High Quality Rhodolite Garnet Pendant

It’s the first few weeks after the dizzying highs, and staggering bank-balance lows of Christmas … and it is also the start of a New Year, full of promise, hope and potential! January is a month of extremes, and sometimes the ride can leave you a little confused and uncertain – and make birthday gifts for your January born friends more than a little hard to decide on! A great way to narrow your search is by using the birthstone for January, which is the garnet. These gorgeous stones are included in jewelry suitable for both men and women, have a lovely deep color base that makes them suitable for either accenting sultry evening wear, blending into a corporate look, or fitting well with casual weekend outfits. Here we look at one of jewelry’s perpetual favorites, and a great choice for January born friends and loved ones, the garnet.

Gorgeous Mandarin Garnet Ring

Pandora Red Leather Necklace – Great for Accenting Garnets

Filigree White Gold Pendant with Rhodolite Garnet

Petite Pandora Garnet Earrings

Pandora Garnet Ring

Pandora 3 Piece Ring with Garnet Feature

Pandora Rose Quartz and Garnet Flower Necklace

Sideways Set Garnet Ring For Men

Large Garnet Yellow Gold Ring For Men

Strawberry Gemstone Earrings – 248 stones

Garnets are most often seen in a deep, blood red variety in jewelry, but we do have jewelry on site including the variety known as tzavorite, as well as a couple of very special pieces that include rare mandarin garnets – like the ring shown at right. This gorgeous mandarin garnet piece features a .48 carat gemstone, set alongside 12 natural white diamonds and natural yellow grain set diamonds. The band is beautifully textured, and made of delicious quality 18 carat white gold. These rings are also a great option for an engagement ring, with the feature stone and slim band style, if your fiancee is born in January. The yellow gold accents on either side of the garnet give the stone a hint of creaminess in color, rather than the chic but cool appearance that pure white gold gives. Check out the product within the garnet jewelry range, and you can see a 360 degree view of the ring in Flash when you click the product for its specs.

But it is the beautiful blood-red stones that are the most popular variety of garnets, and the rhodolite variety at the beginning of the article is highly prized, and only available in certain geographical regions. The pendant has a whopping 4.8 carat stone, so if there is someone you particularly want to impress, this should help her birthday immediately eclipse any Christmas gifts in her memory! Despite the large gemstone, the piece is actually quite affordable, due in part to the 9ct yellow gold used for the attachment. This is sold as a stand-alone item, so you can choose any chain that you think will suit it best, from the red silk or red leather varieties, to the wide range of yellow gold chains which are suitable for nearly all skin types. The red leather cord is pictured, and as a Pandora product, it features free shipping.

Another product that features the deep shine and particular luster of rhodolite garnets is shown at right – and while it is great as a romantic gift, just as the pendant at the beginning is, it has a completely different character to the pendant above. The heart cut stone in this pendant is 5mm across, and set in 9ct white gold. While it has the same chic sheen as sterling silver, it is suitable for more skin types – and also incredibly affordable!

If you are looking for a gift for a family member this January though, earrings are a great option. The pandora garnet flower earrings pictured at right not only feature the January birthstone, but have plenty of ’sister’ pieces in the Pandora jewelry range, with the sweet, well-loved simple flower design they use as a base. The dainty post and butterfly style earrings are great as a highlight for a larger pair of earrings, on ladies with room for more than one set, and even by themselves, make for a very versatile gift that can be work to work, out for coffee, every day … even to bed! The sweet and petite garnets are set in great quality 14ct yellow gold, and you can see the matching garnet ring below them. This is also set on 14ct yellow gold, and if you have a creative lady that likes to mix and match, there are even jewelry pieces in the same style, but featuring different stones available in the Pandora collection.

If you do have one of those ladies who like to mix and match, we definitely recommend you keep searching within Pandora’s many sparkling pages! The ring pictured at right has genuine garnets as well as purple and brown cubic zirconias, set on Pandora’s signature oxidized sterling silver. It is a stunning, confidently sized 7mm across, making it very individual for a ladies ring. And like most other Pandora jewelry, it has friends elsewhere in the range. The smaller petalled flowers of this ring match beautifully with the rose quartz and garnet flower necklace pictured below it, and there are style matches with either pruple of brown zirconias, and in charm, earring, pendant and ring form also!

There are also, occasionally men having birthdays in January also! They don’t miss out on their share of stunning birthstone jewelry – the two rings with garnets pictured are perfectly suited to use as dress rings for men, and are available in men’s sizes. The sideways set of the garnet in the first ring gives it a very sturdy, masculine sort of air. This ring features a price tag that is suited to even the most Christmas-impacted of budgets! And if you are looking for something a bit more special as a men’s jewelry gift this January, the large garnet yellow gold ring is a great idea. The band is a strong, stocky 11mm across, and made of a combination of rose gold, yellow gold and white gold. The oval cut garnet is an enormous 3.65ct, and makes a powerful symbol for your manly man!

We like to save the best for last, and one of our most stunning products, and an all time favorite on site, is the strawberry gemnstone earrings shown at right. The garnets in these are the green tzavorite variety, and makeup the leaves of the strawberries – there are 52 of them in total, with a combined gemstone weight of .4ct. If you look closely, you’ll see that the stems of the strawberries are not simply sparkling white gold – but are actually encrusted with 46 natural white diamonds. All of the gemstones are set on a base of 18ct white gold, however, and they measure a stunning 55mm in total. It makes for a very special birthday gift, for a very special person!

If you are looking for garnet gifts for either men or women this January, all of the garnet jewelry on site is handily gathered together for you, with the convenience of a product search box on the page, where you can search according to jewelry style, price, type of garnet or additional gemstones, and the base metal. There is also a section where we have gathered together our best gift ideas over a wide range of budgets; the January birthstones gift ideas section. These have been culled from years of experience in helping lost husbands, wives, mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers to get the best jewelry for their loved ones. If you have any trouble in either of the sections, just click the Live Help link for instant assistance!