All About Color Gem-stones, Types and Colors: Live Show #12

all right good morning Lauren B fans today we are going to introduce a wide array of different colored gems focusing on a huge array of many different options for gemstones in every different color some types of gems come in every color imaginable whereas some are color specific we want you to be able to see how many different options there are for unique different and vibrant alternatives to diamonds as Center stones because many people are straying away from diamonds to both set their rings apart as well as having really gorgeous natural gems that typically cost a lot less than a diamond one helpful tool to begin looking at color ranges is understanding what color is visible color has three different components hue tone and saturation so we're going to spend a couple minutes just talking about what that means alright so going back to the three different parts of color that make color visible to the human eye we have hue tone and saturation so hue is the basic recognizable color that you see so you have your you can see red or you can see blue or green that's the that's the general color or hue and there's many different ranges for each color and hue essentially comes in every single visible color to the human eye here's an example of just some of the very different color ranges which can have mixtures of other hues and modifying tones so you can have a pure blue stone or you can have a stone that adds a little bit of greenish undertone or a stone that has a little bit of violet in the Indy blue so that's Hugh then we have countin so so each different hue that you see can have a different degree of lightness or darkness of a color all the way from completely colorless to completely black naturally a really really dark tone stone is gonna make it much harder to see to see the color whereas thinking about a blue stone for instance if it's very light it will be almost colorless looking so you almost can't see the blue so if you can imagine a sapphire that's blue can be very very dark and which means you wouldn't almost see the blue because it can be almost black and if it's very very light it would be almost white and you wouldn't necessarily be able to see the blue either so a nice like medium medium dark or medium light tone stone is going to have the most visible bluest color the next part is saturation which this is this isn't the best example have saturation is the strength or intensity of a basic hue so ranging for instance a red a red stone will can have like a brownish undertone and a blue stone might have a grayish version and that can affect how how bright or vibrant the color is so looking at the scale you know the highest saturation is going to be the most the most vivid color and have the least amount of reddish or grayish undertone and for any gem you know the most the most vibrant our highest saturation and strength and intensity of the color is is going to make that stone look more beautiful so all of these factors are really important in perceiving color most gems that are not a pure version of a primary color have another color underlying that sometimes you can see so as I was saying before you can have a you can have a blue stone that has a greenish or or more violet component and this color description can contain more than one color with the modifying color described before the dominant one which we'll go more into in a later episode so that's sort of your basic your basic rundown of the different parts of color which again are hue tone and saturation so we're going to look at some examples [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] many of all right we're not gonna talk right though okay so I'm gonna pull each color range and talk a little bit about each one so starting with blue which is one of the most popular and richest color ranges for any gem some of the most popular are sapphire you've got aquamarine and blue topaz and so on there are also many different less common types of stone that can achieve very different properties in every different hue tone and saturation all stones work with light differently and there may be some varieties of stones that you may have never heard of that we can introduce you to here at Lauren B that give a diamond a run for its money zircon is a personal favorite of mine because it's super super rich and vibrant in color it has a very high luster and it's extremely extremely brilliant if you can if you can see that so some other examples are tourmaline spinel and tanzanite and so on so any of these stones that you're seeing today feel free to ask us about an in a later episode we're going to go through different types of stones more specifically so here we have a really really good range of color we have a nice medium blue super vibrant color sapphire you have a tanzanite which like I was saying before has a modifying color so it's bluish but it has a very violent undertone so it has that sort of violet ish color then you have azarkh on which is a nice slightly greenish blue color but still a pretty pure blue and it has that nice fire to it you have a blue topaz which most of you are pretty familiar with and then you have aquamarine which are going to be little bit greenish but a very very light blue color which some of you may like so next we have our other super popular color red is pretty much the rarest color for any and every different type of gem the reason for that is the presence of chromium which is a pretty rare and gems especially in gems that are a pure red color so very few types of those can reach that that hue and tone and saturation Ruby and spinel are basically the only species of gem that can attain the purest most vibrant red and usually the cost reflects that there aren't really varying so there there aren't really varying degrees of red if it falls out of outside of a very vibrant pure red color it becomes pink or has a lot of orange or other colors in it it becomes a different color and you cannot call it red so this stone for instance which is which is a garnet this is not actually read this is a more orange a pink color but here we have an example of a ruby which is a fine unheated star Ruby it has a little bit of a pinkish undertone but it's pretty indicative of what the color of a ruby should be we have a Millea garnet which is typically more orange a color and then we have two different types of garnets which are probably the more common color that you may be familiar with and they are a little bit brownish and a little bit darker in tone so it's hard to find bright ones but we are pretty good at that here so here are some examples of some red stones so the next color my personal favorite obviously green is it can also it can it can vary greatly as well and there are many different types of gems that most people have not heard of and some that you may have that you would be surprised to actually come in a green color the most famous of course being that pure green Colombian emerald which usually has a little bit of a blue undertone this one's pretty pure green really nice Colombian stone then we have a tsavorite garnet one of my personal favorites because it has a super high luster and that nice grass green a little bit yellowish color you might be surprised to know that sapphires come in green this is a good example of a little bit lighter grayish green color you've heard of peridot a little bit yellowish the yellowish but a very very vibrant color this is you can call it green amethyst but its name is praised o light and it has a very light saturation and here so this is a good example of many different varying colors of green just to show you most people when they think of yellow gems go straight to to yellow diamonds which are beautiful stones but naturally they are quite costly but there are many stones that can absolutely compete with the beauty of a yellow diamond yellow is often caused by nitrogen and