Everything you will need to know about the ring’s layout, and the engraved nickname.

How’s this for some pleased news? Britney Spears is engaged — and has a stunning engagement ring to demonstrate it.

This weekend, the pop icon discovered that her prolonged-time boyfriend, actor and individual coach Sam Asghari, popped the problem. “I just can’t f***ing think it,” the 39-12 months-old wrote on Instagram, together with a video clip of the couple demonstrating off her ring in excitement.

The ring in concern is a spectacular 4-carat spherical fantastic diamond in a platinum cathedral environment, in accordance to experiences, with the inside of the band engraved with the term “lioness” — Asghari’s nickname for Spears. The sparkler also has pavé detailing on the bridge and flush-established diamonds on the prongs and basket.

To layout the custom ring, Asghari recruited Permanently Diamonds NY founder Roman Malayev, E! News stories. “Every designer I spoke with about the ring was incredible with wonderful ideas, but I just clicked with Roman,” he stated in a statement. “We actually linked on the style and he was as thrilled as I was to make it special — which is why I chose him.”

Spears’ new engagement ring differs from the standard, trendier celeb rings — like Cardi B’s pear-formed diamond — that we’re utilized to looking at. Which is accurately what can make it so particular, claims Myles Mindham, CEO and creative director of Toronto’s Mindham Fine Jewelry.

“It’s amazingly traditional, but I’m impressed with how very simple and modest it is,” states Mindham. “Even though it is four carats, the design and style is particularly straightforward and significant to the two of them, which is truly great.”

As Mindham points out, he of course doesn’t know Spears and Asghari personally, but in the expert’s opinion, it is apparent how substantially believed went into the structure. There’s the fact that the spherical good reduce is far more timeless that offers it a bit of difference in the celeb world, and, of training course, the own message engraved into the band. But beyond that, there is the dimensions — four carats, Mindham says, is amazing with no getting over the leading (ahem, dependent on one’s signifies and private design, by natural means). The cathedral setting, indicating that the stone is elevated and related to the ring’s shank with arches, also leaves much more space on Spears’ finger for her eventual marriage ceremony band. Then there’s the  “very pretty” bridge — a.k.a. the small segment beneath the elevated portion — which is has been inset with additional tiny, fantastic-slash diamonds.

“There’s definitely some form of message there — it’s possible it’s bridging the past and the future, or bridging their life together,” claims Mindham. “Usually, it’s one thing intimate that only the designer and [the couple] would recognize.”

As mentioned, spherical brilliants are a traditional kind of engagement ring that set a benchmark for other diamond values. In accordance to Mindham, the spherical brilliants current the “most optically proper refraction of mild,” producing for a wonderful, unbeatable glimmer.

Again in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when diamonds became much more popularized, round brilliants were being the go-to. Need for the reduce amplified in the 1940s, when diamond engagement rings grew to become normal thanks to some intelligent promotion from British corporation De Beers (therefore the phrase “diamonds are forever”). It was not until finally slicing devices evolved and grew to become far more advanced that other designs — like emerald and princess cuts, for instance — emerged.

These days, diamond ring tendencies are largely driven by famous people, with Mindham pointing to the ubiquity of social media as a major resource of inspiration for men and women hunting to purchase their personal engagement rings. Correct now, elongated oval-cuts (as noticed on Hailey Bieber ), emerald cuts (like Jennifer Lopez’s ring from Alex Rodriguez), and cushion-slash diamonds (good day, Meghan Markle) are specially well known.

“These points are culturally major,” he says, noting that round cuts are usually seen as old fashioned. “People shell out a whole lot of attention to what stars are putting on, but also when everybody thinks of a round diamond, they [might] feel of their moms.”

Spherical brilliants are noticed much fewer now, specially among superstars. Mindham can only assume of Queen Elizabeth II and the ring Olivia Wilde acquired from Jason Sudeikis when they were being with each other as two notable illustrations.

Which all over again, is why it is so perfect for the pair. “Britney’s ring is not a development,” he states. “It’s a traditional.”