You need to surely know what the actual worth of the diamond stone is, you are actually paying for? Not only do you shell out two months of your salary, but you are also celebrating the most joyous moment of your life.

Here are 5 simple ways along with loads of tips, techniques and ideas on how to search for the right stone:

1. Determine the Exact Carat Weight of the Diamond

A ready to wear diamond jewelry may not precisely help you find the carat weight of the stones used. But with a loose diamond, you definitely can. You need to be aware of the fact that most of diamond stones have carats marked as a decimal number. Some smart shop keepers round off a 0.89 carat stone into a 1 carat stone and the price mark-up is done for a jewelry containing a 1 carat diamond. This should not be the case. Even if the carat value of the diamond stone is lesser but the other intricate aspects like color, clarity and cut of the stone are unique, the jewelry can be a super-gorgeous master-piece indeed.

2. Count on the Tint

Color tints can be a fabulous way to gauge the value of your diamond stone. The most expensive form of diamonds are mostly the colorless or the super-transparent variety.

But in today’s modern world, quite a lot of stylish ladies buy jewelry asking for colored diamond stones as a special pre-requisite. Canary yellow or red stones are the rarest form of colored diamonds. The color grading scale follows:

• Colorless- (D-F)
• Almost getting closer to a tint (G-J)
• Faint (K-M)
• Very light (N-R)
• Light (S-Z)

3. Clarity

Clarity of the stone is an important aspect, you need to keep a track of. This is especially while you want to judge the clarity of the stone. A completely flawless diamond will have no specific surface inclusions under the naked eye or with the magnifying glass. On the other hand, the stones which have inclusions visible to the unaided eye or even surface aberrations are more likely to chip off or even crack during the longer run. If you want the diamond jewelry to stay in your closet forever, you need to follow the grading chart pertaining to clarity.

• FL refers to flawless diamonds.
• IF refers to stones that are internally flawless but might have slight surface inclusions.
• VVS1 and VVS2 refer to Very very slightly included stones- these stones have minute inclusions that are difficult to detect even under a magnifying glass.
• SI refers to Slightly included. This means the stone has noticeable inclusions visible under the magnifying glass and fewer inclusions directly visible under naked eye too.
• I2, I2 and I3 stones have maximum number of inclusions, visible both under magnification as well as to the unaided eye.

A certified diamond stone helps you identify noticeable blemishes or inclusions of the diamond stone. The price of the stone varies greatly based on the clarity factor too.

4. Cut Quality of the Stone

You can easily make out the difference between a beautifully cut out stone and one that has been cut out using poor quality. You will discover that a diamond that has been cut out with an unsurpassing degree of excellence, dazzles at every angle. In other words, all the facets of the diamond shine beautifully in any form of light. On a scale from 1 to 10:

• Ideal Cut- 0
• Excellent cut – 1
• Very good cut- 2
• Good cut- 3 & 4
• Fair cut- 5, 6 and 7
• Average or poor cut- 8,9 and 10

You need to determine the cut of the diamond stone in person, to know how it feels. The stand-alone stone can then be etched on to, varied forms of jewelry.

5. Are your Diamonds Certified?

A certified loose diamond is always a preferred buy over the non-certified ones. The certification is not done by the diamond jewelry store or its associated affiliates but by a group of third party regulating associations.

They follow hundreds of parameters to gauge the quality of the stone. Some of the well-known names pertaining to certifying associations include those of

• Gemological Institute of America or GIA
• American Gem Society or AGS
• European Gemological Laboratory or EGL and
• Diamond High Council or HRD

VanScoy Diamonds deals with certified diamonds along with other posh forms of jewelry. Reach out to the brand online by capturing www.vanscoydiamonds.com on your address bar and design your own diamond ring.