Charm Of The Month: Duotones

Happy new year to all of you and hope you had amazing time around the countdown. We all have resolutions of course, and mine was to do monthly reviews of charms, and just my favourites! This month I’m going to look at duotone charms that make up a big part of Pandora’s charm collection. The word duotone is usually used in the context of photography, a technique where the photo’s colours are split between differing shades of only two colours. The result is a picture with high contrasts and can be used to highlight a certain colour in a shot. Duotone jewellery and charms are no different in what they use the duotone effect is used for. The two tones in question here are silver and gold and the aim is usually to add a bit of gold to a silver piece to highlight certain parts of the charm. There are some really fantastic charms out there that use gold to add a special touch to a classic design. It seems one of the favourite things to highlight is a heart as seen below! You can’t blame the designers though, the effect really makes the heart stand out and glow in a cute way.

And if hearts aren’t your style then there are some really intricate charms that use the duotone effect to great effect in some really intricate styles. A lot of the flower and rose duotones are make a great mix of gold and silver with the rose petals in the shining gold to really make it pop against the silvery background. Or the dove charm with gold doves flying off, leaving their imprints in the silver metal.

Styling Tips For Duotone Charms

Looking at the wide range of duotone charms I think that a whole bracelet theme can be made out of these charms. A silver bracelet with lots of duotone charms using pure silver spacers will provide a great canvas for the intricate bits of gold to shine through the bracelet. Maybe throwing in a few gold charms will create a nice alternating effect between silver and gold. Whatever you do, I think it’s best to keep the theme nice and simple to let the gold tones pop as much as they can and draw attention to them. *All images taken from Pandora Australia.