Want to elevate your jewellery styling game? Whether you’re building the perfect jewellery collection, refreshing your style, or learning how to mix and match pieces effortlessly, these expert tips will help you choose, organise, and learn how to accessorise with jewellery easily and confidently.

Does this sound familiar? You have jewellery tucked away in drawers, some pieces you love, others you’ve forgotten – and yet, you’re not making the most of your collection.

Or maybe you’re unsure how to choose jewellery that works for your personal style and outfits, so you end up wearing the same few pieces on repeat.

Styling jewellery isn’t just about what you wear – it’s about how you wear it and who you are.

I’ve put together these key tips to help you rediscover your jewellery collection, learn to make confident styling choices, and have fun experimenting while you’re at it.

So let’s dive in for practical and creative ideas to help sort out your jewellery style …

What’s Your Personal Style?
Find Your 3 Words

There’s not much point diving in to discover how to style jewellery if you’re not clear on what your own personal style is. If that’s the case for you, then this is the perfect first step to sort out your jewellery and other styling issues.

Maybe your wardrobe is a jumble of different styles, and you’re not sure how to pull it all together. Or you’ve bought jewellery and clothing that looks great in theory but just doesn’t feel right when you put it on. Or perhaps you know what you like, but you couldn’t really describe it.

You’re not alone. Even as a designer with years of experience, I found defining my personal style and figuring out what really works was just as challenging for me as it is for most people.

The 3 Words Method: A Game-Changer for Personal Style

This simple but powerful approach will help you pinpoint your signature style and make more intentional choices. You don’t have to be a fashion tragic to find it incredibly helpful when working out how to dress and how to shop.

Choose three words that best describe your personal style

Your 3 Words will act as a simple guiding framework when choosing outfits, jewellery, and accessories, ensuring everything you own and buy feels cohesive and true to you. Keep reading for some examples of 3 Word combinations to get some ideas of the types of words that will work for this process.

For this to work you need to step outside of fashion and trends: think about who you are as a person and how you want to present to the world. Also consider what you loved wearing a few years ago and how you might like to be dressing years in the future. What’s consistent and feels authentically ‘you’?

To come up with my own 3 Words, I started by creating a private Pinterest board, adding outfits and accessories that caught my eye and which I could genuinely imagine wearing. After collecting a good number of pins, I started to notice patterns, certain colours, silhouettes, and textures kept popping up.

After also looking through my existing wardrobe and some reflection, I landed on my three words:

• Simple – Clean lines, effortless styling, unfussy pieces.
• Colour-pop – Vibrant colours against neutral backgrounds.
• Graphic – Bold and clear shapes, stylised imagery and patterns.

Since defining my 3 Words, choosing clothes, jewellery, and accessories to wear or shop for has become much easier. In particular I can now much more easily avoid impulse purchases that sit unworn in my wardrobe or buying really lovely things … which don’t remotely suit me.