Barbie, don't apologize for how you speak! If someone is "bugged" by it, that's their problem and you don't have to apologize at all. Love your videos and your voice, don't let anyone say anything else!
100% agreed! Personally, I like how Barbie speaks. Not sure what it is, but my ADHD brain can actually focus and follow along, (super rare). Thank you for all your awesome content!! 🤗
A W S O M E !!! Thank you. My only complaint is that I wish I had found your site sooner !! I'm a 64 yr young cancer survivor, who wasn't supposed to survive, that has taken up collecting, tumbling, polishing, and with any luck, making items of various kinds of jewelry to give and leave my kids and my grandchildren. So I'm a Maximus-Newbie. This has already been a great help in my quest for knowledge! I will be a studious follower. THANK YOU x 1,000,000 is an understatement.
I’m lucky to live close to a flea market, that’s a great place to go to touch lots of glass, paperweights, and all kind of rocks. There’s a crystal dealer, there’s a guy who sells stuff from nearby mines, sometimes an estate sale will include a rock/mineral/crystal collection. That’s how I practiced touching to feel the differences. I did get tricked a few times with beads that look like that malachite strand! Too uniform. With real crystals the beads will vary a lot, some almost solid color, others with more variation.
I bought rose quartz that said semi precious. I strung them and found out they were dyed as my stretch cord went from clear to pink! Thanks to you I now know what to look for in my beads. I love your videos.
Really great video! The Michael's malachite is definately manmade. However just a word of caution about using keys to 'scratch test' the hardness of authentic malachite. Real malachite is actually quite soft on the moh's hardness scale, 3.5 on the scale. And most metals that keys might be made of (steel, nicklel, bronze, brass) are also about the same hardness on the moh's scale, 3-4. Because of their hardness, keys might be able to scratch a piece of authentic malachite.
It annoys me to no end that Michaels doesn’t label their crystals…. I want to know what I’m buying! The only Michales crystals I ever bought were a black agate ring and some (dyed) imperial jasper beads
In the seashell area, they have big chunks of crystals (raw) and the price tag says they’re from Brazil. They have some of them them labeled, like tj max does
Hi I’m a newbie to your channel and I just want you to know that I love your informational uploads.Please Please Please do a review on Hobby Lobby Crystals and Gemstones.
Thank you so much with this video! I am just starting to make jewelry literally! Im gathering things...maybe too much!! I went to Michaels 2 months ago . The container crystals were 7.99! I Got 6 of them , more so unpolished. I subscribed! cant wait to start! I learned so much from you in this 1 video. Im looking forward to viewing more !! Stay safe ! :)...PS i stand there forever staring at the strands in Michaels. I just go for the sales and looks that I like in hope to make me happy as I design things on my new adventure in making jewelry!
What a great video so informative and helpful even though um across the water in uk but no dought we will have these fakes in UK, but or crystal stores are so much smaller as well x thank you for your great work 😀
I'm actually glad to know there is a lot of fake malachite out there. I see a lot of jewelry pieces that are likely to get wet and if they were real that would release gas and be bad.I figured some were fake but now I know they probably are.
@@ColdBrewBarbie awesome! I have fallen down a rabbit hole of your videos. You are so helpful and informative! I am going to the gem show for the first time this year from 2/8 - 2/11. I didn't understand how the schedule works so we are going pretty late. I saw your video on which shows to prioritize. Any additional recs for someone going to the tail end of the show?
My absolute faves are Raw Stones 💯 Hopefully they’re actually real.. seems hard to distinguish authenticity unless you tumble them but wholeheartedly rather not 😞🤞🏼
i’m here for the morganite!!!!! been asking all around, i have small morganite beads from michaels and i’m praying they have atleast a little metaphysical properties 😢was the morganite genuine?
I was looking at those when I was there last. I did notice some of the labs looked pretty fake to me, well either fake or suuuuuper low quality labradorites. I was really dissapointed in michaels for this. The ones I'm talking were the cabs they had packaged and hanging above the tumbles. They were not transparent or even had a flash, they were just gray with some lines and a bit of white i think.
