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Saturday, April 04, 2009 10:26

It is either because I'm too much a perfectionist, or I overestimated my skills, or the quality is unacceptably low, or I'm just simply against the colour. Whichever it is, I am still very disappointed.

I was at FaceShop (again, yes) trying out their nailpolishes (again, yes) yesterday. I was thinking of making some difference to the current nail colours in my possession, so I steered away from the pastels and tried the dark ones. I walked out of the shop with a lady pink and a plum one - the latter could well be my worst purchase in my entire life.

Because I haven't owned anything like a plum colour before, the moment I was done bathing I prepped my nails for it. Full of anticipation, and the first coat was done in no time. This is my first time applying something that is NOT pastel in nature, and I have to say it takes a lot more patience and skills to produce satisfying results. And tadaa, my nails turned out to be those of a witch's.

The colour was nothing like I imagined. It was, in my very humble opinion, way worse than my threshold could tolerate. When I was still testing out the colour in the shop, I thought it would be a more demure and soft red. Clearly, it was so wrong. Two coats, and my nails are so pigmented. To my horror, they have even added years to my hands. Needless to say, every single time I look at them, every single time I would see the flaws and imperfections.

I tried to coerce my mind to accept this as "pretty". After all, this is the ONLY non-pastel colour in my pastel collection. This should stand out and shine like a star, and I SHOULD love it above all others. Quite the contrary now. It is standing out like a big fat sore thumb, and everytime I look at my fingers, they sore my eyes like acids do. I even removed them this morning and re-painted them again, thinking that it was my lack of skills that got in the way. But at the end of the day, they still give me the same eyesore.

I looked forward to getting new nail polishes so much before this, that I even left my nails un-painted for a week to let them breathe, to prepare them well for the new colour. And now, what's this that's on my nails?

It is still the first day since I bought this colour, and I think I have used up nearly half the bottle. Not to my liking at all.

I have this urge to go back to FaceShop again, and buy another colour. All these years I have not purchased anything - I repeat, ANYTHING - that gives me ZERO satisfaction at all. Overpriced purchases there were, but all of them still fetched high degree of satisfaction so I do not think those money were gone to waste.

But now, I sincerely think, from the bottom of my heart, I have fully wasted SGD2.90.

I AM SO DISAPPOINTED.

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