Diamond Engagement Rings Specialist

According to a jeweller, the tracking of recent jewellery sales has revealed that what are trending really well are rose gold and diamonds that are chocolate or canary coloured. Suddenly, there seems to be a very strong and rising interest in diamond rings that are different – from the colour of the metal used to the colour of the diamonds. Of course, what remains constant is the fact that people still want gold and they still want diamonds when it comes to diamonds rings. However, they want a diamond ring that is different and they are willing to pay more – maybe even a lot more – for it.

Why rose gold? Are platinum and white gold losing their sheen or is it just a fashion statement to have a different colour metal for a ring? Whatever it is, rose gold seems to be the flavour of the season together with diamonds that are brown or yellow – or to give them their fancy names – chocolate or canary diamonds. Diamond engagement rings with these combinations seem to be really popular and the women seem to love the unique and different look, while still feeling good that they are wearing diamonds – after all, in a woman’s mind, they are forever. The brown diamonds dazzle with a rich colour and the yellow ones sparkle with brilliance. It isn’t as thought people only choose rose gold as a setting as some prefer white gold but the trending seems to show more and more rose gold choices than before. This seems to extend to other jewellery like earrings, necklaces and wedding bands too.

The kind of diamonds that were the most popular are the round ones and the princess cut diamonds. The designs also seem to be getting more intricate and artistic. It looks like people are spending a lot of time deciding on what kind of jewellery they want. Is the shifting trend just a passing one or will it be around for a while? In the fickle changing world of fashion, one never knows. What one can say, however is that gold and diamonds – in whatever hue – are going to be around for a long, long time.

Ask any Hollywood celebrity what their choice of engagement rings would be and chances are that they will say that they would love a Neil Lane diamond engagement ring. He has grown to become the darling of the Hollywood elite circle when it comes not just to engagement rings but all jewellery. Little wonder that he has earned the nicknames ‘Ace of Diamonds’ and the ‘King of Bling’.

His bridal collection is available in a number of stores and he also designs jewellery for the rich and powerful women of the silver screen. In fact, red carpet events sparkle with his creations. His jewellery has also become very popular thanks to the American reality shows, The Bachelor and The Bachelorette where the engagement rings are Neil Lane diamond rings!

Some of Neil Lane’s clients are Nicole Richie, Sandra Bullock, Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Hudson, Kate Hudson, Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Madonna, JLo and of course, the legendary late Elizabeth Taylor. He’s probably one of the most known jeweller at any Academy event and most men when they think of getting engaged seem to think of him first of they happen to be rich and powerful and famous. Diamond rings, especially diamond engagement rings bring with them dreams for a life together, for a life of love. Naturally, it comes packed with romance. So when a jewellery designer gives you a choice of dreams designed so beautifully, he will become the darling of those who can afford it. Today, to possess a Neil Lane piece of jewellery is to set you apart.

Walking home through the park at 3.30 in the afternoon is not the time when anyone feels unsafe and Rachel Briggs, twenty eight years old and married for a year definitely didn’t think so. It happened in Wensum Park in Norwich and little did she think that she was in danger of being mugged in broad daylight. However, that’s what happened and she says she never expected it to.

She was walking along when a white male wearing black trousers and a black hood and speaking in a local accent accosted her and asked her to hand over her bag. She thought as it was daytime, she could just keep walking and he wouldn’t dare do anything. She was wrong because he then hit her on her face and grabbed her bag while she fell on some steps and hit her head. Besides her purse, he also got her mobile phone and both her wedding ring as well as her engagement ring. Her wedding ring was white gold and so was her engagement ring which had five stones in a row. He also took a silver ring with a turquoise stone which she was wearing.

All she saw of him was that he had a pointed nose and she says his breath smelt stale and bitter. He was young, in his twenties and a couple of inches under six feet tall. She doesn’t remember much till she got home to her husband and her sister at home and they feel that she must have been unconscious for a while. She can’t think how she got home but she assumes she must have walked. She hopes that anyone who witnessed the theft will come forward and tell the police what they saw. There must have been many people around and she feels terrible that something like this could happen to someone in the middle of the day. She says it has changed her outlook on life and she feels so violated.

Is it a disadvantage wearing an engagement ring at the workplace? Many women seemed to think so and they felt that it affected their chances of promotion. The tough part is that many men think so too. When a woman wears a diamond engagement ring, it means that marriage and then children are imminent and that means that they could either quit or not give the job the attention it merits, according to majority of the male population.

