I hope you're not sick of me talking about Lime Crime yet. Altough, this one won't be a review but some thoughts I've had about the current incident with the personal information losses with those who purchased from their site and the about Lime Crime as a company in general.

Many of you have probably read this post, that was published earlier this week by a fellow Finnish blogger, Rose Shock. It's a very good post, so if you haven't, I suggest you go read it first. But I still felt like I had to put my two cents in.

I've always been an "I believe it when I see it" -kind of person (stupid? maybe), so even though I was aware of the rumors surrounding this company when I purchased from them, because none of my friends or none of the people I actually know, had had any problems with them, I saw no reason not to give them a try. (But I later found out that Malle, who ordered her black velvetine at the same time as I made my order, had experienced cracking with the product).

The products seemed great to me and that's how I decided to make an order (16th of Jan). The unicorn lipsticks and the velvetines I bought, were my first purchase and experience with them product and company wise.

can lime crimes shipping be any slower i want my stuff like now
— VIIVI V▲NESS▲ R. (@kisumaikuchuuru) 3. helmikuuta 2015

3rd of Feb: I was anxious to get my stuff, because I hate waiting lol. The shipping was delayed with a week from the purchasing date because they had a huge number of orders to fullfil or what-so-ever. Turns out my order arrived two days after I complained about it...

Anyway, though the shipping took agonizing 3 weeks (which in my books is a long time), I was happy with the products (also, please keep in mind that my posts only reviewed the products themselves and not the company behind them).

Even if I was lucky and everything went pretty much as it should, some people weren't and have had serious problems with the company, having their credit card info stolen etc. Luckily I used PayPal and therefore was unaffected by it. The damage caused by the incident is not to something to be ignored and I feel so sorry for those who lost huge amounts of money and to whom it may have caused dramatic changes in their lives.

What bothers me, is I don't really know what Lime Crime is doing to fix the situation?? Except for changing their webshop platfrom and sending the letter below to their customers, but is it enough to regain a customer's trust?
 

Who is this Mark person anyway, I thought Doe was the president?

  I also got the letter because I shopped at their store during the said period of time. I don't know what it would've said if I was affected though... Has any of you got their credit card info stolen? I hope not, but if so, I'd like to know what has happened after that.

These things are serious and it has definitely given me a good lesson to be careful when shopping online, because things like this might happen! I'm more than sure I'll continue paying with PayPal because I want to be safe.


Anyway, getting your money stolen is way more serious than my problems, but there's something that caught my attention and made me feel scammed and pissed. Wicked is the product I've used the most since recieving them and I just noticed something weird. Take a look:


I've honestly used it like 5 times and this is how much I have left!! I decided to check the site, but the info about the quantity of product in each tube is nowhere to be found. Next I checked the packaging and there's the TINIEST EVER print that says 2,6ml, which a normal person can't really even see without a magnifying glass. So, I've literally paid $20 for a few drops of lipstick PER PRODUCT. This is what makes me angry. For comparison, the liquid lipstick by Jeffree Star has 5,6ml for $18.

I decided to check the amount of product in the unicorn lippies too. 3,5g for $18. Okay, that sounds more reasonable, because for example MAC has 3g and NYX has 4,5g and a regular lipstick runs out much slower anyway.

BUT! While taking a closer look, I noticed something weird in these too. Take a look below:

Both have been applied twice, but I feel the amount of product is really uneven in these, and this is something I didn't even notice until now. I really doubt they're both 3,5g.


After all, I feel a bit disappointed with the company. I really liked the products, but I also know, there's a lot of people who will judge you if you show any kind of support towards them and I don't really know how I should feel about that. I don't want fingers pointing at me, calling me a bad person for purchasing a makeup product. I personally don't see anything wrong with it if you want to buy a lipstick that works and have a way to be safe when getting it (buying from other seller and/or using PayPal), even if it's kind of supporting the company.... idk. Many of you might feel differently about it. I still think the judging fingers should be pointing at Lime Crime, not the customer.

