Erica Mena Wears a Beautiful Halo Engagement Ring

Capture the Essence! of Erica Mena's Halo Engagement Ring with this GIA-Certified 1.15-Carat Diamond Halo Engagement Ring. Photo ©2014 EraGem Jewelry. Erica Mena currently stars in VH1's 'Love and Hip Hop New York', though she got her first break in the industry by winning a J-Lo look-alike contest, according to IMDB. This month, she's in the news again, having announced her engagement to Shad Moss ('Bow Wow') on the red carpet at the Hip-Hop BET Awards on September 20, 2014. According to US Weekly, Shad Moss confirmed the news on Instagram with a photo of their matching engagement bling. His is a gorgeous diamond-studded Rolex watch, and hers is a dazzling diamond halo engagement ring. The purple light cast in the photo makes the central stone appear to be an amethyst, but this is just a lighting effect. In other photos, it is crystal clear that her dazzling round stone is a brilliant cut white diamond, surrounded by a circular halo of smaller white diamonds, mounted atop a split-shank band, which is also studded in diamonds. According to tweets, the rapper/actor worked closely with Elliot Avianne of Avianne Jewelers to create the beautiful halo engagement ring. The New York-based jewelry firm custom designs high-end jewels for a number of celebrity hip-hop stars, as well as for industry models. They most recently designed Ciara's 15-carat emerald-cut diamond ring.