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Hi @MissGotRocks 
To be clear about my hands - I would love to have long, slender fingers that made a 1 ct look like a 3 ct! But I do actually like my hands - they just don't photograph well, as chubbier fingers/hands so often don't. In photos, rings always look tight - even when they're not - and this makes me feel as tho it doesn't do whatever piece I'm trying to photograph justice. I am also a horrible - and I do mean horrible! - photographer. So I steer away from hand shots and dislike them when I do them! But in real life, I'm content with the hands I have; so this is more a PS thing than a real life thing.
I totally hear what you're saying about trying to clear my head - excellent advice! I have always had one reservation about solitaires (and pls forgive this - it's just what goes around in my head and has no merit, I realize that!) - and that's that they're a single focus piece. This is probably exactly what most people like about them, but for me, they often feel as though a person took all their budget, threw it at one stone, stuck it in prongs, and called it a day. I have largely gotten over that, the more stunning solitaires I've seen, but traces of it linger. Consequently I've always been a 3 stone kind of woman, but I now find myself halfway between each style - and kind of stuck.
I LOVED what @yssie said about "no curliques or Olde Worlde frippery, thank you!" - this is right on the money for me. But I dislike plain also. So where I am at the moment is half way between the MC2 piece and a killer 3 stone. That MC2 ring is calling my name louder and louder with each passing hour, and when I go there tomorrow, it may be the point of commitment. It will be hard to give up the dream of complete side to side coverage (especially since I already have one of the damn side stones!!) but I've come to a point where I think a 3 stone for me would have to be WHITE - not near colorless. It's the whole side view... And once you start getting up into the colorless range, you sacrifice a great deal of size for that level of colorlessness.
To be clear about my hands - I would love to have long, slender fingers that made a 1 ct look like a 3 ct! But I do actually like my hands - they just don't photograph well, as chubbier fingers/hands so often don't. In photos, rings always look tight - even when they're not - and this makes me feel as tho it doesn't do whatever piece I'm trying to photograph justice. I am also a horrible - and I do mean horrible! - photographer. So I steer away from hand shots and dislike them when I do them! But in real life, I'm content with the hands I have; so this is more a PS thing than a real life thing.
I totally hear what you're saying about trying to clear my head - excellent advice! I have always had one reservation about solitaires (and pls forgive this - it's just what goes around in my head and has no merit, I realize that!) - and that's that they're a single focus piece. This is probably exactly what most people like about them, but for me, they often feel as though a person took all their budget, threw it at one stone, stuck it in prongs, and called it a day. I have largely gotten over that, the more stunning solitaires I've seen, but traces of it linger. Consequently I've always been a 3 stone kind of woman, but I now find myself halfway between each style - and kind of stuck.
I LOVED what @yssie said about "no curliques or Olde Worlde frippery, thank you!" - this is right on the money for me. But I dislike plain also. So where I am at the moment is half way between the MC2 piece and a killer 3 stone. That MC2 ring is calling my name louder and louder with each passing hour, and when I go there tomorrow, it may be the point of commitment. It will be hard to give up the dream of complete side to side coverage (especially since I already have one of the damn side stones!!) but I've come to a point where I think a 3 stone for me would have to be WHITE - not near colorless. It's the whole side view... And once you start getting up into the colorless range, you sacrifice a great deal of size for that level of colorlessness.
Call me crazy but I really think those photos help! I feel I have a much better idea of what you're looking for - clean lines, sturdy structures, tempered curves (no curliques and Olde Worlde frippery, thank you!) but also no sharp geometries... bold and modern.
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I must have been typing when you posted that. SO happy you're getting to do both!
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