VIVO Color Block Eye Palette: Unhappy Beginnings
This post is about the eye shadow palette that I won in an eye makeup contest held by Deepika on her blog “Divassence”. :Yeyyee!!. I just love doing eye makeup and the eye makeup contests doing rounds in the blogosphere encourages me do it even better everytime. 🙂
You can check my entry, the eye makeup I created for the contest here and here. I had option of two INGLOT Freedom System eye shadow Refills but I opted for this palette thinking INGLOT ones are tried and tested and can be bought anytime, however this VIVO Palette would be a new entry in my makeup bag and I would get to try something new. (wasnt it a smart choice… 😉 )
This palette was received by my hubby as I was at my mum’s place over this weekend and he didnt even bothered to inform me. arrgghh!! On Monday, when we were on our way to home he told me that there is some packet for me(:D :D) but something is wrong with it !! 🙁 🙁
Here goes the excitement and questionairee to him.. what happened? whats wrong with that? wasnt it packed properly? Did you droppped it…. and he said no, check it yourself!!
First look to the palette and my heart skipped a beat!! (being a little dramatic here.. 😉 ). I was engulfed in a creamy shadow dust and I couldn’t even spot the actual colous but I could make out that there is a single eye shadow at the bottom right corner that is completely gone.. 🙁 .
Then I checked the packaging, and I would like to thank Deepika for packaging it so well. There was lots of bubble wrap to protect the palette from any drop of mishandling but guess I wasn’t lucky enough to get it in a good condition. She even put a lovely note on the palette.
I made some efforts and cleaned up all the mess and crushed eye shadow and here is a closer (cleaner) picture of the palette. The texture wasn’t dry or chalky that would be prone to breakage but rather creamy for a powder eye shadow , so not sure wat was the reason behind it .. May be the courier people were playing Catch .. Catch with the packet.. :-X
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Now I can totally understand the pain of all the girls who order imported stuff like MUA and Sleek and receive somewhat damaged parcels.
Update:- Deepika is also hurt to see the palette damaged and is sending me the replacement of the 2 broken eye shadows. Its not her fault at all and i didnt asked her either (that would have been so mean..)but still she is ready to take the pain and make my experience wonderful. Love you Deps!! Thats extremely sweet of u <3 <3
Have you tried VIVO cosmetics? Do you have any unhappy experience during shipping of products?
View Comments (22)
Oh My God I feel very sad for you poo :( Don't worry dear :)
Yes a bit disappointed because just lost the beauty of this palette but I still love it raddha.. :)
aww..dats really bad...but palette looks nice..
Congratulations on winning the contest..:)
The palette is really nice Tej.. beautiful shadesss and the formula loosk good too..
thnkiessss babess!! :)
aww..dese courier ppl totally mishandle our packages :(
they would never value how much these small packets mean to us.. eerrgghhh!! :-X
Omg!! Im so sorry :( i had used so much bubble wrap and tape!! I had sent yours and three other parcels, one of which had a palette and it reached all of them safely .. Feeling so bad now :(
DOnt be dear.. its not ur fault.. the bubble wrap was intact and was really big enough to maketh epalette reach safely.. but dont know why it cracked!!
everybody else other than me got theirs in a good condition that holds that its not at ur end!!
the courier ppl are to be blamed honey!! :)
Awww... that's sad. :( but nevertheless the palette has some really great shades. :)
Yes.. a bit sad fro teh broken one but rest of the shades are really nice!! :)
Its okay, you will still rock it darling! :D
Thanks Aditi .. :)
OMG! almost missed a beat to see that beautiful palette in that condition. But thankfully most of the colors are still fine. :) Looking forward to your eotds with it dear! :)
Yess dear was just there.. but guess bad luck!! :(
yup glad that it was only 1-2 eyeshaodws taht were gone!! :) :)
awww.. thansk honeyy .. gearing up for that!! :)
The shades look interesting but seeing the condition of the palette makes me a little sad. But I know for sure that you will be able to make the best use of it anyways :) Good luck <3
The shades are so different from regular palettes.. perfect combo for soft or smokey eyes!!!
It look painfully bad at first but now with all the cleaning its getting better!!! :) .. yup me eager to try these shades on my lidss.. EOTD'scoming soon dear!! :)
Aww .. Poo sweets feeling bad for you :( Actually we all girls would skipped a beat at first look but you did a great job of putting them together :) They look beautiful post your efforts <3 Waiting for beautiful EOTD's :)
Congo on winning sweets :*
yeah actually, i was like whaatttt.. :( but with some hope I cleaned up the mess and here comes out the beautiful palette.. only then I reallized its only a shade or two that are messed up .. so felt better!! :)
Thanks a lott sweets.. :)
Ohh thats too bad Pooo ... :(
These courier companies need to know how to handle stuff better...The palette is really beautiful though...
Yeah richa totally agree with you.. They just cant understand the value of these palettes.. but just hope they treat each packet with care :)
The palette is super nice dearr.. the shades are amazingg!! :)