Lab created are better. Than can be way more clear and you can get the colour you want much easier and cheaper than the artificial price of nature made.
Also, nobody is killing people of lab made diamonds.
Diamonds are actually more common and have less intrinsic value than multiple other gemstones, it’s just the diamond cartel that marketed them and controlled supply, and still controls much of the industry, top to bottom that made them desirable.
Diamonds are kind of neat chemically and structurally and they have some useful properties for industry… but why would you want to make jewelry with the equivalent of white bread when there are so many other more interesting options available (and often for less money!)? Setting aside the cartels, warlords, and anything else, I’m continually amazed that people actually prefer the least interesting shiny rock on their decor.
@chienfou Oh, I have plenty of disparaging opinions about natural diamonds as a commercial commodity, but as for the intrinsic merits of the two stones just as decorative items in comparison to each other, I really don’t give a rat’s ass about either one.
@werehatrack
So my point is you have an opinion. Lab diamonds are better than natural diamonds as a commercial commodity.
Having absolutely no opinion about something is actually very difficult. You always have a positive or negative or neutral opinion, but an opinion nonetheless.
@chienfou@werehatrack That’s true, they didn’t specify it had to be an opinion on the aesthetics, and value/worth/desirability is a function of many different facets (pun intended! ) of a commodity.
Neither. My wedding ring has birthstones for the two of us. Never thought diamonds were worth all the hype. But in general I do prefer natural stones. Just not diamonds. I would rather have white topaz or something like that as accent stones, because you can get them in a size you can actually see without the obscene price. Still relegated to accent stones, because the colored ones are so much more interesting.
Lab created is clearly preferable, but better still is lab-created moissanite (though I think all commercially available moissanite is lab-created) which is cheaper and even more brilliant than diamonds, while being very nearly as durable
Lab diamonds are too generic and can have exact matches. I prefer each one to be unique.
That said, I hope the lab created diamonds drive down the price of natural ones and put the cartels and the harvesting thugs out of the diamond business.
Turned away from it all like a blind man
Sat on the fence but it don’t work
Keep comin’ up with love but it’s so slashed and torn
Why, why, why?
Love
Insanity laughs under pressure we’re breaking
Can’t we give ourselves one more chance?
Why can’t we give love that one more chance?
Why can’t we give love, give love, give love, give love
Give love, give love, give love, give love?
'Cause love’s such an old-fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves
I use a couple of CZ post earrings as my default keep-the-holes-open appliance, but I wouldn’t buy a diamond if they were one tenth the price that they are now - because that would still be too expensive, for what they really are.
I prefer lab created, but my jewelry has to be real gold. The difference is so obvious. Plated or even filled looks so much cheaper and fake.I wear lots of cz in my earrings, but it’s all real gold.
@Fuzzalini For a lot of people (and not just women), gold is the only tolerable metal to use for earrings. Even some sterling and surgical steel can give certain people problems.
I bought my wife a pair of lab grown 1CT earrings. She loves them. They are beautiful like her. They sparkle and you’d never know the difference if you didn’t examine them closely. She’s happy, I’m happy. It’s not a status thing for me. Science is fun.
Lab created are better. Than can be way more clear and you can get the colour you want much easier and cheaper than the artificial price of nature made.
Also, nobody is killing people of lab made diamonds.
@yakkoTDI Agree on both counts.
There’s too much pressure! I can’t make up my mind.
@mcanavino “If you can’t stand the pressure, get out of the lab…”
or something like that
@mcanavino Does that mean you are a diamond in the rough?
@Kidsandliz “touch nothing but the Irk!”
How does a dog create a diamond?
@awk So THAT’S where the different colors come from!
Diamonds are actually more common and have less intrinsic value than multiple other gemstones, it’s just the diamond cartel that marketed them and controlled supply, and still controls much of the industry, top to bottom that made them desirable.
@kevinrs And their propaganda, without which people wouldn’t think the things were so stupidly valuable.
They are both shiny rocks. I’m cheap and would 10000% buy lab created over natural any day of the week.
