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STYLE TO-DO Beauty brand Bluemercury launches in Back Bay and at Lynnfield's new Market Street. Go there for Trish McAvoy favorites or the brand's own M-61 line. 160 Newbury St.; 1245 Market St., Lynnfield; bluemercury.com Mario Russo presents a new Style Bar at its Newbury Street location. Get blowouts, chic updos, or boho braids for just $35. 9 Newbury St., 617-424-6676; mariorusso.com Former Newbury Street boutique Dress opens on Charles Street this fall. 70 Charles St., Beacon Hill; dressboston.com The new book Chloé: Attitudes (Rizzoli; $58) chronicles the Parisian house's 60-plusyear history. Cozy up with knits and unique horn jewelry from Newbury Street newcomer Peruvian Connection. Its newest denim line has the look of leather. 170 Newbury St., 857.753.4546; peruvianconnection.com Lord of the Rings JEWELER STEVEN LEED CHOOSES HIS MUST-HAVE PIECE FOR MEN THIS SEASON. BY JANICE O'LEARY J ust as more color has made its way into men's wardrobes over the past few seasons, more hues are cropping up in men's fine jewelry. Steven Leed, co-president of Royal Jewelers in Andover, says he's seeing arresting new styles from David Yurman's men's collection, designed with input from by Yurman's son, Evan. "They're working with new materials—new metals, but also colored gemstones," Leed says. The pieces he's most excited about are the newest men's rings from the German brand Wellendorff, including a collection of highly engineered gold and enamel carved bands, many of them with symbolic meaning. Like Royal Jewelers, which Leed and his sister, Paula, took over from their father, Wellendorff is still owned by the family that started it four generations ago. Leed is one of the few jewelers to carry the brand in the US, and the only one north of New York. He admires this season's turn to amethyst enamel as the newest addition to the men's collection. The band is made of layers of gold, with an outer layer that rotates. "It has a calming effect when I wind that ring," he says. "It's like a worry stone you wear." Beneath the panel of transparent enamel, which catches the light like gemstones, the gold is carved in a pattern of waves. Leed himself owns one in blue enamel to match the cerulean face of his Ulysse Nardin diver's watch with a perpetual calendar. (He believes that there are three pieces every man should have in his collection: a watch, a ring, and a bracelet.) His particular Wellendorff ring also has a tiny guardian angel carved into it, demonstrating another reason why he loves this brand. —STEVEN LEED "Wellendorff received a letter from a customer whose home had burned to the ground. The one thing that survived the fire," Leed says, "was her Wellendorff wedding band, which was the item she most treasured. She told the owners she felt like a guardian angel had been watching over that ring." And with that, Wellendorff's guardian angel motif got its start. Royal Jewelers, 58 Main St., Andover, 978-475-3330; royaljewelers.com BC PHOTOGRAPHY BY SETH OLENICK (RINGS, PORTRAIT) List WISH LIST "[The enameled ring] is like a worry stone that you wear." Men's gold and enamel carved bands by Wellendorff. 98 BOSTONCOMMON-MAGAZINE.COM 098_BC_SPR_S_WishList_LateFall13.indd 98 Peruvian Connection on Newbury Street. 9/16/13 11:02 AM