Which earrings?

[less_confused]

Same carat weight and same price. Earrings for woman with fair skin and long hair.

Pair #1 - ACAs from Whiteflash, with great clarity
Pair #2 - Great color, SI1 clarity, and HCA <2 (borderline Excellent)

For earrings, is pair #1''s excellent cut/clarity overkill? Is Pair #2''s excellent color overkill?

Yes, I am going crazy here......

 

[stone-cold11]

Show us all the data you have...

 

[less_confused]

No, no. That would be cheating. Think of this like a game.

For earrings, do you go for awesome cut/clarity or awesome color and very good (excellent) cut?

 

[tyty333]

I would go for awesome cut, decent color and decent clarity for earrings. Was that an option?

 

[Lorelei]

Date: 9/6/2009 9:54:14 AM
Author:less_confused
Same carat weight and same price. Earrings for woman with fair skin and long hair.

Pair #1 - ACAs from Whiteflash, with great clarity
Pair #2 - Great color, SI1 clarity, and HCA <2 (borderline Excellent)

For earrings, is pair #1''s excellent cut/clarity overkill? Is Pair #2''s excellent color overkill?

Yes, I am going crazy here......

It depends on your lady''s preferences as either could be a good choice, personally I would probably choose the ACA''s.

 

[stone-cold11]

I would go for decent color, clarity, pendant/ear-ring stone cut.

 

[D&T]

I vote ACA since you aren't providing any additional information on the second one and Cut is most important to me and as well as a sure fireball with ACAs.

 

[marcy]

Based on your choices I would go with # 1 - ACA.

 

[LD]

I would choose the ones that perform the best, irrespective of cut, clarity, blah blah blah. The performance of earrings is what is seen most (especially behind long hair) so I personally wouldn''t get hung up on stats.

 

[MissGotRocks]

I would go with decent color and clarity - not the best of either though. That's overkill IMO for earrings but that's strictly my opinion.

 

[4ever]

For an earing I would go for better cut and colour if possible (If you prefer white daimonds of course). Someone would have to get pretty damn close to notice the clarity of the earrings where as the colour and cut are more likely to be noticable. And also it''s not like a ring where the diamonds on your ring for your contant inspection, in that case poor clarity would bug me.

If the choice is between your two options however, I''d pick option as the exellent cut would be worth accepting lower colour stones to me.....and also a lot of the time I prefer lower colour stones

 

[Black Jade]

Date: 9/6/2009 9:54:14 AM
Author:less_confused
Same carat weight and same price. Earrings for woman with fair skin and long hair.

Pair #1 - ACAs from Whiteflash, with great clarity
Pair #2 - Great color, SI1 clarity, and HCA <2 (borderline Excellent)

For earrings, is pair #1''s excellent cut/clarity overkill? Is Pair #2''s excellent color overkill?

Yes, I am going crazy here......

Well, for someone with long hair, you want a lot of sparkle, so that the earrings will be seen at all (esp. if they are on smaller side). ACA will do that--even down to J or K color. However, a very fair skinned woman is likely to look better in a very white diamond. There are some exceptions--some really blond women are ''springs'' and look better in warmer colors and yellow gold--but most fair-skinned women would look better with a white diamond next to their face. In that case, I''d go for the whiter color. SI1 clarity is very often eyeclean enough even for a ring so should not be an issue and if the earrings are borderline Excellent they should still be very sparkly.

I don''t think excellent quality is wasted in earrings--mine are H VS2 ACA''s. They sparkle in any kind of lighting and in every circumstance. But I'' m also a mind clean kind of person. That''s another thing to consider--the personallity of the woman. Is she going to feel like her earrings are better quality if they have a great clarity--or is she going to want as close to D color as possible? Does she know what an ACA is?
What is her e-rng like? That would give you some hints about what to choose.

Best

 

[Ellen]

I went with ACA''s for earrings, and have never once regretted it. (after having a so so cut pair) To me, the whole idea is for diamonds to sparkle like mad, and those will.

Black Jade makes a good point about long hair somewhat hiding them, and the better the cut, the better chance they have of showing through. As for color, I think you could do whatever you wanted, I don''t think skin color would matter so much with earrings. Unless maybe if you''re talking honkers.

 

[hoorray]

I don''t think clarity is as important in earrings. No one can get close enough to see inclusions except you, and your eyes are probably shut. Sparkle is what counts in earrings -- IMO you really want balls of fire to catch the light, so I wouldn''t compromise on cut. I have a couple of pairs -- great cut, good color, SI1/2 clarity, and they are beautiful.

FWIW, I helped a friend buy some I color, great cut studs. Mine are G color, great cut. Side by side in my hand, I could see a difference. On our ears, there was no way anyone noticed, including us.

 

[serenitydiamonds]

Date: 9/7/2009 6:59:30 PM
Author: lop
I don''t think clarity is as important in earrings. No one can get close enough to see inclusions except you, and your eyes are probably shut. Sparkle is what counts in earrings -- IMO you really want balls of fire to catch the light, so I wouldn''t compromise on cut. I have a couple of pairs -- great cut, good color, SI1/2 clarity, and they are beautiful.


FWIW, I helped a friend buy some I color, great cut studs. Mine are G color, great cut. Side by side in my hand, I could see a difference. On our ears, there was no way anyone noticed, including us.

I completely agree, cut will triumph everything as earrings are almost always viewed at a distance.

--Joshua

 

[Black Jade]

Date: 9/7/2009 8:55:13 AM
Author: Ellen
I went with ACA''s for earrings, and have never once regretted it. (after having a so so cut pair) To me, the whole idea is for diamonds to sparkle like mad, and those will.

Black Jade makes a good point about long hair somewhat hiding them, and the better the cut, the better chance they have of showing through. As for color, I think you could do whatever you wanted, I don''t think skin color would matter so much with earrings. Unless maybe if you''re talking honkers.

Ellen''s right. I was thinking about honkers when I thought about the color, so it may not apply.
LOP is probably right, too, though. You see color more when you compare and while women might hold their hands next to each other to compare, you don''t really take off your earrings to compare them.
On the other hand, knowing there are visible inclusions bugs some of us, even in earrings. I couldn''t go down to SI2, no matter what reassurances I got--I didn''t even want to go to SI1 (even knowing these are rarely eye-visible). I wanted my earrings to be ''perfect'' by MY standards. That''s why I said, consider her personality. I like it when people ask what quality my earrings are and I can say "H, VS2" --I wouldn''t like to say "J, SI2" so much. It''s silly, I know. I looked at a pair of J SI2''s in a B & M which looked very beautiful while I was buying mine. (They were AGS1--not AGS0 but looked sparkly, too--at least in store lights). I jsut still didn''t want them. I was glad that they were in a B & M so that it didn''t make sense to buy them (they were a lot more expensive than mine, I was surprised how much more) but I wouldn''t have wanted them regardless.
Make sure that she isn''t crazy like me.

 

[canuk-gal]

HI:

Decades ago, when I worked in jewellery retail, it seemed the prevailing thought was that since earrings were more easily "lost", the quality was less an issue than say, with an ER ring. Notwithstanding the distance for viewing. But then again, that is what insurance is for.

ACA''s have a trade in policy--and that has got to be an important variable in deciding--as diamonds often "shrink"

after being worn!

cheers--Sharon

 

[loveloveloveit]

I would be going for the colour myself, noones really going to look so close they will see inclusions I would think if they''re not incredibly obvious but from a distance great colour will stand out, whereas minor faults will not.