Most of us are accustomed to perceiving jewelry as an integral part of a woman's image. Cute earrings, delicate pendants, mesmerizing bracelets and extravagant rings - how sweet all this is to a woman’s heart! But do jewelry always fulfill its role as jewelry?
Recently, unusual jewelry has become very common, which is not only frightening, but also shocking. But it cannot be said that they appeared only now.
The background of creepy jewelry
Even in medieval Europe, one could see chains decorated with images of skulls. Many hermits and monks wore jewelry depicting skulls, symbolizing the frailty of worldly life.
But in the culture of the Indians of both North and South America, it was customary to decorate themselves with teeth, scalps, and bones of killed opponents.
Images of human body parts and creepy animals have been used to create jewelry since ancient times.True, then most often they were made not from metal, stone or bone, but actually from the remains of human and animal bodies.
Modern jewelry that causes horror and rejection
Today, a variety of technological materials make it possible to reproduce any shape. Even the most realistic images can be created using polymers, as they have a wide range of colors.
Eyes
Some handmade workshops, and sometimes large jewelry chains, produce products with images of eyes. Moreover, the most harmless option may be simply realistic human or cat eyes. Designers like to place them symmetrically on earrings. Also very often the image of an eye in specific jewelry is found on rings. It looks very strange and shocking, since in this case the eye is already made larger in size. Big-eyed symbols can be found on necklaces and bracelets.
Modern materials make it possible to reproduce all the anatomical details of the eye, right down to the rays and specks on the iris.
Well, the most creepy ones are the monsters’ eyes, which have red veins and bloody parts of the eyelids. This “charm” is often made in the form of a ring with one huge eye in the middle.
Severed fingers
Keychains are often decorated with bloody severed fingers. The sight is truly terrifying - the stumps of the fingers are covered in blood and marble-pale in color. They can cause nothing but rejection and disgust!
Human body parts
Not only eyes and fingers, but also other parts of the human body can be found as decorations. There are pendants on pendants in the shape of a heart, an ear or even a whole head. Moreover, if this is a heart, then you should not think that this is a cute heart.No - this is a real bloody heart with all the anatomical details, vessels and veins sticking out of it. Only thoughts of cannibalism come to mind.
Animal paws
Real or, more precisely, looking as natural as possible, paws of animals or birds can decorate necklaces and bracelets. Sometimes they are even made in the form of earrings. It looks like witchcraft attributes.
Octopuses and snakes
Sometimes in order to create original necklaces or bracelets, They use the tentacles of octopuses and octopuses. It feels like there is an octopus sitting on your neck, trying to entangle your neck with its tentacles.
But if octopuses are not so popular and often used images for various types of jewelry, then here are snakes - Jewelers' favorite animal object.
They look less disgusting - true, unless the person suffers from a fear of snakes. A small snake or a huge python can be found in an elegant ring, in bracelets, and in necklaces.
One of the favorite images in ancient Egypt was a snake. This image was often used when creating any jewelry. Bracelets wrapped around the forearm were especially popular. That is, they were worn not on the wrist, but between the shoulder and elbow.
Scary stuffed animals
Nowadays there are stuffed animals that imitate real animals. And they are used on such decorations as:
- hair band;
- comb supporting hairstyle;
- a strange and creepy looking necklace.
They make such small figures from real fur and insert eyes and noses that imitate real ones. Therefore, the appearance of such an animal is very naturalistic. It’s hard to imagine who would want to decorate themselves with such a trinket.
Where to wear such jewelry
Of course, there may be people who want to shock the public. But still, most often such original and at the same time scary decorations are worn only on Halloween in Western countries.
But in Mexico they decorate themselves with similar products with eerie images on the Day of the Dead, when they commemorate their departed ancestors.
If you want to decorate yourself with “original” jewelry, then you can find them in abundance on handmade exchanges.
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