PEOPLES CHOICE AWARDS

People's Choice award winner Taylor Swift stepped out in Amrapali blackened gold and diamond drop earrings for the Jan. 5 event. She wore the earrings with a bangle bracelet and ring from Neil Lane.

Los Angeles—It was a night of power pairings when celebrities convened for the People's Choice Awards last week, with earring and cocktail ring duos, or earring and bangle bracelet combinations, ruling the red carpet.

A number of stars, including Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Minka Kelly and Kaley Cuoco, wore all three styles at once, sporting earrings, a ring, and a bracelet or two.

Country star Swift, the People's Choice winner for Favorite Country Artist, donned blackened gold and diamond drop earrings from Amrapali, paired with a coral and gold bangle and pearl and gold ring from Neil Lane.

Fellow teen queen Selena Gomez (top) hit the red carpet in a similar trifecta of jewelry: green amethyst and diamond drop earrings from Tresor's "Interchangeable" collection, a 14-karat gold and sterling silver bracelet with diamonds from Alwand Vahan and a pink quartz, rose de France amethyst, citrine, garnet and diamond "Melange" ring (above) from Brumani.

Kelly and Cuoco both turned to Neil Lane for their People's Choice baubles. Kelly, formerly of Friday Night Lights and next up in the film The Roommate, wore drop earrings, which she paired with bangles and a ring, all featuring colored diamonds set into gold. Cuoco, who stars in CBS's The Big Bang Theory, selected gold and pearl chandelier earrings from the designer, matched with a gold and pearl bangle and ring.

Additional trends spotted on the red carpet included plenty of diamond and platinum designs and blackened metal pieces. Actresses Kate Walsh, Malin Akerman and Autumn Reeser all went with the classic red-carpet combo, looking to designer Neil Lane for platinum and diamond rings and bracelets.

Meanwhile, People's Choice attendees selecting blackened or oxidized metal designs included reality star Kourtney Kardashian (above) in Amrapali diamond starburst earrings; Queen Latifah in M.C.L. by Matthew Campbell Laurenza bangles and earrings; Ashley Benson of Pretty Little Liars in Sutra rose-cut diamond earrings and Benson's co-star Lucy Hale, in Amrapali gold and diamond designs.

Hale (above) made sure that necklaces weren't ignored for the evening, as she sported a glam diamond and blackened gold necklace with her diamond bangle bracelet and drop earrings. Kim Kardashian, too, changed up the status quo for the evening, wowing in an 18-karat yellow gold square link necklace from Rina Limor.

Photos: Courtesy of D'Orazio & Associates