Did you know the most popular size of accent “melee” stone in jewelry is the 1.00 millimeter (1mm) diameter round cut stone? It’s probably not because there’s anything inherently better about the size, but that size side stone just seems to have evolved as a standard in the jewelry industry over hundreds of years. Read more about this interesting phenomenon here. Oh yes, and if you happen to be part of a college dance team with a design in your mind for making a blingin’ faux-diamond bikini uniform for the squad, you can buy our flawless, AAAAA diamond-quality 1mm round cut melee accent stones at wholesale prices of less than a penny a piece (without being a credentialed jeweler). Please send pictures, when finished. In all seriousness, anyone can buy our stones at wholesale prices without being in the jewelry business— not just dance team members.

Anyone who says they can tell the difference with the naked eye (i.e. looking unaided, with no special tools or props) between a perfect mined diamond and the top-quality 5A Cubic Zirconia such as that we make and use in our jewelry is: lying only giving anecdotal evidence based on a flawed experiment set-up comparing diamonds to poor-quality CZ manufactured by companies trying to save money on quality.(i.e. not CubicZirconia.com cubic zirconia) trying to sell you diamond jewelry or some combination of the above. Allow me to explain...

Customers hoping/expecting to replace an inexpensive but flawless and colorless 5A CubicZirconia.com CZ center stone with diamond at some point in the future commonly ask us if it is possible for us to make our jewelry with a only the largest stone being cubic zirconia while natural diamond accent stones (also known as 'side stones' or 'melee stones) are used in the remainder of the piece. Yes, this is possible. Here's the details.

We do not acknowledge any independent, industry-wide and international authority on the making of diamond-quality synthetic cubic zirconia stones. That means anyone out there claiming to make a better stone or a "certified" stone may as well be making that claim up from thin air as far as we are concerned. Certification schmertification.

Well, the truth is, it wasn’t invented per se. Cubic zirconia is a naturally occurring substance. Some place its di...