Hello . I have lots of beads I buy beads that I don't really like much if I don't have them or if I want to poke them a bit. Some times I rub them with sand paper to see what s I side or rub them with nail vanish remover.I used to be heated up some beads to see what they were but my green beads set on fire and my mum was very mad and I'm not allowed to do it . I can only buy beads that don't cost a lot i don't care that they're fakes because my brother said its ok if you are used totouching fakes you will kbow straight away when you touch a real thing like how experts can know a fake because they are used to real one . Because it must work both ways I hope it does anyway.I have been giving some of my beads away because I have got a lot and I can't keep so many at one time till I have my own house which will be 20 years from now bye from Lulu