Avoid Buying Cheap Engagement Rings

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Let me tell you this, the worst financial and relationship decision you could ever make would be geeting your future brides cheap engagement rings and telling them they are the real things. Many men have been caught by their bride-to-be, right after she returned from the local jewelry store. You might think that you are safe because they do not find out right away, believe me they will know later on when their fingers turns green.

If you want the marriage to last, of course you do then don’t buy her a cheap engagement rings. Instead, save a lot of money and try to impress her by designing the engagement ring yourself. Because you will have to choose the precious stones to be used, if you don’t mind breaking the tradition, why not get her involved.

Precious Stone

A gemstone or gem — also known as a precious stone or semi-precious stone – can be cut and polished so that the mineral can be used to make jewelry. Most gemstones are very hard, and this attribute can be used in detecting imitate cheap engagement rings. Of course, the small number of a gem greatly affects its value. Genuine gems besides being hard have attributes of a refractive index, dispersion, specific gravity, cleavage, fracture, and luster.

Diamonds

Real diamonds — not the counterfeit ones found in cheap engagement rings – are a girl’s best friend. The diamond is a gemstone whose value is decided in a different way than all other gemstones. Traditionally, a diamond is valued mostly for its physical properties such as hardness and brilliance.

Rubies

Ruby originates from the Latin word “rubber,” which means red. Rubies have an ancient history in civilization, being the most repeatedly named precious gem in the Bible. They are known as one of the four precious stones, rubies have a hardness level of 9 on the Mohs scale, but diamonds are the hardest of all, with a level of 10. Oftentimes a bogus, fake, cheap engagement rings can be uncovered by the recipient trying, and failing, to cut glass with the “diamond” or “ruby” gemstone.

Sapphire

Being as hard as a ruby, with a 9 on the Mohs scale, sapphires are used in many applications in addition to jewelry, such as infrared optical components, watch crystals, and wafers for the deposition of semi-conductors. Although blue is known to be the normal color for sapphires, they can be found across a full range of spectral colors like brown, colorless, grey, and black. Some natural sapphires are totally transparent, or “white.” Sapphire are light grey or brown when they first being taken out of the ground, but they become clear when they are heated. Be aware of cheap engagement rings with sapphire that are imitation.

Emerald

Emeralds have a hardness of 7.5 on the Mohs scale and are included, so their brittleness is classified as generally poor. Emeralds have many shades of green and bluish green. There is a big spectrum of clarity, depending on the inclusions and fractures in the crystal. Remember that there are a lot of imitations, cheap engagement rings out there that are very difficult to detect. I believe you know this, if the deal appears too good to be true, then it probably is!

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