Diamonds are kind of neat chemically and structurally and they have some useful properties for industry… but why would you want to make jewelry with the equivalent of white bread when there are so many other more interesting options available (and often for less money!)? Setting aside the cartels, warlords, and anything else, I’m continually amazed that people actually prefer the least interesting shiny rock on their decor.
@jsfs
I agree completely. I’d rather have any number of other gemstones, including those that are considered to be only “semi-precious.”
@jsfs marketing Baby!
@jsfs To be fair diamonds actually come in many colours it is just the bland ones that are what make it the most common gemstone in the world.
Case in point the Aurora Butterfly of Peace. Made from 240 individual diamonds.
@jsfs @yakkoTDI True. That’s gorgeous; I would go for the colored ones. But the prices are still higher than they’re worth, to me.
@Oldelvis no one can escape evil marketing.
@yakkoTDI I’d heard of a couple of other colors but that’s a lot. That’s a neat arrangement.
I answered “no” because I really could not care less about either one.
@werehatrack
I guess that’s the difference between opinion and attitude.
@chienfou Oh, I have plenty of disparaging opinions about natural diamonds as a commercial commodity, but as for the intrinsic merits of the two stones just as decorative items in comparison to each other, I really don’t give a rat’s ass about either one.
@werehatrack
So my point is you have an opinion. Lab diamonds are better than natural diamonds as a commercial commodity.
Having absolutely no opinion about something is actually very difficult. You always have a positive or negative or neutral opinion, but an opinion nonetheless.
@chienfou @werehatrack That’s true, they didn’t specify it had to be an opinion on the aesthetics, and value/worth/desirability is a function of many different facets (pun intended!
) of a commodity.
Neither. My wedding ring has birthstones for the two of us. Never thought diamonds were worth all the hype. But in general I do prefer natural stones. Just not diamonds. I would rather have white topaz or something like that as accent stones, because you can get them in a size you can actually see without the obscene price. Still relegated to accent stones, because the colored ones are so much more interesting.
Lab created is clearly preferable, but better still is lab-created moissanite (though I think all commercially available moissanite is lab-created) which is cheaper and even more brilliant than diamonds, while being very nearly as durable
Lab diamonds are too generic and can have exact matches. I prefer each one to be unique.
That said, I hope the lab created diamonds drive down the price of natural ones and put the cartels and the harvesting thugs out of the diamond business.
@hchavers Uniqueness can be overrated. My fingerprints are unique & do nothing but get me in trouble!
@hchavers @ircon96 Have you considered gloves? Or acid?
@blaineg What are you, a cop?
I plead the fifth! 
Monopolistic cartels and propping up warlords and other despotic regimes vs. lower carbon footprint and major price savings.
I can’t decide. It’s such a hard subject.
Moissanite is lab created and superior to diamonds for jewelry in every way. Sooooo sparkly!
@kostia Alanis Moissanite?
@baqui63 you oughta know
@kostia Moissanite can be either natural or lab-made, but there’s no grossly abusive industry mining it.
Diamonds are a girl’s best scam.
Turned away from it all like a blind man
Sat on the fence but it don’t work
Keep comin’ up with love but it’s so slashed and torn
Why, why, why?
Love
Insanity laughs under pressure we’re breaking
Can’t we give ourselves one more chance?
Why can’t we give love that one more chance?
Why can’t we give love, give love, give love, give love
Give love, give love, give love, give love?
'Cause love’s such an old-fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves
I use a couple of CZ post earrings as my default keep-the-holes-open appliance, but I wouldn’t buy a diamond if they were one tenth the price that they are now - because that would still be too expensive, for what they really are.
I prefer lab created, but my jewelry has to be real gold. The difference is so obvious. Plated or even filled looks so much cheaper and fake.I wear lots of cz in my earrings, but it’s all real gold.
@Fuzzalini For a lot of people (and not just women), gold is the only tolerable metal to use for earrings. Even some sterling and surgical steel can give certain people problems.
I bought my wife a pair of lab grown 1CT earrings. She loves them. They are beautiful like her. They sparkle and you’d never know the difference if you didn’t examine them closely. She’s happy, I’m happy. It’s not a status thing for me. Science is fun.
They are expensive either way