The quality is nice, but my problem is that it doesn't come with plugs for the smaller sizes so what was I supposed to do?? I ended up buying a cheap acrylic set to make up for the small sizes I didn't get in the stainless steel set. What I figured out is this set (even though they are gauged at the same numbers) was bigger than the acrylic so I've been going from one set to the next to easily stretch my ears without injury. So because the acrylics are 1/4 of the size smaller I feel like I'm not stretching my ears too far and it's been working really well for me. The smallest size in this set is way too big to shove in your regular sized pierced ear. It hurt way too much to just put that in so the acrylics actually helped me out in starting the stretching process too.