There are plenty of things I like about this mirror but there are also a few frustrating bits. PROs: the RGB backlighting is fun. My partner liked it from the start; I was skeptical at first - thought it was a gimmick - but it really has grown on me for "mood" lighting. Both the front and back light can be adjusted for color (RGB for back lighting, 3 color temperatures of the front-facing white lights) and for brightness. Installation is straightforward, using the two aluminum French cleats provided. We decided not to hardwire it for now; the power cable is flat (excellent design choice!), allowing the mirror to lay pretty flush against the wall, and the power plug is low profile (ditto!), so it doesn't look too bad extending to the power outlet underneath (though we did have to rotate the outlet 180 degrees to accommodate the fixed orientation of the plug without unsightly cable twists). We'll see about longevity, but the construction seems pretty solid. It's also been easy to clean. Now, a few CONs: The mirror is marketed as being 20" x 28", which is a little misleading: it is in fact 50cm x 70cm ≈ 19.66" x 27.56". I understand that the world outside the US uses the metric system, but this detail would have been helpful to me and possibly others, and should have been listed in the description. In addition, the border and front lights take up a lot of space on all sides, leaving a central (usable) mirror section of only 14¾" x 22¾". For comparison, our boring old mirror was 24" x 30", so this is a noticeable reduction. I do wish the front-facing light strips were thinner and pushed to the edges, to make the mirror better usable as a mirror. Next, while the RGB backlight is fun, the programmed features are rather limited: you have a choice of five or six solid colors, plus one rotating color sequence - which unfortunately looks rather frantic and choppy. It shouldn't have been complicated to program this sequence in a way that makes it appear smooth, and to include a few additional ones, e.g. slowly shifting colors, gently pulsating lights, etc. Lastly, the three touch buttons are obnoxiously large (larger than they seem in the product page!), bright, inimaginative (cheesy cliparty icons), emitting a retro (not in a good way) sci-fi blue light when off, and positioned way too close to the center or the mirror. To be fair, this seems to be the case with most LED mirrors on the market these days, but that's what makes this even more frustrating. The buttons could easily have been MUCH smaller, discretely placed, tastefully lit, understated. I almost returned the mirror upon unboxing it and plugging it in, but my partner liked it so much that I decided to keep it. I'm fine with these issues now - and WOULD recommend it to others, but if a new model were released that addresses them all while keeping the features that I do like, I would not hesitate to upgrade!
