Gem Breakfast Blog
Welcome to your Ultimate Gold and Precious Metal Guide! Keep reading for everything you need to know about choosing white gold vs platinum or palladium, 14kt vs 18kt gold, and yellow gold vs rose, peach, and white gold.
- January 12, 2025
- 8 min read
Which is better – white gold or platinum? It all depends on what’s important to you – color, purity, finish, price, durability, or long-term care. Keep reading for our help-you-decide guide!
- January 10, 2025
- 9 min read
Discover the ultimate emerald buying guide! Learn how to choose the perfect emerald by color, clarity, cut, and carat. Uncover emerald meaning, history, treatments, and care tips. Find out why emeralds outshine diamonds in rarity and value. Perfect for May birthdays, engagement rings, and timeless elegance. Explore expert insights now!
- January 02, 2025
- 8 min read
An ode to the most under-hyped, but stunningly gorgeous stone around – Spinel! Often confused with Ruby, and found in a rainbow of hues, it’s a stone that deserves its moment in the spotlight.
- December 26, 2024
- 8 min read
Whether you're treating yourself or shopping for an emerald cut engagement ring for someone else, look no further for all things emerald cut: What is an emerald cut diamond, why we love emerald cuts, how to choose an emerald cut diamond, emerald cut versus cushion cut, asscher cut, and radiant cut, and the most famous emerald cut diamonds
- December 26, 2024
- 9 min read
Keep reading for everything you need to know about sapphires: what sapphires are made of, how to choose your sapphire, treatment of sapphires, and the symbolism of sapphires.
- December 26, 2024
- 14 min read
January's birthstone, garnet is a family of minerals that comes in every color of the rainbow - each with its own spiritual meaning. Often mistaken for ruby, garnet is a mesmerizing natural gemstone that we love.
- December 11, 2024
- 7 min read
Welcome to your definitive guide to diamond inclusions! Whether your heart lies with flawlessly clear, bright white diamonds or heavily included, night sky salt and pepper diamonds, we’re here with all the inclusion tips and truths to help you decide!
- November 21, 2024
- 8 min read
Here is a comprehensive guide to oval cut diamonds. We cover all the facts to know about oval cut diamonds.
- November 21, 2024
- 9 min read
Today’s blog is all about our favorite glittering, gleaming, light-catching gem: diamonds! Specifically, the most popular cut of all: round brilliant cut diamonds.
From the top to the tip, we’re explaining every part, portion and proportion that makes a stone either seriously sparkling or drab and dull. Every one of these sections plays a role in a diamond’s cut quality, and ultimately, it’s level of brilliance, fire, and sparkle.
- November 06, 2024
- 4 min read
Learn everything you need to know about ethical sapphires. In this post, we cover where sapphires come from, their origin and how we ethically source ours from all over the world.
- October 25, 2024
- 17 min read
Heated vs Unheated Sapphire! Know the difference between unheated and heated sapphires, reasons to love heat a heated sapphires and an unheated sapphire, and things to consider when buying either type of sapphire.
- October 25, 2024
- 5 min read