Please don't buy into all the haters saying the "paper thin" and "painted", your leather looks gorgeous! And if it's anything like mine, the leather is buttery soft just enjoy it, because you got a good one!
What haters?
Each Bal bag is different, it's leather so of course it would be.
Some bags have papery/thin/dry leather etc. I don't see anything wrong with pointing that out. This is a bag forum, we discuss bags. People are not haters just because they point out an issue with a certain kind of leather.
The problem is only when people generalise and say "all 06 leather is thin" or "all 05 leather was fab" because that is simply not true.