Blue Diamond Engagement Rings Are a Great Special Choice For Those Young Couples.
Saturday, April 17th, 2010Native blue diamonds are very unusual. Just about one from each 10,000 diamonds has some color in it and a real blue diamond (aka a fancy blue diamond) is one which is a deep blue, and that is much more rare. It is possible to increase one, but it will be awfully costly–regarding 10-50 times the price of a similar quality/size diamond that has no color. You do, though, have other solutions, provided that you really desire a blue diamond in your engagement ring.
You will find several choices for blue diamonds on a budget. The first is to have a genuine diamond that could have been colored. That is done in a laboratory from a procedure involving radiation plus extreme heat. This gives the diamonds an intense tint of any shade. This is a nice choice because you are able to choose which shade and you’re using a real diamond.
You could potentially also go with a lab-grown diamond. This gem is made entirely in the lab, using hot plasma and carbon dioxide to mimic normal development. This same impurities that in nature make a diamond blue (boron or hydrogen) are added in the process in making the diamond blue. Both this process and the above process yield a surprising diamond, but the resale value is often exceptionally low.