Skull Cut Christmas Garnets, Special Halloween Gems

These are Christmas garnets faceted in my own custom skull design (you might call it a 'Nightmare Before Christmas garnet')!  Each is individually photographed and selecting the carat weight will show the exact stone. Cr:YAG, aka 'Christmas garnet' is an exotic lab-created garnet and a really unique gem even by our standards. It has a totally unique color, with a rich almost tsavorite green base and strong red fluorescence. This means that it shows a mixture of red and green flashes, and which color predominates depends on the lighting (color and angle) as well as the background it is set against. Lighter toned stones will look almost pure green when placed on a white background but change to a mix of red and green when put on a dark background. Note that the camera exaggerates the red at the expense of the green--they do look better in person. They look a bit like alexandrite or color change garnet but is also totally different and unique. This is easily one of my favorite gems, unlik