Weird peeve time. Calling lab grown gemstones āfakeā is stupid because itās the same shit just not formed naturally. An artificially grown diamond is the same shit as a natural diamond it is the exact same material bro itās all fuckign carbon
Itās carbon itās pretty and it didnāt involve slave labor whatās not to love??? Hi Iām having geology opinions tonight apparently. And Iām right
There is so much bullshit in the diamonds industry to be mad about tbh. It also ties into the bullshit of the wedding industry as a whole but we donāt have the time to unpack all that
not even going to lie, the day i learned i could get like 15 lab grown rubies the size of dimes for $20 is the day i spent $20 on rubies, and i have never once said to myself āman, i wish this cost $1,600 and the lives of eight children to produceā
We are a pro-lab-grown mineral blog here, not only is it massively cheaper but massively more ethical as well in many cases.
another very cool lab grown gem is Moissanite. It has a 9.25 on the mohs hardness scale where diamond is a 10. Moissanote also has a 2.69 refractive index in comparison to diamondās 2.419 and here is the differenceĀ
and the best thing about moissanite? It is all lab grown and it costs only a fraction of what diamond costs. So fuck the diamond indsutry and buy lab grown gems which cost significantly less
Also itās just cool to think of some mad scientist lookin person doing shit against the law of the universe and making pretty gems for you. Like cmon. This shouldnt be allowed probably. But humans really be like on gOD i want some shiny an just started MAKIN em
for years people wanted alchemy, well now we have alchemy and weāre making gemstones out of it and suddenly āit doesnāt countā anymore
the push to consider them fake was started by debeers as a means to try to protect their blood diamond empire since flooding the market with easily accessable and cheap diamonds would devalue theirs and they wouldnt be able to profit off slave labour and social pressures about marriage anymore
