Hixhro 120pcs 6mm Aquamarine Gemstone Beads Natural Stone Beads for Jewelry Making with Crystal Stretch Cord Spacer Beads

The beads came today they definitely don't feel plastic. I realize stone colors vary slightly however the picture in the plastic is accurate in color of what they are in real life. More green than blue so kinda bummed but still going to use them.

Comes with the right amount of beads, none of them seem damaged or unusable. Came not on a string but vacuum sealed in a way where they weren't moving about. The drilled holes are consistent in size and so are the beads themselves. I’m not a fan of spacer beads so I don’t really use them in my bracelets but they seem high quality. I use about 18 beads in my bracelets so I can make roughly 2 bracelets and a pair of earrings maybe. The elastic seems to work well so far. Overall a cute little kit.

These semiprecious stone beads are a really nice set if you want everything you need to make bracelets, although the stones do not exactly meet specs for their stated size. I chose the aquamarine 6 mm beads, and they mostly look like the picture. Not sure if they are genuine but they are still quite beautiful. The beads come with the sparkly spacers and a spool of stretchy cord. The holes in the beads are quite large for easy stringing. When measuring some of the beads, I found that they ranged in size between 6-7 mm, and generally not close to the 6 mm end. This is fine if you don't care about exact sizing, but I imagine some jewelry makers would like to have more control over bead sizing.

This is a pretty bunch of obsidian: the stones have nice luster, and each stone seems slightly different. We are used to purchasing stones like this regularly, and this is in the upper end of average pricing. We usually pay a few dollars less for a couple strands of obsidian. I prefer my beads packaged on a string in a strand, but that's a small detail. Overall, a good purchase!

These beads are beautiful and well made. They are smooth and the holes are uniform. They also have a nice amount of the flash that labradorite is known for, although it is hard to capture in pictures.

I love quartz crystal and it is one of my favorite stones to work with while beading. In my own collection of jewelry (that I have made myself) I have at least 3 or 4 necklaces with quartz crystal in the design. Up until now I have mostly worked with some puffed ovals and some 8mm rounds so I was tickled to get my hands on some 6mm rounds as that is my preferred size in round beads. I was impressed with the packaging presentation of these beads when they arrived. They came loose with an organza bag and include a small reel of transparent stretchy cord and a baggy of 20 glass crystal spacer beads that are also 6mm. The quartz crystal beads are all fairly uniform in size and the drill holes, while pretty small, are evenly spaced. The transparency of the stones is pretty good with very few to no noticeable defects. They are great for just about any jewelry project as long as you don't need large sized holes. I was able to double my bead stringing wire back on itself and pass it through the bead twice – somewhat snug but the beads still had movement. To address the big question, yes, I do think they are genuine stone beads. I don't have any fancy equipment to test them but they do have the telltale cold to the touch feel that lasts longer than with most gemstones or glass. Needless to say, I will be getting plenty of mileage out of these 120 – and, yes, there were exactly that many in the package – round quartz crystal beads as their design possibilities are endless....

The media could not be loaded.  The stones are really pretty, but the sizes are inconsistent. There is a quite a bit of variation in sizes which could be pretty noticeable.

I was not familiar with Blue Sea Sediment Jasper before I ordered these Natural Stone Beads. Being Natural Stone beads they aren’t all perfect and some of the drilled holes are a little bigger or wonky. This doesn’t concern me too much. It is the color and the random sediment inclusions that I was attracted to. The range of turquoise colors and browns is so beautiful and I like that these are smooth, shiny beads as opposed to a mat finish. I did more research on Blue Sea Sediment Jasper and it comes in a whole range of colors from a pale, soft blue to a dark, rich blue. The turquoise blue of these stone beads is very rich and opaque. This set comes with a spool of strong stretch cord and some little silver rhinestone spacer beads. The rhinestones are embedded in a bright silver metal and they are quite solid- the metal is not aluminum as it is much more sturdy. I am really pleased with these beads and look forward to creating jewelry pieces with them.