The good:  Design details are wonderful and looks great.  Earring weight is not so bad (I do not like heavy earrings that will distend my earring holes worse than they already are.)
The bad:  After one wear, the entire stone of one earring fell out of the casing, tried to crazy glue but botched the job.
Liked it enough to take a chance on a second pair.  Interestingly enough, the color has changed.  As others had commented, while the picture has always been the same, my first pair was a dark red-brown where you could only see the true color clearly when light shone directly through it.  The new pair is a bright red that actually allows for the design detail behind the stone to show through and true to the picture.