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Brilliant_Rock
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- Feb 16, 2009
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I don't see how a consensus could ever be reached - maybe less so now than ever.
There are more cuts available, with more precision, and yet so many people still love the old cuts that can be pretty 'wonky'. There are more people moving beyond the DEF colors and finding the lower colors more attractive to them. Clarity may be the only area that can be agreed on at all, and even that, not so much - there are several people here that buy, and even seek out, I clarity stones, as long as they are eye clean.
My first diamond, other than accent diamonds, was a VS champagne (I used to prefer colored stones - my engagement ring was a sapphire) with strong blue fluorescence. My second was an SI "Q" with faint to medium blue flluorescence, and my most recent is an I1 J, with strong to very strong blue fluorescence. (Moving UP on the color scale, as opposed to down may well qualify me as 'fringe', lol) The J has a crystal right under the table, but I can't see it with my eyes alone, only the loupe. While I love them all, my favorite as far as color is the Q - there's something I love about blue flashes in a yellowish stone. I even bought an M, SI1 diamond that has a slight brownish tint in some lights. While I can hear some of you out there gagging at that
, it is a freaking beautiful diamond! So much so that my daughter fell in love with it and I had to give it to her.
So I guess my point, after the rambling, is that I believe that while vendors can offer only ideal cut, high color & clarity diamonds and reach the mainstream, I believe the mainstream is shrinking somewhat and may continue to do so as people move away from the 'ideal' standard and toward what is ideal to them. I guess I fall into the subjective beauty category.
There are more cuts available, with more precision, and yet so many people still love the old cuts that can be pretty 'wonky'. There are more people moving beyond the DEF colors and finding the lower colors more attractive to them. Clarity may be the only area that can be agreed on at all, and even that, not so much - there are several people here that buy, and even seek out, I clarity stones, as long as they are eye clean.
My first diamond, other than accent diamonds, was a VS champagne (I used to prefer colored stones - my engagement ring was a sapphire) with strong blue fluorescence. My second was an SI "Q" with faint to medium blue flluorescence, and my most recent is an I1 J, with strong to very strong blue fluorescence. (Moving UP on the color scale, as opposed to down may well qualify me as 'fringe', lol) The J has a crystal right under the table, but I can't see it with my eyes alone, only the loupe. While I love them all, my favorite as far as color is the Q - there's something I love about blue flashes in a yellowish stone. I even bought an M, SI1 diamond that has a slight brownish tint in some lights. While I can hear some of you out there gagging at that
So I guess my point, after the rambling, is that I believe that while vendors can offer only ideal cut, high color & clarity diamonds and reach the mainstream, I believe the mainstream is shrinking somewhat and may continue to do so as people move away from the 'ideal' standard and toward what is ideal to them. I guess I fall into the subjective beauty category.