It’s the holidays and there’s nothing like having a fresh coat of paint on your nails and your jewels shined up! First let me start off by saying I’m the worst at cleaning my wedding ring and it takes a gathering to make me clean it. Thats one of my 2020 goals is to take more care of the little things that make me feel extra special (clean my ring, paint my nails, curl my hair on day 50 of not washing it ha!). So without getting too rambly let’s cut to the chase – how to clean your bling!

I swear my mother is a jack of all trades and knows everything so to share her brilliance with all of you her trick to cleaning her rings is windex. Ya know, like my big fat greek wedding, remember? But she’s German, and well nevermind. One day she was at the jewelers and was getting her rings cleaned and the woman had told her it was basically windex so she started DIYing it.

Pour about an 1/8 of a cup of windex into a tiny ramekin and microwave it for 15-20 seconds. Drop your rings in for 30 minutes to a few hours, just be sure not to forget…I’m not sure what will happen! Take a soft bristle tooth brush that you have laying around (from all those dentist appointments) and scrub gently to get anything that the windex didn’t ‘eat’ away. 

Now, ever since trying this whole “cleaner” lifestyle routine I’ve cut out windex and abandoned that tried and true method. I tried toothpaste but that’s apparently super abrasive, dish soap and that just left the same amount of gunk. So in an effort to stick with this new routine I made my own DIY with a little less than an 1/8 cup water and a small small SMALL splash of thieves cleaner. Heat it up in the microwave for 30 seconds and then dropped my rings in and followed the same steps. And guess what?! IT WORKED!

So, hop to it ladies! Clean your expensive beautiful gems!