AB Glass Rhinestones Represents Astounding Natural Light Exhibition

'AB' stands for Aurora Borealis, the astounding natural light exhibition in the sky, chiefly in high latitude regions around the Arctic and Antarctic. It was a name Swarovski used in partnership with Dior to define the effect achieved when a fragile layer of gold was vacuum-coated onto the surface of the crystal. The play of this covering's facets, replications, and colors affected AB rhinestones similar to viewing the Aurora Borealis...attractive, sparkling, and rather unearthly.

As more companies added technology to their ranges, the term is now widely used. Today, it is reduced to the somewhat less glamorous 'AB' term you see after such colors as Crystal, Emerald, and Rose. It becomes crystal AB rhinestones, Emerald AB, and Rose AB. There are many features that change what you'll see from one crystal to the next. In other words, as different as the Aurora Boreale can be, the AB coating result can also vary. For example, AB glass rhinestones coating applied to light colors produces a subtle, luminescent, and soft effect, similar to the soft colors seen on the surface of bubbles in a few lights - pinks, soft green, soft blue, and soft yellow.

But put the same AB coating on a dark color, even Amethyst, and you will get a different effect. On dark colors, the AB coating takes on a brighter hue where the gold is more visible as gold, and a metallic light aqua blue can be seen. With the dark color under the coating, there is less 'see-throughness' for the coating to be reflected through, and the coated surface is not subtle by the transparency of the crystal beneath. However, as most clients will appear, AB glass rhinestone will often take on the colors around it, such as the color of the fabric it is glued to and the other stone colors around it.