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Rough_Rock
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- Mar 9, 2016
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Hi everybody,
I found a ring that I really love, my boyfriend has already arranged for it to be sent to us to look at. I've only found one other ring that had a similarly shaped and colored star sapphire, although it was significantly smaller.
I've already heard that NSC has not so great a rep and I'm concerned about photoshopping, etc. I would love to hear from you guys. I am a humble songwriter and this would be the first real piece of jewelry I've ever owned. I know this is a *big* ring, but I've been wearing a similarly sized bezel set wooly mammoth tusk for many years and I love the oversized look. I don't wear earrings very often.
What I like about this ring:
1. I actually didn't like it at first. I thought it was a vulgarly large, weirdly shaped stone, and I had been looking for an Art Deco setting. But after looking at about a thousand padparadscha sapphires, which were the only stone that had every really interested me, and then realizing that the cool and unusual stone I had liked had become trendy, and then looking at about a zillion Art Deco rings, I found myself coming back to this one again and again, thinking that it was too bad that it was so darned big because it was so cool.
2. I don't care for diamonds. I mean, diamonds are okay, but I don't think they're rare or really that interesting. What I probably don't like the most is the message they send. My boyfriend is a rare coin dealer, the wives of many of his business friends are, please forgive me, of a particularly competitive type common here in Texas, and the only thing they prefer "real" is their diamonds. They can tell the carat size from across the room. I just don't want to play this game. My boyfriend wants to get me something really nice, he's very sweet that way. I'd love to get something that was so different that it just confused the heck out of those gals.
3. This is going to sound silly, but whatever ring I get is going to be in every photograph ever taken of me while I'm playing guitar, and I'd rather it be something wonderfully obnoxiously awesome.
4. I like the color of the stone. If it were more blue, it wouldn't be in my price range, but I think it's blue enough that people won't mistake it for something else. And it will go with jeans. The star isn't perfect, which I prefer.
What do you guys think? Is it actually what NSC says it is?
I would so appreciate your input!
http://www.thenaturalsapphirecompany.com/p-51677-blue-sapphire-ring-j4046/
I found a ring that I really love, my boyfriend has already arranged for it to be sent to us to look at. I've only found one other ring that had a similarly shaped and colored star sapphire, although it was significantly smaller.
I've already heard that NSC has not so great a rep and I'm concerned about photoshopping, etc. I would love to hear from you guys. I am a humble songwriter and this would be the first real piece of jewelry I've ever owned. I know this is a *big* ring, but I've been wearing a similarly sized bezel set wooly mammoth tusk for many years and I love the oversized look. I don't wear earrings very often.
What I like about this ring:
1. I actually didn't like it at first. I thought it was a vulgarly large, weirdly shaped stone, and I had been looking for an Art Deco setting. But after looking at about a thousand padparadscha sapphires, which were the only stone that had every really interested me, and then realizing that the cool and unusual stone I had liked had become trendy, and then looking at about a zillion Art Deco rings, I found myself coming back to this one again and again, thinking that it was too bad that it was so darned big because it was so cool.
2. I don't care for diamonds. I mean, diamonds are okay, but I don't think they're rare or really that interesting. What I probably don't like the most is the message they send. My boyfriend is a rare coin dealer, the wives of many of his business friends are, please forgive me, of a particularly competitive type common here in Texas, and the only thing they prefer "real" is their diamonds. They can tell the carat size from across the room. I just don't want to play this game. My boyfriend wants to get me something really nice, he's very sweet that way. I'd love to get something that was so different that it just confused the heck out of those gals.
3. This is going to sound silly, but whatever ring I get is going to be in every photograph ever taken of me while I'm playing guitar, and I'd rather it be something wonderfully obnoxiously awesome.
4. I like the color of the stone. If it were more blue, it wouldn't be in my price range, but I think it's blue enough that people won't mistake it for something else. And it will go with jeans. The star isn't perfect, which I prefer.
What do you guys think? Is it actually what NSC says it is?
I would so appreciate your input!
http://www.thenaturalsapphirecompany.com/p-51677-blue-sapphire-ring-j4046/