3 radiant cuts! deciding....

[molliescent]

Opinions pleeeeease...
I love the radiant cut!! the following are 3 options.. please note that the pictures make it look more yellowish that they really are, and that i do prefer a warmer looking stone

From left to right/big to small..

2.5 J VS1 %7200
2.0 H VVS2 %6800
1.5 F SI1 %7500

 

[molliescent]

another..

 

[molliescent]

and another..

 

[molliescent]

aaaand another..

 

[molliescent]

The girl who I am working with on these used to rate diamonds at GIA. She works for Uniondiamonds. She is really great! She really likes the cut on the 2.5, which is the biggest one there, and said that if that was the same cut in a 2.0, she would go for the 2.0. I tend to lean toward the crushed ice look, but when I look at the 2.5 and 2.0 in the mirror, the 2.5 is more radiant,and seems to emenate sparkles, and looks whiter, where as the 2.0 looks a little more champagny (which isn''t bad for me!) and looks more condensed or even cloudy becuase of the crushed ice in it.. opinions please

 

[AprilBaby]

My eye likes the middle on best. The small one looks too crushed and the big one looks too black in the center.

 

[JulieN]

I like the F and the H. The cut on the J doesn't appeal to me.

 

[molliescent]

I see, but do you think the 2.5 looks terrible? It is 7200 which is a great deal... I just felt that it had a better sparkle when viewing it from about 4 feet away..I''m so confused!

 

[JulieN]

Are these EGL stones?

 

[molliescent]

YES! THEY ARE, but I promise they look really nice in person, like I said the 2.5 just is so radiant, and the 2.0 looks more cloudy from 4 feet away because of the crushedness..

i really do prefer a warmer colored stone.. the clear white look doesn''t appeal to me and i wear mostly more antiquy warmer colors.. so i do like them!

I suppose it seems that i''m trying to convince myself of the 2.5, and I am not sure if that is because of the size or not....arg!

 

[molliescent]

I don''t know.. at first what I liked about the radiant was that it had that snow storm look, and looking into it was like a prism, and you just kind of lost yourself in it...I really didn''t like the way the round looked like an iris and the facets were so defined...but i''m not so sure anymore because of what i said previously, and the brilliance of the way it looked from afar....

 

[JulieN]

I doubt very much that the color/clarity grades are accurate. That is not an H. The J doesn't do it for me.

This one is just below 9K http://www.goodoldgold.com/diamond/6209/

 

[JulieN]

OH, I KNOW! Can you ask them for the ASET pictures and post them on PS?

 

[molliescent]

hmm, I guess I could ask....what is the ASET, and what does it prove?

 

[molliescent]

O, I''m sorry, I think the one that I said was an H is an I (EGL)... the thing is.. there was a 1.53, IGI rated, I color, SI1, that we actually bought at Jared''s for 7100.. we are going to return it because after looking at wholesalers, that is just a terrible price.. we liked it, and i figured that IGI is somewhat equivalent to EGL..so an I or J , EGL them may be similar to the IGI at jared''s, and I like the higher carat weight stones. So basically.. I guess I am trying to compromise where I can to stay within budget.

 

[molliescent]

Here is the Jared''s IGI rated, I sI1, 1.53

 

[Dreamer_D]

Don''t worry about how it looks from 4 feet away. You will be looking at it from 12 inches away

Which one looked better to you like that?

 

[JulieN]

Here is AGS' ASET page http://www.americangemsociety.org/presentationaset.htm

Do you really like radiants? You can't actually see clearly defined facets in rounds in real life.

 

[molliescent]

YES, I really like radiants... i also like the rectangular shapes of them

 

[Lorelei]

The first two are showing a distinct tint, are you ok with that?