Jewelry Guides and Styling Tips
Everything we’ve learned about caring for, stacking and styling our jewelry, in one place. Start with a guide below, or read every post on the A+B Blog.
Caring for your jewelry
- How to Store and Care for Beaded Jewelry So It Lasts for Years: Why to lay beaded necklaces flat, how to clean beads gently and how to travel with your pieces.
- Our Go To Guide On How to Care for Your Jewelry: What water resistant means (fine for hand washing, off for the shower and pool) and the habits that keep plated pieces shining.
- Can You Shower in Gold Plated Jewelry? Water Resistant, Explained: What 14k gold plated and water resistant mean on our pieces, and why to take them off before you shower or swim.
Bracelet stacks
- How to Create a Bracelet Stack: A Fun and Simple Guide: Six easy tips for building a bracelet stack, with a real example stack.
- How to Build a Stack on a Budget: Allie’s nine steps to a stack you love without spending a lot.
- How to Stack Bracelets With Your Watch (Apple Watch Too): Match your metals, put something slim next to your watch and add a bangle or a little color.
- Why We Love Vinyl Bracelets (and How to Style Them): Why vinyl bracelets started it all, and how to build a stack around one.
Charm necklaces, earrings and more
- How to Build Your Own Charm Necklace: Pick a chain, choose charms that mean something and add a spacer for sparkle.
- How to Build the Perfect Earring Stack: A four-step guide to an earring stack, plus easy combinations to try.
- How to Style Our Bag Charms!: Our favorite places to clip a bag charm, from your keys to your water bottle.
- The Brooch Is Back (And We’re Styling It Differently): Eight modern ways to wear a brooch.
Everyday styling
- How to Style Gold Jewelry for Everyday Wear: Easy formulas for layering gold necklaces, stacking bracelets and mixing gold with silver.
- The Art of Mixing: How to Mix & Match Your Everyday Jewelry: Simple rules for mixing lengths, textures and metals.
- How to Style Bold Jewelry with Neutrals (Without Overthinking It): Bess’s formula: a neutral base, one bold piece and a stack that changes with her mood.
- Our Guide on How to Wear Colorful Jewelry!: Seven easy tips for wearing color, plus quick answers.
- From Errands to Evening: Your Go-To Guide with Allie+Bess: Start simple in the morning, then turn the same jewelry into an evening look with a swap or two.
- If I Could Only Keep 5 Pieces…: The five pieces Allie would keep, and how to find your own five.
- Turquoise, but Make It Fall: How to wear turquoise all fall, with Bess’s favorite color pairings.
Birthstones and personalized gifts
- Birthstones by Month: Every Month's Stone and Color: Every month’s birthstone, the color to pick on our pieces and the birthstone jewelry that comes in all twelve.
- Personalized Jewelry for Mom: Initials, Birthstones and the Mama Charm: Her kids’ initials, their birth months or a charm that says mama.
Packing for a trip
- The Ultimate Getaway Packing List!: Everything we pack for a beach getaway, and how to pack your jewelry so nothing tangles.
- What I’m Packing for St. Thomas: The Allie + Bess Vacation Edit: Bess’s simple outfit formula and the jewelry she packed for a family trip to St. Thomas.
Collection stories and collabs
The stories behind our collections, our collabs and notes from Allie and Bess are all on the A+B Blog.