Wanted to love these
I am sorry to have to write this review, but the earrings I was sent are not sterling silver.  I absolutely love the design of these earrings!  I wore them constantly when they arrived and received compliments on them (a friend wanted a pair when she saw them).  I didn't wear them for a few weeks and when I picked them up again I noticed they weren't silver, but very dark grayish black.  Real silver does tarnish (someone else noted the black color in a review and I assumed hers may have been tarnished, so it didn't prevent me from ordering). But they aren't tarnished, there was still a small amount of silver paint at the top of each bead and the bead itself is a dull gray-black; you can even see a seam where the plastic(?) was formed into the shape! I used my fingernail and the small amount of "silver" left could be scraped off.  I love this store's designs and maybe, hopefully, the owners didn't know the pieces they were using to make the earrings were fakes, but sadly the ones I bought were.  I was going to buy these and other earrings as gifts, but I don't trust their descriptions.
Rating: 1 stars