Your childhood memories just got a major upgrade. The candy necklace is back—but this time, in fine golds, sterling silver, diamonds, and other precious stones. From jewelers such as Irene Neuwirth (who uses an assortment of tourmaline on a silk string) to Carolina Bucci (who allows you to build your own rainbow necklace) and Lauren Rubinski (who adds another childhood element of letter blocks), it seems like everyone is leaning into the trend. The perfect high-low mix, here are the five best fine candy necklaces that carry a free-spirited, childlike energy just in time for spring.
Carolina Bucci’s Forte Beads necklace takes the playfulness of a candy necklace a step further by allowing you to craft your own rainbow necklace. The piece comes with 80 precious hard-stone beads, pink gold beads set with champagne diamonds, and your choice of cord color (moon, sun, gunmetal, storm, rosa, and leaf) as well as cord tip (yellow gold, white gold, pink gold, and black gold). The jeweler also offers 18k gold letter beads to further customize your piece.
Applying a pastel color palette, Jacquie Aiche’s beaded necklace is a more subtle take on the candy necklace. Still, its incorporation of multicolored opals that vary ever so slightly in shape and size lend it that exuberant spirit of a candy necklace—with diamonds and gold.
A more delicate candy necklace, Sydney Evan’s design uses rainbow heishi beads (made from organic shells or ground stones) with an added enamel and diamond charm adornment. With 15 inches of beads and a 3-inch extender, it can be worn as a choker or a standard necklace.
You’ve got your childhood on a silk string. Irene Neuwirth’s interpretation of a beaded candy necklace is nothing short of exceptional. Incorporating an array of tourmaline separated by yellow gold beads, this one-of-a-kind necklace is both designed and handmade in Los Angeles.
Lauren Rubinski’s Happy necklace looks good enough to eat. Crafted in the jeweler’s Italian atelier, the bright beaded piece incorporates block letters (that seem to reference to wooden toy) to spell out one grounding word: Happy.
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