This is Watch Your Style.
Today we're gonna be going over a couple of quick tips on how to care for your hand-made,
custom Cuban link chain.
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So I get a lot of phone calls with questions about how should I properly care and clean
for my Cuban link chain, and the first thing I wanna express is that gold is very soft,
so when it's first finished, it has this high luster gloss and shine to it.
So depending how much you wear your chain is gonna determine how much that shine is
gonna suffer.
And one of the main things I wanna point out is I do not shower with my chain, and people
as me about this, believe it or not.
They ask me, �Eric, should I shower with my chain on?� And the answer is No!
One of the main reasons is is that if you shower every day with your chain on, what's
gonna happen is is gonna build up soap scum exactly like your shower or your clear shower
doors and stuff.
Taking a shower with your chain is not gonna clean your chain.
It's a whole another process to clean your chain, which we're gonna go over.
Another important thing is, I do not sleep with my chain on because all your doing is
you're causing extra wear for no reason.
As you wear your chain and you roll around or whatever is that you do while you're sleeping...if
you have a charm on it and what not, the chain is moving around and is rubbing against each
other and you're twisting and locking the links.
All this is for no reason.
I think it's just good practice to take off your jewelry, whether it's a chain or a watch
when you go to sleep or you shower and believe it or not, people actually ask me this.
So how to clean your chain.
Look, honestly, if you don't clean your chain every week, again depending on how much you
wear it, you'll tell, because what happens is that your skin naturally releases oils
and sweat and stuff that goes along with all that and the chain is kind of going to look
dirty.
I always try to think about it like a window or a mirror.
Obviously, when you hit it with Windex and you clean it, it gets nicer and shinier.
Same thing with gold.
So what I like to use personally is, in the kiosks in the middle of the mall, they sell
you this spray and they're like, sometimes they're like ninjas trying to sell you stuff.
Some or green,some are pink, some are purple the liquid, but it's actually very good.
Why?
Because for me it's kind of like Windex for jewelry.
You kind of spray it on, you hit it with a toothbrush, you rinse it and dry and what
it does is it gets rid of that oil and that grime that might be stuck to the jewelry and
leave it sparkly clean.
Now, if you don't have that, you can also use a toothbrush with some mild soap and some
warm water.
Kind of the same thing, just spray it on there, scrub it, rinse it and dry.
I like to do that every week, but I'm also a psycho.
I've had people wear a chain for 15 years that never cleaned it once.
As you go wearing the chain, it goes rubbing against each other, the gold links, making
contact with the link will scratch itself and over time, will leave marks.
So sometimes people would use these special polishing rags.
Do they work?
Yes, but you gotta be careful with these rags and I'm gonna tell you why.
For example, my chains when I finish them, I like to give them a quick flash dip to give
it that rich, yellow luster, because 14 karat and especially 10 karat, by nature is kind
of pale, so it won't have that sharp yellow color.
So if you do hit it with this rag, it will pale the color of the gold out.
Personally, I don't like that look.
I would rather use the chain for a while and when it kind of gets a little bit too scratched
up, maybe like once every year or once every two years, I'll have it polished.
Again, very careful with who polishes the chain.
The worst thing you can do with a Cuban link chain is have the wrong person polish it.
Just like a watch, same thing can happen.
So those are kind of things you wanna keep in mind to keep your chain clean.
One last thing I wanna mention to you is how you store your chain.
Look, you don't have to build a shrine for it or lay it on a bed of cotton pillows or
whatever, but when you kind of bunch the gold up together like so and it's just all together
like this, the links are scratching each other.
Remember, gold is very soft and it has a high polish finish, so depending on when it rubs
against each other, all it's doing is scratching.
By all means use your chain, wear your chain, but keep that in mind.
It will start scratching and it will start suffering, so take a look at your chain at
home and you'll notice if it has a lot of mid nicks and bang marks, which will take
away the shine.
That means it's time to polish.
So if you're interested in possibly trying out a Cuban link chain or perhaps getting
a quote on different sizes or grams, feel free to download our app for Android and for
the iPhone.
It's called the Cuban Link App.
Also, feel free to leave me some comments on any special tips that perhaps you might
have that works for you to clean your Cuban link chain.
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My name is Eric, Watch Your Style.