if you want to buy moonstone jewelry like…please be aware that half the people on etsy and wherever selling “moonstone” jewelry are actually selling you opalite which is just….glass with added effects. moonstone and opalite are not the same thing lol….so many people are getting ripped off on etsy because of this and it kind of bothers me
this is real, natural “rainbow” moonstone:
this is opalite, which is synthetic opalised glass:
I’ve been trying to warn people about this for years! It’s such a huge issue, just like heat-treated amethyst being sold as ‘citrine.’
except natural citrine is made in the same way as ‘lab-made’, the only difference is the source of heat, whereas opalite is a completely different material than moonstone(aka labradorite)
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Sometimes people call opalite ‘opal’ as well, and lemme tell u it’s not
ringsabel 