How to Customize Engagement Rings With Fancy Colored Diamonds
Choosing to use colored diamonds for your engagement ring is an elegant and chic way to set your ring apart from the traditional colorless diamond engagement rings. Colored diamonds are becoming easier to find at traditional jewelers, but are still more difficult to find in an engagement ring setting than a colorless diamond.
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Decide your price point. The amount you or your partner are willing to pay for the engagement ring will determine the style, carats, material of the ring, and color of the diamond. A ring that is 2 carats, but made up of multiple small diamonds, will usually cost less than a 2-carat diamond solitaire. The color will also be determined by how much you are willing to spend. Diamonds come in a wide variety of colors, but some colors are so rare that even avid collectors have not seen them in person.
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Study the different colors natural diamonds are available in and decide what color suits your personality. According to the Natural Color Diamond Association, diamonds come in yellow, pink, brown, blue, olive, gray, black, red, green, orange and purple. Blue, red, orange and green are some of the most rare diamonds and will be the most expensive and hardest to find.
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Pick a setting that suits your style and the diamond. Make sure the style and setting is something you will feel comfortable wearing all the time. Decide what cut diamond you like: round, princess, emerald, marquise, pear, heart, cushion or oval. Decide what setting you prefer: solitaire, pave, three stone, or side stones. Also, some metals will be better paired with certain colored diamonds. If you are set on a rose gold ring, a pink, gray or black diamond may suit the color of the metal better than yellow or blue. If you are one to leave these kinds of decisions to an expert, seek the opinion of a well-respected jeweler who has excellent taste.
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Find a good jeweler who has experience with colored diamonds. Though your jeweler may not carry the colored diamond engagement ring you prefer, a good jeweler will be able to find what you want or, at the very least, a ring that fits closely to the style and color you are looking for in your engagement ring.
If you are unable to locate a jeweler that carries or deals in colored diamonds, the Natural Color Diamond Association lists affiliated jewelers where you may buy colored diamond rings.
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