How Do You Decide on a Diamond Color?
If you are thinking about purchasing diamond jewelry, it is important to understand diamond clarity and color, since this is such a major investment. You hear all the time about the four C’s of diamonds: carat, cut, clarity, and color. The first two are easy to understand. Carat is how much the stone weighs (and in many opinions: the bigger, the better). Cut means what shape you want the diamond in. Many people think that diamonds all have to be colorless in order for them to be considered a diamond. This is not true. Others think that there is something wrong with diamonds if they do have color, making them less valuable. This is also untrue. Most could not begin to explain what clarity is. A lot of first-time buyers get in trouble by not understanding. How else can you be expected to know if you are paying a reasonable price? When diamonds have color, it is because there are imperfections in the diamond. These imperfections contain different elements, like boron and hydrogen, which g
