Come back to the show, my frien.
I want to tell you about a new d
in accessories I just found out about
that is apparently sweeping the nation.
It's called permanent jewelry.
Well, you heard me right, perma.
But what do you think of how may
of us wear our favorite necklacs
and bracelets all the time?
It's not such a weird idea.
Here to explain more about the concept
and how it all works is owner and director
of silver and salt Christine He.
Thank you for being here.
Thanks for having me. Okay.
When I first heard about this,
I was like, wait a minute, what?
So can you start first by explag
the concept of permanent jewelr?
So the concept of permanent jewy
is a length of chain that we Wed
directly on to the person's bod.
Body and without a clasp.
So because it has no clasp,
it is permanent.
You can only take it off by
snipping it with scissors.
With scissors, Yeah. Yeah. OK.
That was gonna be my question.
Like, what if you want to take
it off and you can actually do t
with scissors? Yeah, you can use
scissors or fingernail Clippers and just
clip the clip the chain, cuz it,
you needed to take it off depeng
on the length. OK yeah.
Or the thickness of the chain.
I have to say, why do people end
up choosing permanent jewelry?
I mean, I think that I think
it's this very special thing.
But what have people come to you
and told you about choosing thi?
Yeah, most people are
coming in because they're
celebrating something meaningful
with the friends or a partner,
and they want something that isn
experience and that they can uso
kind of really cement that occa,
you know, in the future.
So like just this past weekend,
we had seven girls who
had just graduated from.
And the UW and they were roommas
and they were best friends and y
wanted to celebrate that as thel
go off into their separate futu.
And so they came in and they all
got matching bracelets and it
was it was really, really sweet.
That is so beautiful.
It is like because there's a thing about
permanence with us in our lives, right?
Like some of us will get a tatto
because we want to permanently k
something that is important to .
I am sure those UW graduates parents are glad
that maybe they didn't mark the occasion to.
Although there's nothing
wrong with tats my friends.
I'm just saying that like,
what a nice way of doing something like
remembering someone or I don't ,
I feel like it's that whole permanence,
the soldering.
There's like something very
primal about that, isn't there?
Yeah.
And also the fact that it's
endless, it's seamless, you kno,
there's no nothing interrupting,
you know, that that piece of
chain on your body, I love that.
You know, you have this kind of whole
concept of just something being really,
really restless. And and
I think I forget, OK, yeah,
so walk me through how it works.
We've got all these different chains here.
And you can pick one of these,
right? Yeah, Yeah. So
when folks come in for their appointments,
we'll walk them through all the
different chain options that we have.
OK, We have sterling silver.
We have solid 14 karat gold cha.
And then they can also choose a
little gemstone addon if they w,
maybe to celebrate.
Like a birthstone or just a little extra
sparkle on their on their brain there,
and this is what they look
like when they're finished.
Very simple and simple. Elegant, super
classic. They go right in line
with the chain so you don't
have anything dangling down,
you know, getting in your way.
And it's just a like,
nice way to add a little pop of color.
Or, you know, we have people coe
in and they get like besties,
get their each other's birthstone. Oh,
it's so cute like that.
Yeah, it's really sweet.
I love that.
And this could be anklets too,
right? Yes, we do anklets.
We do necklaces as well. OK.
So everywhere you could put a
ring around it, you got right.
We actually do chain
rings too. And those are all
custom fit to your finger, so.
Okay. Yeah. So my big question was like,
okay, Does it hurt?
How does it feel like, what hap?
And so I chose a very simple,
beautiful gold chain with a diamond in
it for my daughter because thaty
daughter's birthstone and she's my first.
No offense to my son,
but I actually don't really remr
his birthstone at this moment anyway.
So. And now you have, you've put it on,
but you haven't soldered it yet.
Right? Right. Yeah.
So what we're actually going
to do is a is a welding process.
It's a micro Weld,
Yeah. So it's not soldering.
There's no fire or heat or
anything like that involved.
But we have this little machine,
it's called the pulse arc welde.
It's going to, when I grab it wh
these pliers which are grounded,
it's going to make a electrical
circuit and there's going to be
a little pulse of electricity
that's going to go down and youl
just see a tiny little spark.
But no heat or anything like
that. Just a spark, no heat.
Yeah. So I just got to
find that little opening
there. And then then I'll be
able to Weld it. Interesting.
So it's let's see it. Let's see it, let's
see it go. All
right. Here we go. Okay. So one.
And that's it. Just like that.
Just like that.
Easy peasy women squeezy. Yeah.
Then I also asked you have these
little like, little bits of lik.
Like chain leftover for when
you cut it to someone. Yeah.
And you told me that you actualy
take whatever's leftover and you
make this beautiful jewelry her.
Yeah. Which I think is Sony.
You just take it,
melt it down up and form
it into this new thing.
Yeah.
This is our new
collection that we just release.
It's called our amulet collecti.
And we take all the little
bits and pieces of chain.
We have a lot of little
bits and pieces of chain.
We're about melt it down.
We're about out of time.
And I mean, where can people find you?
We are on Western and Madison on the water.
Front downtown Seattle.
And yeah, we'd love to see you come in.
Go check it out.
Silver and salt. All right.
Thank you so much.
This is so much fun.
I got welded on TV.