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I'm never closed to any diamond of CS being beautiful to me or someone else. I think there is a big difference between a "preference" and an absolute "no". Cavities are an absolute no for my personal stones, probably sometimes to my own dis-service. My grandmother had some "funky chickens" in her collection and I loved all their quirkiness.Would that not mean you are open to liking diamonds in the 54 to 60 range? I mean, if you like 60/60, then it’s quite possible you would like a 58/60, for example ... or 59/61, etc etc. ETA, sorry I mean for MRBs
My opinion is anything in the range 53-60 ... I have seen beautiful 60/60 ... my in real life views are scarce ... so I just assume that there are many combinations that I would find beautiful given no bad light leakage and beautiful ASET. I figure it must be a bunch of different personalities that I sure would like to see in person, lol. I’m glad this tropic came up ... I saw a ton of fire in the 60/60 and a 55.3/60.6 that did not seem to have as much ... often think it was just my eyes ... maybe it was ... *shrug*
But, if I'm buying a MRB sight unseen, and under a time crunch, I would stick within my preferences. Then, evaluate it with my eyes. I think the challenge on PS is that we are helping others. We don't know their preferences (and they often don't either). They likely don't have experienced eyes to evaluate a stone in person and often only have a big-box or HOF to go look at in person. We are all trying our best to help them narrow to a set of reasonable options and then help balance the many factors without the ability to sit in the store and actually look at them all.