Now that you’ve acquainted yourself with the full rainbow of candy-colored gemstones, it’s time to figure out how to wear them. Ahead, 25 glittering, covetable ideas — from multi-million-dollar blue-diamond baubles to affordable luxuries like citrine and tiger’s eye. Whether in sparkling cocktail rings (like James de Givenchy for Taffin’s spinel, diamond, and platinum design) or dangling earrings (like Renee Lewis’s watermelon tourmalines), these are investments too commanding to leave in the jewelry box.
*This article appears in the March 23, 2015 issue of New York Magazine.