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Natural pearls have layers of nacre and cultured pearls have a shell core covered with a small layer of nacre about a millimeter thick. And fake pearls just have a core with coating on it. If you're able to, you can drill into it. But I suggest you don't, you don't want to ruin your pearls!

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