Do you want to become an educated buyer, and enter into the world of rare colored gemstones? Do you want to be confident as you browse the stores of various jewelry merchants, looking for loose gemstones? The question that would definitely come to your mind as you browse different jewelers for loose gemstone is, how to identify whether the gemstone is real. This question is tricky to answer, but we can offer you some tips regarding how to tell if a is real or fake. Let us start with the ABCs of gemstones and look at what is a natural gemstone, a genuine gemstone, and a simulated gemstone.