This yarn is very pretty and shiny in person. It's a shiny white tube that encases the colored, mostly loose single within. This makes it fairly smooth with almost no halo, and very lightweight. This gives it great depth of color, but when I needed to frog my project partly, some of the fibers had worked loose and wrapped around others, and had to be ripped apart. I find this happens a lot with yarns that have a halo.