Jewellry : costume or the real deal?

I don't wear much jewelry. Most of what I have has been gifts made of real silver or gold and real stones.

I use the real jewelery,i do like costume but sometime my skin can accept that, some kind of allergic or something.

I'm mostly wearing 'real' jewelry but I have some costume things too. I have nothing against costume jewelry, some of them are made with great taste. To make it short, until now I was ready to wear almost everything, with one exception, and it's plastic. Now it seems, perhaps I have to change my mind. At several sites, incl. http://www.bidz.com a.o. I saw how nowdays the jewelry artists are putting plastic together with silver and even with gold. Who knows, perhaps I'll see one day a plastic piece of jewelry which looks wonderful enough to make me to forget the unaristocratic material (LOL!) it's made of!

I like wearing Swarovski, too, since it's much more affordable and has more of a youthful look to it. Diamonds are nice, but if I could get one for engagement ring, that's more than enough, personally... (I make jewelry as business, too, and have a website, so can you tell me what you think about it?) www.xquisite.us