Category Archives: Inclusions & Characteristics

On many diamond reports you will see a clarity characteristic of natural, or indented natural.  A natural is part of the rough diamond skin, where it was not polished.  Often they are confused as chips or damage to the diamond but they do look different than a chip.  See this post for photos of rough […]

You may have seen on a diamond report with the words bearded girdle, or girdle bearding not shown… something like that. What the heck is that?  Girdle Bearding is small feathers going into the diamond from the girdle.  They are not natural, they are caused by poor workmanship when cutting the diamond (no exceptions, it […]