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<\/a>We\u2019re going to go out on a limb here \u2013 you should buy color-enhanced (aka treated) black diamonds, not natural ones. Whoa?!? WHY you ask? Because a natural black diamond is as rare as hen\u2019s teeth, more\u00a0fragile and not nearly as consistent in color or surface quality as a treated stone. This is because in order for a diamond to be truly black it must contain a large deposit of inclusions (mainly graphite), which weaken the stone and doesn’t limit itself\u00a0to just under the surface, making cutting and polishing tricky.<\/p>\n
Treated black diamonds are not really black, but a dark, dark green. The fact is, dark green\u00a0just sits better in a diamond than black. The eyes can\u2019t tell the difference the way they can with say, navy blue, (click here<\/a> to see several great examples of black diamonds for sale from renowned online discount diamond jeweler James Allen\u2019s website. Look closely at the color and you may<\/em> be able to see a hint of green, but we challenge anyone who does not know to look for it to actually spot it on his\/her own).<\/p>\n Treated black diamonds cost far less than regular diamonds. The reason is that when you buy your diamond piece, ordinarily you optimize for the best bling for the buck (i.e.. clarity, color, and cut). When you buy a treated black diamond, you don\u2019t care about either clarity or color, so you can go pretty far down the line on those two C\u2019s and beef up on the other 2C\u2019s (carat weight and cut) and still come out way ahead. A one\u00a0carat treated black diamond on the James Allen website runs about $1.8k.<\/p>\n If you are going to the diamond district, then we recommend Diamond Envy, a Jewelers.NYC Top 10 rated jeweler<\/a>. (click here<\/a> to go to their black diamond inventory).<\/p>\n If you are buying online then we recommend James Allen: A+ rated and our #1 recommended online Diamond Store<\/a> for 2017. Click here<\/a> for James Allen’s black diamond online inventory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Black diamond, this sounds like an oxymoron right? How can a jewel that is judged on the quality of its light reflection not actually reflect light? That\u2019s a good question. We\u2019ll explain this and also why you will love owning this stone\u00a0below. Black diamonds in jewelry Black diamonds are dramatic if they are paired with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[166,171,176],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jewelers.nyc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Black-Diamond.jpg?fit=864%2C555&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5iUdo-38s","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelers.nyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelers.nyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelers.nyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelers.nyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelers.nyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12056"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelers.nyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12061,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelers.nyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12056\/revisions\/12061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelers.nyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelers.nyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelers.nyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelers.nyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Treated black diamonds also are less expensive\u2026<\/h2>\n
Where to get black diamonds?<\/h2>\n