The earrings are pretty, with an aurora borealis-type coating on the crystals. However, I was dismayed to find two scratches on the coating of one of the earrings. The packaging was sturdy and ample (earrings were on a plastic card in a chiffon bag in a cardboard box in an Amazon container), so that cannot be what caused the scratches. Given the low Gold Box price I paid, I'm not going to bother with a return. But I am disappointed that these otherwise pretty earrings arrived marred.