valmanin
Brilliant_Rock
- Joined
- Jan 30, 2013
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Grab a glass of white and have some Sunday fun with me! 
First of all...just wanted to say thank you to all the amazing PSers. I have learned so much reading all of your detailed posts over the last 6 months!
So, I am still deciding between 3 stones. Well, really 2, but the third is lovely too!
Anyway, I know how hard it is to picture the lower colors since many of us have not seen them in real life and shipping stones back and forth can be crazy and costly. So, I thought I would share the three stones I have with me this weekend in order to highlight the lower colors you often find in old cuts. I also thought it might be interesting to see the different table sizes.
They are all OECs of a similar make. Whenever you see the three together they will be from left to right or top to bottom as follows:
1. 2.71 ct. O/P (my appraiser GIA certified), SI1/2, Table 47%, 8.8 mm spread
2. 3.33 ct. M EGL (my appraiser said M/N), VS1, Table 52%, 9.4 mm spread
3. 2.66 ct. K EGL, VS1, Table 50%, 8.9 mm spread
On to the fun!
So, my husband and I were hanging out by the pool today, discussing which diamond we like best and having a glass of white wine (rough I know)...chenin blanc to be exact...light and fruity...light in color...not as yellow as chardonnay. And I thought....hmmmmmmmm
This reminds me of exactly what I love about these lower colored stones.
M hanging out with chenin blanc...
I just LOVE the warmer colors. I love icy white diamonds too...that's what my e-ring is...E in platinum. But for this 10 year anniversary ring I want something totally different. In fact I think I have ruled out K just because it's too white for me. I want an antique stone in an antique style ring but in yellow gold. The warmer colors look so
next to yellow gold.
Here is M (on left) and O-P with a yellow gold leaf necklace.
M hanging with the leaf:
Okay...so on to the comparison pics. I tried to take inside and outside....on my hand, on a white cardboard paper, on a white leather chair in my house etc. etc. I think you get a good idea of the differences. I feel like there are times when I can't tell which color diamond I am looking at and other times when their color personality comes out. I have tried to capture that:
This picture of the back of them the colors are reversed...K then M then O-P
First of all...just wanted to say thank you to all the amazing PSers. I have learned so much reading all of your detailed posts over the last 6 months!
So, I am still deciding between 3 stones. Well, really 2, but the third is lovely too!
Anyway, I know how hard it is to picture the lower colors since many of us have not seen them in real life and shipping stones back and forth can be crazy and costly. So, I thought I would share the three stones I have with me this weekend in order to highlight the lower colors you often find in old cuts. I also thought it might be interesting to see the different table sizes.
They are all OECs of a similar make. Whenever you see the three together they will be from left to right or top to bottom as follows:
1. 2.71 ct. O/P (my appraiser GIA certified), SI1/2, Table 47%, 8.8 mm spread
2. 3.33 ct. M EGL (my appraiser said M/N), VS1, Table 52%, 9.4 mm spread
3. 2.66 ct. K EGL, VS1, Table 50%, 8.9 mm spread
On to the fun!
So, my husband and I were hanging out by the pool today, discussing which diamond we like best and having a glass of white wine (rough I know)...chenin blanc to be exact...light and fruity...light in color...not as yellow as chardonnay. And I thought....hmmmmmmmm
This reminds me of exactly what I love about these lower colored stones. M hanging out with chenin blanc...
I just LOVE the warmer colors. I love icy white diamonds too...that's what my e-ring is...E in platinum. But for this 10 year anniversary ring I want something totally different. In fact I think I have ruled out K just because it's too white for me. I want an antique stone in an antique style ring but in yellow gold. The warmer colors look so
next to yellow gold. Here is M (on left) and O-P with a yellow gold leaf necklace.
M hanging with the leaf:
Okay...so on to the comparison pics. I tried to take inside and outside....on my hand, on a white cardboard paper, on a white leather chair in my house etc. etc. I think you get a good idea of the differences. I feel like there are times when I can't tell which color diamond I am looking at and other times when their color personality comes out. I have tried to capture that:
This picture of the back of them the colors are reversed...K then M then O-P
THAT'S IT!!! That's what the K - P's look like to me in varying degrees. I think when you hear butter, antique lace, vanilla, etc....those terms are true, but because diamonds reflect and are not opaque it doesn't tell the whole story. So, the wine is transparent and the glass reflects back and also takes on environmental colors. Okay...this is getting very analytical. 
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