I have bought from Pearllunar several times, recently and also years ago. I find that the photos are pretty accurate, but they are good photos, the pearls do not look like this all the time, but if the light is good then they do. Like glamour shots. Also read the description, I ones ordered a pair of studs, they were tiny (ok like 7 mm), but the listing was accurate. Freshwater pearls can be that big, I don't know what they mean being nucleated with a tiny chip,maybe they mean the mantle tissue. Most of their pearls are not bead nucleated, unless it says so in the description. I have never found any fault in their listing.