There has been a great increase in the popularity of colored diamond rings in recent times. The who’s who of today wear various types of these engagement rings mainly because these colored diamonds are much more expensive than the usual diamond engagement rings people wear.
It is based on the color of the fancy colored diamond, and its intensity that its price varies. They are usually found in various colors like red, pink and black. Though different in color, these fancy colored diamonds have the same properties as the usual white diamonds, and thus is the right choice to make for use in your engagement ring.
These special diamond stones also found in other popular colors like yellow, black, pink, yellow, purple, orange, red, grey, blue, green, violet and gray. In addition to this, these stones are available in various browns, which are popularly referred to as cognacs.
Of the lot, the green diamond, along with the red diamond are considered the rarest natural colored diamond stones. Between a pink and yellow diamond, the pink stone is more expensive option. However they are not as expensive as blue, green and orange stones. Couples who want to exchange better valued, special diamonds with some color in it should consider buying black and brown fancy colored diamonds. This is because they are not as expensive as natural white stones.
There are various ways with which these natural colored stones get their colors. It is the radiation the stones are exposed to while under the earth’s crust that gives the green color to some diamonds while carbon and nitrogen in the crust leads to natural orange diamonds. Blue diamonds form in an atmosphere which has boron, but no nitrogen.
The Argyle diamond mine of Australia is where you mostly find diamonds in pink and brown colors while there are mines of colored diamonds in South Africa, Venezuela and Brazil.
No matter which color your diamond stone is, its pricing is based on the same grading system. The cheapest of the lot are stones with the faintest colors which gradually lead to lightly dark to fancy deep, vivid and intense stones.
Mariah Carey is one of the celebrities who has rings with colored diamond stones where hers is pink in color. Heidi Klum is famous for her yellow diamond engagement rings that is also called Canary while Carmen Electra has a black diamond ring.
In a nutshell, you can say that these colored diamond stones are a great means of merging beautiful colors with other characteristics of diamonds. Today, yellow colored diamond stones are very popular. No matter what color you may like, unlike yesterday where there were only white diamond engagement rings, you can today wear diamond rings of the same color.