Thursday, April 23, 2015

Review: Blippo

 

After waffling for a month or so, I decided to put an order into Blippo.com, a Japan and kawaii shop! Their selection is quite large: Arpakasso, Hello Kitty, San-X, Pocky, etc. Pretty much, if it's cute, small, and can fit in a purse or be an accessory, Blippo has it. The price point is what drew me in: less than 10 USD and free shipping. Super easy to get hooked and buy hella merchandise.

I ordered a strawberry pouch and chocolate stickers on March 12, 2015 and received my order yesterday, April 22, 2015. Their website promoted 1-3 weeks shipping and since I was ordering close to when Easter packages would be sent out, I figured late arrival. Free shipping = no tracking. I've been around the block with online shopping. If I can, I choose to track a package, but I wanted to be cheap and not pay extra.

I was notified same day that my order shipped (I binge bought around midnight). Once the first week of April passed, I assumed my package would arrive any day. When this didn't happen, I emailed the company last week. Essentially, they included a bunch of smiley faces, noted my order shipped March 13, 2015, and said hopefully my package would arrive soon. I was hoping they'd put more effort into a lost package; maybe they had forgotten to send the package (this has happened way more to me than it should). Something other than, "That sucks. Have a nice day! :)"

Here's where things get weird. The homepage has a default USD currency and the company info has a US address. There is a tab on the side explaining their shop in Europe. Everything ships from their Hong Kong warehouse. The package says to return to Singapore if undelivered. WAT. I can't say I'm surprised it took this long after doing more research.

I've ordered from Asian countries and I know the time frame for packages. Advertising 1-3 week shipping to the US is borderline bogus, considering items ship from Hong Kong. I have yet to experience that quick of shipping from an Asian country. BUT, I want to order from Blippo again with tracking and see how that works out.

The quality of the items is a lot better than what I was expecting, especially the strawberry pouch. I checked the actual measurements to the website--many Asian websites say to expect a few centimeters difference--and they were a match. Unfortunately, my bento box doesn't fit (I mis-measured, whoops) and there is a big dark mark on the green bits. (´口`*)I haven't opened the chocolate stickers, but they're so cute! 

Saturday, April 18, 2015

Seven Things This Week

The most excitement my week has received is doing glitter brows. I ended up buying the Color Icon in Brass. I'm happy to announce the skin swatches held up and the eye shadow is vibrant and opaque (as much as glitter eye shadow can be) with one swipe of the brush. The result was perfect for what I was looking for and after eight hours, the glitter was still there. Though, it did migrate a tad down the side of my face. I didn't use any kind of bonding agent. Cleaning off the glitter was time consuming, but glitter beauty products are notoriously difficult to remove.

Mostly, pitifully? I spent my week customizing my phone launcher almost obsessively. @__@


  1. glitter brows
  2. sms/mms/launcher customization tools / / ios users read here.
  3. nostril studs
  4. anime food
  5. Daredevil
  6. Mushroom Garden
  7. halter tops

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Artist: Loll3

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Lolle is a freelance Italian artist. Her works usually feature heavily tattooed babes; others include: monsters, portraits, and on occasion, fan works. According to the about, her tools are:


-markers, letraset pro markers, watercolors (maimeri venezia), stabilo point 88, fineliner pencil 0.5., pilot g-tec c.4, brushes, acrylic colors, fimo, cloth, cotton, button, beads, plastic gems, sequins… fantasy & love.

 - macbook pro OS X, Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ35, Nikon D3100, wacom bamboo fun, photoshop cs6, indesign cs6.

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