05/05/2018
So if you know anything about how oysters form pearls in the wild, it’s the same concept only ours are cultured. Which basically means it happens at basically a fish hatchery, but instead, an oyster farm in Asia.
In the wild, when a piece of sand or bacteria gets in the oyster the oyster attacks it kind of like our body attacks a virus, and it builds of the calcium and naqure around it, which is how it forms the pearl. Which is also why pearls found in nature are usually cream, white, brown normally....sometimes black, because the sand that gets inside it are typically those colors.
With cultured oysters they are not dyed, but farmed to where the farmers implant a tiny microscopic piece of bacteria or irritant to ensure a pearl in each oyster. Depending on the color of irritant they implant, determines the color of pearl. That’s why cultured oysters have different colors called “fashion colors” or “designer pearls”. Same things you see in jewelry stores, without the hefty price tag. So the oyster still grows he pearl normally, the farmer just initiates the process.
Ours are NOT dyed. In order to dye them they have to take them out of an alive oyster, dye them, put them back in the oyster and drop the oyster in a chemical to snap them back shut, which results in killing the oyster.
Ours are farmed and taken out of the water when they die from natural causes.
So our pearls are very much grown real, just in a farm.