10k let's go! All the way up...I'm just kidding... Hi Everyone! Welcome back to my channel, this is
Bonnie with By Bonnie Jewelry, where I talk about all things diamonds! YES! We hit 10k subscribers!
I can't even explain to you...the morning that I woke up...and my excitement...we were like 10k!!!!
in bed...and my husband was like what's going on...?! Thank you so much!! I know
I promised in a few videos ago you know...if I hit 10k...I was gonna do a full breakdown of my ring.
I really didn't understand that people took it so serious like...as soon as it hit 10k...I got like
DMs...like comments in my last video like..."Oh we hit 10k! Now we're gonna see your ring...right!" Thank you
for being so curious of my stuff...we're gonna do a full breakdown of my ring...to give you a little
backstory...because I love storytelling...so when I first got engaged a long time ago...I didn't always
have a round diamond...okay...back then cushion cut was like the oval now you know...everybody wanted a
cushion cut back then. At first I wanted like...okay, I don't want a circle because everybody has circle...
or round...circle...I'm a gemologist...I shouldn't be saying circle....but round okay, so I said like...
okay...I want something different...cushion was the shape! At first the story was that my
husband...now husband then boyfriend wanted to pick it out for me and I was like...
NO!
Because I wasn't gonna get something that I...like I just don't like surprises...so I actually was
the one, who picked this stone...picked the setting and put it all together and you know...
gave it to him....fast forward like 10 years later...he recently had just upgraded me to this
round diamond...for those of you who are wondering...what is the carat weight...it is a 5...carat
and the reason why I don't always answer everybody's questions of like..."Oh, how big is your diamond?"
Just because...it...it's my personality like... I in general...I'm not a showy...I think I'm pretty
loud...like the way I am and the way I dress or whatever...like my personality is like
you know...out there, everyone can hear that I'm here... Bonnie's here...I'm just not the kind of person be
like..."Oh yeah...like look at me...look at this like..." I'm just not like that if I wear something
like this...it's just because genuinely I love it myself and I don't really care if I show it to you
or whoever...so maybe that's why I don't always like to answer things but I guess by demand...I have to now!
So yeah...the story is I was with a cushion cut diamond and then you know...years later I just...
I grew out of it let's just say...I'm not tired of it because obviously I still have my stone and I look
at it all the time and I'm thinking about changing it...maybe putting it into a necklace or a ring...
I haven't figured it out yet...I kind of just grew out of that shape and I wanted something you know...
I had the whole like...halo I had the whole like... Eiffel Tower...everything....like 3D pave everywhere...
and for me...I grew out of that because I wanted just a stone...and a larger stone and the
simple ring, so hence the solitaire, which I'll be showing you close up in just a second...wait!
And then my wedding band though...I did not change. My original cushion was 3.5ct
This was actually a matching Cushion cut Eternity Band that I made back then with it...and for those of you
who are constantly asking about the millimeter... It is...I'm just gonna do a slow-mo...4 point
2...2 so basically 4 millimeter...and because it is cushion not round...the carat weight is
going to be slightly different...and for those of you who are wondering like..."Oh what's the
difference between cushion and round...?" On an eternity band...so round typically
will give you a slightly larger facing up look... 4 millimeter round versus a 4 millimeter cushion...
Because square...they carry slightly more weight on the bottom...the carat weight is gonna be different!
For those of you who are thinking about an eternity band and like..."Oh, I don't know what
shape I should go..." Honestly...unless you absolutely cannot live without cushion or love cushion...
how it's like...slightly soft, which is honestly I personally still absolutely adore my wedding band!
and I'm not changing it to round...for me...I don't know because it still carries the original
sentiment of the cushion cut, that I had... and I just love it! I love my cushion cut band!
It's beautiful and it's cushion brilliant... so versus the...there's a different kind of
cushion, which is like the heavier...we call it like "crush ice" cushion, that's a different cut...
So this is true cushion brilliant matching, which is really hard to do...and they're cutting less and
less and less of cushion cuts like that...so for me I really appreciate that and I love it and
I don't mind that you know...it's a mismatched shape...it doesn't have to be matched all the time...
This is what it looks like on my finger...so typically at first when I got this ring...this
upgrade I thought that I would maybe just wear it by itself sometimes and wear the band
on the other hand...so but then I ended up actually only always wearing them together...I don't know why
I don't for...just a single ring unless it's a 3 stone ring...I feel like...like I'm engaged...
like this...and then it's kind of odd like..."Oh are you engaged...?" and with my previous ring too because...
I had this split shank with a halo...I couldn't wear a flush band with it or just any type
of band that didn't look weird with it... So I never wore a band...I always wore my engagement
my bands separate...on separate hands, right! So that kind of...I don't eventually kind of just bothered me...
So, I decided that I wanted a solitaire, that fits kind of you know...more flush with my ring...
So another thing that I talk about in my videos is flush band...no flush band...so for this type of size
of a carat...Honestly any diamond is going to be very hard to get a flush band...just because
the nature of the size of the carat...okay! The way, I obviously didn't want something completely super
tall profile...so I added diamonds on either side but because I was gonna wear a band next to it...
You still see that there's a slight you know...gap there but it doesn't bother me at all...I love it!
If you wanted to add diamonds...I wasn't able to do diamonds like this...kind of flush, we had to go
into the ring...meaning we had to curve the diamonds in and set it in a tilted way, which is
really hard to do...and this type of pave work it takes very very highly skilled jewelers, that has
been working on jewelry pieces for many years to perfect...I love my ring from the side profile...
It's comfortable, it definitely you know...doesn't bother me at all...I love having the diamonds but it
is very labor intensive...to have that done and just for those of you, who are wondering what
is the millimeter of my ring...it is 2.4...okay! It is 2.4 millimeter and a 5ct round...
All right, that's it for the full breakdown of my ring! I hope for those of you, who have been waiting
this was satisfying for you to watch! Keep hitting that subscribe button! Keep sharing my videos! I love
love love educating you guys! Last night I went to a party and some of my friends were like...
"Oh...we actually watch your video..." I was like...totally surprised! You know...it's...I talk about jewelry...so
I thought like...maybe not everyone's interested in it but they were telling me that, they are learning
a lot! So I'm glad that...I'm being able to...I'm just able to share all that information with you guys...!
So that you can learn more about jewelry and diamonds in general...okay!
Thank you so much! Follow me on Instagram! I can't wait to see you in my next video...bye!
YES!! We're gonna keep going up...100k here we go...!!!