No doubt that these earrings look and sparkle just like the "real thing". My wife owns a lot of jewelry (most of it consisting of real diamonds and/or solid gold items). For her to be impressed with the sparkle of these earrings certifies them as 5star in my book. (After she asked for the twentieth-time whether they were real or fake, I did tell her that they were cubic-zirconia -- but she still enjoyed them anyway!)