Girl you should go to Home goods, they have sooooo many huge pieces ! I saw calcite, selenite, amethyst! didn’t buy them because I wasn’t sure about the quality.. Home-goods is not known for their crystals hahaha
any chrystal will scratch if you provoke it. I bought all kinds of stones from another shop and i tried to scratch a few it was vaguely scratched but intact. anything will scratch if you take a key to it.
great video thank u, but you forgot to mention something which i think is important, the strung beads at michaels (or any other big chain arts and crafts stores) are from China and the polishing may look really nice but it is not the same as it would be in the jewelry beads from authentic crystal/metaphysical supply stores which are high quality polished beads, the polish is not great quality or i think it could also have some type of shining coating on them
i bought the Labradorite jar yesterday on good sale, and its got flash, but like Barbie says, its really low quality polish, very rough on some. Wonder if there are local people that will polish them? Gonna Check. The Tiger's Eye is 3/4 good, then about five rough tumbles. Nice tho.
I burnt a couple crystals-and they were fake! but the plastic stunk up the whole house! my girlfriend told me stop experimenting in the house! it was pretty hilarious when people were asking what,s that smell?
What's crazy is michael's selles so much fake and mock stone, especially that "malachite" cabochon which is just mere polyresin. Your better off getting crystals from wish honestly, I have yet to receive a fake fromwish. But then again I know what to look for with crystals.
I really like those real Malachite cubes in your hand. I love the contrast between the polished & the rough side! Do you sell these in your shop please? - Best wishes from Rebekah Legion SundayGirlJournals (here on TH-cam) 🔮✨💖🌹
I bought a lot of beads from Michaels. I think they have been honest on the package. It's been a challenge to get real from them recently. Lots of plastic& glass still. They haven't had the toggles I've wanted either
I had another comment but u covered that so I edited lol ….. I work there and I have seen a container of raw green quartz in floral filler then in the bead area the same size container but cost more for the same item
I wonder, what's the difference between good polish and bad polish? do they use a different machine? the fineness of the stones is different? (one is rougher, the other is more round?)
The difference between high & low quality polish is just the amount of time spent polishing. Tumbled stones are exactly that- tumbled.. but it appears that the labradorite (& even the tiger eye) had been pulled out of the tumbler prematurely. Tumbling stones is an extraordinarily lengthy process tho, usually takes a minimum of 4 cycles with 4 different grit gradients, from course to fine aluminium oxide. Each cycle requires a MINIMUM of 3 weeks, but for best results 6 weeks per polish. The skull is polished by hand with a high powered rotary tool, same procedure of course grit to high polish & much faster in comparison to stones in a tumbler but the difference is only the time spent polishing the surface. Btw that skull IS amazing!!
I would like to point the statement glass will shatter, crystal never will. This is slightly misleading. Yes, regular glass compared to something like quartz crystal of course that will be the case. But high quality artisan glass compared to more fragile crystal like selenite, the selenite will be the one that shatter first. In fact it's so easy for selenite to shatter.
When it comes to the price, for some reason michaels and most craft stores have a foolish business strategy where they mark everything up to be 2x the actual price and then always have a 40% off one regular price item coupon on their website and often put things on “sale” for 50% off so people feel like they’re getting a deal . So If you want to buy things at the normal price you have to buy them one at a time or wait until they go on sale 50% off . It’s extremely inconvenient !
I love Michaels. I spend tens of thousands of dollars there for my art studio classes. The company is a lot better than HL, their big competitor, and the prices are often better, too. Watch for 40% and 50% off sales.
That's really bad that something is advertised and sold as real when they are not and its even printed on the label! Surely aren't there laws about false advertising and these kind of things? 😕
Hi Miss Beautiful Cold Brew Barbie 🥰💎💎 I would say yes Amazon. I have ordered Crystal 's and I have received some really nice pieces I have even found some pure gold 999 miner his name is Adam and he mines his own gold and I ordered just one piece from him and oh my God it's gorgeous it was pricey small but very nice 👍 I have also ordered more gold🥰🥰💎💎
Your son will return back to you..... It just after the argument.... The father took him with him.... They just went to another city for couple of days...for sometime... They shall return back.... This is what i channel.... Despite all the rude and hurtfull words and argument.... They will ask for forgiveness...after they come back home... They will know that it was from their end.... The misunderstandings...
Barbie, don't apologize for how you speak! If someone is "bugged" by it, that's their problem and you don't have to apologize at all. Love your videos and your voice, don't let anyone say anything else!
Aww thank you love!
