Red Carpet Jewellery - by Fraser Ross

Hey guys it's Allison from fab sugar TV and I'm so excited about this next video. I was lucky enough to go behind-the-scenes at two of Hollywood's biggest jewellers, Martin Katz and Tiffany and company where celebrities go to get their red-carpet jewels. I just about passed out when they put a two-million-dollar ring on my finger. I have a few questions for you guys, so be sure to comment after you watch.

First what was your favourite piece? I think mine was the one where my Claire Danes and second if you were on the red carpet what would you wear? Let me know what you think in the comments and don't forget to subscribe. We're always dazzled by the beautiful baubles we see our favourite celebrities wearing on the red carpet, but it's not every day that you get to see and touch the actual pieces they wear. So today we're heading to Hollywood's biggest jewellers, Martin Katz and Tiffany and company to find out how much those red-carpet jewels really cost. Twenty million dollars, what they feel like up close, so lights and get a sneak peek at some of the hottest jewellery trends of the season.

We're going to see colour on the red carpet like you haven't seen before. First on the red carpet in 1992 was Sharon Stone. I've chosen three pieces here that you've seen on the red carpet, here's a sapphire earring that Frieda Pinto was wearing from Slumdog Millionaire and the beauty is and you see the light pastel sapphire, the dark little pinpoints of dark sapphire and you see there's even pink in there. Now this next pen Felicity Huffman wore in her hair, it's titanium so it's very, very light this is two hundred thousand dollars. We're not done yet because she also had earrings on, oh and these are pear shaped earrings, often referred to as the Oprah style earrings, there you are. Oh all right so let's get a grand total I’ve got two hundred thousand in my hair and 168,000 in my ears. Just have them all tell me about this ring that we got here, Claire Danes wore this to the Emmys 2002, this is an 10 carat pink diamond, the setting on this pink diamond it's in rose gold or pink gold and we're set with them pink diamonds around. This just was the crowning element to the whole ensemble. I really can't breathe right now. It does have a way of taking your breath away, as does the two million dollar price tag.

Wait I’ve got two million dollars on, I can't say two million dollars on my ring rack and flustered. So now that I’ve been dripped in diamonds, thank you so much for showing us the jewels that the celebrities have been wearing. So after Martin Katz, we came here to Tiffany & Company, another red-carpet jewellery staple. Their diamond experts told us about Natalie Portman's two million-dollar earrings and Kate Winslet yellow gold necklace and of course while I’m here I have to try on some jewels. So this year at the 2011 SAG Awards Natalie Portman worth Tiffany and she looks fantastic. I have the earrings she wore right here, this is 32 carats worth of fancy intense yellow diamonds, they're worth two million dollars. So Natalie didn’t stop there, she actually piled on three pave bracelets.

This is the year of Natalie Portman she's already won Best Actress at the sides and Best Actress at the Golden Globes and we have the necklace that she Ward's the Golden Globes this year. It's 68 thousand dollars worth of bezel-set diamonds, Kate Winslet always looks classic and for the 2010 Oscars to present two worlds, two stacked bracelets that look almost identical to the one I have here and she topped it off with a 3.1 million dollar necklace. So to get the full Kate Winslet effect, he stacked a colourless diamond bracelet alongside it. So this is what six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars of diamonds on your wrist looks like and let's find out what trends you can expect to see celebrities wearing this season.

Green has been a big red carpet trend from Angelina Jolie, Mila Kunis this season. It's definitely going to be about colour this year this is a beautiful 20 carat emerald. This is an old button probably from some Maharaja, this is a bead, the cycle wheel is a button with other small beads and what we call diamond relays. These are very small diamonds cut like pineapples. I love it get ready to see colour for the yellow cocktail rings - diamond drop earrings, we're excited to see if our red carpet trend predictions really come true. Check out pop sugars live coverage of the 2011 Oscars. I'm Allison, thanks for watching fab sugar TV.

Charm Bangle Bracelet - Jewellery by Fraser Ross

Hi this is Julie at beadaholique and I want to show you how to embellish an adjustable bangle bracelet. These are very popular right now, they are super trendy, see them with celebrities wearing them, you see them in the fashion magazines. This is a bangle bracelet that is adjustable. You see how this slides and there's a lot of different possibilities for embellishing it.

