Last night I was finishing up a bunch of misc. plugs and such, but the highlight of my evening was a BEAUTIFUL 9.2×12mm rutilated quartz labret piece that I had a blast making. Rutilated quartz is one of my personal favorite stones, particularly pieces with very delicate rutile, as with this labret. Design plays a big part in good body jewelry, and with organics it’s no different. I had a variety of rough to choose from with various sizes of rutile needles, some as large as 3mm wide and bright golden color, but I ended up using a piece with the smallest rutile, yet most densely populated rutile field out of the pieces I was considering. It can most properly be appreciated viewed straight on, as it would be while worn.
The customer requested material with gold rutile, and that worked out perfectly as we had beautiful stock to work with. I have enough of the stone left from this piece to make maybe a set of 1″ solid plugs from it if anyone’s interested. It could make several sets of smaller items as well.
I also have some other rutilated quartz in clear and smoky with various colors of rutile, including a smoky to golden quartz with incredibly densely packed silver and red rutile needles. That could make a huge labret or a couple of sets of smaller plugs.
Rutile, for those unaware, is actually thin needles of Titanium Dioxide, which as a point of trivia, has an incredibly high refractive index, which is why it bounces back so much light. Many artists will recognize that mineral name because it’s used in a lot of white paints to achieve an intensely brilliant pure white.
The same customer that got the rutilated piece also got this quite pretty rose quartz piece in a slightly smaller oval size, to aid in stretching up to the rutile piece I assume.
We’ve never made a rose quartz lip piece before, just because no one had ever asked for one, but I’m totally down with making more of ‘em now because it’s very nice. And honestly, I think a piece of pink stone in your face is just sweet. This is a material we can of course make plugs from as well, and the thicker/larger the material is, the more dense and full the pink color will appear.
Gorgeous. As I have always said, I look on this site as often as I can. I’m never disappointed. Once again, well done guys!
Those are beautiful and they make me wanna get mine done and start stretching***sigh**
I have not received the plugs i ordered, but I am completely obsessed with this website! never again will i buy jewelry at hot topic, why have metal in my ears when i could have real art? Ha keep up the amazing work.