Confection10
Brilliant_Rock
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Hi, I'm new in this forum, CS. I have spent more time on pearlforum and SMTB. During holidays I found this forum and results...who ever knows where I will end? But here is my start.
I have empty wg A.Jaffe halo setting. It carried a year my oec, but in the end I found that I'm a solitaire girl anyway. And in the deep of my heart a yellow gold girl too. Because feeling so sorry for poor halo, I though coloured stone would be a way I might wear it again. I ended up mailing with Rachelle Richards (absolutely very kind and helpful lady, by the way) and she sent me couple more shots of two contender I picked out; pink tourmaline ang raspberry garnet. Cut in these are totally different. I LOVE tourmaline's (7.6mm, cut by Paul Burton) old type cut over the moon. But colour; not so much. And table looks quite big too. Remember, this is my first coloured stone and picked by photos only, so I don't have any idea, how it looks IRL. But my oec has small table and I really like it. So no to tourmaline. Garnet's (7.3mm, cut by Grey Weaver) colour might be quite dark, but not brownish. It looks super delicious, almost regal to me. I think (and I hope) white gold suits it perfectly. Here is couple photos of halo setting and stones. Garnet is on it's way. More photos follow when arrived.
I have empty wg A.Jaffe halo setting. It carried a year my oec, but in the end I found that I'm a solitaire girl anyway. And in the deep of my heart a yellow gold girl too. Because feeling so sorry for poor halo, I though coloured stone would be a way I might wear it again. I ended up mailing with Rachelle Richards (absolutely very kind and helpful lady, by the way) and she sent me couple more shots of two contender I picked out; pink tourmaline ang raspberry garnet. Cut in these are totally different. I LOVE tourmaline's (7.6mm, cut by Paul Burton) old type cut over the moon. But colour; not so much. And table looks quite big too. Remember, this is my first coloured stone and picked by photos only, so I don't have any idea, how it looks IRL. But my oec has small table and I really like it. So no to tourmaline. Garnet's (7.3mm, cut by Grey Weaver) colour might be quite dark, but not brownish. It looks super delicious, almost regal to me. I think (and I hope) white gold suits it perfectly. Here is couple photos of halo setting and stones. Garnet is on it's way. More photos follow when arrived.
I know you mentioned this to Preg earlier, but do check out the garnet in fluorescent lighting as they tend to brown out in this lighting type. I have a beautiful deep red garnet I got from Barry Bridgestock, picked out the perfect yellow gold setting for it and totally LOVED it, thought it was perfect, until I wore it to work and it was killed by the lighting every day that I wore it 
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