Well, then.
I guess there is no need to introduce Lime Crime: and if you don't know the brand, just take a look at the officiale site and at the instagram page. I'm sure no words will be necessary then.
As lot of people, I've stalked the instagram account for months, waiting for the Velvetines to be restocked. I mean: liquid lipsticks (the most easy to apply, to my opinion), matte finish, super-long lasting and these killer colours. They are surprisely flattering on everyone. On every skin colour. On every skin tone.
I have no idea about how this is possible, and I have to suggest that maybe phosothop and instagram filters give a good hand, but the fact that they suit everyone is a damn truth. Applauses to the brand colorist.
I got a couple of different colours of the range, dark, neon and neutral (Wicked, Utopia and Cashmere), and I tried them at home with no make up, concealer, foundation, primer ectera, and so far I'm pretty impressed.
If testing their lastings I will keep being satisfied as I am now about colour pay-off, I will certainly going to buy others as Pansy, Pink Velvet and Salem at least, and Riot when it will be released.
But, just allow me to talk about two things not-so-good before making some swatches and reviews in the next post.
We can move on from the "Lime Crime drama", which I think is however a story to read (I'm still not sure about what I think on that, but you can find something more clear right here, for example) I was seriously disappointed when, a couple of weeks ago the website crashed when a crazy number of costumers assalted it for the Veltetines' restock.
Yes: it was a crazy number they could never expect (they said, more and more than the Black Friday ones) and we literally assalted the site, costantly refreshing pages, but the Velvetines didn't sold out…so I guess they were prepared to sell that amount, but their server wasn't. And hundres and hundres (seriously) waited up to twelve hours or more refreshing the site hoping to get their products.
And yes, I know this sound as a beauty madness or a costumers-hysteria, which I'm quite sure it was: I have personally spent about two hours for complete the order and checking out (getting mad with my poor boyfriend and going crazy with the friend I was making the order with), and I have been one of the luckyest -having no idea of how it was possible to took me just two hours from Italy, when people in America had to wait up to twelve.
However, they said they got more employers to get trough the orders working double-shifts till all were shipped, and that this madness would never happen again. Thanks, 'cause I'd lie if I'd tell that it has not been a personal suffer waiting, and refreshing, and checking out comments on instagram, and looking for pages to work.
At the end, they completed and shipped the orders in a quite fast way, which tooks me to the second bad point.
I was expecting to wait up to months for international and over-seas shipping, and I was prepared to have my little heart bleeding and checking the mail all of this time. I knew the frontier-customhouse was about to write me asking me to declare all of the stuff I got and to pay all the taxes on it.
But…it simply didn't happen. I went to the Italian mail to get my package believing it was from an other order (this one) and when I saw the little Lime Crime's one I looked at it like…whoa, wait a moment. It was supposed to go trough the customhouse as any other international extra-UE orders and to be declared and with taxes to be paid on it.
When I took it, my heart lost a beat. On the packaging there was written "inside: make up. Quantity: 1. Price: 10 $". I will upload a photo.
Wait, seriously, what? I ordered four Velvetines, 20$ each, and two eyeliners, 14$ each. Even if it was a mistake and they sent me just one of the lowest-price products, it wouldn't make sense anyway.
So I opened it freezing, and the first thing I saw was the order pink sheet whit the description of all of the products inside, and the blue paper holding all of them.
So, I really don't know what to think. I am happy I got this order in neither three weeks when I was expecting to wait at least two or three months (as they right declare on the site, and up to six in periods of sales or restockings), and I am quite happy, yes, that the customhouse didn't call me asking to pay the 30% of the price in taxes, but…I don't know if it was an innocent mistake, maybe I could believe it if it was declared one of the 14$ eyeliners: there was nothing in my order about 10$.
And you can easily guess what would happen if a country mail, or the U.S. customhouse, or the Italian customhouse checked a declared pack of 10$ finding inside an order of more than 100$.
I think I'm going to write to the Lime Crime's customers service, just to hear what they're going to tell me about that, and than let you know.
However, so far I am simply in crazy love with the Velvetines and I am experimenting and playing with the eyeliners. I am simply obsessed with these products and I will post a review as soon as I make some photos.
With love,
whiterosesandtea
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