Diamond Cuts
A good cut is essential to a diamond’s beauty, because even a diamond with outstanding color and clarity will not display the sparkle that diamonds are famous for if its components don’t interact with light as they should.
As shown in the next picture:
- Light traveling through an ideal cut diamond bounces back out the top of the stone, bringing its brilliance into view.
- Light traveling through a shallow cut diamond is lost out of the bottom of the stone and does not back into sight. The lack of light play makes shallow cut diamonds appear lifeless.
- Light traveling through a diamond that’s cut too deep escapes out the sides, darkening all or portions of the stone.