Women: Dark denim jeans or skirt and a fabulous top; denim dress or pantsuit with great shoes and finish it off with diamond earrings, bracelet, a great right hand ring or a fabulous necklace.
Men: Dark denim jeans with a classic button down french cuff shirt and finish it off with diamond accent cuff links, watch or necklace.
Most importantly- Don't over do it.
If this is true, it's only because white diamonds are more popular than black diamonds. The light bouncing inside the stone is more visible in the white and lighter colors. Given two diamonds, one black and one white, of the same cut and carat weight, your 'white' diamond may be more valuable, depending on its clarity and colour.
Soot is not a colour description of gem-quality diamonds. However, soot and diamonds are both formed by carbon.The colour of soot is usually grey or black. There are diamonds with a blue-grey cast, and there are black diamonds, known as carbonado.Another AnswerApparently, diamonds are formed by detonation, based on a report, linked below, where "...we report the formation of diamonds as a chemical product of the detonation process itself. The diamonds we observe are 4-7 nm in diameter and make up 25wt% of the soot; in size and infrared spectrum they resemble diamonds similarly isolated from meteorites."The colour of these diamonds is not given in the abstract published.
Some flawed diamonds could be called translucent: generally these diamonds are given an industrial use.
No, given all else being equal: carat weight, clarity, excellence of cut.
A local jeweler will be best prepared to give you an estimate for the value of the ring, given an in-person evaluation.
No, chocolate diamonds are usually less expensive than regular -- white -- diamonds, given equal cut, clarity and carat weight.
Diamonds are not generally wasted, given their monetary value and useful value as the hardest mineral known.
Diamonds can be given on any occasion. It's a good idea, however, to limit the number of diamonds you give -- they are expensive -- and hold down your gifting to special occasions. A few could be --Engagement for marriageBirth of babySpecial personal achievementDiamonds are also given as 'guilty make-up' gifts.
Sometimes diamonds will be given during promotions.
Diamonds made in the laboratory are indeed diamonds. As gemstones, they are worth less than natural diamonds, given that all characteristics are equal: carat weight, colour, clarity and cut.
For jewelry, the least expensive diamond has a more yellow colour (M-Z), is visibly flawed (I2+), poorly cut and hasn't much weight -- less than one carat. Given stones of the same carat weight, clarity and cut, brown diamonds are not as expensive as white diamonds and black diamonds are not as expensive as brown diamonds.
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