A human resources consultancy company was astonished to say the least when a senior manager told him that he would never consider a newly engaged woman for promotion because she had just got engaged – and not just that, she had on a really huge rock. Did a huge diamond means that she would be much less likely to work hard? According to the manager, even if the woman continued to work, mentally, she wouldn’t quite be there. Such sweeping assumptions are a bit tough to stomach in this day and age when women are very conscious of and focussed on their careers, marriage or no marriage. However, for most men, being a wife and a mother meant that the woman would not be focussed on her work one hundred percent.

There’s a flip side to the picture as well. There were young women who found that with older women, once they got an engagement ring on their finger, the women bosses were a lot more relaxed. Did it mean that the engaged women would be less distracted in the office and less likely to look at office romances? Would this make them more conscientious while at work? All in all, women who wore the more ostentatious diamond rings were less likely to be taken seriously while the ones who wore conservative and less showy ones usually were. And for a newly engaged woman, employers very often asked them what their plans were – when the wedding would be and what their plans would be after they were married. Guess they have a right to know.

It’s happening. The line between the virtual world and the real world just got a little more blurred with virtual reality coming to online jewellery. And De Beers is leading the way all over the world and allowing people to try on any diamond jewellery they want virtually so they know just how it is going to look on them. So you can sit in the comfort of your home and try on any kind of diamond jewellery you want.

So how does this work? This is augmented reality at its best and it allows anyone with a computer to look at what seems like a real world environment. So the viewer can see diamond rings, diamond pendants, diamond earrings, all from the Forevermark collection and they can also see just how these pieces of jewellery will look when they move. Everything happens in a 3-dimensional environment when the viewer goes to the website called ‘The Forevermark Fitting’. They can take a look at the site and then download the software for it to work.

The user needs to follow the instructions and it will seem as though the computer were a mirror with the person wearing the jewellery that was selected. What woman doesn’t want to look at herself wearing diamonds and moving to see them dazzle and sparkle in the light. The company worked with a creative agency and an augmented reality company to create this software and it is the first time that people can actually experience something that moves when it is worn. The diamond jewellery actually comes to life. The collection is available in countries like India, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore.

There’s speculation about what kind of an engagement ring Jennifer Aniston will get. Now that she and Justin Theroux have been together for a while and things look very serious considering that he has moved into her luxurious apartment, everyone is guessing that it’s only a matter of time before the question is popped and the engagement ring is on her finger.

According to sources, the couple is getting married early next year. The fact that Justin has been looking at stuff in jewellery stores has only fuelled the gossip about an imminent engagement. The couple look very much in love and it is probably this, the fact that she has finally moved on that made Brad Pitt make the rather tasteless comments he did about their marriage. Well, it looks like Justin finds Jennifer anything but dull! And he’s there for her while she’s going through the pain of coping with her mother’s stroke.

So what is the engagement ring going to be? Considering that her first one was a huge diamond rock, will this one top that? Sources say that she would prefer an engagement ring that did not have diamonds. Maybe that’s why Justin was looking at rings with other stones. Whatever their choice, it looks like Jennifer is set to settle down at last and the heartbreak she went through when Brad left her for Angelina Jolie seems to have faded at last. And it helps that Justin is young, a kind of young Brad and also extremely talented. He’s acted on the silver screen as well as in a number of television serials and he did the screenplay for Ironman 2. Not a bad package for Jennifer to have!

A man from Landsdowne went through a lot of planning in order to propose to his girlfriend in a unique way. He got a professional movie production company to produce a short five minute film which was titled Until I Met You. He then got a movie theatre to play it. What he had to do was to persuade his girlfriend Sameera to come watch the film with him so he told her it was made by a relative and took her along to this theatre in Cavendish to watch it.

Imagine her surprise when she saw her boyfriend Mubeen on the screen. The movie started off with a number of interviews about love. Then it showed Mubeen sitting with a friend, showing him the diamond ring he had bought for Sameera. She recognised his voice and she realised it was him. Then, Mubeen came up to her and went down on one knee and proposed. She was shocked and delighted when she saw the diamond ring he had got her. After such a romantic proposal, what could she say but Yes? They hope to get married in April of the coming year.

More and more men are getting very romantic when it comes to proposals. As the diamond engagement rings grow larger and more expensive, the proposals too are getting to be more and more unique. Men seem to be taking a lot of time and effort in planning their proposals so that the day becomes memorable and extra special for their girlfriends as well as themselves. It is such a special day after all, why not take time to make it something to remember all your life?

