Most people have been educated to look for diamonds with little or no color. When you go to the bridal section of a jewelry store the first thing they want to show you is the color range chart from D-Z. They explain the colorless and near colorless range in great detail so most diamond shoppers never get to understand that diamonds come in all colors of the rainbow.

However those that follow celebrity fashion would heard of pink diamonds and the pink diamond engagement ring that Ben Affleck gave to Jennifer Lopez many moons ago. Check out this pink diamond to the right above. ?It is close in color to the ring that formerly belonged to J Lo.

The four Cs is what most people usually think of when talking about diamond quality criteria but with pink diamonds what is important is the color. The actual carat weight of the stone whether set in a pink diamond ring orpink diamond necklace is of course important to setting the value but is still secondary in importance.

Cut also is secondary in importance since the diamond cutter contracted to cut the natural pink diamond rough will try to retain the carat weight and depth of color. All things being equal a larger stone with the same level of color saturation as a smaller stone will undoubtedly show more color face up.

Cut can affect the body color of a pink diamond because it can change the apparent color of a stone in the face up position. It is certainly possible to have two pink diamonds with identical carat weight, cut, clarity and body color but yet the one with the superior cut and optics will have the better quality of light return that enhances the apparent color.

The apparent color that is seen from a fancy pink diamond whether in pink diamond earrings or pink diamond engagement rings will always be the color seen from the face up position.The body color seen from the pavilion is important from a color grade point of view but it is the face up color impression that counts when it comes to dollars per carat.

A pink diamond collector knows that the face up view is the only one that matters when it comes to pricing a fancy pink diamond for use in pink diamond rings or other types of jewelry. Check out the mix of pink diamond melee stones to the left. The purplish tinge of these diamonds indicates that these may of Australian origin. Pink diamonds are rarely seen in this quality and quantity unless they are quite small or treated.

Of course all pink diamonds are not created equal. There is considerable variation in terms of the type of pink hue in a fancy pink diamond. The Argyle mine in Australia is known for its purplish pink diamonds that can be quite deep in color. In fact one of the most famous auctions in the diamond world is conducted by Rio Tinto, the mining company that conducts its annual pink tender which is an auction of their prized pink diamond production for the year. South Africa produces pink diamonds as well but its pink diamonds tend to be paler and have an orange component in the hue that can give it a padparadscha sapphire look.

Faint pink is the term used to describe a pink diamond that is so barely pink that its pink hue is only visible through the pavilion but cannot be seen face up. A slightly darker pink than this is described as very light pink and light pink which is visible face up as a pale icy pink. It is only when the pink hue of the diamond is obvious in the face up position that it can be prefixed with the term “fancy”.

So starting from the very dark type of pink diamond that tend to originate from Australia you will have this hue termed fancy dark pink. This color range will go all the way down to fancy light pink. The in between colors are called fancy deep pink, fancy vivid pink, fancy intense pink and fancy pink.

The white gold wedding ring is chosen by 95% of spouses to symbolize their commitment to each other. Besides purity and other symbolic overtones there is much to like in white gold wedding rings because they are more flattering to diamonds then yellow gold is. You can see how brilliant the princess cut diamonds are in this white gold wedding ring sets like this one to the right. A 14k white gold wedding ring will have the same look as an 18k white gold ring because they will both use the same rhodium plating.

Yellow gold can add an unwelcome yellow tint to diamonds that are not well cut. This does not mean that women or men meaningfully go out and purchase poorly cut diamonds but this fact is noticeable in a lot of sub par diamond jewelry done in yellow gold. White gold is a lot more tolerant of poorly cut diamonds, especially when they are in the near colorless grades of G and H .

Mens white gold wedding rings have followed a similar trend although it is more because men’s choices default to white gold as their metal of choice because it is what their spouse to be as chosen and women usually want their fiance’s ring to match their own.

White Gold diamond wedding ring choices are quite varied and there is something to suit every one. Check out this mens wedding band from Artcarved on the right. The textures are beautifully done and would be more difficult to do in metals like palladium and platinum.

The most popular types are rings set with diamonds in a pave style or micro pave as it is commonly known because each individual diamond is can be ?down to a half pointer or less in weight.

The whole appeal of micro pave settings is their scintillation factor. The diamonds are set as close to each other as possible using shared prongs. In this way you see less white gold and more diamond.Diamonds this size are quite small so the brighter more visible flashes, from the largest facet on the snow, namely the table.

