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(I can't believe I haven't bought one yet). Lots of things have changed, and COVID is not the best gem-enticing time, but every autumn the same thing happens. I think I made a first post about FYD in 2015. I can't believe I haven't found one. (I bought a FIY at Costco, and returned it. Need a vivid one).
They are not cheap, and besides, buying diamonds is a perfect test for OCD for me. (Incessant what ifs) Moreover, I never saw a FVY that I would like IRL.
Can you help me find one? Please?
Here are my questions:
- I know people who like Asscher cut. Does it have any value in colored diamonds, or would a step cut make a stone look more like a yellow sapphire?
- How visible are carbons in S1? (I know, one has to look in person, but in general, where would you draw the line? VS2?)
- having looked at multiple orange-yellows online... maybe I am wrong, but it seems to me that they look slightly burned IRL. (I have a brown diamond in rose gold, and I don't wear it. It is good, but I plan to sell it if I buy the yellow).
- are yellowish/green vivids desirable? "Just green" are expensive, and the cheaper ones are slightly grayish. Or would you advise me to stick with pure canary?
- cut... Am I right in assuming that radiant is the best for vivid yellow, because otherwise why even search for colored diamonds, and not splurge on a yellow sapphire?
Just help me buy one, please. Given some changes in the family, I would like it to be a stone that could be a heirloom piece, but somehow, it is too complicated for me. Any advice will be appreciated; if I end up without one, no biggie and definitely not a tragedy, given what I have seen, but I worked hard enough and I think I earned one.
They are not cheap, and besides, buying diamonds is a perfect test for OCD for me. (Incessant what ifs) Moreover, I never saw a FVY that I would like IRL.
Can you help me find one? Please?
Here are my questions:
- I know people who like Asscher cut. Does it have any value in colored diamonds, or would a step cut make a stone look more like a yellow sapphire?
- How visible are carbons in S1? (I know, one has to look in person, but in general, where would you draw the line? VS2?)
- having looked at multiple orange-yellows online... maybe I am wrong, but it seems to me that they look slightly burned IRL. (I have a brown diamond in rose gold, and I don't wear it. It is good, but I plan to sell it if I buy the yellow).
- are yellowish/green vivids desirable? "Just green" are expensive, and the cheaper ones are slightly grayish. Or would you advise me to stick with pure canary?
- cut... Am I right in assuming that radiant is the best for vivid yellow, because otherwise why even search for colored diamonds, and not splurge on a yellow sapphire?
Just help me buy one, please. Given some changes in the family, I would like it to be a stone that could be a heirloom piece, but somehow, it is too complicated for me. Any advice will be appreciated; if I end up without one, no biggie and definitely not a tragedy, given what I have seen, but I worked hard enough and I think I earned one.
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