Tag: diamond buying guide
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How to buy a diamond online safely: verify the grading report, insist on video and returns, check the seller, and avoid the tricks that cost buyers money.
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How diamond prices are built: carat weight thresholds, cut, eye-clean clarity, colour, fluorescence, the grading lab and shape, and how to get the best value.
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What diamond clarity grades actually describe, why most inclusions are invisible without a loupe, and how to judge a stone as eye-clean.
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Lab-grown diamonds are real diamonds. How they are made, how labs tell them apart, how the price gap has shifted, and what resale and environmental claims mean.
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Cut is the one diamond factor decided by people, not nature. How proportions, angles and finish create brilliance and fire, and how to read cut on a report.
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All ten diamond shapes compared: brilliant versus step cuts, how each wears on the hand, length-to-width ratios and the weak points to check before you buy.