Sky Blue Topaz Pear-Shaped Briolette Bead

This pear-shaped sky-blue topaz briolette features a flattened profile and is faceted around its entire surface, giving it an attractive light-catching quality that looks great when used for pendants, drops and earrings. String multiple blue topaz beads together to create a light-blue necklace or bracelet that matches any style or use the bead individually or combined with other styles of beads or pearls in more complex designs—if used to create a necklace, add small beads between the briolettes to ensure the strand lies flat. One of the most popular topaz gemstones, sky-blue topaz is a light-to-medium blue that mimics a clear sky. The stone is naturally flawless in most cases. A hard, usually transparent aluminum silicate gem material, topaz is an "8" on the Mohs scale; because it is tough and durable, topaz is ideal for all types of jewelry. Topaz forms in an orthorhombic structure with crystals that are usually prismatic. Pure topaz is colorless; impurities in the stones give them the colors they present.