How to Show Off Your Diamond Solitaire Engagement Ring

When you get that gorgeous diamond solitaire onto your left hand, you’re going to want to show it off to everyone. The manicurist, the waiter, the woman next to you on the subway, no one is safe from your sudden passion for waving your hand in her face and waiting for the obligatory oohs and aahs. Since you know that your diamond solitaire is the hottest engagement ring on the planet, here are some sneaky tricks for making sure everyone realizes that too.

• If you don’t usually talk with your hands, now’s the time to start. Practice waving your hands around a lot while you talk so the diamond catches the light. Make sure you gasp and raise your hand to your mouth whenever anyone says anything the least bit surprising.
• Go for a manicure in a look-at-me shade of red, which will contrast nicely with your icy diamond solitaire and give you that Old Hollywood touch of glamour.

• Yawn a lot. Let me say it again. Yawn a lot. Did you find yourself yawning? With your hand politely covering your mouth, of course? Good.
• Make a point of complimenting the bank teller or woman waiting next to you at Starbucks on some piece of jewelry she is wearing, even if it’s a necklace with a portrait of her cat. She will return the favor and soon find herself dazzled by the beauty that is your diamond solitaire.

• Find out a little about how to take awesome diamond jewelry photographs and take a whole bunch of pretty photos. Email them out to everyone in your contact list with the subject heading, “Free Diamonds!” Inside, write, “Use these free diamond pics as your desktop background. Oh, P.S. Come check out the real thing on my finger!”
• If all else fails, play with the diamond solitaire on your finger. The eye is naturally drawn to anything that’s moving.