Throughout the centuries, every period of time has have its own fashions and trends in jewelry, which in this century are more focused on the color of diamonds and appropriate metal selection when it comes to engagement rings.
The popularity of colored gems is the result of tendencies arisen from famous jewelry designers, including Bailey, Tiffany, Banks and Cartier. Pure white diamonds set in platinum, silver, or palladium rivaled with diamonds which impurities cause yellow, brown, blue, green, or pink colorations, colors that match better with gold settings.
The more rare the color of the diamond the more original the engagement ring or bridal jewelry setting could be. Today’s modern diamond trends are focused on gems which coloration covers the full brown spectrum.
Unbelievably, you can find diamonds ranging from the smoky quartz color, to tones resembling agates, topaz, and tiger’s-eye. There are also diamonds ranging in color from champagne, brown gold, cognac, wood, and chocolate, although, not all these colors occur in diamonds naturally.
Of course, every jeweler has a selection of classic white diamonds, along with other rarities such as costly pink diamond settings, but the main characteristic in all those pieces of jewelry is that none of them follows a unique design pattern. In addition, there is a new thin diamond hard coating that enables the fancy coloration in diamonds, such as the popular deep-pink purple diamond.
Some fancy diamonds use a coating produced by boiling the gems in sulfuric acid. This is the method used to obtain the trendy brown diamonds since it is sulfuric acid that will reverse the color of the gem to its natural mineral carbon color.
Contacting your jeweler will allow you to learn more about modern diamonds cuts such as round brilliant, oval, marquise, pear shaped, heart shaped, emerald cut, princess cut, trilliant, radiant, and cushion cut diamonds, as well as different settings, including prong, bezel, channel, bead, cluster, flush, and ballerina settings.
Related to size, bigger seems to be the new trend. The days when a one-carat solitaire was the traditional engagement ring have gone. Today, solitaires are not less than three carats and more commonly found weighing five carats and above, following with the trend made popular in 2006 after some celebrities wore larger engagement rings.
Vintage styles remain strong among the favorites, but all with a modern touch and set in white metals rather than the traditional yellow gold. Brown jewels and earth tone diamonds are classy and look great. However, it is hard to determine the quality of a coated or treated diamond since clarity, color, and cut grading are altered.
People should consider that trendy diamond jewelry might become demands in a short period of time. Coated diamonds are also susceptible to scratches that may require reverting the coating to leave the stone as it was originally, or requesting your jeweler to add a new coating that might damage the metal setting if it has alloys.
If you want a modern diamond, try to stick as much as possible to the four C’s to determine the quality of the jewelry because after all a diamond, coated or not, is forever.
