The Identity Crisis: Switching Metal Colors

The small box covered in wrapping paper and finished with a bow is placed in your hands, a giddy smile touching the lips of the person who chose to get you a piece of jewelry. The only thing you can hope for is that it is silver like the rest of your jewelry. 

You open the lid and are confronted with one of the hardest moments of your life, a gold necklace stares back at you, daring you to put it on smack dab in the middle of all your silver decorations.

As much as you know it’s going to disrupt your usual cohesiveness, you want to please the gift-giver, so you take off your current necklace and replace it with the gold one. The gift-giver's face lights up with a smile, and when you look in the mirror, the world tilts, and you come to the life-altering realization that gold just might be your color, instead. 

Over the years, I have noticed that there is a clear divide between those who wear gold jewelry and those who wear silver, a die-hard loyalty at play for the color of metal you choose. I, personally, gravitated towards silver my entire life, despite others waxing poetic about how gold was my color. I never believed them, sticking to what I already knew. 

But one day, I got a pair of gold earrings, and it was an immediate moment of awe for me. I knew, at that moment, that I had made a grave mistake. Since then, I can proudly say I have switched to gold (minus the occasional silver ring that I love too much to replace). 

I have always found the loyalty to jewelry colors intriguing. It’s as if someone who wears gold most of the time wearing silver is a crime, a betrayal against the nature of who they are. It makes you ask yourself: are there other things you need to change or might look better? 

I know this all sounds dramatic, but the identity crisis that comes with switching metal colors is real and definitely not talked about enough.  

Not only does it bring you to the realization that you’ve been wearing something that might not fit you or your skin tone, but it also means that you have to build an entirely new jewelry collection, which, for people like me, is a task and a half. Unless you are someone who enjoys a mixed metals moment, which I definitely partake in sometimes.

Despite the initial shock and minor identity crisis, you do not have to change everything else about yourself as well. It’s a moment of clarity, of leveling up your accessorizing and self-expression. Let your style shine through your jewelry, no matter if it’s gold, silver, or both. 

Strike Out, 

Madi Denizard 

Boca Raton 

Madi Denizard is a content writer for Strike Magazine Boca. In typical Leo fashion, she is a social butterfly and loves self-expression of all kinds. When she’s not writing, you can find her with her nose stuck in a book, mermaiding in the ocean or crocheting her newest masterpiece. You can reach her by email at madison.denizard@gmail.com or on Instagram @mpaigee_