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This is a [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Everything's Sparkly Withwith Jewelry]], where the [[Conspicuous Consumption]] aspect is turned [[Up to Eleven]], by basically slapping jewels on just about anything someone can get away with.
 
Now some things are commonly studded with jewels, that it's almost expected, like [[Requisite Royal Regalia|crowns, tiaras, and scepters]]. This trope can apply to those as well, but these days some people will stick jewels on loads of things. Just look up "bling" on an image search.
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== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* [http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3032/3004525567_3019df8f35_o.jpg This dress] that [[Marie Antoinette]] wore in ''[[Rose of Versailles (Manga)|Rose of Versailles]]'', which has ermine trim on the dress and cape, where the ermine is studded with jewelry. It's a huge reason it was chosen as the picture for [[Pimped-Out Dress]].
* Quite a few things in ''[[The Five Star Stories]]'', a manga absolutely infamous for its overly fancy [[Humongous Mecha]] that look like they either belong to classical nobility or particularly unsubtle gangsters.
* Meowzie's Poké Ball in [[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]].
 
== Art ==
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== Film ==
* Played with in ''[[Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (Film)|Indiana Jones and Thethe Last Crusade]]''. The Holy Grail is {{spoiler|the one NOT [[Gem-Encrusted]]. Thus, "the cup of a carpenter."}}
 
== Literature ==
* Gahan of Gathol wore a jewel-encrusted harness in the beginning of [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s ''[[John Carter of Mars|Chessmen of Mars]]''.
* The eponymous [[MacGuffin]] of ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]'' is a gem-covered statue of a falcon that was later covered with black enamel to hide its value.
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story "[[The Tower of the Elephant (Literature)|The Tower of the Elephant]]" -- the title tower. Conan (who is young at this point) is rather dazzled by it; only the [[Old Master]] thief Taurus gets him to go on, for the [[Mineral MacGuffin]].
* Smaug the Golden, the famous dragon from ''[[The Hobbit]]'' has his belly covered with precious jewels from lying immobile for years on a mound of treasure, neatly making him (mostly) immune to the standard dragon weak spot.
* [[The Hunger Games|Katniss's]] dress for the interview is described as this, with flame designs.
* [[ETAE. T. A. Hoffmann (Creator)|ETA Hoffmann]] was very, ''very'' fond of this trope in ''[[The Nutcracker (Literaturenovel)|The Nutcracker]]''.
 
== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* Manages to be an important plot point in an episode of ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' in which Merlin is suffering from a range of visions that prophesy that Morgana will try to kill the king. One of them is of her unsheathing a [[Gem-Encrusted]] dagger, and it's through Merlin's indirect intervention that Arthur swaps a very plain dagger (that he was originally going to give Morgana for her birthday) with the gem-covered murder weapon from Merlin's vision.
 
== Music ==
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* The [[Professional Wrestling|WWE Championship]] got a redesign right after [[Wrestlemania]] 20 to fit this due to the title being won by [[Pretty Fly for Aa White Guy|John Cena]]. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/WWE_Championship.jpg Take a look.] The title has over 3000 diamonds and a [[Everything's Better Withwith Spinning|spinner]] (that hasn't actually spun since 2007) and is looking tackier and tackier every year. The redesign is probably as big a cause of [[X Pac Heat]] than Cena himself.
* The original blingtastic wrestling title has to be the [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Million_Dollar_Championship.jpg Million Dollar Championship]. Gold plated and covered with cubic zirconia, with three real diamonds on the inside, it cost a legitimate $125,000.
 
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* In ''[[Goldie Gold and Action Jack]]'', Goldie had a diamond encrusted nail clipper.
* When ''[[The Simpsons]]'' went to Africa they met a [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] version of Jane Goodall, who was using the chimps she was ostensibly studying to mine diamonds for her. She had diamonds [[Hidden in Plain Sight]] everywhere, even on the bottoms of her shoes (a [[Shout-Out]] to the song "Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes")
** Also, Homer himself in one of his imagine spots in addition to being plated in solid gold. [[Attack of the Fifty50 Foot Whatever|And 50 foot tall.]]
* In ''[[Twelve12 Ounceoz. Mouse (Animation)|Twelve Ounce Mouse]]'', Rectangular Businessman goes shopping for a harmonica dipped in gold and encrusted with jewels, then dipped in gold again and encrusted with another layer of jewels.
* In an episode of ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'', Squilliam Fancyson shows off his "jewel-encrusted toilet paper holder."
* Mordecai and Rigby from ''[[Regular Show]]'' had to order tickets for a rock concert decorated with diamonds.
* Rarity [[The Fashionista]] pony from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' loves to include gems in her fashion designs and even has a bunch of gems as her Cutie Mark. She can easily find enough gems for her outfits since her special unicorn magic detects gems with ease.
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
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* There is apparently now a [[Real Life]] trend of "Vajazzling"- which is supposedly "bedazzling" one's vagina. But that's a bit of a misnomer, due to the practicalities of doing that to the labia. The gems are actually glued on to the region of skin over the pubic bone.
* Many Crown Jewels are gem-encrusted. The effect would be much the same if they'd been spray-painted with glitter.
** The bejeweled ermine dress in ''[[Rose of Versailles (Manga)|Rose of Versailles]]'' is heavily based on [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marie_Leszczynska_by_Fran%C3%A7ois_Albert_Stiemart,_1726,_Versailles.jpg this dress worn by Marie Leszczynska, wife of Lois XV]. There are several other paintings of royal ladies with dresses trimmed with furs studded with jewels. Although some could have been embellishments by the painters.
* Once commonly done with weapons including ones actually meant to be taken into battle. This sort of thing was the mark of the [[Proud Warrior Race]] tradition that had aristocrats who wanted custom weapons. Modern armies are more interested in [[Combat Pragmatist|killing people efficiently]] and you can do that better by issueing more cheap weapons to more people then with the expense of a decorated one. For similar reasons, Greeks and Romans played down that sort of thing.
** [[Bling of War|It's even its own trope]].
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