Props: Where can I get fake diamonds??

stewiegriffin08

Hello,
I am looking for props for a photoshoot, Diamonds, I found some on ebay, but its only one per auction and there huge, I am looking for smal diamonds, about 20 or more, Where can I get them cheap, not a fortune.... Any advice on taking photos of theese as well? Will they look fake? More intreseted on getting them first... Cheers!

Fajitas!

Best bet for someplace in a rush would probably be someplace like Euro2 or something along those lines.

How do you plan on using them for the shoot? Are you using flash?

stewiegriffin08

excuse my ignorance, but whats Euro2... :rolleyes: Em, Not sure, prop not flash, just want them to mess around with, try to get the best results, I was think of them along blu velvet or green, lights maybe...

bradnailer

Go and buy some cheap costume jewelery and take them apart, might be easier to get your hands on then loose fake stones.

Fajitas!

It's the Euro version of the pound shop.

snorlax

Your banned?!

Fajitas!

Yes...

Shhh, don't tell them I can still post here!

stewiegriffin08

I cannot believe how hard it is though, I want proper looking diamonds, the ones of costumes, either have holes in them or black coating on them ... Why is it so hard to buy them? I spent the last hour and a half looking,.. and got nothing, Remember the bond movie with all the diamonds all over the bed? surely they were not real.... So where are they?! The internet is huge.... Where can I not buy fake diamonds, without being led to a cheap jewellery site...lol
Cheers guys ... no luk yet though

ThOnda

They have stones in "crafts shops" with painting oil colours, canvases and so. There are quite few of them in the city centre.

stewiegriffin08

what you mean stones? is it what im looking for do you know?

Right : From this point on, Whoever finds them for a cheap price, I will give them €5 YES €5 through Paypal.... Come on folks, you cannot do better than that!!

stewiegriffin08

This is what I am looking for, Except thoose are real...

Sorry about it being soooo Big of a pic,

Oriel

Anybody have any kidney stones?

haz

stewiegriffin08 wrote: »

what you mean stones? is it what im looking for do you know?

Stones for making hand-made jewellery - lots of art shops (Vibes and Scribes has a massive selection), holistic healing centres and market stalls sell cut and uncut natural, pretty stones. Quartz is cheap and transparent, but not convincingly diamonds unless you get some neat lighting filters for the highlights - perhaps you could print the colours off a photo of a real diamond (from any jewelller's website) and bounce a flash off it? Or selectively desaturate the photographs?

Smashed safety glass is pretty good, but small and very rectangular (any bus-stop on Sunday / Monday morning). It would look okay in a heap. So might ice.

Roches, Brown Thomas, Claire's Accesories etc all do cheap and cheerful diamante costume jewellery that you could dismantle. Twenty euro should buy some suitably huge and tasteless items. Mounted diamante (held in place with metal folded over the edges) won't have holes drilled in it, but the back of the fake stone is always silvered with protective paint on the silvering. You could scrape it off with 0000 wire wool, or maybe paintstripper / nailvarnish remover if that doesn't destroy the shine.

OSiriS

Ebay might be worth a look:

http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=Cubic+zirconia

stewiegriffin08

Cheers Haz, I will check them out and get back to you.... Looks like I could be splitting that €5... nah, Ill check them places out, thanks again,

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1-ct-Oval-Moisannite-Simulant-Diamond-Imitation_W0QQitemZ360030530007QQihZ023QQcategoryZ67727QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Is this what Its going to cost me??? tenner a diamond... arghh

There must be a website just selling them... keep looking lads cheers

ThOnda

Stones = gems, sparkling glass, fake diamonds...
They use them in those creative programmes for kids in TV (disadvantage of late morning visits to gym - there's nothing else to watch).

stewiegriffin08

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2MM-Cubic-Zirconia-Round-Brilliant-Cut-A-White-LOT100_W0QQitemZ320224126210QQihZ011QQcategoryZ110730QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmdZViewItem?_trksid=p1638.m122

lmao thonda..

Yeah, Got them.. Yahooo.. at last.
OsiriS - I found these while altering your search a wee bit, so I think the 5 goes to you... Although Hex helped too, so €2.50 each I think... PM your paypal address ill keep my word.!
Thanks everyone. I will post my pics when finished...

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Diamonds are forever
They won't leave in the night
Have no fear that they might
Desert me


Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe
Diamonds are forever (forever, forever, forever)
The Roc is still alive every time I rhyme.
Forever ever? Forever ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever?......

Roen

No that you're sorted....how come Fajitas! is banned? Was it something to do with the Sex and Sexuality forum?

Oriel

Roen wrote: »

No that you're sorted....how come Fajitas! is banned? Was it something to do with the Sex and Sexuality forum?

No, he posted his coming out message in PI instead of GLB. Naughty boy.

Roen

Oriel wrote: »

No, he posted his coming out message in PI instead of GLB. Naughty boy.

I knew that would be the rock he'd perished on.

*Dallas

might be a long shot but if you get stuck.. you could try Charity shops like Oxfam?

Might get an old handbag, shoes or piece of clothing with some crystals/diamonds on them

eh.. sorry just realised you found the diamonds whoops

PaulieC

I just get some diamonds from the safe when I need them:D

Calina

Claire's Accessories might be worth a look. They could be attached to anything though, hairclips, weird looking necklaces.

stewiegriffin08

lmao, some good answers there, cheers guys... Found on ebay, 100 diamonds for about 5euro with postage, thats for 1mm, for 7mm, its about the same... few more euro, Will post the results here when I get the pics taken..