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Can you really tell the clarity of someone else's diamond unless you ask? I'm feeling a little bad about my ring.

It is about the same colour and clarity as most certificated rings you could pick up in a high street jeweller here in the UK and certainly not F or IF, but I have to confess that I generally can't spot the clarity of a ring at a glance.

I see sparkle, and generally higher quality stones have more sparkle than lower quality ones. But no, I can't tell the difference between an SI1 and a VVSI at a glance. All I care is that my stone sparkles like crazy. It's perfect. :)

@lovekiss: Peole are always telling me it's really sparkly but it gets smeary any time I touch it so I'm forever polishing it with a glasses cloth (nothing to do with clarity, I know, just more of an issue to its sparkle than anything else).

@rachgirl82: That's a really sensible way to look at it. I didn't even look at it as a negative thing until someone else said it was as it's the same quality as most jewellers here sell.

I don't have many pictures of it at the moment, just one from the day he proposed (with the bottle of bubbly the ring was tied to) and one where I was actually taking a shot of my nails.

@Sunshine1810: Thank you. I'm being totally daft. I must suffering from PMT. I only have my forum panics when I'm pre-menstrual.

@SpecialSundae: Your ring is very lovely. And i'm not saying that because mine is so similar or anything. LOL FWIW, my center stone is E, SI1, Excellent Cut, No flourescence

@lovekiss: Thank you. Mine is H, SI1 (I think), no fluorescence and I have no idea about cut as it's an antique cut. I was actually really pleased that it was a fairly decent quality because it's so old (at least 1940s and possibly earlier as it was my Grandma's and may have been a family diamond before that).

@rachgirl82: Thank you too. They're step-cut baguettes but they have sharp corners rather than the cut off ones that emerald cuts have. I'm not sure what they'd be called.

I actually had a funny moment in a jeweller when I went to see if I could get a silver and CZ replica made for when we travel and they actually took it through the back to make sure it was a real diamond because it looks a little unusual (I think due to the antique cut).

@rachgirl82: I'll ditto that. It's an amazing band!

Thanks. I lurve my band and I can't wait to wear it!

@SpecialSundae: I think it's so cool that you get to wear a piece of your family's history. <3

@lovekiss: I have my mum's engagement ring too, which I'm thinking of passing on to my brother if he ever gets engaged so we have more family rings moving on. I was meant to get some of the diamonds out of my granny's ring but it went missing after her death so the money from the insurance claim paid for our wedding rings.

We're big on family rings in our family. My aunt and cousins have pieces of my great aunt's ring (it was huge so it was split up).

@SpecialSundae: That's so sweet of you to want to give your mum's ring to your brother. Mr. LK's parents have passed, and I wear his Mom's engagement ring every day. His dad gave it to his Mom on the night of their senior prom. And it's the ring Mr. LK proposed to me with because he knew I wanted to choose my own ring. I love wearing a piece of her jewelry every day and knowing that, in doing so, I am helping to keep their memory alive.

@HappilyEverAfter54: That looks absolutely gorgeous. 

@MandyCakes: Gosh, that's gorgeous. All of these rings are stunning. I feel so much better. I was starting to feel like everyone but me had perfect D/IF stones.