Rhodolite garnet heart drop earrings

Girlfriends … mysterious, unfathomable, as deep as the ocean … yet you would never want to live without them. As strange and foreign as girlfriends may seem at times, there is one feature that unites almost all of them – a love of jewellery! There are few birthday gifts that are as long lasting, that stay close to their skin and are as personal and sentimental as jewellery. If your gal is born in August, today we are checking out some new, some traditional, and some unusual jewellery gifts for girlfriends that will have them squealing and jumping into your lap in record time .

Swept Away Hot Diamonds heart diamond silver earrings

Pearl and diamond pendant

Blue topaz yellow gold earrings

6.5mm peacock blue purple freshwater button pearl earrings

Orange Light Pandora Inspirations ready-made bracelet

Pandora orange CZ Mix and Match earrings and pendant gift set

Peridot heart pendant

2.5mm peridot white gold earrings

The rhodolite garnet earrings at the beginning of the article are a gorgeous, traditional style jewellery gift for girlfriends. Especially for those that haven’t been together long, you can’t go wrong with a classic gift like these! The gemstones are 5mm heart-cut garnets, set on the earrings with a very unique attachment style. The base is 9ct white gold, so has a touch of elegance but still a lovely low price tag. We’d pick them especially for August-born girls whose birthday falls between the 1^st and 23^rd of the month – these dates mean that she’s a Leo, with a ruling body part of the heart. Those little lovey-dovey shapes on the front of the earrings aren’t just for the romance factor … for her, they’ll actually be a lot more personal!

From the 24^th of the month onwards, Leo gives way to neat, perfection-seeking Virgos. The signature metal for these gals is mercury, with its impossibly smooth and perfect surface … and while  you wouldn’t want to give her mercury-containing jewellery, you can certainly capture its pretty spirit with these highly polished sterling silver earrings from Hot Diamonds jewellery! They are quite an unusual shape – the earrings themselves are about 12 mm long, so they will hang either off the side or the bottom of her ear lobes, depending on which way they are twisted.  The sterling silver is rhodium plated for lasting shine and tarnish resistance, and the earrings themselves include two genuine white diamonds … just because they are forever!

Diamonds are actually one of the alternate birthstones for the entire month of June – they belong to August in the Mystical birthstone list, which originates in Tibet. Do you need any more of an excuse ;-D ? The necklace at right features 24 genuine white diamonds, topping a shimmering Japanese Akoya pearl … beautiful! The 24 diamonds have a combined weight of .10ct, and the pearl is a mid-sized 6.5mm diameter exceptionally round Akoya pearl, set on decadent 18ct white gold. Your girlfriend will be able to wear this versatile piece just abut everywhere, and with just about everything. It will definitely be a well-used and much-appreciated gift.

Virgo girls, born after the 24^th of August, have a calm, rational and beautiful blue as their signature colour – if you’re buying for a Virgo this August, the clean, straight lines of these rectangular cut topaz earrings are sure to have her melting. The gemstones are 4mm x 6mm rectangular cut topazes, and the setting is gorgeous and very affordable 9ct yellow gold. The stones are prong set for an ultra-clean look, making these another pair of easy-match, go-anywhere earrings.

Alternatively, if you’re already taking your girlfriend out for her birthday, or have another gift planned, these peacock blue earrings make a beautiful and very appropriate second gift. At pocket-change prices, they include two 6.5mm peacock blue freshwater pearls, set on inexpensive sterling silver. They’re an individual and easy-to-wear pair of weekday earrings … and every time she looks in the mirror she’ll be thinking of you!

Leo gals, born between the 1^st and 23^rd of August, have a fiery orange as their signature colour … which will seem infinitely appropriate too anyone that has lived with a Leo for any length of time! We love the Pandora jewellery Orange Light Inspirations bracelet at right, including a customisable selection of orange cubic zirconia and affordable plain sterling silver Pandora charms. There is plenty of room to build on this bracelet, but it certainly doesn’t look empty as it is; your girlfriend will be able to either customise it or keep it just as it is, depending on her whim at the time!

Pandora recently released quite a few gift sets – matching items sold together for simplicity – and one of them was the orange CZ mix and match earrings and pendant set at right. The orange cubic zirconia encrusted centres sway separately to their frames, creating a beautiful counterpointed yet harmonic look. The set includes the earring bases (which will suit many of the other great-value mix n match attachments), but she’ll need to pop the pendant either on an existing sterling silver chain … or one that you specially choose for her . There are plenty on site, and they are all ultra-affordable.

Of course, the easiest way to pick a jewellery gift for your girlfriend, especially if you’ve been together for only a short time, is to go with her traditional birthstone. There’s a chance that she already has jewellery featuring peridots, the traditional August birthstone, already – at least your gift will be well coordinated with the rest of her collection! The peridot heart pendant at right is a classic gift at an amazing price – the 5mm heart cut peridot measures 5mm across, and is set on 9ct white gold. The chain is not included – but if she has a couple of jewellery pieces already, she no doubt has a suitable chain anyway, and another one would only contribute to chain-clutter! If you’re looking to impress, make it a set – put the pendant together with the beautiful, dainty 2.5mm peridot earrings at right and you have a definite hug-and-squeal worthy gift.

There are so many jewellery gifts for girlfriends on site – check out our handpicked gifts as well as the rest of the peridot jewellery collection. If you need any help or present-picking pointers, there’s usually someone around ‘in store’ behind the Live Help link, so don’t be shy to click!