Diamonds Designers

Red Diamond

Red is the color of passion. Diamond is a girl’s best friend. A combination of the two, then, gives you an irresistible, beautiful and extremely rare gem. Colored diamonds, such as pink, black and blue, are very rare, and red diamond is one of the rarest.

Natural red diamonds are so rare, that many jewelers have never even seen one! Needless to say, that red diamonds are so rare that most people will never get to own one either. Recently, different methods of enhancing diamonds, which basically means changing their color, have been developed. The process probably recreates the conditions that existed many years ago to produce natural fancy colored diamonds. Treatments on enhanced fancy colors include irradiating them, which causes the color to change. This is followed by a heat treatment in order to stabilize the color.

It is almost impossible to find a pure red diamond, without any hues, and as a result, red diamond prices are extremely high. Some combinations of red diamonds include fancy purplish red, fancy brownish red, and the rarest, which is simply pure red.

Since natural red diamonds are so rare, yet so beautiful, many people choose to buy different gems that resemble red diamond. Probably the most popular red jewelry is the Ruby. Rubies are extremely elegant and royal, and are worn by royalty and celebrities all over the world. Prices of rubies are primarily determined by color. The brightest “red” called “pigeon blood-red,” takes considerable precedence over other rubies of similar quality. Indeed, rubies are a great substitute for those who absolutely love red diamond and red jewelry in general, since rubies are not only stunning, they are also quite common.

Pink Diamond

Who said the (copiously) rich and (mega) famous have it all? We all know that money cannot buy everything; it can’t buy love, can’t buy true friends, can’t buy happiness, and so forth. However, if you are Mariah Carey, the world’s biggest selling female artist in history, it can help you attain any creature comfort you can imagine, like super-luxurious pink diamond! Mariah Carey, one of Hollywood’s ten richest women, has been seen sporting stunning pink diamond and sapphire ring pop and a gorgeous 17-carat pink diamond engagement ring.

Mariah Carey, 40, and husband Nick Cannon, 29, tied the knot two years ago, and for their second anniversary they resolved to renew their vows: “If you were married to Mariah Carey, you’d want to marry her every year too,” a euphoric Nick tells USMagazine.com. Carey is known for her love of girlish things, like butterflies, rainbows, and anything pink. For their second anniversary, then, Cannon decided it would be a good idea to purchase the missus the gorgeous pink diamond and sapphire ring pop.

But the luxurious pink diamond and sapphire ring pop is dwarfed compared to Mariah’s epicurean 17-carat pink diamond engagement ring. Mariah, whose net worth is estimated at well over $200 million, knows how to “live it large;” private jets, boats, houses in NY and LA and much more are all part of her routine. Her pink diamond engagement ring is but a mere addition to this routine. The ring’s value is said to be $2.5 million, and Mariah said the pink diamond is “so clear, you can see [her] finger right through it.” The ring  has an emerald-cut fancy light pink centre stone surrounded by 58 intense pink diamonds, flanked by two half-moon diamonds, with the centre stone alone being 10 carats and just a little smaller than a dime.

Diamonds come in a variety of colors- gray, white, blue, yellow, orange, red, green, brown, black, purple and pink. Pink diamonds are one of the rarest and most valuable diamonds, and natural pink diamonds (as opposed to enhanced), are so rare that many jewelers have never even seen one. It is no surprise that many other superstars, fancy it so much. Indeed, Mariah has taken “pretty in pink” to a new, mostly unattainable, level.

Blue Diamond

In their purest form, diamonds are colorless. Colorless means that the stone itself does not absorb any light, but reflects all of it back to the observer, causing him to see white light, or what the human eye interprets as colorless. Blue diamonds are actually diamonds that absorb all wavelengths of light except for blue. What makes a blue diamond absorb light are impurities in its molecular structure. In the specific case of a blue diamond, that impurity is an element known as boron.

Whereas carbon, the main element of diamond, has a quadruple bond capacity, boron can only make three bonds. Therefore, when a boron atom is stuck in the middle of a lattice of carbon atoms in a blue diamond, one carbon bond is left loose, giving light a little bit of an obstacle course bouncing around a floating orbital and out of the stone. The angles the light bounces, thanks to the structure of the carbon-boron bond, make it that the only light able to be reflected off the stone is blue, creating a blue diamond. The more boron impurities in a diamond lattice, the more intensely colored the blue diamondis.

Only .01 percent of all natural diamonds mined on Earth are colored. This makes sense, in light of the fact that boron is only present in .0001 percent of the earth’s crust. This gives a hundredfold disparity between colored diamonds in general andblue diamonds in particular. This is because there are many other impurities that can yield other colors in diamonds. Blue diamonds have to be in the exact right place at the exact right time to form with enough boron in their lattice to form the blue color that makes them so valuable. All it takes is 1 boron per every million carbon atoms to do the trick.

The most famous of the blue diamonds above the earth’s crust today is the Hope Diamond. Just as with any stone that has traversed history, nobody knows where the blue diamond came from, but people speculate India. This blue diamond was passed around for centuries, ended up with Louis XIV, the Sun King who reigned for over 70 years in pre-revolution France, and was then stolen from the French royal treasury, recut, and the blue diamond somehow ended up in Washington D.C.

As for the element responsible for the blue in blue diamonds, boron continues to get the short end of the deal. But, as the cartoon Futurama often used to advertise in its heyday, “Nobody Doesn’t Like Molten Boron!”

When it’s time to buy colored diamond, be it an engagement ring, earrings, bracelet, necklace or even men’s jewelry, much thought and effort are put into the endeavor. The reason is that diamonds are an expensive matter and one must take different factors into account, aside from the initial challenging budgetary decision: the color, cut, clarity and carat weight, also known as the 4 c’s, are all things that affect the price of the diamond. For many, the color of the diamond plays the most important role in their search, often because they are uninterested in standard colorless diamond, but, rather, in colored diamond.

Fancy colored diamonds come in a variety of colors, including steel gray, black, yellow, blue, pink, red, purple, green and all intermediate shades. Natural colored diamonds get their colors in different ways. For example, green diamonds become green as a result of radiation during the diamond’s creation, while yellow diamonds are produced as a result of trace nitrogen. However, not all colored diamonds are natural, and some result from different color manipulations.

Oftentimes, gemologists take undesirable diamonds and alter their color. In this way, for example irradiation is used followed by a high-heat treatment in order to turn sallow diamonds into much more vivid and rich colored diamonds.

It comes as no surprise that many celebrities choose colored diamonds over standard ones. For one, colored diamonds are, in many people’s opinion, more beautiful and regal (of course many would disagree with this statement). Additionally,Natural colored diamonds are much more rare than colorless, and Hollywood represents the trendy, expensive and inaccessible. And colored diamonds are all of the above.

Because natural colored diamonds are so rare and can be rather exorbitant, diamond treatments (namely, color manipulations) are very common. If you are no diamond-expert, and colored diamond has always been your dream, do not be disappointed if you quickly realize that you budget would not allow you to go for natural colored diamond. However, don’t be dissuaded; although artificial, these color manipulations still make truly beautiful colored diamonds more accessible and  possible for more of us to own. Whenever you shop around for colored diamond, always assume that any affordable fancy color diamond you may eye has been treated in some way to enhance its color and other characteristics. If you do wish to procure a natural colored diamond, you should ask for a lab certificate to verify the authenticity of any color diamond marketed as natural.

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