Diamonds in Pink

LuxeLass loves luxurious goods. Anything with great fabric, design, colours, quality - she adores them. 

It's a norm for people to be attracted to beautiful things. But it is even more important to appreciate them, regardless of origin or brand. Although there has been an increase in our Singaporeans buying designer wears, LuxeLass has this little doubt just how many of them truly appreciate the designs and quality. 

To her, luxury items are good quality items but not necessary to be from a branded label. The feel of cashmere brushing against your skin, for example, is a great feeling. A 100% shamina shawl (shamina: finer cashmere with less than 14 microns) costs $300 - the same price tag as a normal cotton shawl by a branded label, for example. 

Appreciating luxurious items is a knowledge. And ever growing. And it's of deep interest to LuxeLass. 

And now, LuxeLass is learning more about diamonds. 

After having enough of white diamonds, LuxeLass is now lusting for pink diamonds. She's asked her jeweller to source for her. But since it's going to be so expensive, she decides to start from a smaller one.

A check online has this to say about pink diamonds:- (source: http://www.costellos.com.au/diamonds/types.html)

Pink diamond is the world's most rare and valuable diamond.The Argyle mine is the world's foremost source of unrivalled intense pink diamonds, producing 95% of the world's supply. However, an extremely small proportion of Argyle Diamonds production is Pink colour, in fact less than one tenth of 1% is classified Pink.

The legend of Argyle pink diamond has grown over the past ten years. At the 1989 Christie's auction in New York a 3.14 carat Argyle pink sold for $1,510,000. Privately, Argyle has sold pink diamonds for up to $1 million a carat.

For years the white diamond was considered the world's most beautiful diamond, until the discovery of the Argyle mine heralded the arrival of the Argyle pink diamond. Never before had pink diamonds displaying such intense shades of colour been seen. The pink diamonds of India, Brazil and Africa were characteristically light in colour and paled even further when placed beside the intensely pink Argyle diamonds. The natural colour diamonds have in fact been around as long as the classical whites but in much smaller quantities and never in great demand.