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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fake diamonds are a lot like fake designer bags. If you truly know diamonds, in the bigger stones you can tell the difference. Real diamonds are just more complex (less perfect) than fake ones. I have a 2.25 diamond engagement ring (real) and 2.0 fake earrings. You can tell the difference. So I end up wearing my real 1.0 real diamond earrings instead. [/quote]

OP. In what way can you tell the difference? I have to admit I am confused by this, given they are graded the same and are supposed to be identical visually because they have the same chemical composition. [/quote]

Most real diamonds that people can afford have flaws in them. If you look at them even with the naked eye you can see the flaws. Even "flawless" will have something in the stone that makes them unique in character. "Fake" diamonds are generally perfect. Like glass. My 2 carat fake diamond earrings look .... vacant, if you will.

The question is are you trying to pass off the fake as real. If so, I go back to the designer bag. As an example, someone who knows Birkin bags can spot a fake in an instant. If you don't really know Birkins, then if you see the basic design then you might not know the difference. So the question becomes, are you trying to impress people who don't know better? Which if fine, as long as you are not trying to impress people who do know the "product". No different than any "real" item, be it watches, handbags, diamonds.

And if you are not trying to pass off a fake diamond as real, then why get one at all? Why not do something differently fabulous instead. A gorgeous blue sapphire set off by smaller real diamonds, as an example. [/quote]

I am still a little confused, to be honest. Both natural and lab diamonds come in a range of color and clarity. You can buy a crappy quality lab diamond with inclusions just as commonly as a crappy quality mined diamond. If your lab grown diamond studs look like glass compared to a mined diamond, that goes against all side-by-side comparisons I am seeing. Are you sure you’re talking about a lab diamond and not something else?

IMO, it’s a very different equation than a handbag - and I am a high-end bag lover who would never purchase a replica to pass it off as real.

Let’s say I decide to get a lab diamond. Am I supposed to say “thanks, it’s lab grown” to anyone who compliments me on it? Truthfully, it’s a diamond either way. We can easily afford either, and no one who knows me would assume it’s out of the realm of possibility for it to be a mined diamond anyway. [/quote]

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