Natural Pink Diamonds–Your Shopping Guide for these Rare Diamonds

Executive Summary About Pink Diamond Ring By Anne Moss Rogers

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Pink diamonds, unlike 1 carat round colorless diamonds, are truly rare. In fact, pink is one of the rarest colors. Only red diamonds (never seen one) and blue diamonds are more rare.

Pink Diamond Grading–a Reader’s Digested Version

Size and clarity are less important than color when it comes to pink diamond pricing. I’ve seen faint pink that looks pink enough when set in pink gold to be desirable and faint pink that you can’t even tell it is pink. Add a qualifier like “brownish” in the color pink, like brownish pink, and the price falls dramatically. Then there’s purple with grades like purple pink, purplish pink, pinkish purple, pink purple and more. Valuable Pink Diamonds & Unusual Shapes

You don’t usually see many round pinks in large sizes because cutting a round diamond wastes diamond rough. No one wants pink diamond dust.

The GIA Report–the only report for a pink diamond

You pay the high price of a pink diamond, you should expect NO LESS than a genuine GIA report. It can be a full report or a GIA Color Origin Report. The GIA tests for natural color. And GIA is the gold standard of reports and the only lab that knows colored diamonds. A GIA Color Origin Report is an acceptable report and only reports on color, carat weight and size. The GIA substantiates that the color is natural. Irradiated pinks are not priced on nearly as steep a scale as the natural colored pink diamonds.

Shopping for a Pink Diamond

Few jewelry stores or personnel know anything about pink diamonds. Choose one that carries more than two or three colored diamonds. Choose a dealer with a track record and an established reputation for carrying colored diamonds. A colored diamond, particularly a pink, is NOT a diamond you want to buy sight unseen for a number of reasons.

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