The contours of the white gold engagement ring or band is what is responsible for the extreme scintillation. Because the diamonds are so small they follow the contour of the ring shank in a very granular way so every diamond’s table facet is pointed at a different angle from its neighbor.

This is what creates the dancing light effect where anyone watching a pave setting in motion will see the thousand points of light. Check out the pave white gold diamond wedding ring set to the left.

Diamond pave settings are like nightclub mirror balls. If you have a nightclub mirror ba ll with thousands of tiny mirrors as opposed to just hundreds you will see a lot more light flashes from just tiny shifts in your position because there are so many more mirror angles at play.

The diamond cluster ring is perhaps the most replicated diamond ring style since the 1970s. Many women from the baby boom generation probably own at least one diamond cluster ring. Theappeal of this type of diamond ring is the fact that multiple small diamonds are set close to each other covering a huge swath of ring area.

The most common shape is the circle with diamonds concentrically placed from a lower outer base building up towards the center of the head of the ring till all you need is one diamond at dead center to finish off the ring.

The beauty of the gold diamond cluster ring is that it scintillates with flashes of brilliance from all angles. Also, it has a very feminine look because usually each diamond is set for three prongs with one prong always pointing away from the ring giving it a nice dainty look like the rose gold cluster ring to the right.

Not all diamond cluster rings are round. One of the most popular styles is the waterfall diamond ring which has rows upon rows of diamonds three diamonds wide running up and down the center of the ring in a North South fashion. It simulates the look of a cascading waterfall and you will see this style on many women.

The other type of cluster diamond ring is the one shaped like a rosette with one small diamond in the middle surrounded by five or six diamonds of the same size or smaller as if to simulate petals on a flower. Check out the ring to the left which is a rosette ring in a bypass style. It is simply one diamond surrounded by six “petals” .

This style is also done in a bezel set finish especially when bigger diamonds are used. The image of the flower is a bit clearer when the diamonds are set in bezels.

The more modern type of ring is a white gold diamond cluster ring in a square shape. A central square shape with about four, nine or 16 diamonds set in prongs is surrounded by a square ledge set with smaller diamonds around the periphery either channel set or prong set.

This style is a bit more geometric which many modern women seem to go for. This style can also use princess cut diamonds invisibly set so that they’re no prongs showing except the outer lip running around the edge of the outer diamonds. You can see this in the ring to the right.

This was a great style during the 1980s and 1990s which has since fallen out of favor because this type of ring was difficult to size without having the diamonds become loose with a tendency to fall out.

This problem was difficult to correct because of the nature of invisible set diamonds which require that the diamond seats should fit into a groove burrowed by a laser on the underside of the diamonds. Because this was such a precise fit, any damage to this setting would jar the diamonds loose and would be difficult for a jeweler to put back by hand. Most jewelers would not touch a repair that involved invisibly set diamonds especially in cluster diamond rings.

Interest in antiques who we styles especially diamond jewelry has been on the rise particularly because rose cut diamonds and old miners cut diamonds have become exceedingly rare because many of them were seen as old-fashioned and were we cut into more contemporary styles like the?round brilliant.

Chocolate diamonds have been in vogue for the past 5 years now and was popularized by the promotion of brown colored diamonds to precious stone status. Prevously, about a decade ago, no one looked at champage, cognac and brown colored diamonds. They were considered non gem material and highly flawed. Today that has changed with Argyles constant promotional efforts to present these earth colored diamonds as being beautiful and desirable diamonds.

I would say that they exceeded their ambition because nowdays even uncut diamonds of all colors are being used in jewelry and can be actually more expensive than white faceted diamonds.Chocolate diamonds have fed off the promotion of colored pearls notably the chocolate and pistachio colored variety from Tahiti. Check out the chocolate diamond wedding ring to the left. There are now many designers that design chocolate diamond rings and chocolate diamond earrings in a multiple of styles.

Most notable is The brand called Eddie Levian. I would say this brand has single handedly pursued colored diamond jewelry and has brought it to a point where earth colored diamonds are now being combined in many different ways with white diamonds. A chocolate diamond is set in prongs that are typically black rhodiumed because this brings out the true color of the chocolate diamond as it scintillates. White prongs reflect a lot of light and so would compete with the minimal amount of light return coming out of chocolate diamond jewelry.

