The Lab Gem Supplier

It’s nearly halfway through March, and the warm weather is holding in the Northeast giving residents even more hope that Spring is all but here.  Spring is a time for new beginnings: time for beautiful weather, beautiful flowers and almost more than any other time of year – beautiful engagement and wedding rings.
The warm weather [...]

There are constant changes in what’s hot in the world of fashion and jewelry, in order for the average person to be able to maintain a current look they need to find affordable options or alternatives to what happens to be in at the moment. Some of the winter trends, like headbands and hoop [...]

High quality loose cubic zirconia from a reputable source can be turned into visually flawless and sparkling pieces of jewelry that often go beyond the beauty that you could get with a natural diamond for a fraction of the cost, but because cz jewelry can be had for such a value people sometimes forget that [...]

Everyone has been feeling the pressure of the economy on their purse strings. Hours have been trimmed down and salaries have been cut, both belts and budgets have been tightened as much as possible. Just because you can’t afford a premium cut, large carat weight diamond it doesn’t mean that you can’t offer your better [...]

Cubic zirconia is the most popular diamond substitute on the world market. High quality cubic zirconia look just like the diamonds Mother Nature makes only she spends millions of years cooking hers deep in the bowels of the earth and ours are made in a geologic nanosecond in carefully controlled laboratories. You’d think that for [...]

New Year’s Eve fashions call for some serious bling. After the disastrous year that was 2009, it’s time to look toward a happier, healthier and wealthier 2010. Glamming up your New Year’s Eve attire with some glittering jewels is one way to show your confidence that 2010 will be a far more prosperous year — particularly when [...]

Since the ability to create look alike gems in the laboratory, all that glitters in the jewelry case is not diamonds. It’s usually cubic zirconia, the popular manmade diamond and crystal gem look alike that can be created so flawlessly that your eye can’t distinguish it from Mother Nature’s handiwork. But even cubic zirconia has [...]

The world’s most popular diamond stand in, cubic zirconia is the crystalline form of zirconium dioxide. Colorless, optically flawless and nearly as hard as diamonds, cubic zirconia gems are created under exacting conditions in the laboratory and grown into perfect cube-shaped columnar crystals. Loose cz diamonds are carefully cut in the same manner as natural diamonds and [...]

Cubic zirconia figured heavily in a recent Fire and Ice Gala fund-raising benefit for the local Big Brothers Big Sisters charity in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Benefit organizers pulled out all the stops, collecting $80,800 for the charity, well over their $30,000 goal. In a night that included local celebrity chefs, a Las Vegas magician, a live auction and a [...]

As beautiful as natural diamonds, lab created cubic zirconia, or cz in jewelers’ shorthand, is recognized as a high quality, inexpensive substitute for Earth’s most precious mineral gem, the diamond. Exacting laboratory standards and tightly controlled conditions allow reliable creation of cubic zirconia in a variety of classes and colors. However, a lack of universal [...]