The beads are beautiful and most are in good condition. The one reason why I can't give this a 5 star is the Red Garnets in my strand. One was fine but the other 2 had issues. One had several cracks coming from one of the hikes and the third literally had 2 drill holes. The 2mm and a smaller hole a few mm over. Hopefully my macrame can cover those imperfections LoL.