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Diamond Cuts - Choosing a Dazzling Diamond

By: Grace Jennings Are you looking for a dazzling, brilliant diamond that will catch the eyes of everyone in the room? Then you need to understand the different types of diamond cuts.

The cut will give your diamond the ultimate shine and brilliance you expect from a spectacular diamond. The right cut will also help hide any flaws in the diamond, and maximize the color and clarity of the diamond.

The Ideal Cut

The three types of diamond cuts are shallow, deep and ideal. The shallow cut creates lack of light reflection off the top of the diamond, and consequently the diamond looks duller.

Even though a deep cut diamond will appear larger than it actually is, it will also be dark and dull because the light does not reflect off the top of the diamond, but instead is lost from the sides of the diamond.

As you might guess, the ideal cut is best. It is a cut that is not too deep and not too shallow, but just right for the light to reflect off the top of the diamond.

The Quality of the Diamond Cut

The ideal cut allows light to bounce off the top of the diamond at just the right angle to create a dazzling, brilliant effect. When the light bounces off the sides or the bottom of the diamond, the effect is a dull, lack-luster diamond that lacks color and clarity. The all-important diamond cut also determines the overall grade of the diamond.

Modern professional jewelers use advanced computer software to help them figure out diamond cuts that will create the most brilliant diamonds when cut. The quality of the diamond cut is dependent on the width and depth of the cut. The width and depth measurements need to be balanced for an ideal cut.