With all the weddings in the coming months I decided I better start tanning so that I don't look ghostly in my dresses. Having a baby makes tanning a little more difficult, so I figured I would squeeze it in on my lunch break, and went for the first time in a long time yesterday. I typically don't wear jewelry when I go in a tanning bed, but because of the time crunch I decided to leave my wedding ring on. While getting toasty in the bed I looked down at my ring and under the UV lights to my surprise, the far left diamond on my ring was bright blue--not just the top, but the sides, the entire thing! I panicked and my mind immediately raced back to February when I got my bands soldered to my engagement ring, and I went home to show David. His response to my ring was, "Your ring looks smaller. You know, sometimes they switch out diamonds on people." At the time I thought about it for a second, and then assured myself that that would never happen to me. Well, after spotting the "blue" diamond on my finger I thought, just what if he was right...
I got back to work, and got on the phone with a well-known jeweler in town (not the store we bought through) and spoke with a nice lady who had by chance just taken a class on this sort of thing. What I learned was reassuring and interesting. She said that because diamonds come from the ground, and because there is gas in the ground, it is very common for a ring to have a blue hue to it, making a diamond sometimes show intense blue phosphorescence. She assured me that this does not make a diamond more or less valuable, it's just one of the unique traits of shiny rocks:) She also had a neat story for me about a rapper, Chingy who frequently stopped into St. Louis store location she previously worked at. He had requested a diamond bracelet with only strong fluorescence diamonds, that way, when he went into night clubs that had black lights his bracelet would light up, but there's a kicker...he wanted the blue hue of the diamonds to spell out his name in the bracelet, so that it would read "Chingy" under the light. Sounds like a LOT of money, doesn't it? Well, not to a once famous rapper. I can't imagine the amount of money he put down for that jewelry, but the woman I talked to said it is possible. That's the neat thing about those diamonds, you can mess with them, so they were able to make his request happen.
While I don't think I'll be making any absurd requests in the future for diamonds that shine my name in a black light, I do have a good story now that I can share with my friends and family. I hope you enjoyed it, too.
I got back to work, and got on the phone with a well-known jeweler in town (not the store we bought through) and spoke with a nice lady who had by chance just taken a class on this sort of thing. What I learned was reassuring and interesting. She said that because diamonds come from the ground, and because there is gas in the ground, it is very common for a ring to have a blue hue to it, making a diamond sometimes show intense blue phosphorescence. She assured me that this does not make a diamond more or less valuable, it's just one of the unique traits of shiny rocks:) She also had a neat story for me about a rapper, Chingy who frequently stopped into St. Louis store location she previously worked at. He had requested a diamond bracelet with only strong fluorescence diamonds, that way, when he went into night clubs that had black lights his bracelet would light up, but there's a kicker...he wanted the blue hue of the diamonds to spell out his name in the bracelet, so that it would read "Chingy" under the light. Sounds like a LOT of money, doesn't it? Well, not to a once famous rapper. I can't imagine the amount of money he put down for that jewelry, but the woman I talked to said it is possible. That's the neat thing about those diamonds, you can mess with them, so they were able to make his request happen.
While I don't think I'll be making any absurd requests in the future for diamonds that shine my name in a black light, I do have a good story now that I can share with my friends and family. I hope you enjoyed it, too.
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