Disclaimer: this is from my experience/perspective with gold FILLED (NOT plated) jewelry. Please use at your own risk/discretion, I can’t say it will work or be effective for all types of jewelry.
Hun has been taking such good care of her little Amazon jewelry items I’ve gotten her over the last 2 years (just gold plated bracelets and necklaces) that for her 5th birthday this year, I decided to buy her a big girl necklace from my good friend’s amazing jewelry company. She actually had a choker from Lise that she wore for the longest time (it was mine that she ‘borrowed’ lol and ended up being so cute on her, I let her keep it) but this problem that I’m about to get into happened, and then my husband took matters into his own hands and the result did not end well. I knew this would probably happen again, and it’s no fault or issue with the quality of the necklace, she just has long hair that gets tangled. Since she can wear this in the shower, pool, etc. she doesn’t ever take it off and then the hair seems to keep getting twirled into it, piling up along the back.
So back to what C did last time, lol, he decided to take a lighter and burn the hair out. Worked great, but it ruined her necklace 🙁 So this time I was determined to not let him do that again and find a better way that wouldn’t do damage to it.
I did some research and found that others have had good success with using Nair to get the tangled/pulled out pieces of hair out without ruining the jewelry piece itself. I gave it a try last week and was WOW’d!!!! I followed exactly what the directions on the bottle said (do not let it sit for more than 3 min – which I was wondering would that be too long? Because a piece of jewelry and a leg are two very different things, haha) but I didn’t have any issues or tarnishing.
It removed the hair like a dream and her necklace was looking brand new + still sparkling like the first day it arrived!!! All of the hair that was so tightly wrapped around this pretty little thing came right off and basically disinigrated. I used a paper towel (but you could use a cleaning/jewelry cloth, I just didn’t have one close by) and gently rubbed the remaining hair pieces out of the loops.
So that’s it! Just grab a bottle of Nair and it basically does all of the work for ya! I thought I would share this for other women/fellow moms out there who might deal with this at some point and hope it helps!