Remember, it is the deep hue of the diamond that is of interest in colored diamonds and not so much the fire and brilliance as is the case with white diamonds. True, you need your chocolate diamond ring to have well cut diamonds so that the chocolate hue comes bursting out but you’re still also interested in the purity of color and how well the chocolate diamonds match and blend together. This is important because in most colored diamond jewelry the beauty of the design comes fom the juxtaposition of the chocolate diamonds in their black prongs against the bright white diamonds in their brightly rhodiumed prongs.

For instance in a chocolate diamond engagement ring the design usually calls for a richly hued chocolate diamond center stone. This is only possible if the stone is cut well enough so that there is good reflection on the pavilion facets for nice even light return. This will give the true hue of the diamond and bring out the beauty of the mounting as well.

In the case of a cocktail brown diamond ring (like the one to the right) or also known as a chocolate right hand ring, the chocolate hue is created with multiple small round diamonds set in rows or patterns and immediately juxtaposed by white diamonds of similar size. This brings out the pattern and design of the ring as well as the rich chocolatey color of the brown diamonds.

The engagement ruby ring is one of those unusual pieces of jewelry that seems quite out of the ordinary when it comes to bridal jewelry. When most people think of engagement rings, they think of diamonds and not the other precious stones like Ruby, Emerald and Sapphire. This would be a mistake because although no stone is as durable as diamond, each of these three precious stones have their own appeal.

When it comes to precious colored stone, it is more of an emotional response to the beauty of the color than the perfection of the cut. Ruby is a part of the Corundum mineral family is second only to diamond in hardness. It is also called the Lord of gems for a reason. This is because it is practically priceless if it is a clean stone in the pure pigeon blood red color in sizes larger than 2 carats. You are not likely to see very many five carat and above sizes in a relatively inclusion free, nice colored Ruby. This is why you don’t see many women with plus size ruby engagement rings.

This makes it an ideal precious stone to be used as a center stone in a beautiful engagement ring. You may remember when the late Princess Diana got engaged to Prince Charles and her engagement ring had a beautiful oval blue sapphire center stone surrounded by diamonds. This was no ordinary sapphire. It was a prized, untreated , and fabulously rare Kashmiri sapphire of the purest cornflower blue. This rare sapphire would be astronomically priced today, but if you can imagine an equally clear and pure colored Ruby of the same size you’d be talking about a price many times that of the sapphire simply because such rubies are quite rare.

The antique ruby ring has a rather sordid role in history as being one of the most misidentified gemstones important pieces of jewelry. The gemstone spinel with its orangey red color and hardness close that of the ruby was often inadvertently used in ruby and diamond rings in antiquity. These pieces were later identified in modern times as having a spinel center stone rather than a ruby. Now that we can identify rubies as rubies and even clear up confusion with ruby treatments and synthetic rubies, there is no need to fear that when we buy ruby jewelry from a reputable store that we are buying the genuine gemstone.

A ruby and diamond ring is the natural combination of stones to be used in a ruby engagement ring. The most common style in this type of ruby diamond ring is that of an oval ruby center stone with either a matched pair of diamond side stones or smaller diamonds studding areas of the mounting or combination of both.

Oval rubies are the most common shape that you will find in a diamond and ruby ring. This is the shape that saves the most weight for the Ruby cutter. Other cuts that you will commonly see our emerald cut, cushion cut, marquis cut, round and pear. Oval however gives you the most bang for the buck. To the right this is a round ruby ring with two matched pear shape diamonds. An oval or cushion would look slightly better with the diamonds if you can imagine that.

The trilliant shaped diamonds offer a nice contrast to the softness of the cushion shaped Ruby or in this case an emerald cut . If the side diamonds are especially white, then this helps to bring out the beautiful red color of the ruby.The other common shapes of matched side stone diamonds that you will find in a ruby ring our rounds, pears and baguettes. Round diamonds have better optics than the other shapes and are a good contrast to the subdued red of most medium to higher quality rubies.

Cushion cut diamond engagement rings first started out as old miner cuts dating from the 1700s. This was the start of brilliant cutting as far as diamonds were concerned because most diamond cutting before this was predominantly the step cutting technique that you see today in emerald and asscher cuts.

