The right ring setting can turn a beautiful diamond into an outstanding one, making it a more personal and unique ring that matches your personality perfectly. You would be surprised at how many do not know their ring setting, but read our guide to ring settings below for help in this area.

Let’s take a look at different ring settings you will find offered at jewelry stores.

1. Prong Setting

This classic design uses small metal prongs to hold the ring’s stone in place, positioning it above the metal band. This enhances the stone’s brilliance, which is the technical term for how much light is reflected off the stone’s interior. As prong settings really enhance the central stone, this design is especially popular for classic engagement rings.Prong settings are sometimes called claw settings because of the claw-like shape the prongs make around the diamond that they safely hold in place.

2. Solitaire Setting

Solitaire setting is a type of prong setting. Solitaire ring designs feature a single, prize stone, most often a diamond, on a simple metal band. Many people love a solitaire setting for its unrivalled simplicity with just the band, the stone, and several prongs to keep it in place.

3. Bezel Setting

Bezel settings are very popular designs for rings and earrings. If you’re looking for a more chic, less traditional aesthetic, this might be the perfect option. Bezel settings work by surrounding the central diamond with a slim band, most often made from the same metal as the underlying ring itself.

4. Tension Setting

These settings reveal their secret in its name; the tension generated by the metal of the ring holds the central stone in place. Tension settings make for a sleek, modern look, where the centerpiece stone looks as though it’s floating between the two sides of the ring. This is an incredibly stylish option that might be the perfect look for you.

5. Pave Setting

Pave settings are commonly used to position smaller, accent diamonds on a ring band around a larger, central diamond. Pave settings create an aesthetic of an ongoing sparkle all around the ring band. They’re versatile enough to be adapted, according to the size of the smaller stones to be set.

6. Flush Setting

This particular gemstone setting style is also known as a gypsy setting. Flush – or gypsy – settings work by creating a customized hole for the stone within the ring’s metal band. You might also see rings of this setting style referred to as burnish settings or shot settings.

7. Bar Setting

Bar settings are a great choice for setting multiple, smaller stones in a stylish band ring, or for positioning accent stones around a larger, central stone. Bar settings hold the stones in place using metal bars that lie along two sides of the stones.

8.  Channel Setting

Channel settings are quite similar to the bar setting. Rather than holding the individual stones in place with metal on two sides, though, channel settings encase the stones on all sides.

9. Tiffany Setting

Tiffany’s experts came up with a ring setting design that would spotlight the very best of the stones they housed. Using a set of six prongs rising up from a minimalistic metal band, Tiffany settings lift up their centerpiece gemstone, allowing as much light as possible to touch it.

10. Halo Setting

Halo settings involve placing smaller, accent stones tightly around a centerpiece stone on the ring. Halo settings also refer to smaller stones set in a larger square, around a square cut feature stone, or even other shapes.

11. Three Stone Setting

These settings combine several stones to create a coherent, classy ring design. Three stone settings might be ideal if you have different types of stones that you’d like to include: for example, two smaller emeralds or sapphires would beautifully enhance the appearance of a larger, central diamond.

12. Cathedral Setting

If you’re a religious person, you’ll be familiar with the stunning arches often featured in the designs of cathedrals and churches. Cathedral settings are inspired by these shapes, holding the stone above the ring band to enhance its appearance.

13.  Infinity Setting

Infinity settings were dreamed up to portray the infinite love and dedication a couple has for one another. These settings cleverly incorporate a couple of bands into the ring itself, entwining these into the shape of the infinity symbol as they circle around your finger.

14. Vintage Setting

Vintage settings, also known as antique settings, are an interesting choice. Many of these antique or vintage style ring settings will have been selected to echo the design trends that came about during different periods of history.

15. Cluster Setting

Cluster settings are a perfect choice if you want to maximize your ring’s sparkle without maximizing its price tag. These designs position several smaller stones side by side, so they look like they could be one, larger stone.

16. Shank Setting

Shank settings refer to all those smaller stones that are placed securely in the shank, which is the technical term for the band of the ring. For example, you might want a pave setting around your ring’s shank to accent the larger, central stone, or a bar setting, or a channel setting, or a flush setting.

17. Step Setting

Step settings are a chic, angular design that builds in several layers of smaller stones between a central stone and the ring band. Raising the feature stone up from the ring’s shank, a step setting effectively enhances the main stone, while also blending the design into the actual band of the ring.

18. Illusion Setting

Illusion settings are a very smart option. These settings position several smaller stones very snugly together, so they have the overall look of a single, larger stone.Illusion settings rings give classy look of a larger diamond with much cheaper price.

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