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What Are The Meanings For Different Color Diamonds

By Yolanda Nash

On the day your handsome prince pops that all important question, it is the beginning of one of the most exciting and romantic periods in your life. The engagement ring he presents to you will be one you wear for many years to come, and you may want something different than the conventional crystal, clear colored diamond. There are diamonds of different hues and each one has a sentiment for giving behind it.

Pink Diamonds for a Creative Lady

If you are a creative and artistic type of person, wearing a pink diamond is a reflection of that aspect of your personality. Of course, you may only get a pink diamond if money is no object. A pink diamond is one of the rarest types in the world and those who purchase them have plenty of money to spend on this valued prize.

Yellow Diamonds for the Selfless Bride

If your fiancé thinks you are one of the most thoughtful and considerate people he knows, he may want to show his appreciation for those qualities by presenting you with a yellow diamond. The yellow diamond celebrates the sweetness of the bride’s personality as well as her willingness to come to the aid of others.

Blue Diamonds for Peace and Good Health

It is said that the groom who purchases a blue diamond for his soon to be bride will be promoting serenity and calm in all of their communication. This may be a lucky charm that keeps you from having a fight that may send you home, crying to your mother. The blue diamond also represents good health for the blushing bride to be.

The Bold and Beautiful Red Diamond

If the groom looks on his future bride as a source of strength and stability, he may consider purchasing an engagement ring that is a beautiful shade of red. It is thought that a red diamond is also a tool to relieve stress, so it can help your emotional and mental health once you begin your journey of life together.

Deciding what color and style of engagement ring may be a daunting task for many prospective grooms. You can drop hints by pointing out the styles and designs you like for an engagement ring. When your groom uses color to make a statement of his love for his new bride, it shows that he too is kind and considerate and is dedicated to showing his new wife just how much she means to him.

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A Fancy For Yellow: Illuminating, enchanting and sophisticated.

Solitaire Magazine Asia-Pacific

June July 2007 Archive

Story Natural Color Diamond Association

NATURAL fancy yellow diamonds are cherished for their subtly dramatic appeal, and for their unique glow that illuminates the woman who wears them, regardless of the particular shade of yellow she chooses.The presence of colour in these stones is an entirely natural process, occurring so rarely that regardless of shade, natural yellow diamonds are all unique, rare and valuable. The yellow colour is the result of nitrogen, found in the earth millions of years ago, imparting various shades of yellow, from the palest tint to vivid canary to warm golds and orange.

Yellow diamonds have always been reserved for spectacular displays of fashion on the red carpet. Marilyn Monroe wore the 24ct natural yellow Moon of Baroda to the premiere of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. And each year we continue to see Hollywood’s most famous choosing yellow diamonds to draw the world’s attention. At this year’s Academy Awards and Golden Globes, Emily Blunt wore 12ct canary yellow drop earrings, Kate Winslet selected stunning 4ct yellow cluster earrings, and Penelope Cruz donned 20ct yellow diamond flower earrings.Natural fancy yellow diamonds also make a sophisticated alternative to the traditonal colourless engagement ring. This is an option favoured by actress Rebecca Romijn, supermodel Heidi Klum and socialite Paris Hilton. Selecting natural fancy yellow diamonds for an engagement ring creates a unique statement, whether the diamond is used as a centrestone or as a colour accent. Consumer research indicates that women who choose natural
yellow diamonds are confident, intelligent and worldly.

There are several ways that yellow diamonds can be treated or enhanced. To protect yourself from buying such
items unknowingly, always request for a diamond report from an accredited diamond grading laboratory, certifying that the diamond is natural. S

For more information on diamonds, contact the Natural Color Diamond Association at www.ncdia. com. You can buy yellow diamonds from a NCDIA retail member, then get a report from an independent gem lab. Although NCDIA cannot verify the authenticity of a specific diamond, all NCDIA retail members are asked to provide full disclosure on each diamond they sell.
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Fancy Yellow Radiant Cut Diamond

David Federman

Modern Jeweler

People forget that before diamond cutter Henry Grossbard invented the radiant cut in 1977, most rectangular diamonds trapped, rather than tripped, the light fantastic. As a result, they looked more like pieces of glass than things of class. With their large tables, shallow crowns and, worst of all, their top and bottom rows of full-length step-cut facets running parallel to the table, they were perfect examples of what not to do when cutting diamonds—unless, of course, you wanted them with what one recalcitrant defender of step cuts then called “restrained brilliance.”

To Grossbard, such phrases were euphemisms for dead and dull. Grossbard salvaged the sullied reputation of the rectangular diamond by turning it from a step cut into a modified brilliant cut. Once he did so, the chronic light-leakage problem of this shape was solved and a spate of hybrids that mixed step and brilliant cutting followed. Indeed, the steady stream of renovated step cuts continues to this day.

Radiant cut fancy yellow diamond courtesy of Novel Collection.

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Fancy Yellow Diamond

Source: Modern Jeweler

The stone that kicked off South Africa’s diamond rush in 1868 was a 21-carat yellow rough that was later cut into a 10.73-carat oval cushion called the “Eureka.” This find would have seemed to augur great things for the world supply of colored diamonds, especially those of the yellow variety, which until then had been as rare as any other color.

Fate had nothing that grandiose in mind. Instead, South Africa merely swelled the number of what the trade has ever since called “cape” (after South Africa’s Cape of Good Hope) diamonds. These are stones whose yellow content is generally not considered a plus. But when the yellow was sufficient to give the diamond an identity as a full-fledged colored stone, it was deemed “canary.” Today, such diamonds are more apt to be called “fancy yellow.”

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