Color enhanced diamonds also known as irradiated diamonds are 100% natural earth mined diamonds that are irradiated to get their fancy colors such as yellow, blue, red and so on. The process that they go through to get those colors is known as irradiation. Irradiation is a process that is only used on natural diamonds, which uses high energy electron particles in a laboratory to make the diamonds become their rare colors. This should not be confused with a clarity enhanced, or synthetic diamond because these irradiated diamonds are 100% natural diamonds, just irradiated to get these very rare colors. This process allows you to buy more beautiful diamonds with fancy colors for your money than ever before!
The Benefits:
1. Their Absolute Beauty: Natural Diamonds are brilliant, lustrous, and glowing, irradiating them with vivid and intense color and you get fancy vivid colors that have the same sparkle but with their new rare colors.
2. Price: Due to the diamonds being natural diamonds irradiated to achieve their fancy colors, the prices in most cases are the same as white diamonds. Natural fancy colored diamonds are expensive and out of the reach of most buyers so this process now allows the normal consumer to purchase beautiful colored diamonds.
3. Demand: Colored diamonds are now the main lines carried by most high end jewelers due to their increased demand. The public now looks to these diamonds as an ongoing trend for the future.
4. Permanence: Colored diamonds will permanently keep their vivid colors as long as they are not heated directly above 1500 degrees. All jewelers are aware of this, but should be told by you the consumer before they work directly on the item.
5. Exclusiveness: Color Diamond Jewelry is extremely exclusive and not sold by every jewelry simply due to their rarity
Color enhanced diamonds are universally recognized as well as accepted, and have become very popular as jewelers and designers have realized the potential of their magnificent colors, availability and affordability.