Fashion Guide

If you have a great sense of style and creativity, you should consider constructing quality custom jewelry for individual clients. If you do a good job, you will soon receive orders from previous customers and referrals asking you to construct special pieces for them or as gifts for others. Creating custom jewelry is fun and easy if you have the creative skills and willing to learn. If the clients can feel happy wearing your custom costume jewelry then you have done good job indeed.

The hardest part in working with clients is to design something that they have in their minds which may be different from what you have in yours. It would be a gross error for you to work in the presence of your clients and expose to them how easy it is to create bespoke jewelry - it is tantamount to teaching them the trade and you run the risk of losing clients. Finding out the details from the clients is a good way of knowing what custom jewelry to design to match their taste and personality. To design a piece that is meant to be given as a gift for someone, you need to ask many questions about the person and if possible, arrange to see them. While uniqueness and exclusivity are the keys to making this type of business successful, speaking regularly with your clients is vitally important too.

You will be asked by many clients to make custom jewelry using stones or gems that they may already own. You may be required to repair a piece that your clients already have. To avoid destroying a client’s beloved piece, make sure you have the necessary skills to do the work before you accept the assignment. Find out all you can about the piece and what special meaning, if any, it holds for the owner.

Of course, you will purchase the pieces that you need to make the custom jewelry from wholesale resources. You may need to spend more buying quality parts from unique jewelry making supplies and imported items overseas so be careful how you quote your price. After all you don’t want to lose money so once you’ve quoted a price, deduct 15 to 30 percent from it. After deducting 15 to 30 percent, use the remainder as your ‘budget’ when buying supplies to make the custom jewelry.