This was my first order. It took quite a while to receive, and after about 3 weeks I started going to post office every day in anticipation! They are lovely and I will order again. One thing I would hope is that the colored sections at the beginning and end are not the same. What I mean is that my strand began and ended with black, so when I tied-on, there was an abnormally large section of black as the two ends met and became one.