Color Help Please!

[spartan183]

How important is color with a diamond? I would like to get a HandA round. However if I get a HandA with a color H, would that defeat the purpose of getting a HandA?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Lorelei]

It depends on the individual colour perception, but a reliably graded H is a most respectable colour grade and will look plenty white to most people in a round with a great cut!!! There are many happy H owners here, along with I and J come to that with beautifully white diamonds! Were you originally planning on a D or similar? This can happen until folk start getting educated and realize they can drop the colour grade considerably and still get a very white diamond. However some prefer very high colour for purity reasons, it depends on what matters to you most.

 

[Skippy123]

yay, I like that your asking lots of questions.

Here is a thread to show you not to be afraid of color if you have an excellent cut stone.
https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/j-color-stones-in-platinum.24731/

 

[sera]

I''m learning about all this... I''m new to PS, but I''ll add my non-expert 2cents. I have seen H stones in mall stores *shudder* that have pretty good color... so with an H&A I don''t think that would be an issue. I don''t think the average person would see any color to it... I imagine some of the PS''ers would.

I also saw an I color in the mall store and it was obviously warm in color, though some PS''ers have H, I, and even J''s that look stunning! What I have learned here is that the cut has an effect on the color (within limits)... it seems the brilliance of a very good cut outshines the warmth of a near-colorless diamond.

Also, some say that with a blue fluorescence, it masks some of the yellow and makes the diamond look crisper.

 

[Lorelei]

I also wanted to add that a beautifully cut H&A diamond will make ANY colour grade look fantastic ( subject to preference).

 

[pyramid]

I think that if you are going to be learning for some time, and not buying a diamond within a month or so, then leave it and see what you think but look at lab graded stones if you see them in real life with GIA or AGS certificates. I have been here for five years and when I was first going to buy a diamond I had made my mind up this early on that I would go F because it was Colourless and would get me a larger stone, I would have had D if money was not a factor. However now I have a stone I am considering from a vendor here that is an H. I am very happy with the colour and I can see a difference in D and E to G. I have changed over the years, from F to G, definitely G and no lower.

Then some got J colour diamonds and I considered that to go higher in carat weight, I saw a local jewellers J here in the UK and when I saw it under the house lights (may have been the cut was not as great but it was symmetrical with arrows) I did not like it, it seemed brown to me, ofcourse it was uncertificated. I went back to G after that and no lower, I saw an I which to me looked very dark and grey looking from the side of the pavillion even when it was not face down, and I settled on H. I would get G if it was not for trying to maximise my size. I just think you will come to what is best for you if you look and continue reading and see what others are getting and posting pictures of. As Lorelei said many come on the forum wanting the colourless range and end up going lower in the colour scale but then there are some who stick to it and still need to get a D. Just give it time I think, unless you are buying in a hurry. It also depends upon everyone, different colour accuity, I see a difference but it doesn't bother me until I/J I think. Mind you I have not seen many diamonds very close up compared to the experts on here.

 

[WorkingHardforSmallRewards]

hey pyramid, how many diamonds do you have and what sizes are they? I imagine you have it all in a thread but I am not sure what to search for?