When A Company Falls Through...

What do you do when you're stuck with a review to fulfill and the
 company doesn't send you the product to review? 

After several attempts of emails to the company with no responses, I am left, stuck with this space to fill, just so I don't get a negative mark on my review account status. This problem has seemed to be increasing, not just with me, but with other bloggers too. A company selects you to review their product and either gives you a code to purchase said item, or they ship it to you themselves. You wait weeks for the item to arrive...and it never does. Or the code the company has given you...doesn't work. And the refuse to respond to your emails. This is such poor quality in the company. Their unprofessional attitude makes me worried how they might treat their paying customers! Sometimes the negative reviews on said company go unnoticed. But I am another blogger who sits here, wanting to let you know, there are some shady companies out there, so just be careful. 

Here are a few of my posts on some certain companies that 
have shown their unprofessional management:

SOI Co. Soy Candle
StickerHub Stickers
Work Toys: Bo-Po Nail Polish
OzNaturals  Ocean Mineral Facial Tonic
Skas Marketing Stainless Steel Trash Can

I will add more as they come, because unfortunately, they will come as long as I am
 a Product Reviewer...Feel free to comment with yours below!

Dissapointed Stickerhub Review

First off, I want to say I'm highly disappointed with Stickerhub. On December 5, 2012 Stickerhub wrote me saying I would get to review their stickers and I could design my own. This is their exact message they wrote me:

"Thank you so much for being interested in our product! Almost 400 People applied for the review and we want to hear from YOU! We choose about 100 people so we are going to get things out as fast as we can but we are going to need your help! What we need from you is the product you want to review :)" Then they went on with how to make your sticker and ended their message with "Once you have been selected we will email you requesting your reference numbers :) Happy Reviewing :) " So I was all excited and went off to make my sticker. On December 17, 2012, they wrote "Please respond back with your reference number at your earliest convenience. We need your reference number before we are able to print your stickers. Thank you"

So I did just that. I responded with my reference number. Weeks went by and they hadn't said anything nor had I received my stickers. I emailed them and they gave me no response. I continued to email them over the next few months and they still, to this day, have not replied or sent me my stickers. I noticed quite a few people on tomoson had the same complaints with Stickerhub. VERY Disappointing. I had my post all written up and ready, except for my review which was going to come once I received the stickers.. Since that never happened... I decided to go ahead and post what I had, instead of sitting on it. Just know that Stickerhub is not a company I recommend working with. They do not seem reliable or trustworthy.

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Stickerhub is a site that allows you to design your own stickers in any way you want! You can make stickers, decals, window clings, wall decals, removable wall graphics, die cut stickers, posters, floor graphics, vehicle wraps and more. The stickers can come in 5 different material types: Gloss Vinyl, Matte Vinyl, Repositionable Wall Fabric, Repositionable Wall Vinyl, and Heat Transfer for garments. You can order any amount of stickers you like, with different shapes and sizes to choose from, clip art and fonts you can add in, or even customize it with your very own uploaded picture.

I will be honest...when I was designing my sticker on Stickerhub, I was getting very annoyed! I was using the website in Firefox and the site crashed five different times!! All while I was creating my sticker. It made me so mad because it didn't save the sticker so I had to start it all over each time. By the fifth time, I was so frustrated I wanted to quit, but my husband said "Why not try it in Google Chrome?" So we did and it finally worked without crashing. The site itself, I feel, could use some updates. It was easy to maneuver through, and I loved all the thousands of clip art you can view, but some of the items were confusing and didn't seem to always work. For instance, rotating certain items wouldn't work, or if you wanted to change the image colors, it would change the entire image into a solid block of color so you couldn't even tell what the image was. Other then the issues I faced, the sticker came out to be pretty cool. I originally wanted to make a custom 'TemporaryWaffle' sticker for my giveaways but after searching through Stickerhubs thousands of clip art, I couldn't find clipart that I wanted and I didn't feel like designing my own so I decided to give the sticker chance to my hubby :) I designed the sticker for his live stream on twitch.tv It's humorous and representative to him and his personality.

* The stickers would have been fun to receive. Too bad.

I never received the products mentioned above using Tomoson.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. And Stickerhub is NOT something I would recommend.

L'OREAL Magic B.B. Cream Review

I received L'OREAL's Magic Skin Beautifier B.B. Cream in the "light" shade from SheSpeaks to review. The L'Oreal B.B. cream is made with Vitamins C & E and is said to prime, perfect, hydrate and correct the skin. It comes in 4 different shades: Deep, Medium, Fair and Light.

