Hi ladies,
I am coming here b/c I feel like its a small enough community here in Nail Care/Chanel on your nails that I can just really get some support and love from you guys.
So, here's the story: I found Mistral on eBay last week and was so excited. The auction listed the bottle as 75% full, and I had seen the color on here and fell in love, so I went ahead and purchased it.
Fast forward a week, the bottle of polish arrives today - it would look as though she packaged it OK, but I don't think the bottle was closed all the way, and about 10-15% of the polish leaked out. It was on the beautiful top square cap and on the cap that is attached to the applicator inside all the tiny little vertical grooves. I am the ever-positive thinker, so I was thinking nail polish remover or goo gone would take the polish and badly smudged (I guess) square cap.
I got a good bit of all the polish off, but the cap just looks sad. My love for Chanel polish is a newer love affair, and I had 4 Chanel polishes before this purchase.
In my mind, I worked out that some people just don't care for their polishes like we do, and don't get into/as excited as us when it comes to HTF colors/and don't store them/care for them as we do.
I have an email out to a few of my department store SA's to see if I can find a spare square cap, which would make the bottle appear ALOT better and wouldn't give me such a bummer feeling when I see the bottle.
The upside of it, and I guess the most important part is I do now have a polish color that I love, and that's the most important part.
I will post some pics shortly for you gals to see. This was my first eBay Chanel polish purchase, so I will be super careful going forward, or maybe just do my polish purchasing through department stores.
I left the seller positive feedback, giving her the benefit of the doubt -- she did pack it nicely/safely, but I guess not enough, and maybe to her, this was just "another nail polish", and not one that she took good care of. I just take really good care of my things, but I know others are not the same. I can be in a place of acceptance about that - but just wanted to share with my community of Chanel gals that could relate/understand.
Fingers crossed I can get a new square cap.
Thank you for reading girls.
I am coming here b/c I feel like its a small enough community here in Nail Care/Chanel on your nails that I can just really get some support and love from you guys.
So, here's the story: I found Mistral on eBay last week and was so excited. The auction listed the bottle as 75% full, and I had seen the color on here and fell in love, so I went ahead and purchased it.
Fast forward a week, the bottle of polish arrives today - it would look as though she packaged it OK, but I don't think the bottle was closed all the way, and about 10-15% of the polish leaked out. It was on the beautiful top square cap and on the cap that is attached to the applicator inside all the tiny little vertical grooves. I am the ever-positive thinker, so I was thinking nail polish remover or goo gone would take the polish and badly smudged (I guess) square cap.
I got a good bit of all the polish off, but the cap just looks sad. My love for Chanel polish is a newer love affair, and I had 4 Chanel polishes before this purchase.
In my mind, I worked out that some people just don't care for their polishes like we do, and don't get into/as excited as us when it comes to HTF colors/and don't store them/care for them as we do.
I have an email out to a few of my department store SA's to see if I can find a spare square cap, which would make the bottle appear ALOT better and wouldn't give me such a bummer feeling when I see the bottle.
The upside of it, and I guess the most important part is I do now have a polish color that I love, and that's the most important part.
I will post some pics shortly for you gals to see. This was my first eBay Chanel polish purchase, so I will be super careful going forward, or maybe just do my polish purchasing through department stores.
I left the seller positive feedback, giving her the benefit of the doubt -- she did pack it nicely/safely, but I guess not enough, and maybe to her, this was just "another nail polish", and not one that she took good care of. I just take really good care of my things, but I know others are not the same. I can be in a place of acceptance about that - but just wanted to share with my community of Chanel gals that could relate/understand.
Fingers crossed I can get a new square cap.
Thank you for reading girls.