Understanding Cut, Color, Clarity, and Carat weight is essential to finding the perfect diamond. Our guide demystifies the universal standard for assessing diamond quality.
Often considered the most important of the 4Cs, cut determines how well a diamond interacts with light. An Excellent cut allows light to strike each pavilion facet, bounce back, and exit the crown, creating optimal brilliance and fire.
Diamond color is actually graded on the absence of color. The D–to–Z scale measures how close a diamond is to being completely colorless. Less color means higher value and brighter appearance.
Clarity measures the presence of natural microscopic imperfections, known as inclusions (internal) and blemishes (external). Flawless diamonds are exceedingly rare. Most inclusions are invisible to the naked eye.
Carat is a measure of the diamond's weight, not its physical size or dimensions. While a higher carat weight generally means a larger diamond, the cut also plays a massive role in how large a diamond appears.
One carat is split into 100 "points". For example, a 0.50 carat diamond is referred to as a "50-pointer". At Lovbloom, lab-grown diamonds let you choose a bigger diamond for the same budget compared to a mined diamond.