Distance holiday has been very close, I believe that everyone is about to fall year-end bonus bag. How do you arrange your benefits? Buy yourself a new phone, a new HHKB keyboard, the latest MacBook or a fund? Last year, I used a monthly salary and year-end bonus to buy a customized diamond ring for my beloved “Daning”.

This article is a practical guide to buy diamonds, not abuse dogs, I believe that digging friends will use.

Is a diamond ring worth buying?

To the uninterested eye, a diamond is nothing more than a lump of carbon, a substance that can be made artificially. The way I see it is that someone we don’t love is just a carbon-based life.

Diamonds are the hardest substance on earth: 58 times harder than anything found in nature. The average yield from most diamond mines is one diamond for every million pieces of rock. Most diamonds are naturally formed more than a billion years ago, deep in the earth’s mantle, and are the only gemstone made of a single element, carbon. The rarity and purity of diamond can not only represent the purity of love, but also represent people’s desire for a long time of love.

Even if you don’t agree with any of the above reasons, there will come a time when you won’t be able to choose a diamond ring for your date. Since the fate can not hide, as the first collection of this guide 😆.

Diamond brand

Diamond brand general atmosphere of two categories: custom and finished. Finished product brand is when you go to buy a diamond ring, choose a good style, direct payment to take goods to leave; Custom brands, as the name suggests, allow you to customize styles. If you are not short of money, Cartier, loveforvenus, Tiffany and other international brands (it is said that buying in Hong Kong is cheaper than in the mainland). If you are a poor kid like me, THEN I suggest you don’t consider domestic brands such as Do and DR, which are expensive in marketing. Like international brands, they will design a touching love story for each diamond ring. Why should a straight guy like me pay for someone else’s love? Besides, it was a fake story concocted by someone else. After communicating with daning, she and I were on the same page, Nice. But if you find your date has been brainwashed by one of these brand slogans, don’t squirm. Calculate down in addition to cost-effective not high besides, also do not lose anything.

How to customize a diamond ring

Compared to buying a finished product, though, customizing a diamond ring can be tricky. But trust me, your date will be impressed by the way you take this strategy seriously.

Choose naked drill

Here are the parameters that affect the price and the quality of the bare drill. I spent a few nights working on the strategy. Here is a summary of my experience for you.

  • GIA certificate: one of the certificates must be selected GIA certificate, GIA number will be laser to the diamond ring, acceptance of this is the proof that you verify this is real drill.
  • Stone weight: we usually say carat unit is CT, carat below the unit is minutes (PT), a carat is equal to 100 minutes. But a carat is about 30,000 yuan, far beyond my budget at that time. If you don’t plan to buy more than one carat, use 70, 60, 45 points to communicate professionally.
  • 3EX: Select EX(Excellent) for cutting, polishing and symmetry. As a diamond ring, we must choose a good cut diamond to highlight the beautiful fire color of the diamond, that is, more flash more bright. The other three levels of VG represent Very Good; G stands for Good; Fair stands for so-so. You can literally feel the chain of naked contempt.
  • Non-fluorescent: Be sure to go with None. A fluorescent diamond looks foggy, and if you have to choose between a stone weight and a fluorescent one, you’d rather go with a lighter stone than a fluorescent one. (I personally compared the effect of one carat with fluorescence and 50 minutes without fluorescence, and the degree of flash is uncomparable)
  • Clarity: In the process of diamond formation, it is inevitable to mix impurities, which will affect the clarity of the diamond. The grading of diamond clarity refers to the division of the visibility of the internal and external features of the diamond under a 10 times magnifying glass. When examining the diamond, the clerk will ask you to check the waist and the clarity of the diamond as expected under a 10x magnifying glass. Admittedly, the higher the clarity, the better, and the corresponding price has skyrocketed. In order to take care of the stone weight, we chose VVS1 and VVS2. It was harmless (VVS is Very Very Slightly Included). I had a hard time seeing the impurities at 10x.
  • Color: The color of the diamond refers to the white-light yellow range of diamond color from white to light yellow. Set color D as the whitest, and then arrange the color in alphabetical order until the color is closer to canary yellow. If the budget is limited, I suggest you choose F and G colors. At that time, the F color I chose was out of stock and almost overdue, so the manufacturer upgraded it to E color for free.
  • Shape: this depends on personal preference, of course, the more complex the shape, the more complex the cutting, the more expensive the price.

From the pit

  1. Custom brands also have off-the-shelf designs to choose from, unless you really like their designs. Or we choose a big brand design, to customize a it does not smell?
  2. Booking global drilling: Global drilling this custom cycle is long, but the price is relatively cheap. It is worth noting that some customized brands of global drilling you buy after no after-sales, can not discount for new. Don’t be tempted by low prices. At that time, I chose the global diamond after-sales, can be discounted for a new brand.
  3. We are responsible for professional strategy, the woman to communicate the price can avoid being ripped off to the greatest extent.

Drill tower

After choosing the naked diamond, we’re done with the crazy part. Choose drill support is to choose a style. Work with the object to choose the style we like. When I got to the customized place, I took out the picture and asked the clerk if I could do it. You usually get a yes.

We chose a main diamond with two broken rings, which we both liked when we saw it. Surprisingly, this style makes up for the lack of a main diamond carat.

Unfinished story

“Daning” at my lowest point like a light into my heart, I failed to buy a Tiffany is a big regret. I’m gonna have to make up for it.

As I write these words, Daning and I have been in love for 453 days. Life is short, the rest of your life is long, hand in hand with your son.