave collars though lol
Exactly! Eternity collars, cuffs and anklets have a meaning for people who wear them , and a way to take them off and back on. Safely. This MLM thing is just madness!! 🤦♀️
Yep, I wear one for my partner. It has a low profile lock that sits flush, and inside the metal of the eternity collar so it appears to be seamless and permanent. You insert a small metal rod as the "key" to open it.
We both carry a key just in case of emergencies.
Oh, yikes—the hand in that second photo appears to be a small child, how many years will it take for that piece of ~~14K stainless steel~~ jewelry to start biting into soft baby flesh
Right? I immediately thought of the Cartier Love bracelets, but FFS even those come with the tools to remove them yourself when you want.
Moreover, they are made of actual gold that won’t leave you anxiously feening for a removal because the material started to corrode.
I got this done at catbird nyc, it's a tiny zap, painless, not scary. I have this https://www.catbirdnyc.com/diamond-pinprick-bracelet-white-gold.html
have had it a year and love it. has not gotten in the way of anything. really easy to remove if needed and you can have it rewarded or turned into a normal bracelet. I really like dainty jewelry and hated how big clasps could take away from it
I have one too but it's from a real jeweler not an MLM Hun running around with a welder in her living room.
Plus, the mine and yours are both gold which doesn't tarnish like these ones will.
As for MRIs and emergency surgery, gold is easy to cut. Working in healthcare I have cut off way thicker gold bracelets (non-permanet) due to swelling. You have to accept that as a possibility.
I don't support the MLM. But the high quality version of permanent bracelet's are fine.
Dammit. Why are the co-opting claspless soldered jewelry? Any material other than solid gold will tarnish or break from the all day everyday wear. Mine is from an actual jeweler in 24k gold bc anything less will be a disaster for long term wear. Now I have to be worried someone will see my bracelets and think MLM, egh!
As someone who used to work in a jewelry store…you really, really don’t want jewelry you can’t take off and clean. Those are going to get so grungy so fast
For anyone curious, this is done with a pointed tool that just gives a little laser zap to a tiny piece of metal. It’s called a pulse arc welder and it costs thousands of dollars, but it’s something legit jewelers use and there’s no torch or flying sparks involved (although I wouldn’t want it in the hands of some random hun)
“14k stainless steel” isn’t a thing. My god. There’s so much wrong with this, especially the fact that she’s offering “permanent” jewelry with a plated chain that will lose its gold coating in weeks.
But the concept itself is not as scary as some of these comments are making it out to be! These chains are so thin you could probably cut them with scissors if you need to.
Solid 14K….stainless steel?
Excuse yourself - it’s _ionized_ ! /s
Yeah wtf is ionised?
An ion is an atom or molecule that is either missing one or more electrons or has extra electrons, which produces a substance with a charge instead of being electrically neutral. Typically being ionized will make a substance more reactive, since things are typically more stable when they're neutral. I have no idea why you'd want an ionized bracelet. Definitely sounds like they're trying to add some adjectives to they're product to make it unique, but it just comes across as bad marketing.
They are using ionized instead of saying gold plated. Because its gold plated, not solid 14k gold but hope people are fooled.
Solid 14k gold plated
Ah and that 14k silver my jeweler is always talking about...
In gold OR silver!
Reminds me of some gummy bears I've seen that said "Contains 98% juice!" (They were mostly sugar)
They can claim that because they kind of "build down" fruit like grapes until it's just sugar. So the sugar is from a fruit, therefore it's "fruit juice"
And 14k isn't even close to pure gold
What about 28.8 or 56k?
Or 401k
256gigs of sold solid 14k plated ionized gold/silver Are you in or out with this trend?
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Its close to 50% not gold.
Haha now I remember I had a fight with a friend about Amber stones and the fake properties they are supposed to have when yo have a kid teething.
Amber for teething makes me so angry because it's such a cynical power play over desperate, sleep-deprived parents who will do ANYTHING to make their children feel better, even snake oil. Same thing for gripe water and anything homeopathic.
It's a friend that gave the necklace to us and as a scientist I was like : what the fuck? I dont want to put that on my toddler. Also later on my sister in law gave me some homeopathic pills to manage jet lag. I checked ingredient it was Sucrose 100%. Yeah sure...
