When Dua Lipa posted just a few pictures sporting a gleaming cigar band inlaid with a diamond—on that finger—in an Instagram carousel celebrating her “final days of 2024,” she joined a rising checklist of celebrities who’re taking the comfortable launch method to asserting their engagement on social (Chloë Grace Moritz did the identical only a few weeks in the past). Naturally, many began to take a position over the “Coaching Season” singer’s relationship standing with Masters of the Air star Callum Turner, which had seemingly modified. Although neither Lipa nor Turner (who had been first related in early 2024) have confirmed the information, she has worn the ring constantly since that submit. Although we’ll have to attend for the couple (or their representatives) to touch upon the present state of their partnership, we determined to take issues into our personal arms and ask a celeb jeweler for her tackle the query everyone seems to be asking proper now: Is Dua Lipa sporting a hoop or an engagement ring?
Based on Susie Saltzman, an engagement ring designer based mostly in New York Metropolis and jeweler to the celebs, “We’re an engagement ring,” she tells BRIDES. “I simply can not consider every other purpose to put on an engagement-looking ring in your ring finger if you end up head over heels in love with somebody and have 9 different fingers.” Although Saltzman admits that the ring may be a promise ring, she thinks it’s unlikely, contemplating the truth that Dua’s newest addition to her jewellery assortment displays all of the qualities of a proposal piece. “The ring is ‘solitaire’ in styling—which means it seems to have one focal, middle diamond. It’s additionally set in a yellow gold chunky, large band (which could be very on-trend for engagement rings),” she explains. “It’s clearly not a trend ring when it comes to fashion, so to me, I see Dua’s left hand ring finger and instantly assume, ‘She’s engaged!’ I imply, it’s form of a common understanding of what your left hand ring finger is reserved for.”
Since we’ve but to get a full, clear shot of what’s in all probability Lipa’s engagement ring, we requested Saltzman to make use of her zoom function and jeweler’s eye to explain her diamond, which is “most probably a spherical good or outdated European lower that’s set into the band,” she says. “The diamond seems to be semi-bezel set or stress set—presumably even absolutely bezel set.” Her reasoning? Whereas the ring seems open from the aspect view, nearly as if the diamond is floating, “the diamond is about low, almost flush with the large gold band,” Saltzman explains. “It’s positively a departure from the assertion, fancy formed solitaire diamonds on tremendous delicate bands that we’ve been seeing on celebrities for the previous five-plus years.”
As for the worth of Lipa’s engagement ring? It’s tough to verify for certain, however Saltzman has a good suggestion of its worth vary. “It’s so arduous to say with out understanding the diamond form, carat weight, and high quality, however I’d enterprise to guess that if it’s a top quality pure diamond, over two and a half or three carats, it most probably price $65,000 to $85,000 on the low finish and $125,000 on the excessive finish.”
Saltzman’s evaluation must tide us over as we watch for Lipa to verify or refute the rumors that she and Turner are headed down the aisle—however the jeweler is loving celebrities’ new method to breaking the sort of file information. “They’re sharing their information in their very own, delicate approach. It tells me that ‘guidelines or traits’ are much less essential,” she says. “I believe that’s so nice, as a result of in any case, an engagement usually is a really intimate, personal milestone. To me, it looks like {couples} are getting nearer to the actual which means of an engagement and permitting their standing change to be a secret—shared simply between them for some time. Total, I believe individuals are turning into extra desirous of deep, genuine emotional connection. And typically the extra delicate the expression, the extra pure, sincere, and exquisite it feels.
