How to Distinguish Real Pearls From Faux Pearls?

Pearls have always been one of the most popular choices as wedding jewellery. It is also a great choice of gift for your loved ones. If you are planning on purchasing pearl jewellery but have little idea on the subject, the article might be useful to you.
A real pearl means a pearl that has either been naturally formed or cultured through human intervention within an oyster shell. Those formed naturally are called 'sea pearls' or 'natural pearls', whereas those formed through manually placing a mother of pearl in the oyster shells are referred to as 'freshwater pearls' or 'cultured pearls'. Both natural pearls and cultured pearls are regarded as 'real pearls'. A faux pearl is generally understood to be any sort of pearl that is made of something other than true nacre, be it plastic, glass, or resin.
It is relatively easy to distinguish real pearls from faux pearls. Real pearls are generally heavier than faux pearls. They are cold to the touch and quickly adapt to the body's temperature when you wear them - this is a similar quality in all natural gemstones.
Rub a pearl against your teeth - a real one gives a rough feeling whereas a faux pearl feels smooth. If you have a strand of pearls instead of a pendant, you may also rub two of them against each other with a little force. Look carefully: on real pearls a trace of powder will appear on the surface. Wipe away the powder and the lustre is back to exactly the same as before. Faux pearls will feel completely smooth and will not create any trace of powder; and if you rub them too hard, the surface will be damaged and cannot be restored (so don't do it if you want to keep them!).
Faux pearls are usually completely regular and uniform in colour. Real pearls are always somewhat irregular: even high quality real pearls that look perfectly round and very smooth in lustre are not 100% immaculate if you examine them carefully enough - as these are creations of nature. Nowadays some faux pearls are also made to be irregular in order to seem more like real pearls, but they are still distinguishable through touching and rubbing