My missus has been hankering after a pink diamond for years. A little bit of reading around the De Beers monopoly and their loathesome advertising campaigns totally put me off the idea so I demurred.
Over the last months I’ve been thinking that if she wants to waste my money getting a pink diamond, then fair enough, I’ll buy her a pink diamond. After all it’s a present for her not me. (took me a while to reach this stunning conclusion)
So far I’ve learned that pink diamonds are phenomenally expensive compared to clear ones, unless you get artificially irradiated ones which sound and look a bit sub optimal. After all, what’s the purpose of a ring which is only there to proclaim bling if it actually proclaims cheapskate bling.
The shop I just tried in Altrincham (my first mistake) basically said that there are no natural pink diamonds small enough to be made into a ring for a couple of grand. So I should think clear or irradiated.
I want this to be a surprise, but don’t want to make a huge faux pas by wasting loads on a small genuine pink or wasting loads on a bigger potentially sub optimaler irradiated pink. Equally there’s no point in getting a clear if she said she wanted pink.
Opinions please
<edited to be less harsh>