I have to say, I hate this stuff. I gave it a shot because, what doesn't sound good about a cream smoothing out your skin, making it look flawless?! L'Oreal B.B. Cream contains self-adjusting beads that are said to instantly transform your skin tone. You begin by applying a dot of cream on your fingertip, and rub into your skin. The B.B. Cream comes out of the tube as a whitish color and rubs in as "skin color" or orange in my case. When I rubbed it on my face, it started tingling a slight burn so I washed it off after I took a picture. It does not wash off well. I used soap and warm water and noticed the cream seemed to stick in my pores. I showered and when I got out of the shower, I used a cotton ball with alcohol, to wipe my acne areas, and the cotton ball was cleaning even more orangey cream off my face!? It really didn't want to wash off my face very easily.

Below is my experience in photos...The lighting doesn't quite show the color of the cream, but aside from color, it really didn't make a difference in skin smoothing. It also left a dry feeling in my skin...its made to hydrate, so why did I feel like my skin became DE-hydrated? I'm really not sure, but sadly, my experience with this cream wasn't very good and can't say I'd recommend it.

You can find L'Oreal's Magic B.B. Cream on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. It is available for purchase at most mass food & drug retailers nationwide with a retail price of $10.95 for 1 fl oz.

#MagicBBCream @LOrealParisUSA @SheSpeaksUp

This post is sponsored by SheSpeaks, in providing me a tube of L'OREAL's Magic Skin Beautifier B.B. Cream

to test and review. All opinions are my own.

Dryel 30-min in Dryer Cleaner Review

 Disclaimer: I received the following product(s) in exchange for my review. All opinions my own.

   Dryel is said to be an excellent way to do your own dry cleaning straight from home! Or in my case, our apartment laundromat :) Dryel is made for "dry clean only" clothing, or clothing you want to keep looking brand new..

   Now I know we all want to keep every piece of our clothing looking brand new, but that would be a lot of Dryel to go through, if we were to do that ;) But if you have a pair of jeans you want to stay dark, or a sweater you don't want shrinking, then a nice 30 minute dryer Dryel session will do the job. It cleans special clothing that requires hand washing, including wool, linens and cottons. It does not contain harsh chemicals so your clothes will stay the color and shape they're meant to be! Dryel also contains an advanced cleaning technology that removes stains and eliminates perspiration and odor, while getting right down to the fiber, to keep clean!

    I used my Dryel kit on my husbands Dry Clean Only, suit jacket. I began by spraying the "Booster Spray" throughout the jacket and especially on the neck and armpit areas. I then put the jacket into the fabric protection bag and threw in the ultra cleaning cloth. Zipped the bag up and put it in the dryer on medium heat, for 30 minutes. Just as the instructions said. During the 30 minute wait, I imagined how the suit jacket would come out, looking nice and smelling fresh...but that was far from what happened...

 

   I was really disappointed. The jacket came out damp and wrinkly! I believe the dampness was from the ultra cleaning cloth, because the jacket came out more damp then it was when I put it in the bag. It also had a unpleasant smell. I wouldn't call it stinky...more so, just the smell of the booster spray mixing with heat of the dryer, causing an odd scent.  I'm hoping it just needed some more dry time, because the idea of Dryel sounds really great! I will try it out again and hope for better results, as well as sharing it with others to see what their experience comes of it. On a positive note, the Dryel fabric protection bag is a decent size so you can fit 1-4 pieces of clothing in and have fresh clothes that look newer longer. If it works that is ;)

Don't forget to visit Dryel on their Facebook page, you can get a $1 Off coupon to purchase your own Dryel Cleaning Kit!!

This post is made possible by SheSpeaks and their Rate & Review Program. 

Shout Wipe & Go Sample Testing

So a few days back, I received a Shout Wipe & Go Stain Remover sample. 

I tried it out on my husbands white dress shirt which had a dark collar stain.

Here is the before photo of the stain:

I used the Shout wipe exactly how it told me to, on the back of the package. I wiped and scrubbed and nothing happened. The stain didn't remove at all. It didn't get much lighter either...

After using Shout Wipe & Go Stain Remover:

Sad to say...these stain remover wipes do not work for me...I will stick to my Tide spray stain remover. It works wonders. AND it has a great scent!

I received a free sample and wanted to share my thoughts on it. No compensation involved.