I was really excited to try these out, especially since they are Leopard print and I have a liking for that kind of print (shh, don't tell my husband!). They're just as cute in person as they are staring at them on a computer screen, but that's about all.

Maybe it would have been a good idea to better search about the size differences and whatnot, because I knew immediately upon opening the box that these were not going to work. They fit all too snug inside me to actually do the job of tightening my muscles. I didn't even have to do anything to keep them inside. They stayed all on their own, which defeated the entire purpose.

They're a plastic casing with a seam that you can see and also feel with your fingers, but luckily you can't feel it when they're inside of you. You can however hear them. They were quite noisy, which I didn't like. I wasn't looking for something that necessarily vibrated or assisted in giving me pleasure because I just really wanted to strengthen my muscles. But every move I made, it was a little awkward to feel them shake inside of me, and to hear the balls inside beating against the plastic was a little weird.

I should have listened to the reviews about the string being difficult to clean and maintain. All of us ladies know that we don't pull out Ben Wa Balls and they're magically completely dry. After I had finished washing them off, including the string, I could still see some "fluid" stuck in the crevices of the string. I scrubbed them, used soap and warm water and even let them soak in it. I have a little bit of OCD, so that might be why, but I wasn't about to put those back in knowing that it wasn't properly clean. And let's face it, no one is going to put anything like that in a washing machine to see if that might do the trick.

After I had washed them and they were all dry, they gave off kind of a funny smell. And I knew it was coming from the strings, yet again. And that was gross enough to make me want to throw them in the trash.