THE BEST WAY TO LEARN ABOUT DIAMONDS

“Psst…”

You will never totally understand diamonds until you learn this secret:

Get a closer look.

Hearing about diamonds, reading about diamonds, studying diamonds and looking at diamond diagrams won’t help you very much. You must do one simple thing…

Take a hands on approach.

Experience is where you really begin to learn. It’s applying practical knowledge. Seeing with your own eyes. Taking a hands on approach makes everything click in place. It’s like a light bulb going off in your head. That ah-ha moment. A book can’t give you that.

Until you physically go to a jewelry store (or buy your own microscope or a 10x jeweler’s loupe) and really start to Look at all the diamonds in detail, all the diamond information, terms and 4C’s are pretty much useless.

You have to see it to believe it.

How can you decide if fluorescence will be harmful to a diamond’s beauty until you see it?

You can’t.

You will never fully comprehend the differences between an SI1 diamond and an I1 diamonds until you actually put them side by side.

It’s like buying a diamond and only looking at the certificate. That’s crazy (like buying a car and only looking at the window sticker). You can’t buy a diamond based solely upon it’s stats.

Stats don’t show you how beautiful a diamond is, or how much brilliance and sparkle it gives off.

You have to see these with your own 2 eyes.

So what’s the best way to learn?

There are 3 easy steps that make learning about diamonds fun and painless…

1) Talk about diamonds:

Chat with the salespeople in the jewelry store. Ask questions. Try to understand why one diamond looks better than another. Talk about certification and Culets and facets and symmetry. Get to know them.

Use my diamond guide to really open your eyes.

Soak up as much info as you can.

2) Microscope the diamonds:

This is probably the number one way in the world to understand, study and learn about diamonds.

You have to look at them. Really look at them.

Close up.

Under 10x magnification.

Get into the microscope and don’t be afraid to dissect the diamond. Looks at the flaws and inclusions. Look at the girdle and the laser inscription. Look at how the facets line up.

Spend some time looking at the diamond from all depths and focal points. Turn the diamond around, look at it from the side and upside down through the pavilion.

Learn about the diamond inside and out. Find out what makes it tick.

Diamonds are a microscopic world that are fascinating and wonderful. Once you see a diamond under a scope or a 10x jeweler’s loupe you will finally begin to understand what a bearded girdle is. You’ll see what a fish-eye looks like.

All the things that you hear jewelers talk about will finally become crystal clear. It’s like zen: You will gain clarity. :)

You’ll learn about eye-clean diamonds, questionable SI2 diamonds, trigons, cheap I3 diamonds. It will open your eyes and you’ll never look at diamonds the same way again.

Microscope the diamonds. It will change your whole point of view.

3) Compare the diamonds:

Put 2 different clarities of diamonds (VVS and VS) under the scope one after another. See why one is graded higher than the other.

Compare like qualities (SI1 and SI1) under the scope. Notice how different they are even though they are graded the same way.

Compare an average quality diamond (SI1) to a Flawless diamond. It will make you understand more.

Compare color. Compare cut grades. Does the diamond leak light?

See why one diamond of the exact same carat weight can be thousands of dollars more than another.

It can be the difference of a single black carbon spot at just the right angle.

Study diamonds:

Until you really start to study diamonds, you may never really know what good quality is and what bad quality is.

You have to get in there, discuss them, look at them, compare them. For until you do…

You will never feel totally comfortable dealing with diamonds.

Plus, you will always feel like you are getting ripped off.

Word of advice:

Try it. You’ll like it.

Diamonds are SOOOOOOO cool. I Love looking at them under a microscope.

Swing into your local jewelry store today. Take a peek. Talk about diamonds. Buy a certified diamond (GIA only). Dig in. Get your hands dirty.

The 4C’s?

That’s as good a place to start as any.

Learning about diamonds is the first step into a stunning world of light, life and fire.

And even a better place to start is with James Allen. You can see, compare, and spin all the different quality of diamonds, right here on your computer. It makes learning fun and easy.

Cheers! :)