Okay, here's the thing. If you're trying to choose a ring to match a certain outfit or color, keep looking. This ring is not just one color. If you're not familiar with Alexandrite, you should look it up. Basically, the crystal structure makes it reflect different kinds of light differently, which makes it appear different colors. What I mean is, you look at the ring in the kitchen, the stone is a wine red-plum color. Take it in your bedroom, it looks almost like amber, or a garnet, a dark reddish brown. Take it into the bathroom, it looks blue. Take it downstairs, it looks teal. Take it somewhere else, it looks smoky blue-green. I'm not exaggerating. There will be times you look at the ring and it looks purple. There will be other times when it is sea green, by no stretch of the imagination would you describe it as purple anymore.

Now, this phenomenon is absolutely amazing. It's fun to play a little magic trick on yourself, cover the ring and walk into a new room, and be surprised by what color it appears to be. However, sometimes the color is not at all what you would want to see, if you don't like red or amber for instance. So it really depends on what you want the ring for. If you want to wear it and wait to see how long it takes other people to notice that the ring on your finger keeps changing color, it will be a blast. If you want it to show how amazing the Earth is that such a magical stone can form naturally, it would be perfect. But if you're trying to match a purple cocktail dress, or a set of sapphire earrings, or whatever... I would keep looking.

This is truly an amazing piece of art! It's something you almost have to see to believe. Just don't get your heart set on getting a stone of a single color. And if you don't like the color when you get it, just go to a room with different lighting, and maybe you'll get a color you like then.