Be In The Pink With Your Valentine's Day Jewelry Gift




Vivid Violet-pink bicolor sapphire gemstone ring with diamonds

 If you want to give a serious Valentine’s Day jewelry gift, but not a diamond gift just yet, consider giving pink sapphire jewelry.

 

PINK SAPPHIRE COLOR SHADES FOR ALL MOODS

 

Pink sapphire color shades range from vivid African Songea fuchsia and hot pink tone gemstones to the ubiquitous pale baby pink gems from mines all over the world.

Here's a tip:  Look for your favorite Crayon color, there's sure to be a sapphire gem that matches it.

A color-shifting sapphire is a special treasure that changes color depending on the type of light illuminating the stone.

THE BEST GEMSTONE SIZE FOR THE BEST LOOK

 

Sapphires are at their very best at 1 carat or larger. Smaller gemstones don’t have the dazzling, colorful light play of larger stones.  Also small carats of lightly tinted pink sapphires can look very pale and lifeless.  

A solitaire, one carat or larger is vastly more impressive than a multiple gem setting of five 0.2 carat stones.

Buy pink sapphire jewelry without accompanying diamonds to save money.

THINK TWICE BEFORE BUYING THESE SAPPHIRES

 Don’t spend your hard-earned money on manmade stones.

 Choose naturally-mined stones instead.  They are widely available and value priced. Color saturated, orange-pink sapphires from African mines are truly a great buy now.

 Of course, most sapphire stones are color-enhanced and heated.  More and more, sapphires are enhanced with bulk diffusion which uses radiation to improve color and enhance clarity by removing perceived imperfections.

WHY SOME SAPPHIRE IMPERFECTIONS LOOK GREAT

Inexpensive, unique-looking, highly-included sapphires can be a great jewelry gift choice for a woman with bohemian "BoHo" fashion style tastes.

On the other hand, flawless, unheated, naturally mined sapphires can be more expensive than comparable diamonds.

Don’t overlook highly included sapphires with naturally occurring, visibly embedded mineral crystals or “silk”.  These imperfections make sapphires come alive in a wide variety of natural and artificial light sources, in my opinion.

GEMSTONE HARDNESS

 

Sapphires are almost as hard as diamonds.  These gemstones require strong settings.  I only buy sapphires in settings that have at least 4 prongs or in a bezel to keep the gems secure.

There’s something very mesmerizing about all sapphires and they are especially pretty in pink.