What happened was that diamond cutters would keep the basic form of the rough octahedron and flatten the top of one pyramid and round out the edges giving rise to the cushion shape or old miners cut. Antique cushion cut engagement rings arise from this vintage diamond cut which is characterized by a thick and high crown and a deep pavilion giving it a very blocky look. Many of these vintage cushion cut engagement rings were recut into modern round brilliants as they would surface and so many lost their antique value which is now even more prized today. The old miners cut eventually morphed into the old European cut as cutters took off more of the squareness to form the precursor to the modern round brilliant shape.

Cushion cut engagement rings have become quite popular recently as women now are looking for something different from the traditional round diamond and something away from the oldertraditional fancy cuts like emerald, pear and oval. The shape and faceting is shown to the right

Diamonds with a squarish shape appeal like the princess cut, radiant, asscher and emerald cut have experienced more demand over the years as women who received a diamond engagement ring in the past have looked to these cuts for some of their avnniversary rings and other diamond jewelry.

As a center diamond in a ring, the princess cut diamond is overall the second most popular diamond cut after the round and is the most popular square cut for square diamond engagement rings. For 2009 the cushion cut engagement ring has bested the radiant cut in terms of popularity as square shaped center stone engagement rings go according to JCK magazine’s survey of American jewelry retailers.

Cushion cut diamonds have a softer look compared to princesses and radiants because of their rounded corners and shallower cut. Although the cushion cut diamond engagement ring will not scintillate as much as the other squares mentioned because of fewer facets, nevertheless its old world shape appeal coupled with the fact that its corners will not chip as easily as the princess and is not as bottom heavy as the princess or radiant means that it has a larger face up than the others for a given carat weight. To some degree it makes up for the lack of scintillation with the broader flashes that originate from its larger pavilion facets.

Despite their recent popularity the cushion cut engagement ring can be hard to find at your local jewelers unless it is a jeweler that specializes in square diamonds. You are far more likely to see the asscher cut than the cushion cut. At first, the asscher cut seems to be the prettier diamond. The asscher is the more well endowed cousin of the emerald cut sporting a deeper step cut pavilion that has more scintillation. However in the end it is still a step cut. A finely cut cushion, especially some of the branded cushion cuts like the Cushette by Vision Cut of New York who are the patent holders for this cushion cut have a brillaince and scintillation that many women find more appealing than the square step cuts.

Instaed of the normal 60 or so facets of a normal cushion, the cushette has a total of 77 facets and each one that comes from Vision Cut is branded and numbered. Another company with their own proprietory cushion cut diamond is harry Kotlar and Company. Gabrielle Tolkowski also has a proprietory square cut of his own called the Carre which is produced by Suberi Brothers of New York although it does not have the shape appeal of a cushion but rather a princess cut.

Cushion cut solitaire engagement rings come in many types of settings. Antique looking hand engraved mountings are popular with the cushion, rekindling its old miners cut heritage.

Cushion cut micro pave engagement rings on the other hand are more popular than most others as micro pave continues to dominate engagement ring design in white gold and platinum.

Check out this classic pave cushion engagement ring style to the right. It’s a simple?classic?of an engagement ring that has a wide appeal

Various side stones can be used with a cushion shaped diamond however straight edges side diamonds like trilliants and princesses tend not to be used because they can distract from the?softness of the cushion shape. Instead, curvaceous half moons ?are more commonly used like this ring to the left.

Instead of side stones, the cushion shape can also be emphasized by ?setting it in a bezel surrounded by channel set diamonds or even pave set diamonds surrounding a prong set cushion diamond.

Care must be taken that the prongs are not so thick that distract from the diamond. With cushions especially it is far better to use the double claw prongs at the corners than thick beaded prongs like this ring down below.

Prices on cushion cut diamonds run the gamut. They are generally less expensive than a comparable round brilliant although given their hard to find nature and fewer specimensexhibiting really nice optics it can pretty much be dependent on supply and demand.

Sometimes it can be so difficult to find premium cut cushion diamonds in the sizes and quality required that many purchasers end up getting the branded cushions talked about earlier.

Diamond ring enhancers or diamond wraps as they are sometimes called are a huge help to women who have a solitaire ring in need of embellishment or simply some protection. Sometimes young couples just settle for the bare basics when it comes to a diamond engagement ring in the hopes that as their financial situation gets better they will be able to get a matching band.

