Today I will be reviewing Flow by X Jewellery. I’ve been meaning to review this link for awhile now, but other things kept coming up, I get distracted easily with sales so then I end up reviewing or posting about that instead!

First Impression:

I’ve always liked nature based themes, since I was a child I always liked looking at my grandmother’s plants and used to play with the ones that had curling tendrils, this link of course reminds me of such plants. I think unconsciously this is the reason why I asked for it, it was one of my Christmas gifts from last year, (talk about waiting so long to review an item LOL).  I know the link is called Flow, and it lives up to the name, but to me it looks more like a plant tendril, what do you guys think?

Here are the dimensions:

 

Review:

This link measures 1 inch (or  25 mm) and is of course a double link with a full twist, it’s made both in sterling silver and bronze which is the one I have. Can I just say thank you to X for making some links in bronze? They are a little more affordable this way! Anyway, unlike most other links, Flow looks different from the back than from the front:

 

Either side is pleasing I think, although I do prefer the front side of it. This link also has a more rounded shape, and what I mean by that is that it’s a bit more cylindrical or barrel shaped due to one of the “tendrils” looping from one link onto the other. I hope I took good enough pictures so you can all see what I’m talking about. I still think a more fitting name for the link would be tendril but Flow works as well as the bronze is worked in such a way that you can trace the lines as they “flow” from one end to another. Of all the links I own, this one is the most oddly shaped I have to say.

I asked for the bronze version instead of the silver because it’s one of the few bronze links that X has available. X has slowly but surely added more bronze to their collection and when the bronzes came out last year I wanted to pick them up to create an all bronze and silver bracelet eventually. So far I have two completed bracelets, and I’m working on a third that so far has no theme, it’s just a mish mash of all the links that I happen to like. We’ll see how this bracelet turns out.

Here now are some images of the sides of the link:

 

And here it is compared to the Lover’s Bond:

 

As always I like to use the Lover’s Bond as a standard to all other links since I like the size of it and I use it to compare it to other double links.

Here it is incorporated into a bracelet:

 

I noticed that while I was taking these last photographs of the bracelet, that the Flow link kind of blends in. It’s a more subtle link, not very ostentatious but I think that is what I like so much about. It is a simple elegance.

In Conclusion:

This link retails for $46 compared to it’s silver counterpart which costs $63. I like this link in bronze as the warm color reminds me of a golden sunlit afternoon full of plants and vegetation with winding tendrils grasping for stalks in order to support the growing plant. I hope X Jewellery keeps adding bronze to the collection as it’s a more affordable way to add two tone to any bracelet versus buying the ridiculously overpriced gold links. And speaking of gold, X Jewellery very quietly retired all of the golden links. If you are still interested in buying gold I would suggest other retailers such as Trollbeadsgallery.com or Trollbeadsakron.com because X Jewellery’s main website no longer carries them.

I hope you have found this review helpful and it gives you further insight on this link. I hope it helps in your decision in buying it, until next time Happy Hunting!

 

All images with my watermark belong to me, all other images belong to their respective owners such as X Jewellery.