On the 9th of October, Sir Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell got married. It was the third time for the ex-Beatle and the he and the American heiress were married in the same place where he married Linda, his first wife – the Old Marylebone Town Hall. Finally, everyone knew who the wedding rings were designed by – they both had wedding rings designed by Neil Lane, the famous jeweller to the stars and celebrities.

The wedding ceremony was a quiet, private affair and Nancy wore a white long sleeved dress for the wedding while Paul was in a dark suit. The bridesmaid was his daughter, Beatrice and Ringo and his wife as well as George Harrison’s widow were there. Though it was a quiet affair, there were many people gathered outside the Town Hall, waiting to see the couple as they came out and hoping to wish them. The couple willingly posed for photographs and he even shook hands with a number of fans who had waited patiently outside.

While the wedding was reminiscent of his first wedding, it was a far cry from his second one which was lavish and attended by many. The two have been together for four years now and they both looked happy. The couple will no doubt have a celebratory event in the USA where they both own homes. She is wealthy in her own right too and it was touching that Sir Paul paid tribute to his first wife Linda who he lost so tragically to cancer in the late nineties. Though his second marriage ended in a rather unpleasant fashion, it looks like he is third time lucky and they look wonderful together.

It’s the wedding season in India and with the silk saris and the designer outfits, also very much in evidence are the dazzle of diamonds – in necklaces, earrings, bespoke diamond engagement rings, bangles, bracelets and nose rings. It’s not just the bride that has to be all dressed up – every person who is at a wedding ceremony has to look his or her best and adorning oneself with jewellery seems to be the way to do it.

There’s one trend however, that is very recent and that is diamond mineral make up. What exactly is this? It is make up that made with diamond dust -0 yes, that’s right, actual diamond dust that is imported from different parts of the globe where diamonds are processed. This diamond dust is mixed in with many make-up products – from eye shadows to blushers to concealers to foundation. Does it really make a difference? According to beauticians and brides who have used it, it does indeed. It imparts a beautiful natural glow and makes the skin look beautiful and flawless. It hides any blemishes and pigmentation marks and the bride really does look radiant on her wedding day – which is what everyone wants.

Is it only on that special day that diamond make up is popular? According to beauty salons, no. There are many people coming in for that look before an important event and women of all ages seem to be gravitating towards this new trend. The great thing about this make up is that it can keep you looking glowing for hours and when an event goes on for a long time, it’s nice to know your face won’t mirror your tiredness.

A few days ago, King’s Lynn Jewellers lost a diamond ring worth £100,000 and the thief is yet to be caught. It happened at their Norfolk Street store and before the salespeople knew what was happening, he had snatched the expensive diamond ring and fled. This isn’t the first time that the theft of expensive diamond rings have occurred and it is obviously a well planned and executed operation because the thieves who are well dressed. Come in ostensibly to look at rings and then make off with the most expensive ones.

The diamond ring is set in white gold and it is a Picchioti design and white baguette diamonds surround a huge emerald cut diamond in the centre. He seemed like a genuine buyer which was why the sales assistant helped him to look through the kind of rings he wanted to see. Word has been sent out to all the pawnbrokers giving them details about the ring so that in case the man tries to pawn it, the police can be informed.

The man has been described as being in the age of between 40 and 45 with brown hair that was cropped short and a receding hairline. He was around six feet tall, maybe a couple of inches shorter and of heavy build. His spectacles were rectangular in shape and they were silver rimmed. His shirt was pale blue in colour with fine stripes. He was driving Ford Fiesta 3-door new car, black in colour and the police are trying to trace the car. Anyone who knows anything about this theft has been asked to contact the police.

It’s a simple enough contest. There are two diamond engagement rings and you need to vote for the one you like. And when you do so, you automatically get entered into the contest and you could just win one of those rings. A simple Yes is all it takes to maybe win a beautiful ring. The two rings are names ‘Elena’ and ‘Magnolia’ and they both typify very elaborate engagement ring settings.

The contest has a red corner and a blue corner. In the red corner is Magnolia, a diamond engagement ring set in white gold. The design is a Hearts and Arrows one and weighs .6 carat. This ring has been named after the magnolia flower and it looks majestic and bold. The Elena on the other hand which is in the blue corner is an intricate design, also in white gold. Weighing .5 carat, this diamond engagement ring has been named this because the translation from Greek means ‘splendour of the sun’.

The contest has been designed as a kind of a run-up to next year’s American Presidential election. This is the diamond company’s own little election and he wants to see how much of a democratic process there will be in the voting for the winner of these rings. The results will be announced on the 15th of this month and the winner will be selected from among the ones who voted for the winning ring.