Other times a young bride gets a ring handed down from her great grandmother that is a vintage or antique solitaire ring with an old miners cut center stone and there is nothing in terms of a wedding band that she can find in jewelry stores that will match it. This vintage diamond enhancer to the right would be a solid choice for an antique solitaire.

It has all that fine millgrain work that will go with many antique styles with the slot for the solitaire head mounting. Of course the only way to know if it will fit is to get the measurements of both rings or physically try it when you are in the store.

In both these cases described above it might be a good idea to start looking at some diamond solitaire ring enhancers. They can also be referred to as diamond engagement ring enhancers, diamond wraps, diamond guards, diamond wedding ring enhancers and ring inserts.

There are many different styles for this type of addition to a solitaire ring but typically it will be a single or double ring with some sort of a gap where you can insert your solitaire. Of course this depends on the size of diamond solitaire ring that you have because you would want as close to an exact fit as you can get.

Check out this simple diamond ring enhancer to the left. In terms of simplicity this type of wrap fulfills the basic task of adding embellishment to a plain solitaire. All it does is put two side stones beside the engagement ring diamond for a three stone look to your wedding ring assuming of course your center stone is a diamond.

Many women opt for this type of enhancer, commonly called three stone diamond ring enhancers. You could also add a bit more pizazz to your solitaire by turning your engagement ring into a two tone wedding ring and changing the look altogether with some princess diamonds like this enhancer to the right below would do.

The square diamonds offer a nice contrast to the round center stone that would go in the middle. Princess accent diamonds add a different geometry and outline to your engagement ring.  Princess cut diamond ring enhancers are a popular way to spice up a plain solitaire.

Some common types of solitaire diamond ring enhancers include the insert style wrap which is two rings connected together on the underside of the shank by gold bars leaving a gap at the top for your solitaire to fit in.

What’s nice about this style is that if you have side stones or have a cathedral type of mounting where there is gold coming up the  shoulder of the ring above the base of the diamond head then your ring can be accommodated by the insert style as opposed to the wrap style.

The wrap style can only accommodate a strict solitaire diamond ring that is a simple setting and a shank soldered together.

Its is always a good idea to make sure that your center diamond will match the diamonds in the insert in terms of color and clarity so that the ring does not end up looking odd with a bright white center stone that is G in color and contrasting champagne tinged diamonds in the J range of color in the insert.

The diamond insert to the left  is a simple double row of straight mounted prong diamonds running across the top. This is what many women like and is all they really need to spruce up their engagement ring.

As long as the shank of your ring has a width less than the width of the gap between the two rings of the insert, then you are good to go. Of course you don’t want your solitaire ring bouncing between the two rings of an insert because the gap is much wider than you really need so you have to try different inserts to see what gives a close fit.

Diamond enhancer rings like the insert to the right is a fairly popular style . It has a nice North South orientation a decent amount of gap to accommodate a variety of shanks and heads. You have extended room in the every top of this insert where the two channel set shanks point outward.

This is useful if you want to change the head in your solitaire at a future date and want to have a pear or marquis center stone instead of a round. As you can see the points on an appropriately sized marquis or pear shape could be accommodated  by the increased gap in the head of this insert

The idea of the insert type of diamond solitaire ring enhancers is to encase the entire circumference of the solitaire so that instead of wearing two rings it looks as though you are wearing a single ring.

Diamond right hand rings became a favorite of many designers as a canvas upon which to display their design prowess. What easier way than to take a publicly advertised diamond product theme with De Beers dollars behind it and design their way into the limelight.

After all, right hand rings were about the individual with all their styling quirks. Right hand rings in this way allowed designers to go beyond their standard collections and expand their range to showcase traditional styling all the way to the audacious and ahead of their time styling and material.

Here is a piece from the manufacturer/designer Andin which is fairly basic in concept but simply elegant in excecution. At first blush it would seem to have more in common with a solitaire engagement ring rather then a right hand diamond ring.

First there is a mounting and second there is a single center stone. Now if a matching band came with it then perhaps but without that, all indications are that this could be called a right hand ring. It has a tailored one of a kind look despite its simplicity. A right hand does not always have to be showy and larger than life.