I've been drooling over LC's Venus palette for a long time, but haven't gotten my fingers on it yet, because it's constantly out of stock. And there's no way I'm paying 200€ for it in eBay. When finding out the amount of product in these lipsticks, I started thinking what if the Venus palette is also something you can use like five times and then run out? This is making me reconsider dupes for it because I know those exist, but I was kinda hoping to get a whole palette and not having to buy separate eyeshadows... I don't really know what I should do about it.


ANYWAY, long story short: stolen credit card infos and other problems suck, small amounts of product for expensive prices suck, people trying to guilt other customers who use their products also suck ass big time. I was happy about the quality of the products and no, I won't throw them out and I will keep on using them until they run out (which might be sooner than I'd like). Then I'll probably try out some other brand and hope it will be better.

Hi guys! It's been half a year since I last updated my blog. Let me tell you a bit about why I went on an unplanned hiatus in the first place.

Remember when I last re-opened my blog and stated I strictly wanted to post about style only? Well, seems like that was where I was wrong. Cutting out many possible post choices only made it harder for me to blog. I felt like nothing I wanted to post about, was good enough for this blog. I raised the bar too high for myself. I took outfit photos but never posted them because I felt like there wasn't enough pictures or they weren't diverse or good enough. And that led to me not wanting to blog at all.

But I thought that all would be fixed after I got to Japan, because that would be interesting enough to blog about, right? But it turns out when I got there, I realized I wanted to enjoy the trip and live in the moment, not stop in the middle of something and take outfit pics in the deadly heat of japanese summer. Everybody who has ever blogged, knows it's a lot of work to deliver something as simple as an outfit post.

Also I didn't wanna bother my friends to do the photographing for me, because if they don't blog themselves, I have no way to return the favor. It would just be annoying to them. And taking good outfit pics by yourself is... well, hard.

Another problem I've had for a longer time already, is that my current camera is way too big and heavy to be carried along with me to places and many times that I've actually had it with me, I haven't even took it out of my bag to take the pictures I wanted, because it was "too much work". Taking pics with my phone is much easier and faster, but I used to think that the quality of them wasn't good enough for blogging (which is funny because if you look at the pictures in my posts, the quality still isn't the best because I just aren't that good with cameras haha).

Anyway, I've been thinking about getting a smaller camera soon, so it should fix that problem.

After Japan, I totally lost my inspiration for this blog and thought about closing it for good many times. I had too much stuff I should blog about, but I didn't, because I didn't know where to start and didn't have any will to do it.

But for some reason I just couldn't bring myself to do it. This blog means too much to me and it's been a big part of me for the past almost seven years. I didn't want to end something I would regret later. And I'm glad I didn't, because I recently got my motivation back! I finally realized what my readers and friends have been telling me all along: "I liked your blog better before". Reading my old posts, I understood that was true and it's okay to post about normal life and not everything needs to be super duper amazing. Even though I had people constantly telling me that, I guess sometimes you just need to figure it out by yourself. Especially when you're the kind of person like I am who always thinks they're right lol.

Trying way too hard to be perfect, took all the fun away from blogging. Also trying to keep the posting schedule too tight made me super stressed, so in the future I'll try to not think about it too much. I don't want to make any promises I can't keep.


That said, the future posts might be about anything, but if something is for sure, I will keep posting about my nails (because that's a thing I feel super passionate about, but the things I want to say about them would be too long to post on instagram) and I have a whole series about my Japan trip planned (so you will still get to know what I did during my trip yay!), even if they're mostly pics I took with my phone. I won't force myself to take outfit pics if I don't feel like taking any, but if I do feel like it, I'll keep those posts coming as well.

The blog also has a new layout! The new start after hiatus wouldn't feel as fresh without one, haha. There's no dramatic changes to it, because why change something that works fine and is what I like, hmm. The pics are once again taken by my super talented friend, Heikki! Please go give him a follow if you like the photos.

You probably noticed, but the header is a bit different than usually. How do you like the slideshow? Which one of the headers is your favourite? I've tried to have the header as a slideshow before too, but even when I got it to work on my computer, it didn't work on tablet. Now it should, but please let me know if you have any problems viewing it!

But now, I'm excited about getting back to blogging! I feel a bit rusty, but I'm sure it will get better soon. I haven't really read any blogs for a while, so I have a lot of catching up to do with the blog world.

Has anyone missed me during my break? ;)