Previously on the blog we went into detail about cut, color and clarity recommendations for the two most popular diamond shapes: round cut and cushion cut. Today we will get into the details for three fancy shape diamonds and give you some guidelines to keep in mind when selecting your loose diamond. The shapes we will be discussing are oval, pear shape, and marquise. What these three diamond shapes all have in common is that they have large face up appearances with naturally elongated shapes and provide a slimming effect to the finger of the person wearing it. They are also brilliant cuts so will have a lot of sparkle as well.  Because there are such variations within each cut these might be the trickiest diamond shapes to predict based off of a certificate alone so we will try to give you some more insight here Continue reading →