Diamonds are boring!

[Loni Specter]

I know they are the most valuable stone, but for the life of me, I can't understand the appeal visually. I have a close friend who is a jeweler and I have held some big diamonds. I just don't feel anything special. They have zero appeal to me. I much prefer the look of most any other colored precious or semi-precious stone to diamonds.

Anyone else share my view?

[5ChordStud(ette)]

Originally Posted by Loni Specter

I know they are the most valuable stone, but for the life of me, I can't understand the appeal visually. I have a close friend who is a jeweler and I have held some big diamonds. I just don't feel anything special. They have zero appeal to me. I much prefer the look of most any other colored precious or semi-precious stone to diamonds.

Anyone else share my view?

Nope! The way a perfectly cut stone sparkles and catches the light from a million different angles is totally unique to the diamond.

Any other colored stone can be beautiful for many reasons, all valid and appreciated. However, especially when looking at a medium-large sized diamond with PERFECT clarity, color, and no flaws/inclusions, having been cut PERFECTLY (that is the key...a diamond can turn to "blah blah nothing" if cut incorrectly in even the most minute way) can take one's breath away!

Having said that, there are enough diamonds ALREADY available and on the market to sell to persons for hundreds of years I would imagine, and IMO, not a single additional person should be hurt nor a single portion of an environment raped with the singular goal of finding MORE stones. Make the ones already on the market worth that much more by QUITTING the mining process altogether.

NO ITEM, regardless of HOW beautiful, is worth the suffering that the diamond mining process has already caused hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings as well as the damage it has done to areas of our planet.

[RockNote]

My take on it is this. As the woman's beauty fades with time her wealth increases. The number of rocks she wears (in her mind to compensate) is therefore an indication of where she is on the beauty/wealth scale. So, the more rocks she has, the more removed from her youthful beauty she is.

[shane88]

jewelery is lost on me - i can see the art in making it but i can't see it making any difference to the attractiveness of the wearer

diamonds as jewelery seem to be the ultimate in wasting money on useless things - ymmv

[5ChordStud(ette)]

Originally Posted by shane88

jewelery is lost on me - i can see the art in making it but i can't see it making any difference to the attractiveness of the wearer

diamonds as jewelery seem to be the ultimate in wasting money on useless things - ymmv

In a lot of ways I do agree...I don't believe it makes the wearer any more or less attractive...

For me, it is about looking at the stone and marveling at, well, silly as it sounds, the "sparklyness" of it! It may be a "chick" thing, something we girls (and SOME boys, right??) grow up with; being fascinated by things that glitter. For me, it is not about a "look at me" thing.

Rather, it's "I want to sit here and stare at my ring in the sunlight, marveling at the fact that this is nature AND man-made...Nature formed the stone, and man cut it perfectly to sparkle and shine like nothing I've ever seen!...It is captivating!"

However, my wedding ring is a family heirloom, and didn't cost me or my husband a dime. Therefore, I have to agree...Were I to have purchased it, I would be a FOOL and I would hope everyone around would laugh their a--es off at me for spending the kind of money that it is worth on a RING...

NO amount of "sparkle" is worth that when all it can really do is just sit there and look pretty! (It REALLY does look pretty, though)...Sorry!

[Midnight Lady]

Diamonds are beautiful, but I've always been a fan of coloured stones. After two failed marriages, diamonds do not hold any special significance for me, not to say I don't like them, I just don't want one. For my ring this time, I chose a huge blue topaz which I love.

I find it interesting that jewelry which has been more or less a female concern since the beginning of time is being commented on negatively by males. Actually, if you don't like them, we don't care.

Not all diamonds are blood diamonds. Canada now has its own beginning arctic diamond industry. Many countries produce them but just not as plentifully or cheaply as the african nations.

There is something eye-catching about the sparkle of a beautiful diamond. Women are attracted to "sparkle", we just are. This also explains the love of cut glass and crystal.

[Dillow4092]

Yep boring, I'll take a tele over a diamond anyday.

[Brazen]

People put value on these things.

To me a diamond is but a rock and gold is but a metal.

[Boris Bubbanov]

If diamonds and gold could be extracted from the earth with far less impact (human and environmental) I might show some interest in them.

I chose the woods but frankly I like the maple (very renewable) and for me 1 koa guitar is enough for a lifetime.

[scottlr]

I am somewhat lucky. My wife thinks they are beautiful, but thinks it is absurd to spend thousands of dollars on a rock. She chose (for herself) a nice looking zirconia for her wedding ring. Not one of her friends has ever noticed in 18 years.

[korby]

They are a common stone made rare because one family controls the distribution of them .

[Brazen]

Diamonds has industrial uses so they're not useless after all.

[Tom CT]

Originally Posted by RockNote

My take on it is this. As the woman's beauty fades with time...

Bzzzz. Bad answer.

[wstsidela]

I know they're special by the look in my wife's eyes.

[JamesT]

Some diamonds are pretty- especially when new. My wife wanted an emerald with baggetts like cocktail ring. I like color stones, however diamonds are fun. When i was about 10 i tool my mom's inhereted 2 carret diamond from granny and wrote my name on window pane, cause I had heard if it is real diamond it will scratch glass.