In this video we will compare the color and prices of diamonds and at the end of this
video I will demonstrate why color is something you might want to cut back on if price is
an issue for you.
We will compare all the diamond color shades in this video to the shades D G I and K of
diamonds. First let's look at the color shade D. This is the best color grade and is a beautiful
colorless diamond. Now let me bring this up on the screen and you can see here if you
bought this diamond from Kay Jewellers with a D shade and the rest of these specs you
would pay nine thousand seven-hundred dollars for the diamond. Now I will link to a website
below where you can find diamonds and the diamond with the same specs that we just looked
at Kay Jewellers is four thousand nine hundred ten dollars which would save you four thousand
seven hundred ninety dollars.
Now let's look at the shade E which is still classified as a colorless diamond. Now if
you compare it to the shade D which you can see over on the left. You might not even notice
a difference. But if you compare it to the shade G right next to D you can see it's much
more clear because you jumped 2 shades.
Now I took a picture of a diamond that is a carat one point two nine. And it was six
thousand one hundred thirty eight dollars. This one was about four thousand three hundred
twenty dollars. Which would save you about one thousand eight hundred nineteen dollars
online.
Now for the F shade. You can see that the f shade now looks closer to G than it does
to the comparison of the D color. Now lets look at a shade F diamond from Kay Jewellers
we will look one up that is two carats with not that great of clarity and its about seventeen
thousand dollars now the Kay diamond compared to an online diamond from the link below is
ten thousand three hundred and ten dollars. Which would save you about six thousand six
hundred ninety dollars. Now we get to shade G which is already one of the shades we are
comparing but it is considered near colorless. Now if we look at a diamond that is just a
small point four three carats from kay jewellers and the specs let's say it has really good
clarity and a good cut it's about one thousand seven hundred fourty dollars. You can find
an online diamond with the same exact specs for about nine hundred and sixty dollars and
you would save seven hundred eighty dollars altogether.
Now for the H shade in my opinion when picking out a diamond this is lowest color I would
go because it still looks really colorless unless you compare it side by side to other
diamonds and the H shade you can actually tell looks a little bit more yellow than G
and a little bit lighter than I. Now for this example I decided to use an expensive 3 carat
diamond from kay jewelers. This diamond is about eighty-two thousand three hundred dollars.
For the same three carat diamond that I have linked to below it is about thirty-nine thousand
six hundred fourty dollars which saves you fourty-two thousand dollars. That is over
fifty percent of the diamond.
Next we move on to the I shade. The I shade is still actually considered near colorless.
Now we look at an I shaded diamond from a jewelry store. And this one is point seven
carats and is near two thousand one hundred and fourty nine dollars online. Now we take
the same specs and we put into the diamond finder that we have linked to below and it
is one thousand one hundred sixty dollars which is a difference of nine hundred and
eighty-nine dollars.
A J colored diamond is the last diamond considered near colorless but for most people they say
it is a little too yellow. Since price is set by carat and not by color this one point
two J colored diamond from a mall retailer is six thousand four hundred dollars and from
an online store it is about three thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars for the exact
same diamond. You can see that buying diamond online will save you a lot of money as opposed
to buying from a brick and mortar jewelry store.
The minimum color you should choose is a K shade. It is considered faint yellow and in
my opinion people will notice that it is a yellow diamond in certain lights even without
other diamonds to compare it to. At a Helzberg Jewelry store a K colored point nine carat
diamond with really good clarity is four thousand eight hundred and seventy seven dollars and
two thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars from the link I have in the description below
this video. A two thousand eighty seven dollar difference.
L and M colored diamonds are way too yellow unless you want a yellow diamond but I put
them on here just for comparsion. There shouldn't be too much of a need to go this low. For
example two online diamonds that are the same specs except for one is K and one is L is
only about one hundred and ninety dollars difference. If one hundred and ninety dollars
is worth it to you then I say go for the L shade diamond but it will be noticably yellow
in bright lights.
Now I believe that color is where you can really cut back on the price of diamonds and
here is why. These are three diamonds I took pictures of. Now do this activity with me.
Only looking at the diamonds decide which one you think is the most impressive. Not
the one that is most colorless, just the one that peaks your interest the most. To me the
lower left is the most beautiful diamond of the three and then the one on the right and
then least of all is the one in the upper left. Now if you look at the specs actually
the lower left one has the lowest and worst color of the three. The upper left has the
whitest of the three which is the color F. And to make matters worse you can tell that
the lower left diamond was actually taken in a more yellow light. However the diamond
in the lower left has a better clarity and a better cut which gives it a better sparkle
and is more impressive and would probably say it is the most beautiful of the three
diamonds.
This tells us two things diamond color comparison as good as the light that you see it in and
how close you look at the diamond and second is that how much the diamond sparkles and
its size is much more impressive than the color. Now if this doesn't make sense to you
watch my other diamond videos and you will understand more about cut, clarity, you will
get size comparisons, you'll learn how to buy diamonds online and where to cut costs
on diamonds. And I have linked to in the description below this video the best place I found to
buy diamonds. Like, subscribe and let me know if there are any videos about diamonds that
you want.