HR Snake Chain Pendant Necklace & Earrings Set 1980s Palladium and Crystal Diamant\u00e9 Set HELENA RUBINSTEIN

HELENA RUBINSTEIN 1980s Palladium and Crystal Diamanté Set. Here is a fabulous silvery palladium snake chain necklace set with a huge teardrop crystal pendant with matching clip-on earrings, also set with equally huge crystal teardrop stones. This set comes in its own burgundy suedette drawstring pouch, with the Helena Rubinstein logo on the front. The. Here is a fabulous silvery palladium snake chain necklace set with a huge teardrop crystal pendant with matching clip-on earrings, also set with equally huge crystal teardrop stones. This set comes in its own burgundy suedette drawstring pouch, with the Helena Rubinstein logo on the front. 。The necklace measures 42cms in length, (16 1/2") with just the one setting for the simple hookclasp The huge and sparkly teardrop-shaped crystal pendant measures a full 3.5cms long and just over 2cms wide - that's 1 1/4" x 7/8ths") The matching earrings are the same measurement and look amazing. They're clip-ons in the best 1980s style !! 。PALLADIUM。Here's some technical stuff about this unusual metal. Palladium is a chemical element with symbol Pd and atomic number 46. It is a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston. He named it after the asteroid Pallas, which was itself named after the epithet of the Greek goddess Athena, acquired by her when she slew Pallas. Palladium, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium and osmium form a group of elements referred to as the platinum group metals (PGMs). 。HELENA RUBINSTEIN。This is a fascinating story:-。Chaya Rubinstein (as she was originally named), was born in Poland in 1870 in modest circumstances. In 1902 she left Poland to live with her uncle in a small town near Melbourne.。Coming from Europe she was reported to have wonderfully creamy and soft looking skin, something the sun ravaged ladies of Australia were keen to emulate. So she started to sell the pots of her mothers basic face cream she had brought over from Europe, promoting it as the basis of her flawless skin.。She realised she was on to a good thing, so rather than have it shipped over from Poland, decided to make her own. After falling out with her Uncle she took a job with a pharmacist and persuaded him to help her work on recreating her mother's cream in the lab, after hours. As the key moisturising ingredient, she used lanolin, a waxy substance from sheep which was in abundance in Australia. She sold this ‘secret’ mixture in jars perfumed with the more charming aromas of pine bark, water lilies and lavender. They were a roaring success which allowed her to create her own face cream brand named Crème de Valaze.。But Australia was a limited market, so the ever entrepreneurial Helena headed to London and opened her next salon named Salon de Beauté Valaze. It was also at this time that she launched her first make-up range, persuading her high class clients to be seen in public in rouge and lipstick! Helena was the first to introduce the concept of 'problem' skin types and promotion of the pseudo-science of skincare within the salons. During her career, as marketing material, she would often have images of herself in a lab coat and even claim to have a medical degree from Vienna (a winning story...but, according to biographies written since her death, not true).。Her products and salons in London and later Paris thrived, but with the onset of World War I she moved to New York and in 1915 opened the first of many salons in the US. The well heeled ladies of New York loved her range of products and impeccably marketed treatments. In 1928 she sold the business for the eye-watering sum of $7.3million (about £60million in today’s prices) but after mishandling and the ravages of the Great Depression, the company was worth a fraction of the original price. Picking up a bargain, she bought the company back at a much reduced rate, growing it to an even bigger and more successful company.。Throughout her busines career Helena had a well documented feud with Elizabeth Arden. They were the Joan Crawford and Bette Davis of the beauty world. Although they lived and worked only blocks apart in New York for over 50 years, the two women, by design, never actually met. Both were masters at persuading wealthy women to pay a lot for beauty products and turning the rather mundane world of face cream and make-up into something glamorous, alluring and respectable. These two ladies were ruthless business women who were workaholics, running their firms with a tyrannical iron fist. If someone was out of favour with Helena, she was known to have had their desks removed if they hadn’t quite got the message.。The relationship with Arden was surely the catalyst that drove them to their outstanding creativity and success. So by the time of Rubenstein’s death in 1965 in New York, she had built a cosmetics empire that spanned the world. Her company was left to her son Roy, who after eight years sold it to Colgate Palmolive which is now owned by L’Oreal.。This amazing wealth of information came from an article in Lisa Eldridge's excellent beauty blog here:-。

HR Snake Chain Pendant Necklace & Earrings Set 1980s Palladium and Crystal Diamant\u00e9 Set HELENA RUBINSTEIN

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