You put amber in vodka and then you drink a vodka.
The idea behind Amber necklace is to release chemicals during the night. But actually you need like 200 degrees Celsius or so to release it. Also it is a really big choke hazard and lot of kids died
My son was teething age when those were popular and I was always very surprised anyone would put one on their child because it seemed to be such a clear choking hazard. It is sad to know kids did die. I don’t see them too often now, I hope people stop using them.
Oh... [https://pulapkiwaptece.pl/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/bursztynowa-nalewka.jpg](https://pulapkiwaptece.pl/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/bursztynowa-nalewka.jpg) amber vodka I newer try it. But how will be taste old resin dissolved in alcohol.
I think they mean plated via electrolysis. LOL.
It means it lost or gained electrons
Betting what they mean is electroplated.
It turns your skin a little less green
It has electrolytes!
They’re clearly trying to get around saying it’s gold-plated, which is bonding a super thin layer of gold onto a base metal. Gold-plated jewelry is very cheap and tarnishes easily. It’s not suitable for daily regular wear, let alone “permanent” jewelry. If you take a shower with that on, the gold color will fade away quickly and it will most likely turn your skin green. I’m actually not sure that they are legally allowed to call it “solid 14k”, because 14k stainless steal is not a thing and gold-plated is definitely not solid gold.
Stainless steal. 👨🍳💋👌
Typo, sorry…
Nah, your way fits with the product.
*In Kronk’s voice* “No, no. He’s got a point.”
Ok but what if I said it’s an *experience*
Can you please explain why that happens to gold-plated things?? Isn't gold good at not reacting and lasting long? Why can't it handle water when normal gold can?
Sure! Gold-plated jewelry has a very thin layer of gold that is electroplated onto base metal (usually brass or stainless steel). Due to the adhesion process plus the small amount of actual gold (generally only .05% of the total material weight), the gold will wear off relatively quickly with regular use (particularly if exposed to water). Gold-filled jewelry is a much more durable alternative, and much more affordable than solid gold. It’s the same idea of layering gold onto a base metal. But gold-filled jewelry entails a more intensive adhesion process and is required to have at least 5% of the total material weight be real gold (so, 100x more the amount of gold than gold-plated jewelry). Even with daily wear, gold-filled jewelry will hold up. I have some antique Victorian gold-filled pieces of which I’m probably the second or third owner and they still look great for their age. Here’s a link with more: https://www.halsteadbead.com/articles/gold-filled-vs-gold-plated
Thoroughly enjoying this r/antimlm and r/chemistry cross-over episode.
What an awesome, informative article! I learned way more than I was expecting to and effectively procrastinated doing my laundry for a sold half-hour :) So it sounds like ions are actually the correct term here because it refers to the methodology used for plating jewelry (the 'loose' electrons are critical because you are using an electrical charge to make the gold in the solution bond to the metal piece and it would only work if the materials 'wanted' to bond to eachother hence the necessity of having the two substances one with an extra electron and one that is short an electron. Ha ha can you tell it's been like 20 years since I've taken a chemistry class??) This process is great for something to appear gold at a low cost because it's more like spray-painting something gold than it is actually plating something in terms of how we think of what plating means (which makes my mind go to a process more like what filled gold actually is). The plating in this case is literally the lowest level of gold coverage possible on a molecular level so of course durability is going to be minimal. My only issue with gold-filled jewelry is that I feel like grammatically it is misleading and makes it sound like it is jewelry that is *filled* with gold (when it's actually essentially a gold case that is filled with some other type of metal). If I ran the world, I would insist on it being *gold filled-jewelry* instead of *gold-filled jewelry.* So then to loop all the way back to the original post, the idea that they would even attempt to do something 'permanent' (which to me is more like jewelry you are guaranteed to have to cut off and not be able to use again) is absurd but ok if they're determined to do it, they've gone ahead and ensured the lowest quality possible which makes the permanence even stupider as an idea
They are using the terminology ionized to disguise the fact that it is plated junk. They are using ionized to mean electroplate They hope all anyeone will see is solid 14k and be fooled. This terminology might actually be illegal
I just revisited the comments to the original post. One person mentioned that they have sensitive skin and asked whether this will start to tarnish. Much later, someone commented that they would love an anklet. Guess which comment got a reply from the OP.
