How quickly your jewelry starts to appear yellow is largely dependent on the acidity of your skin. If you have naturally acidic skin, your plating will wear off more quickly than someone with less acidic skin. This can even be contingent on diet and time of year, our skin changes due to a variety of elements.

We frequently tell customers to make sure you're taking your jewelry off when using any chemicals, but if you're trying to keep your Rhodium intact that is especially important. Examples of chemicals can include (but are not exclusive to) hot tubs, cleaning products, pools, soaps, and lotions. The more times your white gold comes in contact with chemicals, the quicker your plating becomes contaminated and will fade away.

- This process cannot be used for any sort of "base" metal - this includes metals like steel, brass, or copper. If a base metal is attempted to be Rhodium Plated, it will contaminate the entire batch of Rhodium and make it unusable. In the case of Sterling Silver, you would still need to use a separate batch to contain any possible contamination. Many times, the silver will need to be plated in Nickel before applying the Rhodium finish to make it "stick"

- To give you an idea of pricing, one pint of Rhodium solution costs an average of $750. How often it is used, any contamination, etc. can determine how long that pint will last.

- To keep the Rhodium from plating parts of the jewelry we don't want it to plate (for example, the yellow portion of a two-toned ring) our jewelers will mark off those areas with another substance (as funny as it sounds, we use nail polish pretty frequently for this) so that when we plate the piece, the Rhodium will only adhere to the desired metal.