Q&A: Help Finding a Pear or Heart-Shaped Diamond for a Pendant With a $4-5k Budget

Congratulations on your baby!

Regarding the shape, both pear and heart would be brilliant when properly cut and eye-clean. It’s up to you, which look do you like better?

Fancy shapes don’t receive cut grades (so the Very good doesn’t really mean anything), but we use our own very strict parameters to maximize brilliance on all diamond shapes.

G color looks absolutely colorless in most settings, so you don’t need to go higher than that. In fact, you could even drop one grade down, to an H and it would look identical.

For DEFG diamonds, you should get only none or faint fluorescence, for an H-color stone medium fluorescence is fine as well. For table and depth %, I’d stay below 72% for optimal brilliance.

Now, on to the diamonds. I found these lovely options:
Blue Nile LD13246799
Blue Nile LD13395498
They have nice specs and a beautiful shape. They’ll be very bright and brilliant.

There’s not so many 0.95ct diamonds around so here are the best options I found in this carat range:
Blue Nile LD13478907
Blue Nile LD13277323
But if you look at the real measurements, you can see that they are basically the same size as the previous 0.9ct.

Blue Nile LD13337178
Blue Nile LD13407505
I found an F-color for a slightly lower price than the G.

This happens quite often, the diamonds come from different suppliers and that’s why they have a different price even though they are similar quality. You can’t go wrong with either of them, both are excellent options.

Excellent and Very good grades look basically the same. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have recommended it. As I said, both diamonds are equally beautiful options.

That’s fantastic news! I’m glad I could help you find something you liked so much.