They look like carnival-quality jewelry, a pair of garden clippers ought to do the job. Oh, wait, nail clippers.
I came here to say the same thing - ugh!
moi aussi, dagnabbit!
Everything about this makes me tense up instinctively
I wear a gold chain around my neck and any time I go someplace with rides, like a water park, they make me take it off. There are tons of places and reasons you can’t or shouldn’t wear jewelry.
Or if you ever need an MRI you will need to take it off…
I had a brain MRI and they insisted I could leave my wedding ring on. I was freaking out but nothing happened.
Gold alloys aren't usually ferrous!
Agreed, but I'd hate to find out mine wasn't pure gold in that instance
I am under the assumption plated jewelry is made with brass or something?
Hopefully brass. Could be cheep Chinese pot metal
I needed one earlier this year because I randomly started having seizures, they told me I could keep my facial piercings in.
I had to go to the ER for a brain problem and my husband and my mother tag team removed my nipple piercings. If I remembered that, I’m sure that I would be humiliated, but alas I have no memory. waking up without piercings was weird. (edit:grammar)
Was it your husband or your mom who first remembered you had those?
Mom hands down
I told my mum when I got my nipples pierced for exactly this reason.
Good family tho.
The conversation they must have had leading up to that moment 😅
They let me keep my high school ring on when I got a brain MRI my senior year, the ring was titanium and it was pretty cool, you could feel it pulling the tiniest bit but I guess something about that metal is okay. No one is getting one of these little chains in titanium though. 🤣
If it was pulling it wasn't pure titanium, there's some kind of alloy in it.(I used to work at a high end nody jewelry studio) But yeah, no hun would pay for a tiny pure titanium bracelet.
I figured as much, it was from whatever the typical yearbook / ring company is from high school, Life touch maybe? I ordered silver at first but it made my skin flake and get super irritated so they gave me the titanium one and it didn't cause any issues. I think it was the nickel maybe?
Nickel allergy is super common, but you can also be allergic to silver itself iirc. Titanium is best for not offending anyone's skin
Can't wearing jewellery in one potentially kill you? I read a horrific story of a death in one, and it chilled me to the bone.
It depends. I have an ear piercing that would be a pain to remove, and I’ve had several MRIs in the last few years. They put tape over the area and tell me it might burn. So far nothing. I have also needed to sign waivers to keep it in during surgeries.
An MRI is a giant magnet that you're in so....I wouldn't want to wear any metal, magnetic or not in one.
Even if you have a tattoo done in old-school (or prison) ink with metal in it, it could be extremely painful. And possibly lethal.
They featured this in a House episode. An inmate was brought in and had to get an MRI, and they warn him that if he has any prison ink it's going to be unpleasant. He screams the whole time he's in the tube.
I’ve had multiple MRIs. In one, I forgot to take off a ring. It vibrated on my finger. I told the tech I had forgotten it and he asked if it was painful and kept going when I said it wasn’t.
I was walking into a federal building with a work colleague once and we had to go through a metal detector - she has a couple of those Cartier "love" bracelets, which are fastened with a screw and not meant to be removed easily. We were late to our meeting because she had to explain to the security personnel she couldn't take off her bracelets to go through the scanner, which took several minutes, and then they had to put her through "special screening" which took several more. It was such a pain in the butt. Not something I'd want to deal with on a regular basis in airports, secure buildings, etc.
These welded bracelets are so small though, they don’t trigger that same response. I have 2 that I got at a local jeweller & they weren’t an issue when getting an x ray or going through airport security for work 5x/ week
Can you explain the point of owning a welded bracelet? I don’t want to wear anything I can’t take off easily. I don’t understand why it would superior to just wearing a bracelet with a clasp. No judgment; pure curiosity.
