Apart from the blue sapphires, there are many other fancy colored sapphires. These sapphires include, yellow and green sapphires as they are the most common shades after blue color.

The pink sapphires have a deep pink color. This deepening of color is caused by an increase in the overall quantity of chromium in the sapphires. The fact is that the deeper the pink color is the more costly the sapphires tend to be. This is because the deepening of the pink color takes the hue towards the red color of the rubies.

There are some other fancy color sapphires, available in colors like brown and orange. There also are colorless sapphires that are very popularly used as substitutes for diamonds in a variety of jewelry options.

There also are the Padparadscha sapphires that tend to fetch much higher prices than even some of the most brilliant blue sapphires.

Recently, the Padparadscha sapphires have become really popular, this has caused a lot of sellers to use a treatment method known as “lattice diffusion” for converting the simple sapphires into the Padparadscha sapphires.