Candycane
Rough_Rock
- Joined
- Jun 15, 2012
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Hi I don’t post much mostly lurk lol but for you I will share my experience hopefully it will help with your decision.
I recently upgraded my diamond for our 5 year anniversary (haven’t updated my photo). Anyway it is now a 3 carat E SI1 cushion. It is absolutely completely eye clean! Nobody would guess it is an SI1 without a scope. I cannot see the inclusions even when I examine it super close with my naked eye which nobody looking at my ring would do besides myself. I have had it appraised and the appraiser was going on about how beautiful it was and she didn’t find the inclusions right away under the scope at first. She took some time to find and compare the inclusions with the the GIA cert. However she did find them after looking at it for a bit, it is an SI 1 after all so there are some inclusions just not obvious ones.
For me it was a great value because I was really looking to hit the 3 carat mark for a certain budget and I wouldn’t have been able to if I did not go down to a bit on clarity.
On the other hand color for me had to be G or bettter when I was looking. This is because I had an I color before and a jeweler gave me a complex about it when I had it cleaned once.
So if you are on the fence about color, clarity, size it will always be in the back of your mind! Hence the reason why I now have an E color
I recently upgraded my diamond for our 5 year anniversary (haven’t updated my photo). Anyway it is now a 3 carat E SI1 cushion. It is absolutely completely eye clean! Nobody would guess it is an SI1 without a scope. I cannot see the inclusions even when I examine it super close with my naked eye which nobody looking at my ring would do besides myself. I have had it appraised and the appraiser was going on about how beautiful it was and she didn’t find the inclusions right away under the scope at first. She took some time to find and compare the inclusions with the the GIA cert. However she did find them after looking at it for a bit, it is an SI 1 after all so there are some inclusions just not obvious ones.
For me it was a great value because I was really looking to hit the 3 carat mark for a certain budget and I wouldn’t have been able to if I did not go down to a bit on clarity.
On the other hand color for me had to be G or bettter when I was looking. This is because I had an I color before and a jeweler gave me a complex about it when I had it cleaned once.
So if you are on the fence about color, clarity, size it will always be in the back of your mind! Hence the reason why I now have an E color