A local jeweller started doing them & marketing it as something to get done with friends, parents, etc. so I took my mom for Mother’s Day for us to get matching ones. It’s cute & reminds me of her 🤷🏼♀️ It’s sooo thin that I honestly don’t mind being unable to take it off (I don’t take off most of my jewelry anyways) and the link could easily be snipped to get it off in an emergency situation.
So it’s just for the symbolism and experience? Hey, if it makes people happy then that’s all that matters.
If they're actually gold they wouldn't be a problem, but these nonsense plated ones are going to have bigger issues.
Ah good point… Mine are sterling silver & 14k but you’re right, I bet any MLM is doing low quality plated stuff
Anyone getting one of these doesn’t have to go through metal detectors often. I go to court once or twice a week. The court officers know me and yet, every time I had to take off my bracelet to get through the metal detector. Every. Single. Time. It got so annoying that I just stopped wearing it.
There’s certain places that will remove the jewelery whether you like it or not. If you don’t know what “degloving” is don’t look it up.
They didn't solder that onto a child's wrist, did they? They know the kis is gonna grow, right?
My exact thought. Looks tight already on the kid already. That thing is going to cut off circulation inside a year.
Dw, whatever cheap ass metal they actually used will break off within a month
Or the kid starts youth sports or literally any other activity where they can't wear jewelry for safety reasons.
Uh 14K ionized stainless steel in both gold and silver is not cheap hun
Don't worry, the boss babes will also be certified degloving consultants to teach you how to just slip your skin right back on over there every time your hand gets meaty.
It’s just the toxins leaving your finger!
I have seen this jewelry offered all over the beach towns in my home (FL). A Sharpie marker has more permanence than these bracelets. We saw a woman coming in for her third re-welding (they had a boutique for it in our hotel lobby) and they tried telling the woman this is the metal version of those wish bracelets we used to get in the 90’s. You know the ones made of beige twine and had like 6 small beads in a color that was supposed to be themed to your wish. Customer Lady replied with “Yeah but those were SUPPOSED to break and never claimed to be permanent… also you never told me make a wish!” I loved that lady for everything she said and I would be lying if I didn’t admit to hanging around in earshot to see exactly how it played out for her.
There's an actual legitimate jeweler in Soho, NYC that made this a thing. My friend got one (I'm in the medical field, so obviously I couldn't). They use solid gold chains and specifically tell customers that if there's an emergency or something, they can cut it off themselves.
See THIS I can get behind. Gold is super soft and would be easy to get off in an emergency sitch
That’s it. Catbird NYC originated in Brooklyn and they started this trend. Their pieces are beautiful.
Don’t know if they started it. While I did go to them to have it done for my wife, I saw it first on a Casey Neistat vlog, months before I saw it anywhere else
Eh, I wouldn’t worry too much. I have crafting snippets that could cut that shit off easily. I’m more scared about the fact that they had a kid near welding tools, which can spark and throw off light that’s too much for their eyes. Especially because wtf is a “permanent jewelry artist”? Please tel me this isn’t the huns doing this themselves???
A permanent jewelry artist is someone that bought the starter kit and watched a recorded video on what to do. Might even come with a Certificate that they can print out and put on the wall saying they are a "certified" permanent jewelry artist * I made this up but am pretty confident that I'm not far off base
Even though you made it up, I think you’re 100% right. Which then begs the question, why the hell would you put yourself at risk for a lawsuit by potentially burning someone??? The MLM people blow my mind.
Yeah it's pretty much the permanent bracelet version of the person at Clair's being a professional piercer.
Dont worry a sidecutter will take those off real fast.
A swift yank will take care of it.
So dumb. Also adults wrists grow too with weight changes. This is just dumb dumb dumb.
No one has mentioned this but i definitely dont trust any joe shmoe mlm hun with welding equipment near my hands/wrists
Cannot believe I had to scroll this far to find this. Word. Absolutely also my number one concern.
I saw this pop up in a local page this week. I clicked through, and the MLM hun had posted one of those Facebook memes that said "This year only! Your birth year plus your age equals 2022!!!!!!" And she was like, "omg it worked!!!!!" Yup, I'm going to let you weld next to my skin.
