Cloudy pink quartz, rarely faceted, almost always tumbled. The love stone.
The aesthetic
Rose quartz is a milky pink quartz that almost never forms good crystals, turning up instead as massive lumps quarried out of pegmatite veins. The colour comes from microscopic mineral fibres running through it, and those same fibres give the best pieces a soft internal glow and, occasionally, a star when cut into a dome. It bruises easily in strong sunlight, fading over years from rose toward grey.
The dynamic
Rose quartz is the stone most associated with love in all its forms, from romance to friendship to the harder work of being kind to oneself, and with emotional healing and comfort.
Some variations
- tumbled rose quartz
- star rose quartz
- raw chunks
- carved hearts
- pink lemurian