Stainless Steel and why is the so popular choice.
There are two collections at Veneris & Co. They're built for different lives, and we'd rather you knew which you were buying before you bought it — not after.
Both start from the same place: gold-plated stainless steel, and a refusal to tell you anything about it we can't stand behind.
This is the thing most people actually want to know, so let's be precise about it — because a lot of brands aren't.
Stainless steel contains nickel. Around one part in ten. Any jewellery brand telling you their stainless steel is nickel-free is either mistaken or hoping you won't check.
But nickel content isn't what causes reactions. Nickel release is.
A nickel allergy is triggered when nickel comes out of a metal and onto your skin — which happens readily with cheap plated alloys, and barely at all with stainless steel. The nickel in steel is bound into the alloy structure rather than sitting loose at the surface. This is precisely why European law regulates the release rate of nickel in jewellery rather than banning nickel outright.
And there's a second layer of protection: at 2.5 microns of gold, the surface in contact with your skin isn't steel at all. It's gold.
What we can also tell you plainly: there is no copper anywhere in our pieces. Green marks on skin are a copper reaction. Ours can't cause them, because there's nothing there to react.
If you have a diagnosed nickel allergy, we'd rather you spoke to your dermatologist than took a jewellery brand's word for it. Including ours.
Thickness
Most fashion jewellery sits under half a micron: enough for a photograph, not enough for a summer.
The second factor is what sits underneath. Most affordable jewellery is plated brass, and brass corrodes. The gold doesn't rub off the top — the brass oxidises beneath it and pushes it off from below. That's the patchy, blotchy failure everyone recognises.
The base
We use stainless steel. It doesn't corrode, so there's nothing working outward against the gold. It's hard, so the plating isn't flexed loose every time you knock your hand. And it contains no copper.
The pieces we've verified down to the specification. Plating five times the thickness of standard fashion jewellery, over a steel core that can't corrode beneath it.
These are made to be put on and left on. Showering, handwashing, sleeping, the gym. The pieces you buy once and stop thinking about.
If you want jewellery that behaves like fine jewellery without fine jewellery's price, start here.
The Edit exists because good design moves faster than verification does — these are pieces chosen for how they look, and we describe them that way rather than dressing them in durability claims we haven't confirmed.
Treat them as you would anything considered. Last thing on, first thing off. Away from perfume, chlorine and salt water. Stored dry.
Looked after, they'll serve you beautifully for a long time. Neglected, they won't — and we'd rather say so than let you find out.
Two collections
Every day, indefinitely
A season, a look, an occasion
Yes
No — remove first
14K, 2.5 microns
14K gold finish
Rinse and dry after the sea
Off before water, stored dry
You want to stop replacing jewellery
You want the shape, now
Is it nickel-free?
No, and nor is anyone else's stainless steel. What matters is nickel release, which stainless steel is very low in, and which European law regulates. At 2.5 microns of gold, the surface against your skin is gold rather than steel.
No. That's a copper reaction, and there's no copper in our pieces.
The gold is real 14K. The core is stainless steel, and we say so — anyone offering solid gold at this price isn't.
Yes. They are 100% Waterproof.
No. Take it off first.Simply rinse with water and pat dry. Store in a clean, dry place when not wearing. Our pieces are designed to maintain their shine with minimal care.
