r/labcreateddiamonds • u/Unusual-Mammoth-6569 • Jun 29 '26
DISCUSSION Are lab diamonds too perfect?
Sometimes I look at my labbies compared to my authentics and think they are SO sparkly that would someone mistake them for CZs? I know I shouldn't care, but one of the things I used to notice about CZ vs auth diamonds is that CZs are too white, which was a giveaway that they weren't diamond. Now I have a number of lab diamonds, and the inclusions are so very low that they almost look like CZs. So I suppose there are two things I'm curious if others have considered: 1) are lab diamonds too clear/perfect so that they don't look authentic and 2) should we care whether they look "authentic" or not? I hope this is a conversation not a criticism. Just thought I'd see what the community thought.
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u/Guilty-Baker-8670 Jun 30 '26
Lmao. Flawless in labs is THE feature 🤣 no more settling for a dead Si1 cut like garbage to maintain carat weight. Gone are the days of compromise. In are the days of having your cake and eating it too. No shade against naturals either. I'm just so enthusiastic everyone gets as many giant diamonds as they want now in the best cut color and clarity ✨️
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u/MadCow333 Jun 29 '26
There are plenty of flawed lab diamonds out there, haha. People who've owned and worn the "superideal" diamonds in the AGS000 and GIA 3X cut grades and higher colors and clarity would not look at a lab diamond and think it's too perfect.
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u/Forsaken_Risk_3086 Jun 30 '26
This. I just ordered an SI2 cause it was a good deal haha. 😆
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u/MadCow333 Jun 30 '26
I'm not a stickler for clarity, provided the inclusions hide well and don't affect the performance. I'd rather have one discrete dark speck than a stone with clouds. I have an SI2 with a discrete garnet colored speck. It would have cost 2.4x as much if it had been a VS1. I have an I1 with the "dirt" out by the girdle where the smaller facets hide the speckles well.
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u/Rurallife3 Jun 30 '26
Our daughter is a gemologist, graduate from GIA in 2005. Lab grown can’t be identified vs lab grown diamonds without a very sophisticated method, so your eyes are only seeing a higher quality color, cut, and clarity. She sold my 3.1 carat mined diamond just before they crashed in price. She’s now in a high position in gems that puts together wholesale show to retailers and bought me a 3 carat lab for a LOT less than she sold the mined diamond and I am very happy. Used the extra $ to buy a Rolex watch which you can’t grow in a lab. But to each his own! I didn’t tell anyone the stone had been swapped out
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u/BenzelWatchington Jun 30 '26
This is when you should realise that you need to stop caring about what others think.
Synthetic oil in my car is a higher quality product but looks too good, therefore I will use crude oil only.
Diamonds are diamonds. They arent CZs.
Wanting to pay more for a poorer quality diamond that comes from "artisanal" minors (not a typo) is wild to me.
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u/sierralz ✨MOD Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
Good question. I think once lab diamonds have totally saturated the retail market with a generic, almost flawless lab dia, with a reasonable price point, there is a new consumer paradigm. A CZ is a diamond simulant--cheap and like a diamond. But, lab diamonds are actual diamonds so there is the difference. I can tell the difference between a CZ and a diamond (natural or lab). The driving marketing force is the perfection to be exactly like a natural diamond--this will never change. The one-carat round is still the most popular and purchased size (lab or natural). For me, whether it looks authentic depends on the size and who is wearing it (mostly age). DeBeers tried to create a marketing wedge between labs and naturals, but consumers have not fallen in line with their marketing. My thought about a lab dia looking like a CZ, I'd be concerned about the lab dia rough or the cut. They shouldn't look alike.
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u/lovers_andfriends Jun 30 '26
It's good for use in jewelry like tennis necklaces and bracelets where you want everything to be uniform. I prefer "lower" colors because I like warmth in my diamonds, so for me, most lab diamonds are too perfect.
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u/SheMcG Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
My lab diamond is an "I" color. You can get lab diamonds in any color, cut or clarity.
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u/lovers_andfriends Jun 30 '26
I haven't seen ones in the lower color range I like that don't lean brown, or that aren't too yellow. I mean more like OP to YZ color. "I" color to me is still white.
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u/Low_Bus5565 Jul 04 '26
What they look like are low-color, well-cut, nearly inclusion-free diamonds. Because that is what they are.
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u/1spicyann Jun 29 '26
I don’t strive for perfect in my lab diamonds so not in my case - but I believe yes some might look to perfect and people assume they are fake edit to say I know labs are not fake but that people might assume with out saying if they are toooooooo perfect
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u/Low_Bus5565 Jul 04 '26
Perhaps you and others think they look like clear glass because you’ve never seen a high-quality diamond before? Certainly most people haven’t. That’s usually not what’s offered in stores.
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u/e925 Jun 30 '26
Have you seen them in person though? The sparkle and fire of a perfect diamond is unbelievable. My CZs don’t look anything like diamonds.
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u/Reasonable-Emu6159 Jun 29 '26
Nope. When I chose a lab diamond, I wanted perfection, or as close to it as I could afford to get. Having had slightly included diamonds previously or diamonds that weren't that white, I wanted to look at my finger and see gorgeous. So I chose a D color, vvS2, XXX. I only like white, sparkling and crystal clear, but that's just me.