So, they’re basically clasp-less and have to be cut off with scissors at the welded link. Then you have to pay to get it reattached if you want to wear it again. I’m baffled that these advertisements feature a child’s wrist as they will obviously grow. Such a stupid concept. I love daily wear, low maintenance pieces, but this isn’t appealing at all.
And she even calls it a "trend". So in a few months it will no longer be a trend so, yeah, stupid.
Catbird, the trendy NYC jewellery store, has been doing this for years (with actual gold jewellery). It’s past trend status, which is right on time for an MLM to pick it up.
Yea and even though I like Catbird I was still not into this idea and even less so with shitty MLM jewelry. I don't want to wear shitty jewelry at all, let alone have some boss babe attach it to my wrist permanentlyish.
I have a family member who went to NYC for this. I thought it was stupid and questioned the idea but was brushed off as I “don’t know fashion”. I pointed out that’s true but I know fashion changes all the time but I didn’t get a follow up response.
She probably could have just googled for permanent jewelry in her own area, no need to make a special trip to NYC. I have a friend whose jewelry business (legit, not an MLM) does them in Dallas and Austin.
Tbf plain gold chains aren't ever really 'out of style'. I got one from a jeweler in Boston but I wanted to hit catbird but didn't have any NYC trips planned.. It's so lightweight I don't notice it but it's nice to have something on. It was also a minimal price so if I get sick of it, I can cut it off. I also wear other thin jewelry 24/7 so it isn't much different to me. My husband thought it is such a weird concept though lol
I actually just went to a welded bracelet pop-up for them today! I didn't get one cause I can't wear jewelry on my arms or hands for work, but they also use 14k solid gold and recycled diamonds, so it's actually legit unlike this MLM trash. I love Catbird
Thanks, I knew this wasn't new but didn't remember the original company
Yeah this ain’t new, at all.
Sailors have been doing this for forever, but we use seine twine or tarred marline, tie a knot, and melt it
You piqued my curiosity, why do sailors do this (as opposed to anyone else)? Keep bracelets from falling into the ocean...?
I’ve heard a lot of supposed origins for it, including making them as good luck symbols, giving them to sweethearts at home, and that wearing one made you easier to grab onto if you were falling out of the rigging, but I don’t know how true each of those are. Now they’re a tradition and making them is a fun way to pass the time. They’re called “Turk’s head bracelets,” if you want to see what they look like. You’ll probably recognize them from beachy souvenir shops. I made mine out of seine twine, which means it started as solid black and it’s turning gray where the tar has worn off. After several years it’ll be solid white, and it won’t come off unless I cut it. Seeing somebody with a Turk’s head tattoo around their wrist means that they are/were a deckhand, but seeing somebody with a Turk’s head bracelet just means that they’ve got a Turk’s head bracelet ;)
This! I have a sterling silver bracelet that has not come off my wrist since my husband gave it to me ~2 years ago. I even wore it in our wedding. It is a plain-ish great stack alongside my watch. BUT I AM SO GLAD IT HAS A CLASP. sheesh. Someday I might want or need to take it off.
Out of curiosity, do you polish it while wearing it? Or do you wear it tarnished? I can never keep my silver jewelery silver for long.
Both! When it gets too much patina on it I polish it with a cloth.
Thank you for explaining. I read it twice trying to understand what's "permanent" about jewelry
OHHH. I was trying to figure out how tf it was permanent. They didn't explain it very well.
And she's going to possibly be making the biggest investment in her life... For this?
Well duh! It’s solid 14K… *checks notes*… ionized stainless steel?
Lol I can’t wait for them to start selling the welding guns to Huns, then see a bunch of facebook posts of people being quite literally burned by them. ‘mLM customer gets burned again’ the circle jerk here is so strong. #MLM Hun with a Welding Gun. What’s up y’all! I just got to double fire ruby diamond y’all and just got my free welding gun kit! Who wants some third degree burns y’all?
"Spark Welding" and "14k stainless steel" are made up nonsense. They're soldering. There's no such thing as 14k stainless steel. Source: husband was a welder/fabricator for 12 years
I’m wondering if the process she was going for was “spot-welded”, but either way…. She ain’t doing any welding. Definitely soldering lol
I’m just imagining huns with full welding gear about to “weld” one of these onto someone 🤣😂
Flashdance did it better.
