Hecho en Mexico: How to Buy the Best Jewelry in Mexico [2025]

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Mexican craftsmen are general super talented and the quality in Mexico is spectacular. Over the years I’ve bought so much jewelry in Mexico that I’ve worn and loved.

The Mexican artisan style is handmade, of high quality, and makes for a gorgeous accessory that you can wear with casual or formal clothing. But you do need to watch out for fake items too and I’ve included a couple of ways of determining whether that shiny ring is real silver or not.

Whatever your budget may be you can always find something to your taste. There are lots of ways that you can shop for Mexican jewelry so I’ll list the most popular ones below:

Buying Mexican Jewelry in the Street

When shopping for Mexican silver or gemstones, resist picking up all the pretty silver rings with turquoise artfully arranged.

They might look like they’re good quality but when you return home and clean them after buying, they’ll turn out to be cheap pieces of metal that will only waste your time and money.

Looking at how shiny it is quickly around the street can fool people into thinking it’s real treasure, so don’t make a quick decision right away or else you may end up wasting lots of cash on worthless junk!

So how do you tell if Mexican jewelry is real or fake? The traditional Mexican jewelry like the one made from silver and turquoise or seashells, are usually genuine. However there are fakes circulating around making it hard to tell the difference between real and fake.

Mexican jewelry may have the stamp .925 on them but this doesn’t necessarily mean the silver is real.

A couple of quick tests to determine if you have real silver is very simple. Firstly you can just put a magnet next to the jewelry. If the jewelry sticks to the magnet, it’s most likely fake. Real silver and sold are nonmagnetic so would never stick.

Another test you can do is to rub some white fabric over a small area of the jewelry. If you find black blemishes on the cloth your jewelry is real!

Real silver produces black blemishes because it oxidizes so you can rest assured you have the right thing!