How to care for your ring
Channel: Ash Hilton Jewellery
Date: 2017-09-27

Hey beautiful people, if your ring's not looking so flash, here's how to bring it back to life.

Jewellery can tarnish, especially if the ring sits un-worn for a while. Once you're wearing it, your ring should stay clean through everyday wear.

The good news is, it’s an easy fix.

Tarnish is just on the surface so it needs to be cleaned off leaving the colour in the design.

For matte finishes, we use 600 grit sandpaper followed by 1000 grit abrasive rubber. You can try a green dish scratchy pad or steel wool, it needs to have some abrasive, polish will probably not work as it will make your piece too shiny.

You can't damage the ring (but you can damage your stones*) just try not to sand the colour out of the etching. If you run into any trouble, you can always send it back to us for a fix-up.

* Diamonds and sapphires are safe to sand - you can’t scratch them. 
All other stones can be damaged by abrasives. If your ring has any coloured stones, we can send you our coloured stone ring care kit. It has an abrasive rubber made with pumice which will clean off tarnish but not damage any stones.

This also works for removing scratches and bringing your jewellery back to its original finish.