Gina Nigrelli is living my dream life. After a successful career in fashion and marketing, she relocated to the Virgin Islands in 2005 and together with her husband, Brian Smith, began a life of creative jewelery design. Inspired by the lush Caribbean surroundings, Jules Smith Designs employ precious metals and semi-precious gemstones, creating wearable art that is subtly extravagant. This is the Now and Zen ring, featuring an 18k yellow gold open …

Introducing the world’s first $1 million ice cream cone. To bring awareness to their new corporate sponsorship of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, Bruster’s Real Ice Cream commissioned Lazare Kaplan to create this bejeweled interpretation of their signature cherry vanilla waffle cone. Containing nearly 20 troy ounces of 18k white and yellow gold, the treat is studded with 87 Lazare square emerald cut diamonds and a stunning 5.63 carat Fancy Intense …

Prince sang about “Diamonds and Pearls” but what about diamonds in pearls? Chi Huynh, a gem and jewelry artist of Galatea: Jewelry by Artist in San Dimas, California has found a way to put faceted diamonds inside cultured pearls. As you probably know, cultured pearls are made by inserting a bead into the mollusk so creates layers of nacre over the bead. Chi Huynh wanted to put gemstone beads inside Tahitian black lipped oysters so that he could carve the pearls revealing the precious center. Unable to find any one to …

I may not have loved the pairing of Angelina Jolie’s grey St. John dress with her yellow gold Bochic diamond necklace and earrings at the Golden Globes but it is one gorgeous jewelry set. Now, if you have the money, it can be yours. Bochic will be donating the jewelry she wore to USA for UNHCR in support of World Refugee Day, which is on June 20th. Jolie has served as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. The pieces will be auctioned by charityfolks.com and all proceeds will go to UNHCR programs in Chad for refugees from the Darfur region.

Body jewelry goes deluxe in the hands of design company Carbon De Luxe (the website is a little NSFW). The line, aimed at gay men, features gold and diamonds including the most lavish jewelry for piercings I have ever seen. The Virgin Collection features pieces that can be worn as traditional jewelry during the day and then used at night for more risque purposes. This piece, called the Gorm, can be worn as a brooch but is also meant to be worn through a man’s nipple …