Questions about this piece
Does cubic zirconia lose its sparkle?
It dulls from film long before it dulls from wear. Hand cream, hairspray and soap leave a haze across the facets, and a faceted stone only throws light back when its surfaces are clean, so most jewelry that looks tired has simply gone cloudy. Warm water, a drop of dish soap and a soft toothbrush brings it back in a couple of minutes. What does not come back is scratching: cubic zirconia is softer than a diamond, so it picks up fine marks over years. This bracelet is cubic zirconia set on metal.
Can you wear sparkly jewelry during the day?
Scale decides it, not the hour. A narrow line of small stones reads as a bit of light at the wrist and goes anywhere. A wide, heavily set piece reads as evening and will still read that way at eleven in the morning, whatever you put it with. The other half of it is restraint: one sparkling thing against plain clothes carries a workday, three competing do not. This bracelet is the narrow kind, so it is the one you can leave on from the desk to dinner.
What size wrist does this bracelet fit?
It is 6.5 inches long, which is on the shorter side, since bracelets more commonly run 7 to 7.5 inches. It suits a wrist measuring somewhere around six inches, so run a strip of paper around yours and hold it to a ruler before you decide. At 0.15 inches across, roughly an eighth of an inch, this is a single fine line of stones rather than a band, so it slides under a shirt cuff instead of catching on it.