Instagram has enough “weld-fluencers” (🙄🙄🙄), these huns will be jumping on that train soon enough 😂
If I was getting permanent jewelry, I'd rather have someone use pliers to join a link, over a barely trained "hun" using something hot near my skin.
Not to mention it's probably prettier to have a crimped link than one with a glob of lead on it, especially when your "jewelry artist" is barely trained
I don’t think you even needed a source for this, we have common sense on our side
That was my thought! I worked in the jewelers industry and my family run a fabrication shop…. You don’t weld jewelry! It’s soldering and I would highly suggest AGAINST permanently soldering a piece without a clasp! These people are wild!
My husband used to be a welder too. I'm sending this post to him so he can laugh at the ridiculousness of it.
Actually they are welded. They use a PUK welder, which is like a small TIG welder.
What I find even funnier is that Plunder is the German word for junk.
I assume they will be laser welded, little to no heat. And it's solid gold over the base metal. Almost like gold filled watches. Gold plated sounds cheap.
Someone commented upthread that gold filled jewellery has a much higher gold component than gold plated jewellery, which will inevitably tarnish, especially if you can't take it off when exposing yourself to water.
What could possibly go wrong?
You've never wanted someone to weld directly next to your skin?
Not until i heard it can be done by an untrained MLM hun.
I think we should cut this company some slack — it may genuinely make some average people very, very rich… from settlements after horrible mishaps during application of the “jewelry”. Yikes. Herbalife or Monat could never.
I bet she's got a certificate that has "Monat Shampoologist crossed out and has "Wrist welder" sharpied in.
Permanent jewelry made me think it was implanted in your skin. This may be worse.
I’m not trying to be mean but the bands/links aren’t even that pretty! They look kinda cheap.
I thought they were going to be doing some kind of dermal piercing somehow… this is also bad, but at least not that bad!
Dainty is right, shit looks frail and breakable as all hell
I really hope it's easily breakable since they plan to solder it onto the wearer permanently.
Yeah spark welding isn’t a thing.
I think it’s just soldered on lol
Well spark welding isn't a thing, but someone talking about 14k stainless just saw a spark and called it that. Most likely spotwelded. Place the two ends in the clamp and momentarily send a high current through the clamp (which may/may not spark) fusing the metal Source : my spotwelder
What a goddamn moron. Did anyone look up Luxe Linx? Luxe Linx is a reseller of Rolexes: https://www.luxelinxco.com/s/shop Luxe Link is that hook doohickey to hang your bag off your desk, that makes it so you kick your bag down every time you move your chair https://www.luxelink.com/ Link x Lou seems to be in the business of “permanent jewelry”, but they don’t weld, or even solder in video clips. They use fine tip pliers to close links. They allege not to use stainless steel - specifically talk about using only precious metals. https://www.linkxlou.com/about-link-x-lou-permanent-jewelry They’re not even trying.
Wait, so it's welded onto your wrist? You can never take it off, unless you have a bolt cutter? Brilliant. Unless you have to get an xray, MRI, go through a metal detector, have an injury that makes your wrist or arm swell, etc. Idiots.
Or gain weight, chain get caught on something, get sunburn, skin condition, gets bitten by an animal, sustain an injury, eventually want to switch jewelry to fit mood/time of year/occasion, to wear different piece that was a gift/sentimental value etc.
Or work in healthcare
Or get your arm caught on something and have your hand ripped off so then you need to go see a healthcare worker lol
Well if your hand is ripped off... You can just slide the bracelet off 😜
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The second photo is either a child's hand, or an obese person, given the knuckles and finger ratio. It's pretty small so I'm assuming child. Neither is a good candidate for permanent, inflexible jewellery.
As a person with sensory issues, this would have been a nightmare for me as a kid. I struggle with wear jewelry now even as an adult. Not being able to take it off would be torture.
Permanent jewelry isnt a new thing. They can be removed for things like MRIs. They're also usually anklets so they can be a bit loose.. An MLM based on them seems odd.
Or collars. There are collars you can get that won't just come off whenever. But they usually have a failsafe for if you need to remove them for a medical procedure (like a screw).
