Buy what ever you like, just make sure you are paying the right price, be unique, don't buy what everyone else is buying, if you like the double tuxedo bow tie buy it, buy what ever color shade You like, just make sure your paying the right price.
I’m interested in elongated hybrid cushion cut diamonds, between 1.26 - 1.30 ratio. I know that the GIA report only uses the descriptors Cushion Brilliant and Cushion Modified Brilliant. GIA doesn’t use “hybrid” or “crushed ice”. Finding a Cushion Modified Brilliant that has a GIA Characteristic Drawing, with either 4 or 6 facets, which extend to the perimeter (hybrid) are hard to find. Does staying between a 1.26 and 1.30 ratio help reduce or eliminate the bow tie effect and at the same time allow me to choose a lesser color? If I choose a stone with a larger table (elongated 1.5 ct and bigger), don’t I need to increase the clarity to vvs2 or vvs1? Is it easier to source elongated cushion hybrid from LGD factories, instead of focusing solely on a ND?
