Mara...your stone

[tyke]

THANKS Mara, I was hoping that you would comment. I have read many of your posts as I am almost duplicating your setting (as so many people have already) but I couldn''t find your color. So you are happy with your J....does it even have the faintest hint of yellow and is it a H&A. Thanks again.

Tyke

 

[Mara]

Hi Tyke..!

I originally had a G then an H and now a J. To be honest, I do see a difference in the G/H vs the J but it''s not as though it''s yellow by any means. It''s just more of a barely-there off-color from the side only. I want to stress that from the top down I don''t see a difference. Then again, I do not compare any of my other diamonds side by side to my J stone, why bother...that is not how it is naturally viewed.

I am so happy with my J that I plan to get a J again when I upgrade next year to a larger stone...because I can hardly see a difference visually and no one has ever said a thing about it not looking colorless. From the top down this thing is blazingly white.

My stone is not a technical H&A, but it was one of WF''s expert selections...I adore it, it is very precisely cut and I don''t know why it wasn''t labeled a true H&A. This stone also looks more CRISP somehow than my old ES WF H...so even though I went down in color a bit, the stone is more of an eye-popper for me and I think it''s by far my favorite out of all my stones.

Did you see the J stones in Platinum thread I started in RockyTalky? That is part of what convinced me to go for the J stone, having seen all these other amazing beautiful well-cut J stones. It clinched it for me. I would check it out.

That said sometimes people just do not like lower colored stones. To each their own but I am not color sensitive. The J does not bother me at all and it allowed me to get a larger stone. Some people can see the difference between D and F and H etc but I am really not one of those people. The small nuances are SOOOO minute that to me they are not even considerable.

To be honest if you are considering an okay cut H EGL and a H&A J..I think that the J would win me over hands down, the CUT especially but also that an EGL graded H may be more like an I and the cut does mask some color. So your EGL H may look like that H&A J. It''s hard to really say what your eye will see though!

Hope this helps....!

 

[tyke]

Thank you so very much....your opinion obviously counts to so many people on this board. I appreciate your time, and your thoughts. Thanks for putting that thread up also for "Js in platinum". I couldn''t make a decision withouth the board and all of your help! Thanks again.

Tyke

 

[MissAva]

Also some people can see the color, I can but dont find it unatrractive. Thus far the warmer colors have seemed diffrent but not unattractive.

 

[Mara]

Exactly, Mat...I can see some color but it''s so slight and ''barely there'' but I find that I like it on my skin tone, which is more medium...and felt like my G and H were a bit ''too white'' for me if that makes sense and kind of used to ''glare'' on my hand. Doubt I''d like a D on my hand. So I''m happy with the J family!