3 Carats

my diamong color is H and 3 carats please help?

gia certified 3 carat h color si 2 clarity and i am seeing a faint of yellow ,sometimes, is there anything i can do at all it didnt look like that in the store it lookes way less colorless although it is near colorless when we bought it for 20,000 dollars!

Public Comments

1. You need to take it to a certified jeweler. Preferably one not associated with the people who sold it to you. Y!A users can only help you so much. You didn't even show a picture, but besides, your diamond needs to be looked at up close.
2. Well, what type of background are you viewing your diamond against? Remember that the backgrounds chosen in diamond stores are chosen for the specific purpose of making certain that the diamond is shown in its best light. Since your diamond is an H, your diamond is not colorless, but near colorless. It is only colorless when viewed through the crown of the diamond. The yellow you see is from the Nitrogen atoms that are dispersed through the gem. Still, you will want to have someone appraise it, and not the store that you bought it from.
3. If your diamond is certified by the GIA (with recently graded stones it should have the GIA markings laser engraved on the girdle) then you can be sure that information is correct. The stone will not change colour. H colour in a 3ct. stone will pull a small amount of yellow to the trained eye. You also need to consider other points, your ring may have got dirty - diamond has a great affinity for grease. Try using a soft tooth brush with mild washing up liquid making sure you get in behind the stone and rinse in warm, clean water. You may also be noticing a property known as dispersion, which is high in diamond, and is responsible for the stone's ability to split light into the colours of the rainbow and results in you seeing flashes of all the colours that make up white light including yellow. Lastly you need to realize that shop lighting is designed to show a stone at its absolute best and it is colour balanced to hide as much of the diamond's natural body colour as possible. The only light by which to buy a diamond is daylight, artificial light will ALWAYS distort what you see. If you are worried you should go to an independent jeweller who will be able to check the GIA marking (unless the stone was graded before marking started) and confirm the stone is in fact what you bought it as. I hope you have your worries allayed and that you get a lifetime of pleasure from your stone.