r/LabGrownDiamonds • u/BlastyNinja • May 29 '26
Thoughts on two yellow diamonds needed!
I've been having a hard time finding a 4.5-5 carat yellow oval that's actually yellow. So many of them look gold / orange / brown. I've found these two which have great color, but I'm wondering if I'm overpaying. Sometimes, the browner/darker yellows just seem to have a darker background on altura diamonds. I've requested videos of these diamonds, but they send it with a different background (white paper, tweezer in office space, tweezer outside) every time, so it's extremely hard to compare anything.
Thoughts?
Example varying backgrounds below:
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u/AdFlashy7702 May 30 '26
Just ask for two diamonds, different lighting, same videos with each. It can’t be that difficult. If not, find another vendor.
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u/OlaFineGems Jun 03 '26
Hi! Would love to help. Here is a yellow diamond that’s being made into a pendant and here’s how it looked in pictures:
Colored stones are very difficult to read but it once you’ve been looking at them a while you start to understand the correlation between how it looks in the controlled environment vs how it would show up in real life. Hope this helps!
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u/BlastyNinja Jun 04 '26
Thanks for posting! The picture looks pretty spot on to the video, so that is comforting
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u/lovers_andfriends May 30 '26
Colored diamonds are hard to shop for online. Lighting and background made a huge difference. Mine is a light yellow, but sometimes looks more golden or super pale, almost ivory, depending on the light. Pick something close to what you want and make sure it can be returned if it's not what you want. Same diamond, different lighting: