Beautiful blue topaz November birthstone pendant

Using birthstones as a jumping off point for birthday gift ideas is almost like cheating … it’s such an easy way to make your gift personal! If you are looking for a gift for someone in the next month, then you are in luck, and a little spoilt for choice, as topaz is the birthstone for people born in November.

Coincidentally, if your loved one’s or friends birthday was originally on a Friday (their ‘zero-th’ birthday, if you like!), or even if it is on a Friday this year, then topaz is doubly fitting for their gift – topaz is the stone for Friday birthdays also.

While topaz is normally naturally a white-wine color (sort of a transparent golden look), topaz is also available in white, pink, blue, green, red-yellow, and even grey colors!

Pink topaz heart pendant – the perfect gift

Pink topaz is normally created through treating a natural topaz, to produce the pink color. The treatment of topaz is common-place and well recognised by the gemstone and jewelry industry. The treatment process takes a natural topaz gemstone with a yellow to brown color and changes the color to pink through a heat treatment. Once they turn pink, they don’t turn yellow again when they cool down.

While blue topaz is also found naturally, it is most commonly treated to produce the blue color through an irradiation process. This can produce gorgeous, light-blue to electric-blue stones, that are both striking on their own, and fitting as part of a group. The light blue topaz products are very popular – they look gorgeous in all of the different designs.

When set in white gold, they make a beautiful gorgeous look, while setting the light blue topaz stones on polished silver or yellow gold gives them an innate boldness.

Keep in mind though that blue topaz is not exclusively a November birthstone – while all topaz is suitable for November birthdays, blue topaz is also claimed by people with birthdays in December. “Go on, get your own birthstone!!”

Discover the joy of giving or wearing blue topaz birthstone jewelry for yourself.