| Stone Type | Kundan, Monalisa Stone |
| Weight (g) | 24.00 |
| Colour | Red |
| Occasion | Wedding |
The chandbali is one of the oldest earring shapes in India — a crescent, worn wide, hung with drops. This one is filled edge to edge with clear kundan stones, broken up by small enamelled flowers in green and red, and finished with a fringe of faceted beads.
Available in 5 colours: Multi Color, Baby Pink, Red Green, Green and Pink. The colour refers to the bead fringe and the enamel flowers, while the kundan across the crescent stays clear. Red Green is the traditional festive pairing shown; Baby Pink and Pink are considerably softer.
The crescent shape is flattering in a way a straight drop is not. It is wide rather than long, so it sits along the jaw and broadens the face slightly instead of lengthening it. That makes chandbalis a good choice if very long earrings tend to overwhelm you.
Keeping the crescent itself all clear kundan, with colour reserved for the small flowers and the fringe, is what keeps the design from becoming noisy. The eye reads a bright band first and picks up the colour afterwards.
At the top of the crescent, where it meets the stud, a small peacock sits in profile with its tail picked out against the gold. It is a quiet detail rather than a centrepiece, and it is the sort of thing that rewards someone looking closely.
Faceted beads hang below in two staggered depths, so the fringe has a soft, uneven lower edge rather than a straight line. Because the beads are translucent, they glow rather than glint, which is a warmer effect against gold than solid beads would give.
These suit silk and chiffon equally, and they are one of the more flexible festive shapes — dressy enough for a sangeet, restrained enough for a family function. Wear your hair back or to one side so the full crescent is visible. A short necklace works; anything long will crowd the width of the earring.
Chandbali translates roughly as moon shaped, and the form goes back to Mughal court jewellery, where the crescent was worn wide and heavy. What has survived into modern wear is the proportion rather than the scale: wide across, shallow in depth, hung with drops that soften the lower edge. Because the shape sits along the jaw rather than dropping below it, it works for people who find long earrings unbalancing, and it stays visible even when hair is only half tied back. It is one of the few genuinely old shapes that needed no modernising to remain wearable.
Keep them in a zip lock pouch so the bead fringe cannot chip against other jewellery. Put them on after perfume and hairspray, wipe with a dry soft cloth, and keep them away from water.
| Stone Type | Kundan, Monalisa Stone |
| Weight (grams) | 24.00 |
| Colour/Finish | Red |
| Occasion | Wedding |
| Gender | women |
| SKU/Product Code | KEYU-NAA2966 |
