Sunny Eden™ Customized Lab-Grown Diamond Engagement Rings From Hair

The differences between lab grown diamonds and natural diamonds cannot be seen with the naked eye. Lab grown diamonds have the same chemical, physical and optical properties as mined diamonds, and exhibit the same fire, sparkle and scintillation.
So, a lab diamond will have the same brilliance and shine and look as beautiful as a natural one. Mined Diamonds often have tiny amounts of nitrogen while lab grown diamonds do not. This is one of the references people use to distinguish these two types of diamonds. Only trained gemologists and sophisticated equipment designed for this certain purpose can distinguish lab grown diamonds from natural diamonds.

Lab grown diamonds are just as real as natural mined diamonds. They are identical in every way, except that lab created diamonds are grown in a laboratory.
Natural diamonds were created under the pressure of the earth's crust over billions of years. We create lab grown diamonds by placing them in the same environment, only in a laboratory setting. In fact, the process used to create lab-grown diamonds has greatly reduced the growth time from billions of years to only a few months.

Since lab grown diamonds are the same chemically as natural Diamonds, they come with certification. Lab Grown Diamonds are being accepted and certified by the GIA, The Gemological Institute of America. GIA gives assessment to every lab-grown diamond submitted to its gemstone grading to determine the diamond's cut, color, clarity and carat weight according to strict international standards.

The long process and the manpower that it takes to mine diamonds accounts for the high pricing of natural diamonds, but technology has made it more cost-effective for producing diamonds. A lab grown diamond can range approximately from 30% to 50% less expensive than an equivalent earth mined diamond, depending on the size and quality you select.
When it comes to a colored diamond, the price for a natural diamond increases significantly, while the price won't change too much for lab grown diamonds in different colors. This means that for the same price, instead of a small and colorless natural diamond, you can purchase a significantly larger lab-created diamond in the fancy color you like which is certifiable by GIA and IGI.

There are so many different ways to make your engagement ring unique: through a certain unusual design element, a personalized message, or even self-selecting every single detail from start to finish. All you need to ensure that the ring is unlike any other engagement ring someone else is wearing is to have your engagement ring customized, and that's what we do here at Sunny Eden.
At Sunny Eden, not only can you select every detail for your dream engagement ring, you can have your diamond laser inscribed, and engrave special messages on the ring setting. What's more, the fancy-colored diamond shining bright on your ring is made from your or your loved one's hair, which makes your engagement ring one-of-a-kind and as special as you.

Unlike purchasing a mass-produced ring from a shop, custom making an engagement ring is a process that evolves into a beautiful journey, and the sentimental value is incomparable. This is a process that you need to be patient and allow time for to make your unique dream engagement ring into a reality. It usually takes 2-4 weeks to make an engagement ring and to mount your diamond onto the ring. However, there are several elements involved in custom making a Sunny Eden fancy colored diamond engagement ring: from the production of the colored diamond from your hair in our laboratory, the cutting and polishing of the diamond, the certification of the diamond, to the manufacturing of the ring and the setting of the diamond/s. On average, the whole process of growing a diamond will take 3-6 months. Depending on the color, size and cut for example, larger stones take a longer time to grow. General lab-grown diamonds are much faster. Any extra service like custom laser inscription may also add some more time. After all, for a special and unique custom engagement ring that you can cherish for a lifetime, this time is like a drop in an ocean and worth waiting for.

Although the majority of diamonds are colorless, colored diamonds come in almost a thousand different colors and exist in nearly every shade of the rainbow. Basically, colored diamonds have 12 base colors by which they can be classified. These include red, orange, yellow, green, violet, blue, purple, pink, brown, and gray diamonds. In addition, black and white diamonds also exist. The shades of these tones also play an important role. A dark yellow diamond looks very different from a vivid yellow diamond.

Each base colored diamond can be further classified according to the intensity of the color. There are nine levels of color intensity, ranging from faint, very light, light, fancy light, fancy, fancy dark, fancy deep, fancy intense, and vivid. Not all fancy colored diamonds have all levels of color intensity.

Natural colored diamonds are very rare, less than 0.1% of the number of mined diamonds. According to the basic rules of economics, the price is fundamentally determined by the rarity of the color of the diamond and the difficulty in obtaining it. Although there are thousands of diamond colors, we would classify colored diamonds into three major color groups based on their price.

Relatively affordable fancy colored diamonds - gray, brown and fancy yellow diamonds.

Mid-priced colored diamonds- rich, vibrant yellow and orange diamonds.

The highly priced colored diamonds- red, pink, purple, violet, green and blue diamonds.

For lab-grown diamonds, the price of different colored diamonds is mainly based on the difficulty to create the colored shade during the growing process. Sometimes, a lab-grown yellow diamond can be less expensive than a colorless one.

In white colorless diamonds, the obvious answer is color D (diamond color chart from D-Z). But among colored natural diamonds, pink, purple, green, blue, violet and pure orange diamonds are extremely rare and therefore incredibly expensive. Diamonds of these colors can often be sold for millions of dollars through auction houses. The baseline price per carat can reach several tens of thousands of dollars, and any enhancement in their properties, such as larger size or stronger color intensity (intense or vivid), increases the pricing exponentially.

Despite there are arguments regarding which is more expensive between blue and pink diamonds, red diamonds are unquestionably the rarest, and therefore the most expensive color of diamond among natural diamonds! They only have a "fancy color" intensity, pure red diamonds barely exist. The most famous red diamond in the world is the Moussaieff Red Diamond, a pure red diamond of 5.11 carats.

When it comes to lab-grown colored diamonds, laboratory experts can create different shades of colors by adding different treatments during the growing process of the diamonds. This makes lab created diamonds perfect affordable substitutes of mined diamonds in these rare colors.

The short answer to that is no they are not. A ring made out of hair is made to order with a lock of hair or some flowers and is actually made of resin within which a lock of hair is sealed. The final product, therefore, feels really lightweight and plasticky due to resin being its main component.

However, diamond rings made out of hair are a whole ‘nother story. It's not just simply hair being put straight into the diamond or the ring band; It’s the center diamonds that are the stars of the show. The diamonds are in fact lab grown instead of naturally mined. Technology is turning the carbon in hair into a “forever diamond”. A diamond made from hair is not only a reward of a completely personalized transformation journey, but also a precious keepsake that enables you to remember the beloved by.