Diamonds are beautiful and expensive. They are beautiful even when they are small, but they do not, perhaps, look quite right to your eyes. Is there a way you can make your beautiful engagement ring look bigger and more impressive without spending any more? Of course, there is! Let us look at five of them:
Big Face!
Choose a diamond cut that has a broad face. This can mean sacrificing the depth of the cut to have a wider face, but the diamond will still sparkle beautifully, and it will look much bigger than it is, for the same price as you would pay for a smaller seeming, deeper cut stone which has only a little more sparkle. Experts recommend rounded diamonds (round, oval, or pear-cut stones) as these give the illusion of being bigger, so make sure you check out some comparisons.
Raise the Setting
Choosing a diamond setting that holds your stone slightly proud of the band is an excellent way to ensure that your diamond is shown off to its best and looks bigger besides. This illusion is caused because the onlooker’s eye will assume the diamond is sunk into the band, which will make it seem much more impressive to them.
Minimal Prongs
If you opt for a claw setting, ask the jeweler to keep the prongs as slender as is safely possible. The less of the diamond that is covered up by the setting, the larger and more impressive it will look. It will also benefit from the optimal amount of light flooding into and around the stone which will make its sparkle even more impressive.
All in the Band
While your setting can hold the diamond up, giving it a larger look, you can also team your small but perfect solitaire with some companion diamonds. Pave the shoulders of the band with tiny melee stones or chips and this will mean that the collective sparkle coming from your beautiful engagement ring will blur the small stones into the big one, so it looks as though your engagement diamond is absolutely enormous even if it is not!
Halo It!
Opt for a halo setting on your diamond engagement ring. The effect is even more striking than having a decorated band as, in a halo setting, the biggest single stone is surrounded by a host of smaller ones in a tight – as the name implies – halo. The affect from a short distance away is one of a very large single stone, and the sparkle and scintillation are likewise enhanced. However, the cost will be vastly reduced as small diamonds cost exponentially less. With the right halo setting, you could end up with two or three carats worth of diamonds in your engagement ring for what you would pay for a single one-carat stone.
The most significant way to get a BIG-looking diamond is to choose the best possible cut quality in the first place. A perfectly cut diamond will unleash light and fire from every facet giving a larger overall appearance. These Whiteflash 1 carat diamond rings champion diamond cut, giving an incredible face-up value.