100% agreed! Personally, I like how Barbie speaks. Not sure what it is, but my ADHD brain can actually focus and follow along, (super rare). Thank you for all your awesome content!! 🤗
A W S O M E !!! Thank you. My only complaint is that I wish I had found your site sooner !! I'm a 64 yr young cancer survivor, who wasn't supposed to survive, that has taken up collecting, tumbling, polishing, and with any luck, making items of various kinds of jewelry to give and leave my kids and my grandchildren. So I'm a Maximus-Newbie. This has already been a great help in my quest for knowledge! I will be a studious follower. THANK YOU x 1,000,000 is an understatement.
I’m lucky to live close to a flea market, that’s a great place to go to touch lots of glass, paperweights, and all kind of rocks. There’s a crystal dealer, there’s a guy who sells stuff from nearby mines, sometimes an estate sale will include a rock/mineral/crystal collection. That’s how I practiced touching to feel the differences. I did get tricked a few times with beads that look like that malachite strand! Too uniform. With real crystals the beads will vary a lot, some almost solid color, others with more variation.
“reconstructed” lol How lucky are we to have you in our lives across the world with your incredible vast knowledge & know how! Thank you Barbie 💯♥️
I bought rose quartz that said semi precious. I strung them and found out they were dyed as my stretch cord went from clear to pink! Thanks to you I now know what to look for in my beads. I love your videos.
Really great video! The Michael's malachite is definately manmade. However just a word of caution about using keys to 'scratch test' the hardness of authentic malachite. Real malachite is actually quite soft on the moh's hardness scale, 3.5 on the scale. And most metals that keys might be made of (steel, nicklel, bronze, brass) are also about the same hardness on the moh's scale, 3-4. Because of their hardness, keys might be able to scratch a piece of authentic malachite.
It annoys me to no end that Michaels doesn’t label their crystals…. I want to know what I’m buying! The only Michales crystals I ever bought were a black agate ring and some (dyed) imperial jasper beads
In the seashell area, they have big chunks of crystals (raw) and the price tag says they’re from Brazil. They have some of them them labeled, like tj max does
Holy cow that lab skull is beautiful!
god i love your fake vs real crystal videos!
I’ve been making crystal wands from the raw crystals and this makes me much more confident in their use. Great video!
OMG please do more of the containers of tumbles and raw crystals 😍😍🙌🏼🙌🏼 those were my fav!
Thank you for educating us! I’ve purchased quite a few beads from Temu. Feel good about most of them but a little concerned about the green malachite.
Hi I’m a newbie to your channel and I just want you to know that I love your informational uploads.Please Please Please do a review on Hobby Lobby Crystals and Gemstones.
Thank you Barbie for another informative video.
Thank you so much with this video! I am just starting to make jewelry literally! Im gathering things...maybe too much!! I went to Michaels 2 months ago . The container crystals were 7.99! I Got 6 of them , more so unpolished. I subscribed! cant wait to start! I learned so much from you in this 1 video. Im looking forward to viewing more !! Stay safe ! :)...PS i stand there forever staring at the strands in Michaels. I just go for the sales and looks that I like in hope to make me happy as I design things on my new adventure in making jewelry!
Wow. Thanks so much for this video. I've seen stones for sale in Michael's. And yeah, a lot of them look so fake.
TJMaxx has quite a section of crystals. Mostly jewelry but I've actually bought some nice crystal towers in the jewelry department.
Oooooooo!!! Crystal towers!! Nice score!
What a great video so informative and helpful even though um across the water in uk but no dought we will have these fakes in UK, but or crystal stores are so much smaller as well x thank you for your great work 😀
Thanks dear, we need these information
I'm actually glad to know there is a lot of fake malachite out there. I see a lot of jewelry pieces that are likely to get wet and if they were real that would release gas and be bad.I figured some were fake but now I know they probably are.
hi ! I love your voice ! :)
You are so cool, I feel like we'd be friends in real life! Thanks for the great info lady
I love that! Thank you!! 💕
Thanks for sharing because I’ve been side eyeing many stores. I hope you used the Michaels coupon as they always have some coupons. They are expensive
love this video! It is so helpful. I'm heading to Tuscon next week and am grateful to have a keener eye. Are you going to the gem show this year?
Yes! Check out my vlogs coming tomorrow! I already have a couple of interviews up!
@@ColdBrewBarbie awesome! I have fallen down a rabbit hole of your videos. You are so helpful and informative! I am going to the gem show for the first time this year from 2/8 - 2/11. I didn't understand how the schedule works so we are going pretty late. I saw your video on which shows to prioritize. Any additional recs for someone going to the tail end of the show?
