J color with Medium Blue Flourescence?

[Appleton83]

Hi

I''m looking at a J color EC with medium blue florescence. Will this help "correct" the color?

All the other specs of the diamond are ideal for me, no inclusions, top clarity, great dimensions, nice crown.

Obviously the price is lower because I am compromising with the color.

If you were my girlfriend, would you think this a bad choice of color/flourescence?

 

[emeraldlover1]

Have you seen the stone in person?

ETA...in most lights the flour will have virtually no affect. If you see color in a J the flour won't have much of an affect unless you are in direct sunlight and there is only a slight chance of that but its really hard to say unless you have seen the stone in person. Some people find J's warm, some do not. I have a J and I rarely see its warmth.

 

[Appleton83]

i''ve seen a photo but not in sunlight. when you say warmth, do you mean yellow/brown? I didn''t notice that on the photo. Then again, I''m no expert. I''ve read online that "if you go for lower than H, then faint/medium flourescence can make the diamond appear whiter". But from what you say, this is not always the case...
Are there any photos on this forum of medium blue / J color diamonds, in settings?

 

[swingirl]

You won't see any effect of of the fluorescence is regular lighting.

I have a square emerald 1.29ct in an H and it is white enough for me but emerald cuts show color a little more than rounds and the larger they are the more they show it. You really need to see the stone in person. If you are looking on line make sure you are able to return it just in case it looks too yellow for your liking. If the stone was beautifully cut I wouldn't mind one bit. But some people don't like to see any color in a diamond.

From photos is is really hard to see the color accurately. Good Old Gold has photos or a video on their website with D through J stones all lined up. Of course you can see the difference. But when a stone is set and away from other stones the color grade is hard to detect.

 

[Rockdiamond]

HI Appleton83,
Medium blue may actually give the stone a little "kick" in the color, so to speak. Making it look lighter, even with the UV rays in indoor lighting.

I''m an emerald cut lover myself, and do not feel that , as a rule, EC''s show more color compared to rounds.
In fact, I''ve seen many cases where emerald cuts showed less color than round diamonds of the same color.
If she never mentioned anything about being extremely color sensitive in diamonds, it''s likely you did just fine!

 

[emeraldlover1]

Date: 12/17/2009 5:44:25 PM
Author: Appleton83
i've seen a photo but not in sunlight. when you say warmth, do you mean yellow/brown? I didn't notice that on the photo. Then again, I'm no expert. I've read online that 'if you go for lower than H, then faint/medium flourescence can make the diamond appear whiter'. But from what you say, this is not always the case...
Are there any photos on this forum of medium blue / J color diamonds, in settings?

photos rarely depict color accuratley. I'd suggest seeing it in person. I have a J emerald that is fairly large and I don't see warmth unless its tilted and only in certian lights and if the stone is dirty. By warm I mean the difference between white and diamond white. Ok, that is a wedding dress reference. There are various shades of white. A J stone is nearly colorless. Therefore it should be nearly white.

ETA...Wedding dress example. My wedding dress was white by the store's description and in person it was perfectly white. However, if I held a white piece of paper next to my dress my dress looked nearly white.

 

[Dreamer_D]

Warmth can look brownish, or yellowish, and usually it looks beige to my eye. Flor only really helps in the sunlight, and in my experience the warmth of a diamond shows up most in diffuse indoor lighting. So no real help there!

I think you have to see it in person to know if it is ok for you. Can you do that?

 

[FB.]

Fluorescence is only usually activated to a noticeable extent in strong daylight.
Indoors, or under artificial lighting, medium fluor will barely activate - if at all...........it''s only once you get to strong or very strong that the fluor can start to activate without such strong light, but even then, the fluor is often not noticeable with indoor lighting.

It certainly won''t hurt to have the fluor, but I think that it''s ability to mask tint in lower colour stones is not as great as many people suggest.

Had you also considered that "medium" implies "more than faint" or "less than strong". Is your medium fluor closer to faint, or closer to strong?