Contrary to the the previous ring, here is a larger than life diamond right hand ring with brown diamonds in the center set in Rose gold and white diamonds set in white gold. This is more typical of right hand rings in terms of scale. Previously this would have been called a diamond cuff ring but now this could definitely be called a right hand ring.

The centre motif is rose shaped and is appropriately rose gold. Wide cuff rings like this are not for everyone’s fingers because of the extra width.

If you have short finger you may want to consider a different style of right hand ring. In fact you may want to try the next style of ring shown below from the designer Diamonds in the rough if you have short stubby looking fingers. It features cognac diamonds in the rough set in 18k rose gold with small pink diamonds on the periphery.Rough diamonds are big now in the jewelry design world. Their prices have skyrocketed as a number of jewelry designers have introduced styles of their own only to realise that the prices have gone way up in the past three years.

Five years ago nobody was even looking at rough diamonds, diamond ring design was based on the premise of cut and polished diamonds whether modern or period cuts. Now rough diamonds are being paired with raw look gold for an inspired back to nature look. This coincides well with the green movement.

A variation on this trend is the not so rough look with an original design by La Reina to the left using included diamonds with a flattened rose cut to serve as petals on this right hand diamond flower ring.

The design is lavish with an inspired vision and quite an original among unique right hand diamond rings with a style that is neither vintage nor modern.

Right hand rings can also look designer without having a designer label and looking totally original. Black diamond right hand rings were perhaps the first type of colored diamond ring or rather right hand ring that became widely available with a diamonds that were not white. Black diamonds are actually much less expensive than the raw uncut off color diamonds now prized by designers and their followers.

It turned up en masse in black and white diamond jewelry in jeweler’s showcases back in 2000 and has had its ups and downs as popularity waxed and waned ?as designers favored other colors.Check out the ring below, a simple black diamond right hand ring in a band style with a twist.

Although black diamonds are not colored diamonds per se since black is not a hue but a shade or tint this takes nothing away from their popularity with designers of all calibres since black diamonds of all sizes are very reasonably priced all things considered.

Although treated blue diamonds have turned out to be just as popular, black diamond jewelry is till a great combination to wear with any kind of dress because it has a neutral appeal. ?There is a huge variety available at retail and at virtually any price point. It is even mounted in silver for a more casual luxe look.

Channel set eternity bands make a great “stand-in” wedding band. I wear a stand-in eternity band instead of the one that matches my engagement for the simple reason that sometimes when I’m going out and I don’t want to wear the “big rock” I slip on my one and a half carat white gold eternity band on my left hand ring finger where my engagement ring would normally go.

During the winter I can sometimes get it on my right hand ring finger and I’ll do that and wear my tanzanite or sapphire ring on my left hand ring finger.

What else is great about a channel eternity band ?

• For one it’s smooth and if I’m putting on a sweater or gloves I don’t have to worry about it catching on anything.
• It has a little more metal in it, (18kt white gold) because channels generally will have more metal than prongs so it feels substantial on.
• Yes, it still turns like any other eternity band but I feel a little safer accidentally hitting my band clad finger against a wall or something because I don’t feel like I might have bent a prong.
• Although I don’t wear my channel band with my engagement ring, the channel band is a good choice for an after thought band when you can’t get something exactly matching your engagement ring because at least it looks clean and won’t sustain any damage rubbing against your engagement ring.
• being one of the most popular styles of diamond band it’s available in a vast range of heights, widths and carat weights so you can get a pretty close match up against your engagement ring .

A good place to get an eternity channel band is your local jeweler. Some of the benefits of going to your local jeweler are:

1. You’ll be able to see a selection of channel bands and try them on to see how well they match up against your engagement ring.
2. If they’re good people you’ll get some good after sales service if you need it.

Some of the drawbacks with going to your local jeweler are

1. For a product like a diamond eternity band you can expect to pay a healthy markup.
2. Expect to wait anywhere from 4 to 12 weeks for them to get your ring custom made
3. Don’t expect to have any return options. You’ll have to sign their receipt acknowledging that it’s a final sale which means you’re stuck with it if you don’t like it.
4. Don’t expect to have a resize option if your ring doesn’t fit when you finally get it. They’ll tell you that eternity bands cannot be sized which for the most part is true, however you are ultimately responsible for telling them what size feels best and they will write something like “customer requests size 6 1/4″ on the custom order and have you sign it and so absolve themselves of any responsibility for correctly measuring your finger size.