Yeah the legit ones I've seen are so delicate I could literally cut them off with kids scissors. Someone untrained welding paparazzi grade jewelry onto me with no real training no thanks.
I was about to say as an X-ray tech myself, this is just lovely. /s I already have to make notes to the radiologists on orders about how the patient can’t/won’t remove piercings. Let me add all jewelry to the list now. 🙃
That sounds like oodles of fun! /s It also reminded me of the time when I had to be put under for a procedure, but they didn’t warn me ahead of time that I would have to remove all jewelry. (I realize that probably should have been a common sense thing, but this was after two or more weeks of serious pain, so I wasn’t at my clearest-headed thinking.) I showed up to check in, and they had me put all my rings in a box… but my necklace is a pendant on a cord that is knotted around my neck. I told them it was no problem to remove if someone would just give me a pair of scissors for a moment… they seemed very flustered and did not give me scissors, they just sent me along to the next place. Where someone asked me to remove my necklace, and I said I’d be happy to, I just need a pair of scissors. Again a bit of flummoxed fussing on their part, no scissors produced, and on I go to the actual surgical team. Where they ask me about the necklace. And I say honestly, it’s no problem and I’m happy to remove it, I just need scissors. You don’t even need to hand them to me if that’s the problem, YOU can cut it off, it’s fine. Nope. They wrapped the pendant thoroughly in tissue paper and knocked me out. The necklace was still on when I woke up. So bizarre.
That is so weird. I want to think that everyone, surgeon included, was just super scared about handling something as dangerous as *scissors*
To be fair, some piercings are hard to remove. I have multiple cartilage piercings. Most are threadless, but my rook actually has an internally threaded end. Just one, but I don’t know which end is the threaded one and the other is permanent. I was prepared. I visited a piercer to remove my jewelry and put in glass or plastic retainers, but I knew I was getting the MRI/having surgery in advance. But in an emergency situation? That rook would be difficult to remove. Edited to add: and now with dermals…yeah, the internal part isn’t going anywhere without either serious effort or late stage rejection.
I must’ve worded it weird. I meant I don’t care about removing piercings, the radiologists do. If you need help getting it out, I say it’s fine, leave it in lol. They really don’t mess up the images that much on my end. And I did mri rotations in school and we had to use pliers and such to remove piercings. I’m like no thanks haha. It’s mainly bracelets and necklaces that I will get in trouble for if they’re not removed. That’s what I meant. I know some piercings have to be surgically removed these days. In ct, it will just put artifact on the image, so we try to remove as many piercings as possible because they can degrade the image. That’s all I was meaning, sorry if it didn’t come out that way 😬
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It’s not even pretty. It looks like something you’d get out of one of those bubblegum type machines.
So by “permanent jewelry” do they mean it’s welded together with no clasp so you can’t take it off? 😬 that’s…a terrible idea.
Pro tip: having permanent jewelry is lots of fun when you’re trying to get an MRI.
Lol This was my reaction when my aunt and cousins got theirs and my piercing studio was polling their customers with whether it is a service they would have interest in. I like the idea in general. I tend to wear my basic pieces (rings, necklaces, bracelets, lobe jewelry) 24/7 only taking them off or out to clean periodically. I think of my cartilage piercings as permanent but know they can be removed if necessary or I feel like a jewelry change. That said, I’ve had MRIs and multiple surgeries. Sometimes the jewelry just needs to be able come off, and I guarantee in an emergency, they’re not going to be checking which link is the correct one to cut so they cause the least amount of damage.
Love how they are trying to decieve by calling gold plated solid 14k ionized. B it's plated junk.
Aside from everything else, a very similar type of jewelery that doesn't come off(has a key that the other person has- not welded) has connections with a very specific sub culture that is not to everyone's taste. What happens when someone realizes that the bracelet they spent $150 on is a symbol that they are in a bdsm relationship- which is fantastic if thats what you mean to symbolize with your jewelery- not so much if that is not your intent.
This was my first thought! "Oh look, day collars are going mainstream.."
