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3 Stone Diamond Rings – Three Times As Nice!
It is said that the stones in 3 stone diamond rings represent the past, the present and the future. Just as a couple unite these things when they join together in marriage, so three stone diamond rings represent perfectly all that has made each...
Different Types of Acne, Different Treatments – Cystic Acne Treatment
Acne can range in severity from a relatively small number of whiteheads, to a proliferation of cysts and nodules, which can be as physically painful as they are psychologically upsetting. Severe cystic acne can be resistant to most treatments, and...
Discover Your Housing Value System
Are you stuck trying to make a housing decision? Small wonder. Your housing decisions are about everything in your life, and they involve your inner motivations and desires as well as finances, design and logistics. Consider this. Our relationship...
Loose Moissanite Stones, A Great Way to Buy Your Moissanite Wedding Jewelry.
Moissanite is fast becoming the new diamonds. The newest jewelry stone on the market, moissanite is fashionable. Moissanite stones are manufactured to exacting standards, and so produce fine quality jewelry. And loose moissanite stones, being ...
SUMMERTIME SALADS
Summertime - the living is easy - or it should be! Meals are lighter, and usually taken outdoors. Appetites are not receptive to hot, heavy food, and cooking time should be at a minimum. So what’s the solution - when you come home after a day’s...
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Diamond Alternatives – There Are Some Great Options
There is little doubt that diamonds are one of the most elegant of the precious stones, and that diamond jewelry is simply a joy to wear. Unfortunately, though many of us are unable to afford the diamond jewelry we would so dearly love, as the great beauty and value of the stone are translated into the price that you have to pay to own one. Enter diamond alternatives.
Traditionally, it was seen as a great compromise, a disappointment, to be forced by financial considerations into choosing from one of the diamond alternatives available, but thankfully, in this age of technological advancement, there are real alternatives to diamonds, stones that capture the same beauty, without compromise.
Most of us, when thinking of diamond alternatives, consider more traditional replacements, such as cubic zirconia, first discovered in 1937. First sold for mass consumption purposes in the 1980s by the jeweller Swarovski, it gained great popularity at first, but later came to be considered as unfashionable and undesirable, a far cry from the real thing.
But if it is the real thing that you are looking for, but without the enormous price tag that goes with it, then there is a new alternative that is so close to diamond in appearance that it is even fooling the
experts. Diamond alternatives don’t come any better than this.
Moissanite is the latest diamond alternative, and in some ways it is even superior to the ‘real thing’. Moissanite has a similar pattern of refraction to diamonds, unlike diamonds, it is hexagonal – which, to the lay person, translates into facet edges that are doubled when compared to diamonds, producing a stone that is twice as glittering as its ‘real’ counterpart. As those in the know would say, moissanite offers a gem with twice the fire of a diamond.
Gone are the days when diamond alternatives were second best. With developments in the gem trade like moissanite, our choices are expanding and we will, no doubt, soon find that diamonds are not our first choice in the finest jewelry anymore.
Diamond alternatives are more and more popular, and now are so good that they are as appealing as diamonds, but at a much reduced cost.
About the Author
Find out more about Man Made Diamonds as well as Alternatives to Diamond Rings and other types of Moissanite rings at Peter's website, The Magic of Moissanite.
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