My WHITE GOLD ring is starting to turn YELLOW???

As far as I know white gold is by definition dipped in rodium, not just sometimes. However, it isn't normal to lose the coating that quickly. I know that rings do lose it faster than other jewelry simply because of the contact level with skin.

However, I have worn a white gold necklace every single day for over three years, and I'm a natural fiddler, so I'm constantly playing with it, it's still as shiny as the day I was given it.

If I were you I would take it first to a jeweller OTHER than the one you bought it from, to ask if it is normal or reparable. That way, you will be protected if the place you bought it from tries to pull a fast one. Then go back to the shop you bought it from and show them, demand a new one or repair. Even if the coating is meant to come off eventually it definatly shouldn't have happened that quickly.

Congratulations on your engagement, I hope the ring gets sorted and lasts for many happy years to come.

You may have been scammed. White gold is made by adding zinc & nickel to yellow gold during the smelting stage. This will never turn yellow. To simulate white gold from yellow gold that has already been cast, they dip it in rodium (kinda like bleaching it). This will turn yellow & needs to be redone about every 3 years (not months). If you paid for 18K white gold then you got cheated. If you paid for 18K yellow gold & then paid to get it dipped, you kinda got cheated cuz it should last longer.

Some things to know about gold (when you go back to talk to the local jeweler). There is no such thing as 24K white gold. 24K gold (99.9% pure) is yellow cuz this is the natural color of gold. When they are melting metals down, they add other metals to give it strength or cheapen it in some cases. With yellow gold it is metals like copper. This gives it a reddish hue. To make white gold, they add zinc & nickel (about 18% and 4%) this brings it to about 18K gold (or about 75% pure gold). 10K white gold had much more of these metals (making it about 40% pure gold).

The first thing youi want to do is be sure you agreed & paid for 18K white gold & not 18K yellow gold that was to be dipped & then you can go from there.

white gold is not a natural mineral. Therefor they have to turn yellow gold white by adding nickle/rodium. My wedding band is white gold, cost $4000 and still turns a yellowish color once in a while ( usually 2 or 3 times a year) I then take it to the jewler, they charge me $20 and send it in. They recoat it and in 2 weeks I go pick it up and it looks like new. White gold always starts to turn, since it is not a natural color. Two weeks is a short time frame for it to happen but what you do while wearing it effects how long it will stay white. If you wash dishes, use cleaners, continuious rubbing while wearing it or clean your ring to often will all shorten the time it is "white"

There's no such thing as white gold, gold is yellow. However pure gold is impractical for use in jewellery because it is too soft, so all gold rings are made of an alloy, that is, gold mixed with another material.

Usually, gold is mixed with a yellow material to make it stronger and it still looks like gold. White gold is made by mixing it with a different material that changes its colour.

Eventually though it will revert to its original gold colour. It's perfectly normal, and it isnt a fake. The acid from your skin makes the inside of the ring wear away faster.

Jewellers usually coat the ring in another material to slow the process down, and its this coating that is being removed slowly inside. You can get the coating replaced at your jewellers.

Does White Gold Change Color

Take it back to the jeweler and complain. That is not normal. I've had a white gold ring for about a year now and it never did that. He probably gave you a fake.. more profit for him.

If I were you, I'd start questioning the stone too. You should take it to another jeweler and get the whole thing checked out.

There are various white gold alloys, many of them have some yellow in their coloration. It is quite common for white gold rings to be rhodium plated to enhance their whiteness. If you can, take it to the jeweler where it was purchased and express your concerns. Grandpa

Pure golds don't rust. Either it's real 'yellow' gold plated with white gold, or it's fake. But I doubt that.

...Well, you could always ask the shop from where you bought, or keep it as is. You have nothing to worry about as long as it's nice and you like it.

The same thing happened to me. I had to get mine "re dipped" by the jeweler. Before mine started turning i had no idea it would, i wasn't very happy that they didn't let me know in the beginning

Ask a real jewlery specialist and get his opinion. A refund might be necessary