When did this trend start happening?

[cupcake_goth]

And where are the knock-offs, I ask you?



Pave Punk Princess Spike Bracelet on eBay (and I think they meant pavé), for a mere $329.

I'm not going to even try and be blasé here: I think that's pretty damn cute. Rhinestone spiked bracelet! Eeeee! But THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE DOLLARS for it? Oh no, not even.

(I can't find a picture of them now, but I've seen stud earrings that match the bracelet, and those are also ridiculously cute, but insanely pricey.)

So, high-end "fashion" knock-offs of punk/deathrock stuff. I'm not surprised, I just want to know where I can find cone spikes set with rhinestones so I can make my OWN accessories.

Comments

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

too small to glue well and with any stability into something like fimo without having visible glue. Fimo is too porous for the really good epoxies to hold rhinestones to it for terribly long. They would start falling out.

I shall think on it, however. I do a lot with rhinestones and crafting.

[plymouth.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with visible glue?

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

I would think it would be distracting on something intended to be this sparkly, though.