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Topic Started: Jul 27 2017, 11:36 PM (78 Views)
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Following from yesterday’s Autumn 2017 preview, today’s post brings my next review from the 2017 pandora charms collection, with a closer look at the Sunny Doll charm! If you don’t recognise this one, or haven’t seen it in your local store, it’s because it’s another Asian exclusive bead. :)This little bead offers one of Pandora’s most interesting and unique designs of 2017 to date, and I knew that I had to have this one as soon as I first got the stock image for it! With the help of a kind friend in Singapore, my Sunny Doll arrived not long after the Summer 2017 launch at the beginning of the month.


The pandora sliver charm is inspired by Japanese culture: it’s a teru teru bozu, or weather doll. These are used in Japan to bring good weather – an invaluable charm to have if you’re living in the UK, like me! :P They’re traditionally made from white fabric or paper, and hung from a window to bring sunny weather. If you want rain, you should hang it upside down. Before I had googled it and found all that out, my first thought was that it looks like a very cute little ghost. I do think that you could easily add it to a Halloween bracelet, if you were so inclined!


In person, the charm is very true to the stock image: just as cute! It’s a compact, dainty little charm, and there aren’t any pointed edges to pull at clothing or snag on things – which is always something to consider when purchasing a Pandora dangle! I thought that the doll’s eyes were oxidised, but they’re actually black enamel.In recent times, leather bracelets of pandora has dropped a lot of the oxidised detail from their charms, opting for a shinier finish instead: as it happens, this charm doesn’t actually need that much oxidation to bring out the details, as the design is rather clever. The textured grooves of the doll’s skirt actually reflect each other and make the folds look shadowed anyway! There’s just a dash of oxidation above the red band and in the doll’s smile, and that appears to be it. It’s a very clean design.
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