They are really beautiful and came very quickly, but sadly the colors do not last. I've had these since January, was gone in February on vacation and in March when I started using them, I noticed that after a month, the colors on some of them started to fade. I wash them by hand and with ''eco'' dish washing liquid - not sure what the problem is. I tried washing some in the dish washer as well, but this didn't make a difference. You can see the blue and brown colors have faded.