Oh Sleek, You Anger Me Greatly

So long ago if you remember I had my "do not want Sleek Makeup because they totally screwed up when trying to do a customer appreciation sale" phase (I linked Ana cuz she does rants like a pro and has more info).

Then I decided to give them a chance and placed a big order. It was packaged nicely and everything came intact.

Fast-forward to now and I'm not very pleased anymore.

I'm trying to cut back on all the crap I buy so I decided I wanted two inexpensive palettes from Sleek Makeup. They came out with a Nude Collection and the PPQ Me, Myself and Eye palettes and I thought, "Oh goody! They're only $10.50!" I even asked my dude if I could order them, which I never do because if he says no I'm still going to buy stuff anyways, but I thought I'd be nice and make him feel included on my decision making :D

Shipping was $13.50, which sounds high but it was coming from overseas so I'm not going to complain about that.

What I am going to complain about is CRAPPY EFFING PACKAGE MARKING!

When you ship products to another country, the value of the package
IS THE FUCKING PRODUCT THE PERSON BUYS.

NOT THE SHIPPING!

SHIPPING IS NOT A VALUE!

CAN I MAKE THIS ANYMORE CLEAR?!??!??

So lucky me, Sleek marks my package as having a value of $34.50 USD.

Uhhhh no.

Fuck that. 2 palettes = $21 kthx





So why does this piss me off? Because the lovely customs people just LOVE grabbing packages and thanks to the price screw up I ended up paying TAXES ON SHIPPING! And of course good ol currency conversion is in action here also (which is why you see $35.67 not $34.50 on customs page)



According to Canada Post, orders over $20 can get held on to for taxing. My order would have been $21 had it been marked correct, over the threshhold by a buck, but I doubt they would have been that douchetastic to still tax my package for a dollar overrage. Who knows. What I do know is I'm pissed for paying tax on shipping! Growl.

In the end these cheap $10.50 palettes ended up costing me $25 EACH!

But the extra ooey gooey buttercream icing on the rantcake is they sent the palettes in a bubble mailer instead of a box like last time so...

VOILA!


BUSTED EYESHADOW!




I love spending $50 when I'm trying to save money, only to receive damaged goods...

I've emailed Sleek Friday telling them why I was upset and have still not heard anything back from them.

Sometimes I tend to overreact (ORLY!?) so let me know, would you be pissed off too?
Or should I go rob a Lindor factory and shove truffles down my throat (HAPPY PILLS!) to calm my bitter ass down?

Sleek Makeup Caribbean Collection

Swatch TYME U GUISE!

I bought this Curacao palette with the other dudes awhile back and swatched it but got too lazy to post it.

My main reason for buying it was the yellow and and red in it. Can't go wrong for $10ish to get a sweet red and yellow yo!





WINDOW LIGHT!


The 2 light blues are SO PRETTEH!

The other 2 in the Caribbean collection:

Aruba blush


Not totally loving the blush. Looks more like a sunburn.

Bonaire Pout Polish:


I do love the pout polish though.

Sleek Oh So Special

**re-edit** Sleek is on my suckass list right now. Looook here


I'm back! HOLY FRIG! 4 posts in less than 24 hrs. Can you tell I got bored in the middle of my book?

SO!

I have for you the Sleek Oh So Special palette. Or "O So Spechul" palette as I am renaming it to my liking. The Curacao palette is gonna be called, "My Brightass Palette".

Here's teh goodz




The cover was just plain black, I'm thinking this may be a permanent palette, I couldn't see "limited edition" or anything on the box.

While I do love that each shade has a name, I don't like that it's just on a flimsy plastic film, I would have liked it on a sticker on the back of the case or something. I'm probably going to destroy the film accidentally.

Whatever, twas only $10.50 (although at the moment they seemed to have upped the price to $12.60...), can't complain too much, the colours friggin rock!

LOOOOK AT THEM!







And the box if anyone cared



The palette has mattes and shimmers and they are so pretty! Even though they aren't bright shadows, I still love them and am happy I decided to get this palette. They are very pigmented, even the mattes. Actually I think the mattes were more pigmented than the shimmers even.

Anywhosies, it's a sweet deal, so go buy some and tell me how awesome I am for enabling you :)

Sleek Makeup

Awhile ago Sleek had a huge sale fail and I was one of those people who spent 2 hrs trying to place an order and then gave up. They offered some dealio for a half off coupon, to try to make it up to some people, but you had to have been logged into your account. The site froze up so many times I wasn't able to log in and therefore never saw a discount code. And for that I had a mini boycott and said Sleek could suck it.

Then they came out with the Avoir la Peche collection. But I'm all NO YOU DON'T, YOU CAN'T GET ME! So I missed out on it.

Then they had to be bastard people and dream up this Caribbean collection... there was a yellow in it.. and a red.. that pretty much made my mind up right there. I needed it. And oh look, a matching lip thing! And I have to have the blush if I'm already getting the other too *shopping addict denial kick in nnnnnooowwww*

So I made sure to be logged in this time and placed an order for the whole Caribbean collection, the Oh So Special palette, Santorini and Rose Gold blushes and the Monte Carlo Pout Polish from the Mediterranean collection. I got a free mini lip shine.

Of all my packages, this one that came all the way from Great Britian, took only TEN FREAKIN BUSINESS DAYS! When I picked the box up from the post office I thought for sure it was something else, and that this order would arrive in a few weeks still but NOPE! That's ninja fast.

And it was also packed very well. The palettes and blushes were in a little white box within the main mailer box surrounded by bubble wrap for added protection. I was quite impressed by the care, and the speedymagooedness of delivery.

Shipping seemed a bit high @ $13.50 but they used one of those printed post labels so I have no idea what it actually cost them to send. It was sent to another continent so I wouldn't be surprised if it did cost this much to send. Being that it was $13.50 I had to make it "worth it" and that's also part of the reason I bought so much. The Acid palette was looking me in the face but sadly U NO CAN HAZ!

It says: Please note : Due to FDA regulations this palette cannot be sold in the US. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes.

I R not in America-land so I was hoping to be exempt, but the add to cart button never showed up when I logged in again.
I'll use my mad sleuthing skillz on ebay.

If Sleek comes out with another kick ass collection, I'll probably get it. I have forgiven them for that shitsalefailofhorrible.

Swatches later!

Not sure what the point of this post was now that I think of it. I guess I just wanted to ramble. Ramble and share my amazment of the 10 day package!

OHBYEBYENOW!

Hey Ya Circus Freak!

The prettiest freakin blue is in that Sleek Circus Palette. It's the only Sleek palette I have because shipping is balls to Canada and I bought it from a lurvely blog sale.

Here's what I did today:

UDPP
Lid: THE BLOOOO
Crease/lower lashline: THE YELLOW
Browbone: Burberry Trench
Inner corner: Sugarpill Tako
Lower liner: MAC Pearlglide Intense Black Line
Upper liner: Joe Fresh felt pen liner







Yay for bright schtuff!