Lab-Grown Diamond

[Anonymous]

Would you take a lab-grown diamond in your engagement ring if it meant you could get a bigger stone? I am leaning toward yes but I wonder if it will secretly always bug me that it's not mined, you know? Just wondering what other people think.

[Anonymous]

If there’s not a difference in how it looks and you like the size better, I say go for it. But I have not idea what the price differences are.

[Anonymous]

What's the difference? If it was something like .78ct. natural vs 1ct. lab grown I'd say just take the natural. But if you'd get 3ct. instead of 1, I say hell ya girl get that rock.

[Anonymous]

I frequent a jewelry forum and there’s a term we use called “mind clean.” For example, some people feel the need to have a flawless diamond because even if the flaws are invisible to the naked eye, the owner would still know they are there and it would bother them. So only you know whether a lab grown stone would be mind clean for you.

Personally, I love sapphires and have bought several lab sapphires. Some are stunning but I just never wear them because they don’t wow me, maybe because of the mind clean aspect.

[Anonymous]

They are real diamonds and literally jewelers can't even tell without running it through a machine to test for carbon. Doubt some snooty moms at your future kid's prep school will be able to tell from across the carpool line. So yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's the difference? If it was something like .78ct. natural vs 1ct. lab grown I'd say just take the natural. But if you'd get 3ct. instead of 1, I say hell ya girl get that rock.

It would be like 2.5-3 instead of 1, yes. So, a pretty significant change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's the difference? If it was something like .78ct. natural vs 1ct. lab grown I'd say just take the natural. But if you'd get 3ct. instead of 1, I say hell ya girl get that rock.

It would be like 2.5-3 instead of 1, yes. So, a pretty significant change.

Shit. Yeah, do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I frequent a jewelry forum and there’s a term we use called “mind clean.” For example, some people feel the need to have a flawless diamond because even if the flaws are invisible to the naked eye, the owner would still know they are there and it would bother them. So only you know whether a lab grown stone would be mind clean for you.

Personally, I love sapphires and have bought several lab sapphires. Some are stunning but I just never wear them because they don’t wow me, maybe because of the mind clean aspect.

Hello fellow PSer

[Anonymous]

Okay. So pro is that it's doubling the size and a Botswanian child didn't have to die for it. Con is that you would know a Botswanian child didn't have to die for it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are real diamonds and literally jewelers can't even tell without running it through a machine to test for carbon. Doubt some snooty moms at your future kid's prep school will be able to tell from across the carpool line. So yes.

No they are not real diamonds. Real diamonds took over 3 billions years to form, under the immense pressure of the earth. That's what makes them so special -- and so valuable. Man made diamonds are not "real" and that's why they are cheap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are real diamonds and literally jewelers can't even tell without running it through a machine to test for carbon. Doubt some snooty moms at your future kid's prep school will be able to tell from across the carpool line. So yes.

No they are not real diamonds. Real diamonds took over 3 billions years to form, under the immense pressure of the earth. That's what makes them so special -- and so valuable. Man made diamonds are not "real" and that's why they are cheap.

No they are real. They are quite literally the exact same thing; the atomical makeup is identical.

And they are valuable because DeBeers has a stockpile and jacks up the cost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are real diamonds and literally jewelers can't even tell without running it through a machine to test for carbon. Doubt some snooty moms at your future kid's prep school will be able to tell from across the carpool line. So yes.

No they are not real diamonds. Real diamonds took over 3 billions years to form, under the immense pressure of the earth. That's what makes them so special -- and so valuable. Man made diamonds are not "real" and that's why they are cheap.

Then how come the FTC recently ruled you can't describe lab diamonds as "synthetic," genius?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I frequent a jewelry forum and there’s a term we use called “mind clean.” For example, some people feel the need to have a flawless diamond because even if the flaws are invisible to the naked eye, the owner would still know they are there and it would bother them. So only you know whether a lab grown stone would be mind clean for you.

Personally, I love sapphires and have bought several lab sapphires. Some are stunning but I just never wear them because they don’t wow me, maybe because of the mind clean aspect.

Hello fellow PSer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are real diamonds and literally jewelers can't even tell without running it through a machine to test for carbon. Doubt some snooty moms at your future kid's prep school will be able to tell from across the carpool line. So yes.

No they are not real diamonds. Real diamonds took over 3 billions years to form, under the immense pressure of the earth. That's what makes them so special -- and so valuable. Man made diamonds are not "real" and that's why they are cheap.

Lmao you and your "real" diamond really ain't that special, sis.

[Anonymous]

I'm a 44 year old white Southern Belle. I can see an F vs a C color diamond from across the room. And don't get me started on occulsions.

Synthetic is better for the Environment and if no sweet child is harmed then it's one million percent better.

Case closed.