Hairstick dilemma

[elettaria]

I'm getting my outfit ready to go to my cousin's wedding next month. For those of you who haven't met me, I've got pale skin, medium brown hair with bronzey tones to it which is long enough to sit on, brown eyes. The dress is floaty, a dark purple/indigo ground, with an insane thistly design in turquoise/teal, fuchsia, off-white and a little red. Sounds weird but looks stunning. The chiffon scarf, which is currently off getting hemmed before I go mad beading it (couldn't buy anything the right colour), is somewhere between ice blue and very pale aqua, about this colour as far as I can tell from my monitor:



The necklace which looks best is my dark lapis choker (sort of rope effect made from silver heishi with lapis tubes at the throat), I tried turquoise and while the colour worked I needed a stronger shade at my throat. Now here comes the big dilemma: which hairsticks should I go for? The hairstick maker, Kathy at Maiden's Treasures, has thrown together a few ideas for me. I'm in awe.



This is original design I'm thinking of going for, only I'd replace the orange bead with a different feature bead, for instance the teal equivalent.



I've roughly removed the coloured shadows from the vintage opaline bead at the end of the row since it looked odd as the others were all against white, but I can put them up too if people are really fussy.

Current thoughts:

1) Nice, but sapphire Swarovski is too blue, the lighter blue on my dress is somewhere between teal and turquoise. Might look nice with a different bead on top, say lapis.
2) and 3) Good pairing, still quite keen on it.
4) Ooh. Yum. Should I go for lapis (identical pair) after all? Note that lapis doesn't come any larger than this. It'll match the choker, but it probably wouldn't be as noticeable against my hair as a lighter colour.
5) Another nice one, not sure whether I'd do an identical or mismatched pair.
6) Lovely subtle design, but again blue lace agate is too blue.
7) Lovely stone, not sure yet. I think it would tone quite well with moonstone, and I imagine it would work with 2) as a pair.

cross-posted to my LJ and longhair

Comments

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

(Bear in mind that my taste is occasionally rather questionable ...)

I'm not keen on 2 - I think the facets make it look a bit twinkly - but it would probably depend on how it looks on you (and how big it is - I'm having trouble with scale, here).

I like 3, but only if it matches well. If it's too green it might be a bit peacock-y.

4, 5, and 6 are my favourites, and if 6 wasn't too blue (and if they're about the same size) I'd suggest 4 & 6 together. I'm not sure what 5 would go with if you don't get a matched set as the shape is so different.

I'd go for a pair of the lapis ones, I think - they may not be as obvious (although I would think that dark blue would show up reasonably against bronzy-brown) but they will pick up the colour from the choker so will be more noticeable without shouting.

Feel free to ignore all of that, obviously!

[elettaria.livejournal.com]

They're all double size. The second one is black onyx, so I don't think it should be too sparkly; certainly no more sparkly than the faceted lapis.

*keeps pondering*