Gifting Diamonds to Your Spouse is Now Affordable

Diamonds are a woman's best friends. Probably easiest way to delight your wife is by gifting her a set of diamond jewelry. Women simply adore owning diamonds. But problem is most natural colored diamonds are rare and are so expensive that they are almost out of reach for most middle class men. Thankfully gemologists developed different new treatments like irradiations etc due to which it is now possible for even middle class men to afford diamonds. They look so identical to original diamonds and it is very difficult to make difference between them with natural eyes.

These kinds of diamonds are available in vivid range of fancy colors. While shopping for such diamonds you need to presume that any affordable fancy colored diamond is treated. You can even ask for lab certificate to verify the authenticity of these diamonds. Such fancy colored diamonds are a rage these days. Such diamonds are made by treating certain less desirable diamonds with irradiation followed by intense heat. This turns yellowish and brown diamonds into different stunning beautiful colored diamonds like reds, greens, purples and blues. Though these colors are permanent if they are exposed to heat they may loose their color a bit.

A "fancy" diamond is just a natural diamond that has different vivid and attractive colors. These colors vary from green, red, violet, purple, orange, pink and blue and most other shades between. Fancy color shades of these diamonds vary from faint to intense.

Synthetic colored diamonds are also an option for the guys who cannot purchase high value original diamonds. These synthetic diamonds are also real diamonds but they are created in lab! Actually natural fancy color diamonds get that color from certain trace elements present in stones ex: elements like nitrogen produces yellow diamond. If they are exposed to radiation during its creation they can be given the desired color. Green diamond is good example for such diamonds.

Another way due to which a natural colored diamond gets its color is by inclusions. Inclusions give brilliant flashes and unique tones to a fancy color diamond. These diamonds look so real that they are being sold as real diamonds by some dupes. So be careful while shopping for such diamonds if you are paying price for original diamond always ask for authenticity certificate from a respected grading lab before you purchase.

The Tiffany Diamond and the Hope Diamond which are green and blue are the most famous colored diamonds in the world. These diamonds have an amazing financial track record. Since more than 30 years the value of these has been increasing consistently. Blue and pink diamonds showed a remarkable double value for every 5 years of a strong economy.