Bangles are an important ornament, for all girls and women in India. Plastic bangles are tamasic in nature and attract negative energy while green glass bangles are sattvik in nature and attract positive energy and protection to the wearer. Woman wearing plastic bangles may experience headache and fatigue more often. By these waves she is protected from the evil eye. It also wards off the evil eye from the mother to be and her baby in the womb. Gold bangles are sattvik in nature. Indian Sikh brides wear red bangles called chooda and Bengali women wear red coral bangles.
A woman wears glass bangles as a charm to protect her husband. She breaks the bangles if her husband dies as an act of mourning.
Waves of devi (goddess) are active in green bangles. Red bangles symbolize energy, blue bangles wisdom, yellow happiness, orange success, black power and purple independence. Wearing of watch in one and bangles in another hand is inappropriate, as the tick-tick sound of watch produces negative energy.
If a woman does not feel like wearing glass bangles, they will slip off her hands. if the glass bangles break and she gets injured, then she is affected by negative energy.
One should not wear broken glass bangles. Broken glass bangles attract more negative energy.