How Can You Tell If Loose Gemstones Are Real & How to Customize Loose Gemstones into Jewelry?

Do you want to become an educated buyer, and enter into the world of rare colored gemstones? Do you want to be confident as you browse the stores of various jewelry merchants, looking for loose gemstones? The question that would definitely come to your mind as you browse different jewelers for loose gemstones is, how to identify whether the gemstone is real.This question is tricky to answer, but we can offer you some tips regarding how to tell if a loose gemstone is real or fake. Let us start with the ABCs of gemstones and look at what is a natural gemstone, a genuine gemstone, and a simulated gemstone.The problem with most of the freshly mined gemstones is, that they are rarely appropriate for being used in fine jewelry, even though they have been through the polishing and faceting process. This is why, they are ‘enhanced’ or ‘treated’ in a variety of ways so as to remove their inherent flaws and improve their overall appeal. These gemstones are 100% real and are labeled as ‘genuine’ gemstones so as to indicate their status of being treated in one way or the other.