Diamonds Blog by Diamonds-USA

Not only are diamonds nice for Jewelry but they can also help your body. Here are 3 products that contain diamonds and that you can use to beatuify your body.

In traditional microdermabrasion (an exfoliating treatment that adds sparkle to dull skin), aluminum oxide crystals are sprayed onto the skin. But pros across the country are turning to gentler crystal-free treatments that use a wand with a diamond-chip tip. Find a specialist near you—or if you’re a homebody, scrub smart with BORBA Clarifying Foaming Cleanser and Micro-Diamond Exfoliator ($18).

Pearly whites, meet diamond brights. One dentist has caught on to the powers of the hardest-known natural material. Celebrity smile brightener Dr. Jeff Golub-Evans offers QuickWhite—diamond dust is used to lighten up to 8 shades in just 20 minutes ($200).

Soften your soles. The Diamancel file, a durable, salon-quality foot buffer made from diamonds gets feet sandal-ready ($48).

That right, in yet another diamond extravagence Sport Illustrated has created a very skimpy but expensive bikini made from diamonds and platinum.  Here is a pic, you can chek out more by either spending $30 million to buy the bikini or you can pick up an Issue of Sports Illustrated Swim suit issue.

There is the one and only one place in the world that allows visitors to keep gems that are found in the park; that is, the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas.A teenage girl, Nicole Ruhter, 13, has noticed something shimmering that everyone else’s missed - a tea-coloured 2.93-carat diamond. And for that, she gets to keep the prized gem for herself.

How much does a diamond covered laptop cost, how about $350,000.  Check out this picture and you have to decide if it worth it, I’m not even sure if it includes windows.

They are still finding royalty quality jewels.  Recently in Africa they found a 216 carat flawless diamond.  Diamonds like these are so rare that they are found on average about once a decade.  To read the full artice Click HERE.

As if diamonds couldn’t get any fanicer, colored (often called fancy diamonds) are the latest rage. Fancy colored diamonds are all the rage these days. Gemologists have developed new ways to create versions that are affordable for the average person - by treating less desirable diamonds. These less desirable diamonds are treated with irradiation followed by intense heat. This turns brown and yellowish diamonds into beautifully colored diamonds that you can afford. This produces stunning greens, blues, yellows, reds, purples and other colors. These colors are considered permanent, but there is a possibility they could change during repairs if a high heat is used.

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Today’s post is about the top 10 most famous diamonds in the world.  They might not be the most expensive, all though each diamond on this list costs at least several million dollars, but these are the diamonds that recieve the most attention in the news and the press.  Today’s post is about numbers 3-1.

3. Pumpkin diamond

The Pumpkin Diamond is a diamond measuring 5.54 carats (1.108 g) rated in color as Fancy Vivid Orange by the Gemological Institute of America. While this may seem relatively small when compared to other famous diamonds, the Pumpkin Diamond is, in fact, one of the largest Fancy Vivid Oranges the GIA reports having rated and is unique compared to other orange diamonds because it is relatively light-colored and notably intense. The Pumpkin Diamond was mined in South Africa, cut and polished by William Goldberg, and put to auction at Sotheby’s where it was bought by Ronald Winston of the House of Harry Winston for the price of $1.3 million. It is currently estimated to be valued at $3 million.

2. Incomparable Diamond

The Incomparable was found in its rough state weighing 890 carats, and was found in the town of Mbuji Mayi in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) in the 1980s. It was found by a young young girl playing in a pile of rubble outside her uncle’s house. This rubble had been legitimately collected from old mine dumps from the nearby MIBA Diamond Mine, having been rejected during the recovery process as being too bulky to be worth scanning for diamonds. The girl gave the diamond to her uncle, who sold it to some local African diamond dealers, who in turn sold it to a group of Lebanese buyers operating out of Kinshasa.

1. The Golden Jubilee

The Golden Jubilee is currently the largest faceted diamond in the world. Since 1908, Cullinan I, also known as the Great Star of Africa, had held the title, which changed following the 1985 discovery of a large brown diamond of 546 carats (151 g) in the prolific blue ground of the Premier mine in South Africa; the diamond would later be cut and named The Golden Jubilee, with an as-of today unsurpassed weight of 545.67 carats (109.13 g).