Color Question on a ROUND Brilliant

[myfirstdiamond]

I have a round brilliant diamond on preview.It is a G color VS2. 2.86 cts. I am told it is a beautiful diamond and reflects the light beautifully (1.6 HCA). Excellent cut, polish, symmmetry, perfect crown angles, pavillion angles, table, depth, girdle, etc. There is one small crystal on the table inside a small cloud. The cloud is not visible with the loop. The crystal and cloud do not affect the briliance.

My concern is the color. It is a G color. I notice in certain lights the diamond looks grey.
Do all diamonds look grey in certain lights? Would I notice a difference between an E or F color stone and the G colored stone?
Would an E or F stone also look a grey shade in certain lights?

Also, will I notice the yellow in the G stone?

Is buying such a great cut stone in G color a mistake?

 

[slg47]

are you referring to it looking 'dark' in direct sunlight?

 

[myfirstdiamond]

Not necessarily direct sunlight, more so at night it appears grey.

 

[Dreamer_D]

At night?? You mean when there is no light? Or do you mean outside under street lights?

Yes, diamonds look grey in some lights. They also look brown and yellow and white and blue depending on the environment you are in. Do not let the ambient reflections and nuances of the optics of diamonds confuse you. Body color is NOT responsible for how the diamond looks at night, or in the bathroom, or under potlights in your kitchen. Diamodns go dark, and grey sometimes in certain lighting and it has nothing to do with body color.

I think G is a really great color personally. Yes, you might notice a little more "warmth" (I hesitate to even use that word for G because it makes people think "yellow" and that is not at all what I mean) compared to an E, for example, but it is NOT yellow. I used to own a G and my friend owned an E and when comparing, there was just more tone to my G, compared to the very stark look of an E color stone. I personally really like the ever-so-slight hint of warmth in a G as compared to the stark white of colorless diamonds.

 

[jstarfireb]

Some people are more color-sensitive than others. I for one couldn't tell the difference between a D and a G, probably even if they were side by side. It's that subtle.

Hopefully this link will help put your fears to rest: http://goodoldgold.com/4Cs/Color/NearColorless/

 

[LGK]

At night?? You mean when there is no light? Or do you mean outside under street lights?

Yes, diamonds look grey in some lights. They also look brown and yellow and white and blue depending on the environment you are in. Do not let the ambient reflections and nuances of the optics of diamonds confuse you. Body color is NOT responsible for how the diamond looks at night, or in the bathroom, or under potlights in your kitchen. Diamodns go dark, and grey sometimes in certain lighting and it has nothing to do with body color.

I think G is a really great color personally. Yes, you might notice a little more "warmth" (I hesitate to even use that word for G because it makes people think "yellow" and that is not at all what I mean) compared to an E, for example, but it is NOT yellow. I used to own a G and my friend owned an E and when comparing, there was just more tone to my G, compared to the very stark look of an E color stone. I personally really like the ever-so-slight hint of warmth in a G as compared to the stark white of colorless diamonds.

Pretty much what Dreamer said. With well cut stones down to about I color, I personally don't see the color of the diamonds as yellow at all- more of a slight steely color. A G color, personally I couldn't tell the difference between that or a D if the stones are set.

 

[Fly Girl]

When I got my J studs, I would wander around examining them in different lighting. About 90% of the time, when they looked yellow, or grey, or whatever, my F colored ring stone looked exactly the same color. The only time I could distinguish between body color was when looking through the sides of the stones against a white background. Also, when looking down at the facets, the F looks a bit crisper than the Js.

The upshot is, in order to know if you are really seeing color in a G stone, you need another diamond to compare it to. The vast majority of the time, the color you are seeing is from the environment, and is not due to the body color of the G.

 

[myfirstdiamond]

Thanks Dreamer. Its just so scary as I want this to be my ring for life. I think I love the stone but was advised by one jeweler that if I am hung up on color then maybe I should move down to a 2.5 carat D instead of 2.85 G color. I just don't know if I'll be happy with that size.

 

[AGBF]

Thanks Dreamer. Its just so scary as I want this to be my ring for life. I think I love the stone but was advised by one jeweler that if I am hung up on color then maybe I should move down to a 2.5 carat D instead of 2.85 G color. I just don't know if I'll be happy with that size.

First of all, I don't think anyone asked you if you are going by a GIA or AGS cert. If you are, you are probably talking about a "true" G color. If you are talking about a diamond with an EGL or an IGI cert or one that some jeweler just told you was a a G, it would be a whole other ball game!

Second, as Dancing Fire says in his signature line, you want a, "mind clean" stone. In reality a G colored stone is very hard to tell from an F colored (i.e. a colorless) stone. It is true that studies have shown that there is a leap in what the eye can perceive in color when it looks at a G-a greater leap than between D and E or E and F when it gets to the difference between F and G, but the difference is still not apparent to most people.

But will your stone being a G eat away at you? Only you can know that. Some people want D stones. Some people want 3 carat stones. People are different!

I hope you get exactly what you want.

Deb/AGBF