What are birth stones?

As long as one the birth months isn't April.

But also, who cares that it's less hard? I'm not using it for a drill bit, it's a cosmetic piece. Literally it's only function is visual. And moissanite is superior. All the visual markers that are used for beauty in a diamond it surpasses. And some quick googling I did to confirm that also showed me that diamond is only barely harder ("With a hardness of 9.25, moissanite is the second-hardest material used a gemstone." a diamond is a 10.) and it turns out, less likely to break in some cases. "Moissanite doesn't have a cleavage plane, while diamond does. (This is an internal plane along which a diamond crystal can easily split)" So if you hit a diamond in the wrong spot, it can still crack. Moissanite does not have a weak spot.

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Usually you can tell the difference. Lab grown diamond is pure while rock grown diamond is imperfect.

But you have to look at it under a magnifying glass to tell, and know what you’re looking for.

It’s like 93% as hard but has better better optical properties which is what matters.

Don't hang around people who demand you consume in order to get their approval. They are empty people who will not support you.

Everything can be pointless when it comes down to it. I never ever wore jewelry but when I got married we got really nice matching plain bands and now I never take it off and quite like how it looks, it's not pointless to me.