Welcome ezzy.

Well, David can address certain of these points more specifically. But if it's graded y-z, it's yellow. It can have fluorescence and look different. If it has a dash of brown, the gia calls it something like brownish yellow. Now there are diamonds that have a touch of brown in them that you can BARELY see and you get a good deal because of it. There are white/coloreless diamonds called "top brown" in the trade. Some of these don't show brown but can face up white.

Finding just the right one at the right price simply requires your checking the new items or this board. We've already posted some here, they've sold before ever making it to the website or ebay.

Faint pink is expensive even if it's hard to tell it's pink. The deals in pinks are getting harder to come by but David will run across one with a hint of brown. As for peach, I'll leave that one to David. He's seen far more than I have but he is on vacation right now.

M-N-O-P are tinted but they can face up whiter or yellower. But I don't think they ever face up pinkish. If you want to see brownish pink you'll have to look at brown pink, pinkish brown and some light browns that might have a pinkish tint.  The cutters are really good at spotting the slightest tint of pink since they fetch good prices.

i think when they use D-Z, it's for colorless to yellow...  when there's pink involve like light pink, they don't call it M-O which is very light yellow...  they'd call it Natural Light Pink...

Gosh, are you really going to force me to post pictures of my rings???  Oh, I guess I have been let no choice.

1. My faint brown cushion, which has been set in rose gold and really reads now set as a faint brownish pink or peach.  This one did not go to GIA, but David called it faint brown.

2. My fancy deep brownish yellow cushion - much less expensive than a fancy light yellow, but MUCH deeper in color, and everyone who looks at it just asks "Is that a canary!"

3. My mom's light orangy yellow marquise.  It looked faint brown to me when really staring at it, but looking at it on someone else's hand and in most light it looks very white.

4. For comparison, all three mentioned above together with with my G colored round brilliant in a halo of F colored small rbs.

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Wow Lion! You have a great collection.  I actually saw your marshmellow picture on another topic and was trying to figure out what color stone you had--which turned out to be the light brown cushion set in rose gold.


I am undecided, but what's the rush?  I know I won't buy a pink diamond.  It is simply out of my price range.  But this forum is really helpful in giving me some other options.

 Thanks for the input so far!

Let me just say ezzy, that there are an awful lot of CDI members kicking themselves pretty darn hard for letting the light brown cushion slip past them (myself included) - if they had seen it set and displaying so much pink, there would have been a public brawl in the diamond district......

Certainly how you set a stone can influence it's appearance to your eye and that's something you will need to consider.  I am convinced that the next time David has a stunning light brown, there will be little, if any, hesitation from the members here and it will, I'm sure, go straight into rose gold prongs.  GL's is simply incredible.

In the meantime, dive in here and bounce your ideas around - everyone here loves to discuss and help!

ezzy, here are some pics of a diamond I used to have.

It was graded at an independent lab (not GIA) as O-P.  I have showed it to a lot of people and they all thought it was more like an L-M. Since it was not sent to GIA I really didn't know for sure what color it was.

It's hard to believe it's all the same stone. In some lighting it did look very slightly yellow, yet in other light it was bright and very white.

I think the range of K to P has some really great color choices.

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Amy, I had to sell it to get something else.. of course! Wish I didn't have to, but it was necessary at the time.

And I agree that that diamond did NOT look like an O-P to me either. I bought it as an L. But the independent lab gave it the O-P grade. I never agreed with them on that!