Diamond Education - Clarity

The fewer the inclusions, the rarer and more valuable your diamond will be.  To determine a diamond's clarity grading the stone must be examined under a 10X magnification by an educated eye.  Small inclusions make every diamond unique and are nature's fingerprints.  Generally, they do not mar the beauty or endanger the durability of the diamond.  In most cases, if a diamond is SI2 or above, the inclusions are not easily visible to the unaided eye. Without magnification, you may never see these inclusions.

	FL or IF Flawless/Internally Flawless			VVS1 Very few inclusions
	VVS2 Very few  inclusions at 10x			VS1 Few inclusions at 10x
	VS2 No visible inclusions			SI1 Basically eye clean
	SI2 Mostly eye clean			SI3 or Less Some visible inclusions