Saturday, March 19, 2011

worst formula EVER and a haul

EUGH. I have encountered the worst, most awful formulated nail polish in my entire life.  I have 5 year old dollar store polishes with more grace and dignity than this one.  And I'm mostly pissed because this is supposed to be a somewhat reputable brand.

 BEHOLD Finger Paints "Chrsyanthe-mum's the word"
This is 3 coats.  I orignally did my nails once, and it bubbled and had drippy marks all over it.  So I tried again and added a little thinner.  Then that still wouldn't work.  So I added more thinner. STILL SUCKED.  This nail polish was so freakin' thick I can hardly even describe it to you.  It left severe streaks, would go on my nail and then drip all around my cuticles.  I don't know if this was a bad bottle, or what, but I've never, EVER worked with such a pain in the ass polish before.

One coat.
Streaks streaks streaks. It was SO goopy.  If I screw something up I will take fault for it, but at this point in the game I know how to apply nail polish and many other aspects of it.  This was not lack of skill - this was lack of quality. And that upsets me.

I rarely buy polish that costs more than a few dollars unless its a holiday or I did something good.  I bought this at Sally's for 4.49$ with my club card.  It pisses me off that it was so shoddy.  And it also pisses me off that I found a green I like but probably won't ever wear again!  Something tells me something went wrong here; either a bad batch or someone had left the lid off of the bottle at the store or something.  I can't comprehend a 5$ polish being that much of a POS.

Pretty ring though (=
 Accented with Funky Fingers "Under Mistletoe"

What I picked up yesterday:
Ulta "Red Carpet Red"
Ulta "Encore Pink"
L.A. Colors "Jewel Tone"
BIGGEST PIECE OF CRAP EVER
Essence "Choose Me!"
Essence "Ultimate Pink"
What gets to me the most is I bought Jewel Tone, Choose Me! and Ultimate Pink for a DOLLAR each - and I love them.  I go outside of my norm and spring for a 5$ bottle (full price) and it blows.  The Ultas were on sale - 2 for 4$!  You win some and you lose some, I get that.  But this is my blog and I like to bitch when bitchin' is necessary LOL.

7 comments:

  1. Bitch on! I would too. Like you, I rarely pay full price for polishes. If it's not in the clearance bins, I can wait.

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  2. For this quality and that price, I guess I would bitch too.
    Love the other polishes you picked up though :)

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  3. I would totally bitch about that!! I snagged LA Colors Jewel Tone at the Dollar Tree on Friday - so pretty. Nice little haul you got (save for the biggest piece of crap ever).

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  4. Sorry about the formula!!
    I've definitely had my issues with Finger Paints formula in the past, so I feel your pain a little bit.
    Is it possible to get a refund?

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  5. This is ironic, I just "tried" to use Fingerpaints from this collection and had the same problem. I thought it was just me. But since reading your blog, it seems like the brand is the problem!! This will be my last FP purchase

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  6. wow ladies thanks for confirming my unfortunate suspicions. this brand is certainly off my list and i will not be purchasing it again.

    the other colors i picked up are great though, cant wait to show you!

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  7. I bought Finger Paints full spring release. This green and one other color (can't remember now) had the suckiest formula out there. I also found that I was trying to thin the green and I ended up not even posting my swatches of this collection because the 2 chalky, thick, nasty ones were so disappointing. I might get around to the post? What seriously pissed me off was the green was the BIG color I was wanting. Bah! I feel your disappointment.

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