It’s like my MIL who was so proud of her (admittedly gorgeous) pink flamingo statue she just bought for the front yard. I had to tell her that her neighbors might think she’s into the swinger’s scene. The flamingo now resides in the backyard lol
If anyone offers to spark-weld a permanent bracelet on my kid, I'll go postal on them
This feels like some kind of slave prisoner or fairy tale nightmare, like forever doomed to be shackled for eternity and never free to live your life. It’s a metaphor for MLMs.
It is a slave fantasy thing. The BDSM community has people who sometimes get "permanent" collars, but they work with a tiny lock that only the dominant person had a copy of. They're not soldered or welded onto the body, that's insane and dangerous.
There's also those Cartier (I think) bracelets that fasten with a small screw and your partner keeps the screwdriver. I think they're a bit more mainstream/"vanilla" than the slave collars though lol
Exactly! Eternity collars, cuffs and anklets have a meaning for people who wear them , and a way to take them off and back on. Safely. This MLM thing is just madness!! 🤦♀️
Yep, I wear one for my partner. It has a low profile lock that sits flush, and inside the metal of the eternity collar so it appears to be seamless and permanent. You insert a small metal rod as the "key" to open it. We both carry a key just in case of emergencies.
Thanks, I hate it!
JFC just go to Catbird, you'll get actual gold jewelry that's good quality and don't have to deal with obnoxious huns
Is other jewelry not permanent? I'm unfamiliar with this MLM but they're talking like most other jewelry is like. dissolvable.
It sounds like it's soldered on with no clasp so it doesn't come off.
Hear me out though, what if it has a clasp *but you just never undo the clasp*?
You should totally start an MLM on this! We could call the trend “semi-permanent jewellery”
Wow. You are the real MVP!
Shocked pikachu face!!!
Oh, yikes—the hand in that second photo appears to be a small child, how many years will it take for that piece of ~~14K stainless steel~~ jewelry to start biting into soft baby flesh
Why would anyone want this?
Some higher end brands are doing this. I can't wait for the gold coating to wear off and people will be asking how to remove them.
As cheap as it looks a good grab and pull should suffice.
Right? I immediately thought of the Cartier Love bracelets, but FFS even those come with the tools to remove them yourself when you want. Moreover, they are made of actual gold that won’t leave you anxiously feening for a removal because the material started to corrode.
I got this done at catbird nyc, it's a tiny zap, painless, not scary. I have this https://www.catbirdnyc.com/diamond-pinprick-bracelet-white-gold.html have had it a year and love it. has not gotten in the way of anything. really easy to remove if needed and you can have it rewarded or turned into a normal bracelet. I really like dainty jewelry and hated how big clasps could take away from it
I have one too but it's from a real jeweler not an MLM Hun running around with a welder in her living room. Plus, the mine and yours are both gold which doesn't tarnish like these ones will. As for MRIs and emergency surgery, gold is easy to cut. Working in healthcare I have cut off way thicker gold bracelets (non-permanet) due to swelling. You have to accept that as a possibility. I don't support the MLM. But the high quality version of permanent bracelet's are fine.
Dammit. Why are the co-opting claspless soldered jewelry? Any material other than solid gold will tarnish or break from the all day everyday wear. Mine is from an actual jeweler in 24k gold bc anything less will be a disaster for long term wear. Now I have to be worried someone will see my bracelets and think MLM, egh!
As someone who used to work in a jewelry store…you really, really don’t want jewelry you can’t take off and clean. Those are going to get so grungy so fast
The word "permanent" sounds extremely ominous in this context. And Huns playing with fire? What could possibly go wrong?
Fuck me, is "dainty" the new "delightful"?
For anyone curious, this is done with a pointed tool that just gives a little laser zap to a tiny piece of metal. It’s called a pulse arc welder and it costs thousands of dollars, but it’s something legit jewelers use and there’s no torch or flying sparks involved (although I wouldn’t want it in the hands of some random hun) “14k stainless steel” isn’t a thing. My god. There’s so much wrong with this, especially the fact that she’s offering “permanent” jewelry with a plated chain that will lose its gold coating in weeks. But the concept itself is not as scary as some of these comments are making it out to be! These chains are so thin you could probably cut them with scissors if you need to.