My absolute faves are Raw Stones 💯 Hopefully they’re actually real.. seems hard to distinguish authenticity unless you tumble them but wholeheartedly rather not 😞🤞🏼
Michaels, Joanns and Hobby Lobby sell alot of fakes and dyed quartz
i’m here for the morganite!!!!! been asking all around, i have small morganite beads from michaels and i’m praying they have atleast a little metaphysical properties 😢was the morganite genuine?
This is a big help thank you Barbie 💖✨🙏
I was looking at those when I was there last. I did notice some of the labs looked pretty fake to me, well either fake or suuuuuper low quality labradorites. I was really dissapointed in michaels for this. The ones I'm talking were the cabs they had packaged and hanging above the tumbles. They were not transparent or even had a flash, they were just gray with some lines and a bit of white i think.
Did you ever break open the pendant? Its listed as dyed howlite on their website so I'm curious about the inside
Appreciate this video, good education, thank you
Girl you should go to Home goods, they have sooooo many huge pieces ! I saw calcite, selenite, amethyst! didn’t buy them because I wasn’t sure about the quality.. Home-goods is not known for their crystals hahaha
Our HG has lots of selenite (spar), for a good price. Some large pieces too. Guess Decorators are putting them in designed rooms.
Love this video!! Much needed. Thank You!!!
Awesome Content💯 Can you review Hobby Lobby they have tons of crystal jewelry.
beautiful brown eyes 💘
any chrystal will scratch if you provoke it. I bought all kinds of stones from another shop and i tried to scratch a few it was vaguely scratched but intact. anything will scratch if you take a key to it.
Don’t apologize for how you you speak, I like it and I’m sure I’m not the only one. It’s cute.
Swarovski is the only crystals I have purchased from a craft store and they are tiny and expensive.
great video thank u, but you forgot to mention something which i think is important, the strung beads at michaels (or any other big chain arts and crafts stores) are from China and the polishing may look really nice but it is not the same as it would be in the jewelry beads from authentic crystal/metaphysical supply stores which are high quality polished beads, the polish is not great quality or i think it could also have some type of shining coating on them
What’s the name of your store? I love crystals
Hey I love your videos I have lots of crystals and learned and still learning. Amazon please xx
😅😂😊 lost so many crystals by attempting to see they were real... broken unfortunately 😊 great video and love you and your channel ❤️
Bagus Sekali Aku Suka
Omg i just found one of those old scholastic book fair rocks and minerals kits u should try and find one and review it
No lie, I was going to swing by Michaels tomorrow for labradorite , it's 50% off. Thank you for this video. It gives me something to think about.
i bought the Labradorite jar yesterday on good sale, and its got flash, but like Barbie says, its really low quality polish, very rough on some. Wonder if there are local people that will polish them? Gonna Check. The Tiger's Eye is 3/4 good, then about five rough tumbles. Nice tho.
The white could be white coral,maybe or pumice Stone.
Great video 🤟🏻❤️🌹
I burnt a couple crystals-and they were fake! but the plastic stunk up the whole house! my girlfriend told me stop experimenting in the house! it was pretty hilarious when people were asking what,s that smell?
I think the bracelet from the three pack is supposed to be Kiwi Jasper
I am curious about the quality of crystals at the crystal bazaar shop in Sedona.
What's crazy is michael's selles so much fake and mock stone, especially that "malachite" cabochon which is just mere polyresin. Your better off getting crystals from wish honestly, I have yet to receive a fake fromwish. But then again I know what to look for with crystals.
Wish and SHEIN
Thank you hun ❤️🌿✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️👏👏👏👏👏
I really like those real Malachite cubes in your hand. I love the contrast between the polished & the rough side! Do you sell these in your shop please? - Best wishes from Rebekah Legion SundayGirlJournals (here on TH-cam) 🔮✨💖🌹
Awesome ty 💖
Hi there ^w^
I just follow your amazing channel!!
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I would like to buy a citrine.. How much does the shipping from USA to Italy cost?
this one is real 🤗🤗🤗
I bought a lot of beads from Michaels. I think they have been honest on the package. It's been a challenge to get real from them recently. Lots of plastic& glass still. They haven't had the toggles I've wanted either
Hey Barbie hope your having a great day!
