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Handmade-looking polymer clay pendants—suns with faces, crescent moons, yin-yangs—strung on hemp or black leather cord. Cheap enough to buy at a boardwalk kiosk, earthy enough to feel like you'd made it yourself. The unofficial jewelry of late-90s beach towns and mall food courts.
A thermochromic crystal that supposedly read your emotions—blue meant calm, black meant stressed—except it mostly just measured how cold your hands were. The stone changed color with finger temperature, not feelings, but that didn't stop every kid from testing one against its color chart and knowing, deep down, it was a scam.
Stretchy bracelets of round semi-precious stone beads, each color supposedly granting something—happiness, luck, smarts, money—according to the little card on the rack. Stacked a dozen deep on every late-90s wrist, powers pending.
The dress-up board game where you spun to collect plastic jewelry in your color — earrings, necklace, bracelet, ring, and the crown. Win by wearing a full matching set and the tiara, but if you got stuck holding the black ring, you couldn't win at all.