THE MOST POPULAR COLORFUL DIAMOND COLORS

Looking for color?

Want to know what’s hot and what’s popular right now?

Of course, the biggest and best selling diamond color is white. Which is actually the absence of color.

But everyone has those…

When I’m talking about color, I’m talking about blues, greens, yellows, pinks… Fun colors. Rainbow colors. Something different that dazzles and delights.

Colored diamonds:

There are two main varieties of colored diamonds in stores today:

• Man-made enhanced colored diamonds
• Earth-made fancy colored diamonds

Let’s take a closer look at them…

Man-Made Enhanced Colored Diamonds:

Man-made colored diamonds are when man enhances a diamond (usually one that has an off-yellow hue to it, like L, M, N color…), and intensifies the heat to change the hue of the stone into a lovely bright color, like canary yellows, greens, tropical blues, pinks. The temperature of the heat, and the endurance of the heat applied will dictate what color the stone changes.

This heating of the stone mimics Mother Nature (like a giant pressure cooker). The end result is beautiful diamonds of all shades, which not only look great, but are affordable as well. Just realize that not all color enhancement is permanent. Make sure you read the fine print, or inquire, because some colors will fade over time, or lighten when put back in heat (like a jeweler’s torch, or a heated ultrasonic machines).

Most enhanced diamonds on the market today are long lasting and you shouldn’t have to worry about them. Just know they aren’t the true color of the stone.

Check out the enhanced colored diamonds below:

The most popular colors are:

The best selling, most popular colors are:

• Yellow Diamonds
• Brown Diamonds (a.k.a. Chocolate)
• Black Diamonds
• Blue Diamonds

That’s enhanced… Now let’s look at fancies.

Fancy Colored Diamonds:

True fancy colored diamonds are diamond colors that come directly from the earth that hue. They aren’t enhanced or altered. The colors are real and genuine and will never fade or change. They’ve been in that stone for over a billion years already, and will be for a billion more.

Most of these curious colors are caused by outside forces; minerals, irons, nitrogen, boron, hydrogen, that mix with the carbon (like dye) and affect the tone of the stone to change it into reds, pinks, blues, greens, blacks, yellows, orange, and so forth.

They are all rare and all expensive.

Fancy color grades (9 of them) appear on the diamond color chart past Z (actually Z+). They are mainly graded for color and color only (that’s the only thing that matters). And the grades of fancy colors are determined by how intense the color is (faint, strong, evenly distributed…)

GIA Fancy Color Grades:

• Faint
• Very Light
• Light
• Fancy Light
• Fancy (Color Name; Pink, Blue, Green;)
• Fancy Intense
• Fancy Deep
• Fancy dark
• Fancy Vivid

The more vivid the color, the more rare and expensive. Right now, pinks and reds are the most rare, and hardest to locate. The most common (and popular) fancy colors are yellows and browns.

Check out these fancy colored diamonds here:

So that’s diamond color, what’s popular and what’s not.

And when it comes to color, there is no reason not to own one (or a dozen…)

Check out these stores for great deals and steals on both enhanced and fancies:

• Kay Jewelers Enhanced Diamonds
• Jareds Enhanced Diamonds
• Helzbergs Enhanced Diamonds (Select Stone Type: Colored)
• Fred Meyer Jewelers Enhanced Diamonds
• Zales Jewelers Enhanced Diamonds
• James Allen Fancy Colored Diamonds
• Blue Nile Fancy Colored Diamonds

Cheers! :)