there are many different degrees of yellow to suit your taste so a few examples that you may or may not be familiar with this is a sapphire sapphire and yellow is a good example can come in absolutely every color that the human eye can see so you can have a more orange a yellow this is a very light slightly orange yellow stone this you may not be familiar with this is called a crystal Beryl and it has a slightly greenish yellow medium tone of saturation this is citrine which most people have heard of much more much less expensive stone as compared to especially diamond or sapphire will touch more on different types of stones later but here are some examples of yellow orange is one of the brightest and often most saturated colors and it can make a really spectacular eye catching ring sapphire precious topaz this is a spessartite garnet super bright color this is a pretty rare color for even this stone then you might be surprised to learn that this is an opal it's a Mexican fire opal and they come in this very particular color range so next we're gonna look at some purple and pink stones so you have all of these stones are different types of gems you have a sapphire that is a slightly purplish pink sapphire is always going to be a very high luster pretty sparkly stone so again they come in every single color you can possibly see spinel is a much less common type of stone oftentimes it's gonna have a little bit of a grayish undertone but they're very hard and have a really nice high luster then you have two different types of garnets here this is a very rare color for a garnet this nice purple very very vibrant deeply saturated color and I'm moving on to slightly more pinkish this is this is also a garnet has a very strong orange undertone but it's still probably consider this stone pink or pinkish orange if you will this is a more unique stone which most people haven't heard of called a kunzite and it has that very very light slightly purplish pink color so all of all of these should show you a pretty good range of pink and purple tones all right so so our next category is some of the more rare and very very unique stones every single one is different and nature can play some really cool tricks with light some of these stones you probably haven't heard of but we at Lauren B would be happy to show you some really really unique stones that that do really cool things like so the first one fortunately had don't my my pen light died but I'm gonna show you a stone that is color change a couple different types of stones which are extremely rare can completely change colors and different types of light so here you have a color change garnet from I believe Madagascar which as you can see it now is kind of a bluish green color when I show you the stone in daylight for instance the stone will be changed completely change color from this greenish blue or blueish green to a reddish purple so I'm going to show you what that looks like so you should be able to see that slightly greenish blue color all I have is the lighter sorry but if you can see that color change to complete red you get a little bit of both in there from two different types of light so really really cool so the next type of phenomenal gem which displays asterism which is also known as a star is when many thousands of tiny little rutile needles exist within a ruby for instance many different types of gems can be a star so you can sort of see this six point star really cool effect these are not faceted gems they only are a cabochon which is like this smooth rounded high polished stone this is a star Ruby [Music] so our next type of gem which I don't need to pick up is a cat eye crystal barrel this stone displays what's called chatoyancy which is similar to a star but the how the the needles in the stone are arranged allow for what's called a cat's eye which is which is this cool effect that moves across the stone and should be a sharp a sharp line it only it only happens in a few different types of stones the most the most well-known and rarest that displays this is a crystal barrel and this is a really really beautiful example of that type of stone and finally we have opal most of you are probably most familiar with with a a white common opal they sort of have a whitish tone sometimes they have a nice nice play of color the the different colors that you see in an opal are not called fire and fire opal is a completely different type of stone but white opals the most common the rarest and most valuable is a black opal they specifically come from Australia in a few different places this is a pretty nice example but if you can sort of see that really nice play of color the stone actually has a grayish or blackish background it's it's not white so the black opals are going to be have the most vibrant play of colors that you see really cool stone one of my favorites so all of these different types of gems do completely different things and there are many different reasons for that all of which we would be happy to explain to you so that concludes this this episode hopefully you got some good ideas for many different types of colors and different types of stones and in the next episode we will focus much more specifically on actual different species of gems so we'll leave it there so finally that Lauren B as most of you probably know by now we we make custom rings so we can make any of our setting styles for any type or any shape any size of stone and and colored stones can complete a or can produce a completely different effect than diamonds and typically cost a lot less so here's a some examples of our really popular some of our popular designs made with colored stones this is these two are our signature wrap setting you have two different types of tourmaline completely different colors slightly pinkish purple tourmaline and our our s63 setting this is also our signature wrap setting our s63 with a really nice blue green tourmaline you can know if you can see that but and from different angles you get kind of both or all of the above green yellowish and a little bit of blue in there this is our newest addition our hidden halo and a two-tone setting and this is a morganite barrel nice big oval really bright stone next you have a really nice medium medium light blue sapphire and a three stone setting then you have a peridot pretty inexpensive but extremely extremely vibrant stone here's our wrap setting with the Cathedral feature [Music] moving on to a nice array of halos here and we have another this is our RS 61 setting a nice two-tone version with a morganite cushion cut center stone have a shared prong band with a double edge halo here and this is one of those really unusual and very uncommon purple garnets my favorite stone of all a mint tsavorite or Milani mint garnet one of the brightest green stones you can possibly find in our double-edged hair halo with Cathedral a beautiful beautiful ring we have a really nice oval sapphire also in a double edged halo with a Cathedral really nice oval stone and a nice yellow option this is a citrine also in a two tone classic halo the halo is is yellow gold to kind of highlight that highlight that nice yellow color against a white band which looks looks really nice and really projects that color so all of these are some really nice examples of how to really highlight color in a gem and have a ring that's a little bit less traditional but still stylistically is beautiful for an engagement ring or a right-hand ring just to give many different options we can show you any different color or any type of stone that you can possibly imagine and build a custom setting for it so hopefully you've got a good feel for how many different options there are over 400 different species of gemstones in the world and that would be so thanks for watching

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Length: 27min 5sec (1625 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 08 2018