Blush Pink Glass Jelly Bangles, Set of Eight

Jelly bangles get their name from the finish, not the material, a glossy, faintly translucent glass that catches light the way a hard resin never quite does. This set of eight comes in a soft blush pink, stacked close enough that they move as one block on the wrist rather than eight separate rings knocking against each other.

Glass bangles are a genuinely different wearing experience to metal ones. They're cooler against the skin in warm weather, and the sound they make sliding together is softer and higher-pitched than a metal stack, closer to what you'd hear at a wedding function where a whole row of women are wearing exactly this kind of set. Available in sizes 2.4, 2.6 and 2.8, so measure an existing bangle before ordering rather than guessing; glass doesn't stretch the way an adjustable metal band would.

Being glass, it's the one honest trade-off worth saying plainly: these are more fragile than an alloy bangle stack, so slide them on gently over the knuckle rather than forcing a tight fit, and expect to treat them the way you'd treat any glass bangle set passed down at a wedding, worn and put away carefully rather than knocked around daily. At ₹220 for eight, that's still a full stack of colour for less than a single metal cuff costs, which is really the appeal of jelly bangles as a category.