Will u check hobby lobby please
I love labradorite
How can u tell if beads are real or not. I’ve bought some off of Amazon that state they are natural Is natural real or fake?
Test for glass with a hair blow dryer
I had another comment but u covered that so I edited lol ….. I work there and I have seen a container of raw green quartz in floral filler then in the bead area the same size container but cost more for the same item
I wonder, what's the difference between good polish and bad polish? do they use a different machine? the fineness of the stones is different? (one is rougher, the other is more round?)
The difference between high & low quality polish is just the amount of time spent polishing. Tumbled stones are exactly that- tumbled.. but it appears that the labradorite (& even the tiger eye) had been pulled out of the tumbler prematurely. Tumbling stones is an extraordinarily lengthy process tho, usually takes a minimum of 4 cycles with 4 different grit gradients, from course to fine aluminium oxide. Each cycle requires a MINIMUM of 3 weeks, but for best results 6 weeks per polish. The skull is polished by hand with a high powered rotary tool, same procedure of course grit to high polish & much faster in comparison to stones in a tumbler but the difference is only the time spent polishing the surface.
Btw that skull IS amazing!!
I would like to point the statement glass will shatter, crystal never will. This is slightly misleading. Yes, regular glass compared to something like quartz crystal of course that will be the case. But high quality artisan glass compared to more fragile crystal like selenite, the selenite will be the one that shatter first. In fact it's so easy for selenite to shatter.
When it comes to the price, for some reason michaels and most craft stores have a foolish business strategy where they mark everything up to be 2x the actual price and then always have a 40% off one regular price item coupon on their website and often put things on “sale” for 50% off so people feel like they’re getting a deal . So If you want to buy things at the normal price you have to buy them one at a time or wait until they go on sale 50% off . It’s extremely inconvenient !
I was definitely surprised to see they had morganite it looked like very low quality tho haha
So raw can never be fake?
I love Michaels. I spend tens of thousands of dollars there for my art studio classes. The company is a lot better than HL, their big competitor, and the prices are often better, too. Watch for 40% and 50% off sales.
Hi can I get some of the beads to buy thank u
Me on my way to buy some labradorite
That's really bad that something is advertised and sold as real when they are not and its even printed on the label! Surely aren't there laws about false advertising and these kind of things? 😕
Can you give me an idea of crystal sellers who do sell genuine crystals please xx
Isn’t it illegal to sell as semi-precious stone when it isn’t? Seems fraudulent.
Do you know any crystal wholesalers you can recommend.
How did you learn so much about crystals? I would love to learn what you know!
bought pyrite rock from michaels made in peru, its a real rock. ofcourse, the necklace area will be fake tho
Hi Miss Beautiful Cold Brew Barbie 🥰💎💎 I would say yes Amazon. I have ordered Crystal 's and I have received some really nice pieces I have even found some pure gold 999 miner his name is Adam and he mines his own gold and I ordered just one piece from him and oh my God it's gorgeous it was pricey small but very nice 👍 I have also ordered more gold🥰🥰💎💎
well that helps, i dropped my larimar and it chipped sadly
I'm here right now. They clearly say "Made in Brazil."
Have you bought any from Hobby Lobby yet?
Nice👍👏
Maybe you've realized this but the ring light is really distracting and obscures the items in this video. Otherwise great info
Etsy, Ali express…pls
Hi I'm new with crystals can you give me a pointer
Raw is not always real
EBay
All the beads I have bought at Michaels have been legit. To be fair, I do know what to look for.
Also, if you use their coupons(which they always have) or competition coupons they honor. Never pay full price for anything at Michaels!
Same here.
Hi
You buying fake crystals.
They are expensive but when they’re on sale they’re cheeeap! Sign up for the emails, I only buy them on sale.
Your son will return back to you.....
It just after the argument....
The father took him with him....
They just went to another city for couple of days...for sometime...
They shall return back....
This is what i channel....
Despite all the rude and hurtfull words and argument....
They will ask for forgiveness...after they come back home...
They will know that it was from their end....
The misunderstandings...
Hobby Lobby has better crystals
I should check!
I'm so angry. I bought a theorically citrine from china but it's actually an irradiated amethyst. Yellow menace strikes again
Bracelet made in CHINA 😂😂
Hello mam I am also selling crystal at wholesale price !
What to expect… it saids from China
maybe not crystals like yours but yeah they call them crystals . it’s a quartz ,thank you honey.