You can put charms on the outer ring, on the inside, or if you want to you can put on the loops. If you're going to put them on the loops I would just recommend just squeezing that loop just a little tighter shut, so then you can hang a charm on the loop. A lot of different things you can do with these and oftentimes you'll see people wearing them stacked. So perhaps there'll be a set like this, which is like a yoga inspired set, where they're all to a theme and you wear three or more at a time, but you don't have to keep them to a theme. They actually look really good, mixed metals combined together and just different ones combined on your wrist and that's really the way to wear them, but you can wear them singularly as well and I have a couple of different examples here to show you, the variety of things you can do with them.

Here this is really simple, it just has a single charm on it and that's very nice and elegant and you could pair that with this as well, you could also pair it with other ones. Then here we have a sports themed one, this is great as your, if you're making a gift, you can really personalize it. I actually pulled out some other charms here, just to give you an idea for personalization. Mom if you can do that for this one here or 10k for a marathon, a little athletic shoe for someone who loves to run, perhaps a sailboat for someone who loves to sail.

We have hundreds of charms on beadaholique.com that would really let you personalize these, it's a fun sports themed one. One thing I do want you to keep in mind though is you are going to want to always make sure you have the flexibility of that interior movement. So don't pack this so full it can't then do what it's meant to do which is to be adjustable. I have this one here I wanted to show you, just kind of a fun themed one of the bird and arrow, a nice bright red Swarovski crystal.

Here's a Paris themed one, the Eiffel Tower of course and the Wii symbol re showed you the yoga set and then I even have like a jingle bell holiday Christmas one with snowflakes and some jingle bells which are fun. So I do want to show you how you'd put one of these together, so I'm going to embellish this one with the letter K, an initial charm, our designer Karlin actually came up with this design and her name starts with K. I think that this should be hers, so first off I'm going to start by setting a Rivoli into a tierracast setting so this is a Swarovski crystal, it's very vibrant and you can see I just turned my cap over, punctured the top seal of my e6000 glue and now I'm just going to squeeze a little bit into that.

Well it does not take much, this glue is incredibly strong. These are not hard to make, this is some of the quickest and easiest jewelry you'll find, which again is why it is a really good gift item, but it's fun, it's fun, it's very on-trend very fashion-forward and is quite fun to make and to choose your different beads. So next I'm going to make a few little baubles. I have a pair of wire looping pliers instead of round nose pliers, definitely you can make loops with round nose pliers but I love these wire looping pliers because they do some of the work for me. I'm sure you've seen them in my other videos, so I am going to actually make a simple wrapped wire loop in this case. I could have made a simple loop, if you're going to do that just make sure your loop is big enough to get around the wire part of the bracelet.

I do that with my other baubles as well, these are Swarovski crystal faux pearls which are lovely. I remember when I was growing up my grandma gave me a charm bracelet and she would always give me a new charm on every holiday or birthday or you know special occasion and that was so special to me and I feel like these bangle bracelets are kind of the modern equivalent of that, and it's nice if you do have someone in your life who you might want to, you know, start a tradition with you, can either give them a new bangle with decorations for each special occasion or give them a you know, a blank one to start with.

Maybe just a charm or two and add to it as you go along, but I still have my grandmothers charm bracelet and I think that's a nice thing to do. See I made that loop a little bit different, I grabbed it with my pliers which is a good way of doing it, to clean up my loops as I go. Now I’ve got everything ready to attach, normally I'd let that dry for, you know, an hour or two before I progress to the next step, but for the purpose of the video I want to keep going.

So now I'm going to take a pair of chain nose pliers on each side of the open jump ring and just twist the jump ring open. Now remember you can put these wherever you want. I'm going to put most of my baubles on this bottom adjustable bar, don't be afraid to mix metals with these, I actually really think it's quite striking when you do put silver and gold together. I have an example of that here on this Christmas one. I think that's really pretty, now one thing you can do too, is you don't have to just do one jump ring per bobble attaching it, you can go ahead and take the bobble and the charm, put them on the same jump ring and then attach that and they're going to attach this to the outside. Close it back up, so now I’ve got some of the charms that move around and some that are fixed in the middle. That is what the finished piece looks like, so you can find all of these products and more along with a lot of project ideas and other videos relating to these at beadaholique.com.