| o often you can find hot trends when a style or | | | | giving diamonds great amounts of competition and |
| particular taste is popular. Most of these trends | | | | they're swiftly replacing them in modern jewelry |
| are gone just as fast as they came and are | | | | stores all over the planet. |
| nowhere to be observed. There is a single trend | | | | Jewelers are already substituting other materials |
| in particular that hasn't shown any signs of slowing | | | | for diamonds and precious gems for centuries in |
| down or becoming just an additional forgetten | | | | an attempt to discover affordable alternatives to |
| trend. Yes, I'm talking about cubic zirconia jewelry | | | | costly organic gems. In ancient Egypt, artisans |
| which is rapidly replacing old fashioned diamonds. | | | | painted wooden gems about the coffins of |
| Cubic Zirconia is a synthetic man made diamond, | | | | Paroahs. In the 18th century, Europeans wore |
| and is the crystalline form of zirconium dioxide. | | | | paste jewels made from cautiously cut and |
| Both diamonds and cubic zirconia have no color | | | | polished leaded glass. Today some fraudulent |
| and are mostly transparent. Unless needless to | | | | foreign gem dealers location very carefully molded |
| say you buy a gemstone, but both diamonds and | | | | silvered or colored foil paper behind set diamonds |
| CZ rank the exact same on the color scale. In | | | | and gems to give greater brilliance and deeper |
| addition, they're equally cut precisely making use | | | | colors to inferior stones. |
| of the same laser technology. The last similarity is | | | | It took practically a full 100 years to get to the |
| that they equally have practically the same visual | | | | stage in science where normal diamonds could be |
| appeal. | | | | quickly replicated into high quality man produced |
| So we talk a lot about how similar diamonds and | | | | synthetic diamonds known as cubic zirconia |
| CZ's are, is there any reason that the costs are | | | | diamonds. Right after all the work has been done |
| so diverse? That would be a fantastic question! I | | | | why would you at any time settle for the |
| asked myself the same thing nearly ten years | | | | diamond over the cubic zirconia? I hope you'll |
| ago and haven't looked back on old fashioned | | | | choose CZ from now on when it comes to |
| diamonds ever since. CZ's have certainly been | | | | wearing fine jewelry! |