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Diamonds: Beauty in Colour
When choosing your diamond engagement rings, you might have a particular urge to opt for a dazzling white stone that will mesmerize all onlookers with its icy facets. However, diamonds are far from monotone, and they are available in all sorts of colours. Whilst white diamonds might still be most familiar to us, coloured stones are becoming more and more popular with celebrities and general fashionistas – due to their idiosyncrasy.
The sheer amount of colours available in diamonds is quite surprising, and popular alternatives to white diamonds, include pink diamonds and yellow diamonds, which will both look stunning set into wedding rings or engagement rings.
In fact, the forming process of diamonds is so tumultuous that it can give rise to all sorts of subtle tints and colours, and whilst these are considered as impurities in the stone, they are derfinitely beautiful in their own right. Diamonds that have unique colourings are not only inexpensive, but can also be set to create truly one off wedding bands or wedding band rings.
Just like cut and clarity, the colour of a diamond is something that is measured accurately by jewellers, and there is a particular scale ascribed to measuring colour in a stone, the most precious being colourless stones which fall under grades D-E-F.
Grade G-H-I-J are nearly colourless and often have tints or other impurities, the further towards Z the scale gets the more “impure” the diamond. However, this is not necessarily a matter of aesthetics, as coloured or tinted diamonds have a certain elegance – which is why they are often the diamonds of choice for the some of the worlds most glamorous people.
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