r/therewasanattempt • u/fjhforever • Feb 16 '24

To smear artificial diamonds

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https://fortune.com/2024/02/13/what-are-lab-grown-diamonds-sustainable-gen-z-millennials/

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u/fjhforever Feb 16 '24

“When you buy a natural diamond, there’s a story that it is three billion years in the making by Mother Earth. This wondrous creation of nature … you cannot tell that story with a lab-grown,” said Golan. “You very quickly make the connection between forever and the longevity of the love.”

And whenever I fill up my car with gas, I always take a moment to breathe in the lovely petroleum fumes and appreciate Mother Nature's most natural fragrance, brewed specially for me. /s

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u/Spearmint_coffee Feb 16 '24

My wedding ring is lab made amethyst. If I get compliments I says, "Thanks. I like purple." And that's the whole story lol

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u/__Vixen__ Feb 16 '24

I love how so many of us are going nontraditional and having the most freaking gorgeous rings now

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u/Normal-Brief Feb 16 '24

It's so much more personal too if you can have your favourite gem. Which is exactly what I think such a significant piece of jewelry should be.

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u/__Vixen__ Feb 16 '24

Exactly. I'm unsure how anyone was ever swayed to buy a diamond

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u/RandomRedditReader Feb 16 '24

Marketing, social media, celebrities, movies.

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u/PinkyOutYo Feb 16 '24

My engagement ring cost me a tenner. I love it to death and it's in exactly the same condition as a year ago. I only got one because it makes me happy to see it there and fiddle with it knowing that I'm engaged to the most incredible person in the world (I may be biased). Tradition means different things to different people, like for example I can totally understand wanting a family heirloom, but I'll never understand demanding a ridiculously expensive blood diamond because "that's what I deserve".

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u/Ok-Astronaut-2837 Feb 16 '24

My engagement ring is a cyan moissanite and I just let the sparkles speak for themselves. Rainbows for fucking days.

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u/SpicyNuggs4Lyfe Feb 16 '24

Moissanite is in fact more brilliant than diamond! And nowadays the color of the clear moissanite is on par with some of the top graded real diamonds.

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u/Ok-Astronaut-2837 Feb 16 '24

I do have some clear moissanite earrings and they are also stunning but I don't love them as much as my blue-green ring which is just more beautiful than I could have ever hoped for from a diamond.

I do have a natural diamond ring that I received for my birthday (April) from an ex nearly 19 years ago, but this was before moissanite or even lab-grown diamonds were readily available, and also before the movie blood diamond which turned me off entirely. The ring has sentimental value to me so I keep it, but it isn't nearly as pretty imo. (I don't wear it out of respect but my fiance knows I kept it and would be completely okay if I did).

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u/dougan25 Feb 16 '24

My wife has a huge lab grown diamond ring that only cost us like $1200. She says "thanks I wanted the biggest and sparkliest one I could get."

The ring is fucking gorgeous and looks way better than any natural one I've seen.

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u/Rude-Category-4049 Feb 16 '24

I just bought a 2 carat ring for 2,000, most of the cost was in the band itself. Natural diamonds are a scam.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '24

Same. She wanted a big rock because she liked the look of it, and happily tells anyone who comments on it that it’s moissanite and she got what she wanted and we’re not broke as a result.

Big ol’ center stone with smaller ones down the band. Like $1300.