I have a truth to tell. The best-smelling, cleanest, most beautiful, put-together people you can imagine, usually have the grimiest jewellery repairs. Without getting too graphic, let me remind you of what the tops of sunblock bottles, hand lotion tubes, and jars of face creams look like, right around the edges, where air dries out the build-up. You got it. These same products get up under watchstraps, diamond settings, earring backs, and absolutely everywhere. The oil that makes them so great for moisturizing, also makes them great for sticking. To jewellery. And for collecting every speck of dust, dander or dna to form enough layers, that one may wonder if the wearer had taken a pottery class recently. But it's not recent at all. Much the same as the the product containers I've mentioned, the buildup is slow. If people realise at all, it's usually not until they are getting a piece back from their jeweller, and noticing how much bigger their cleaned diamond
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