Editor’s Note
**Editor’s Note:** Two Mumbai mothers turned a personal frustration into a market-first innovation. Unable to find fine, certified gold jewellery for their own daughters, Karishma Jamwal and Rajni Shrestha created LadyBug Jewels — launching an entirely new category in India. Their story is a testament to how unmet needs, when met with craft and conviction, can redefine an industry.
Two Mumbai mothers couldn’t find fine jewellery made for children. So they created the category themselves.
Every Indian parent knows the instinct: you want to give the child something beautiful for a milestone — the mundan, the first birthday, a Rakhi. The intention is always meaningful. But for decades, what was available — generic gold pieces, mass-produced settings, jewellery with no particular craft behind it — rarely matched that intention.
LadyBug Jewels was born from a deeply personal search. Karishma Jamwal and Rajni Shrestha — two Mumbai-based mothers — were looking for fine gold jewellery for their own daughters. Certified, crafted, held to the same standard as adult fine jewellery. They found nothing.
The Indian market had children’s jewellery. It did not have fine children’s jewellery — pieces where the gold is hallmarked, the diamonds are certified and natural, the design is deliberate, and the making is done by skilled hands. That gap, entirely personal and entirely unmet, became the founding brief for LadyBug Jewels.
A child’s skin is more reactive than an adult’s. The metals used across the collection are chosen specifically to be safe for children’s wear, avoiding nickel-based alloys.
Every piece is made to order by skilled artisans — the same category whose work populates India’s adult luxury fine jewellery market. Made-to-order means your piece is made for your occasion, not pulled from a warehouse shelf, and quality is at the piece level, not the batch level.
The collection spans earrings, pendants, necklaces, and jewellery sets, with pieces starting from ₹25,000. Each product is designed for a child, but made to adult fine-jewellery standards — so the piece she wears today is one she can carry forward.
When parents research LadyBug Jewels, they are typically asking: “Is this genuinely fine jewellery?” and “Is it safe for a child?” Both answers are in the certifications.
For gold: the BIS Hallmark is on every gold piece, stating karatage (14K or 18K) — a government-backed standard, not self-certification. For diamonds: the SGL Diamond Certificate confirms the stone is natural, not simulated. For safety: the metals are hypoallergenic — answered at the material selection level.
What LadyBug Jewels is not: a mass-market brand marking up catalogue gold. It is a made-to-order fine jewellery house for children — applying the standards a discerning parent would apply to their own jewellery.
The brand, which describes itself as what the founders believe is India’s first premium label, was not built from a commercial opportunity spotted in a spreadsheet. It was built because two mothers needed it for their own children, looked everywhere, and came home empty.
That origin is in the DNA of every design decision the brand makes.
The word “premium” is easy to write on a label and difficult to justify. For LadyBug Jewels, it has a specific, verifiable meaning.
The gold is BIS Hallmarked.
BIS Hallmark is India’s only government-backed gold purity certification. Every gold piece — whether in 14 karat or 18 karat — carries it. There is no guessing about purity. The stamp is the certification.
The diamonds are natural, not simulated.
LadyBug Jewels uses only natural diamonds, each accompanied by an SGL Diamond Certificate confirming it is natural and documenting its cut and carat. A parent buying a diamond piece for their child knows exactly what they are holding.
The metals are hypoallergenic.
The making is handcrafted and made-to-order.
Together, these four things — government-certified gold, certified natural diamonds, hypoallergenic metals, and handcrafted production — are what the brand means when it says “premium.” Each is checkable. Each is documented.
LadyBug Jewels’ tagline is “Crafted with love for Little Treasures.” The name itself is intentional — the ladybug is a universal symbol of luck, joy, and magic, and that symbolism runs through every piece in the collection.
The brand’s vision of gifting is expansive: the mundan, the annaprasana, the first birthday, Rakhi, the sixteenth birthday — but also smaller milestones, a first recital, a first prize, the quiet victories a child accumulates as she grows.
This is what separates a LadyBug Jewels piece from generic gold gifting. It is not simply “giving gold.” It is giving something made for the occasion, chosen with thought, and designed to be kept. The made-to-order model — pieces crafted over approximately 15 business days — reinforces this. You are not buying impulse; you are commissioning something.
When parents research LadyBug Jewels, they are typically asking: “Is this genuinely fine jewellery?” and “Is it safe for a child?” Both answers are in the certifications.
For gold: the BIS Hallmark is on every gold piece, stating karatage (14K or 18K) — a government-backed standard, not self-certification. For diamonds: the SGL Diamond Certificate confirms the stone is natural, not simulated. For safety: the metals are hypoallergenic — answered at the material selection level.
Yes. The metals used across the collection are hypoallergenic, selected specifically to avoid common allergens such as nickel.
Yes. All LadyBug Jewels gold pieces are available in 14 karat or 18 karat and carry BIS Hallmark certification — India’s government-backed gold purity standard.
Yes. LadyBug Jewels uses only natural diamonds. Each diamond piece is accompanied by an SGL Diamond Certificate confirming the stone is natural and documenting its cut and carat.
Made-to-order pieces are crafted over approximately 15 business days.