What is Clarity?

When we speak of clarity, you might be familiar with terms like flaws, perfection, or imperfection. As these are mostly interchangeable, we like to use clarity. When selling diamonds, the word flaw has a negative impact. The word perfection gives off the wrong vibe as well. Making the stone seem as though it could be perfect. It can't! Imperfection is totally acceptable, but still offers a taste of negativity. Each seller of diamonds will have his or her own preference when describing clarity issues. For the sake of discussion, I will be using all as well.

There are twelve different types of flaws in a diamond. These flaws fall into one of two categories. The first is a black flaw. This is simply carbon that did not crystallize into diamond. The second group is a white flaw which is the most common and the hardest to detect. These could be a feather, cleavage, grain lines, pinpoint, cloud, natural, included crystal, or twinning lines. Some of these will impact value and beauty more than others. Before we get to that lets learn about the grading system for clarity.

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