Birthstone Gift Guide: A Guide To Colored Stones As Birthstone Jewelry
garnet January – Garnet
Garnet is a brownish red stone. The shades of red are caused by a presence of iron, chromium and manganese. Garnet can be found anywhere in the world.		  
amethyst February – Amethyst
Amethyst is the prized member of the quartz family. Early Greek legends, and its wine-purple color, associated amethyst with bacchus, the god of wine.		  
aquamarine March – Aquamarine
Aquamarine’s cool blue hues are reflected in its name, which comes from the Latin for “sea water”. This gem’s body color ranges from a greenish blue to blue green.		  
diamond April – Diamond
Worthy of its own category and the hardest of all minerals, the diamond remains the single most popular gem in the world. Created billions of years ago, its structure is the simplest of all crystallized carbon.		  
emerald May – Emerald
Emerald is a lush green color and the most famous of the beryl family. It is also the gemstone for the twentieth and thirty-fifth wedding anniversaries.		  
pearl June – Pearl
Pearls occur in a wide variety of colors. The most familiar colors are white and cream. The body color is often modified by additional colors called overtones, which are typically pink (called rose), green, purple, or blue. Pearls symbolize modesty, chastity, and purity.		  
ruby

July – Ruby
This best loved red gem captivates the hearts of the gem professionals and consumers alike. Ruby comes from the Latin word rubber, which means red and can range in color from vivid red to pinkish purplish, or orangey red.

  
peridot August – Peridot
Formed deep inside the earth, this stone is brought to the surface by volcanoes. Usually, transparent it comes in an attractive range of colors from brownish or yellowish green to greenish yellow (olive or lime).		  
blue sapphire September – Blue Sapphire
For centuries, sapphire has been associated with royalty and romance. Traditionally, known for being blue, sapphires also come in violet, green, yellow, orange, pink and purple (also known as rainbow sapphire).		  
opal
 October – Opal
This phenomenal gem has been regarded as the luckiest and most magical of all gems because it shows all colors. This play of color occurs by light entering the stone. Once the light is diffracted, it produces and entire rainbow of color.		  
topaz November – Topaz
Besides the color brown, Topaz also is blue, green, yellow, orange, red, pink, purple and even colorless. Red is the most valuable topaz, but blue is the most common.

 

 
blue zircon December – Zircon
Zircon’s name still means “imitation” to many people, but it actually is a beautiful colored gemstone. This gem’s most common color is often “zircon blue”. Other colors include, green, yellow, orange, red, brown and even purple.