Hilary Neff
I focus on meaningful designs that let you share and celebrate your story with confidence, love, and pride.
About Me
I’m a 39-year-old NOLA native with a lifelong love affair with jewelry, and cute adorable colorful things. Some of my earliest memories are of watching my mom choose, wear, and treasure her jewelry, her collection slowly growing like a story told in metal and stone.
That sense of beauty, ritual, and personal meaning never left me. When I wasn’t admiring my mother and her love of jewelry, I was playing with toys, while off somewhere in my imagination. I never wanted to grow up, or stop loving all the fun and simple and carefree things I enjoyed. So, I never really did stop.
Today, I create jewelry, along with various other beaded items such as personalized pens, keychains, bookmarks, and badge reels, all inspired by those memories, but reimagined with more heart, more personality, and a whole lot more shine, color, glimmer and sparkle. I believe shimmer is a language all its own, and I speak it fluently.
As an adult, my world expanded through deep involvement in the LGBTQIA+ community and a variety of alternative lifestyle spaces. These communities taught me how powerful self-expression can be, and how meaningful it feels to be truly seen. My designs range from soft, pretty, and dreamy to bold, unapologetic statement pieces meant to let your flag fly. Whether that flag represents gender identity, sexual orientation, personal expression, or more niche and kinky identities, every piece is created with respect, pride, and intention.
At the heart of my work is a simple goal: to make beautiful things that empower people. I want my jewelry to feel like adornment with purpose, jewelry that sparkles on the outside while affirming something deeply personal on the inside. I want the beaded things I create to feel fun and joyful and innocent, or bold and representative of peoples’ true hearts. If you’ve ever wanted to wear your truth, your joy, or your defiance around your neck or wrist, you’re exactly who I make jewelry for. If you’ve ever wanted a pen or a keychain or a bookmark that’s fun and cute and unique, or one that floats the colors of your heart, maybe one of my custom pieces might be just what you’re looking for.