Diamonds

How Chocolate Diamonds Became Popular

Chocolate diamonds have been in vogue for the past 5 years now and was popularized by the promotion of brown colored diamonds to precious stone status. Prevously, about a decade ago, no one looked at champage, cognac and brown colored diamonds. They were considered non gem material and highly flawed. Today that has changed with [...]

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How The Pink Diamond Ring Became Popular

The pink diamond is one of the most popular types of colored diamonds available today. Its popularity stems from the multimillion dollar pink diamond engagement rings that have graced the red carpet by many celebrity brides to be. The most famous one of course is Jennifer Lopez who received a huge square pink diamond engagement [...]

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The Venerable Diamond Cluster Ring

The diamond cluster ring is perhaps the most replicated diamond ring style since the 1970s. Many women from the baby boom generation probably own at least one diamond cluster ring. Theappeal of this type of diamond ring is the fact that multiple small diamonds are set close to each other covering a huge swath of [...]

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What’s in a diamond certificate?

You’ve been told to start your diamond shopping online before hitting the local jewelers and now you’re lost in a sea of paperwork. You have pages of GIA and EGL reports for all the diamonds you’ve seen on Bluenile strewn in front of you and you have no idea what’s the really important information here. [...]

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Designer Diamond Right Hand Rings

Diamond right hand rings became a favorite of many designers as a canvas upon which to display their design prowess. What easier way than to take a publicly advertised diamond product theme with De Beers dollars behind it and design their way into the limelight. After all, right hand rings were about the individual with [...]

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Cushion Cut Engagement Rings

Cushion cut diamond engagement rings first started out as old miner cuts dating from the 1700s. This was the start of brilliant cutting as far as diamonds were concerned because most diamond cutting before this was predominantly the step cutting technique that you see today in emerald and asscher cuts. What happened was that diamond [...]

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The Rare Beauty Of Pink Diamonds

Most people have been educated to look for diamonds with little or no color. When you go to the bridal section of a jewelry store the first thing they want to show you is the color range chart from D-Z. They explain the colorless and near colorless range in great detail so most diamond shoppers [...]

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What Kind of Diamonds For Your Diamond Eternity Ring

The eternity ring is one of life’s great purchases and the choice of diamonds for this sentimental piece is one of the great decisions you need to make for your wedding. Usually women like their eternity diamond rings to match their engagement ring. Most of the time this is possible but sometimes brides like to [...]

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How To Buy Diamond Eternity Rings

Diamond eternity rings can be some of the most complicated pieces of jewelry to get right. This type of ring from the get go has a few disadvantages that make it challenging to get the ring that you desire. For one, diamond eternity rings cannot be sized unless it comes with a sizing bar and [...]

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A Diamond Wedding Band For Every Woman

The diamond wedding band sometimes ends up as an after thought after all the hoopla over choosing the perfect engagement ring for the proposal. The man usually has a lot of time to go out and do the legwork required for putting together the engagement ring so he can propose. If it takes longer then [...]

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Drop Earrings – Its All About The Movement and Length

Drop earrings can be stunning compliments to the face. A drop earring can be long and tapered like a shoulder duster earring or short and stubby depending on the desired look. Long drop earrings add to a slender neck and gives a graceful look to an evening gown. Short drop earrings may compliment a larger [...]

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Eternity Engagement Rings – The Next Big Step Up From The Eternity Ring

There is nothing better to signify your promise of forever than a white gold eternity ring with an endless circle of diamonds. Many couples that are getting married are deciding to pledge their love with an eternity ring. This unending band of diamonds representing your union is a wonderful way to say to your spouse [...]

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Eternity Rings – The Ultimate Symbol of Committment

Eternity rings are the ultimate symbols of marital commitment. Despite being a simple style of ring, the number of styles available is breathtaking. However a diamond eternity ring is a bit more complicated than that because it is a ring that has to fit exactly otherwise a slack fit will cause diamonds and prongs to [...]

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Mens Diamond Rings For All Seasons

Diamond rings for men have been around since ancient times when maharajahs in India first discovered diamonds in the 9th century BC. India was the foremost producer of diamonds till the early 1700s. During this time the Indian Rajahs horded the best quality diamonds and traded the junky stuff. So its no surprise that men [...]

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Is Black Becoming The Defining Color For The Mens Diamond Ring ?

Black and white diamond in mens jewelry has added a spark of creativity to the standard look of a mens diamond ring that has prevailed over the last couple of decades. This interplay of black and white or dark and bright is a study in contrasts by designers that have introduced vintage inspired looks to [...]

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The Glitz and The Glory is in The Pave Diamond Ring

The pave diamond ring is the basis of most diamond rings that you see today in jewelry stores. Invisible set and channel set were once popular types of diamond settings in both fashion diamond jewelry and bridal jewelry but since the late 1990′s pave settings and pave diamond rings have taken over the way in [...]

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