Showing posts with label Nail Art Society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nail Art Society. Show all posts

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Nail Art Society March Bag

Hey everyone

This is not going to be a happy review. I am very upset. 



This is all we got this month. 

Nail Fraud stickers which are polka dots. (Some people got smiley faces). Hello you just gave me a dotter, I can do polka dots, why on earth would I want stickers that achieve the same look? 

Stella ceramic flowers in a lilac color. I'm curious about these, but not enough to where I would buy them in store. 

Micro beads. Mine are a copper color. I'm not a fan of the caviar manicure, but these are smaller than my other beads, so I'll give it another try. I also want to do a few lines with the beads. 

Fimo slices. If I wanted these I would buy an entire stick. Why did they only give  me a few slices?

Flowers. These flowers are a fabric and I have no idea how they are going to react in nail polish. I'm worried they are going to get ruined by a top coat.

The last part I'm actually curious about because I've never seen them before. These little half beads. They honestly look like little plastic beads cut in half. But they are so big I think they are going to be really neat. 

So out of a bag I paid $10 for I am interested in 1.5 things. Wonderful. I feel bad for the people that spend $19.95 on these. 

I went on their Facebook page after checking the reaction in Instagram. Everyone was complaining. The NAS was only responding to people who were missing pieces. Someone posted a photo of their container that was missing the Fimo slices. One of the people commented and below is what happened.0 



  • Nail Art Society Yes, we definitely resend these right away. 

  • Person #1 Thanks. I've been wanting the fruit slices for so long so I am excited. For the record, I have been enjoying my bags very much!
  • Nail Art Society Person #1 thank you so much for saying that. Maybe you could post it to our wall as some others have just been voicing there displeasures.
  • Me: You know I was going to keep my subscription and give you guys another shot after a super disappointing bag, until I saw this comment. A company should be addressing the people who are disappointed. It would be different if it was only 1 or 2 people. But almost everyone is disappointed. You have ignored everyone who has voiced their displeasure with this month's bag and your company. Instead you find the one person who was happy with their bag (which is okay, there's nothing wrong with likiing it) and tell them they should post that they like it to your wall for everyone else to see. I have no cancelled my subscription and I will not be back until I see some radical changes in this company. If I were The Creme Shop, Essie, Zoya, LVX, China Glaze, or OPI I would ask you to remove my name from your page. It doesn't look good for them or you when you go to a company's Facebook page and see nothing but complaints. I think the very first thing you should do as a company is redesign this whole operation. We should be able to see what we are paying for before we get it. And you should give us the option to skip a month or pick a different bag. That way you don't have an overwhelming majority of your customers disappointed.
Person #2 Tara, from the looks of it they've not only ignored, they've also hidden or removed some of the complaint posts. Seems like they've removed some negative/disappointed customer comments from their main posts as well.



As you can see this post went all over me. I cancelled my subscription immediately. My biggest problem with this months bag was that it didn't have polish in it at all and the fact that everything in it I could buy at my local Claire's (except for the ceramic flowers). Why would I spend $10 for something I can go pick up for $6 and get one half off? Their customer service left a lot to be desired. And I honestly feel like there's a lot of false advertising. I would not recommend this company to anyone. I will certainly not be going back unless there is a complete overhaul to their company. As of today they are going back in and deleting the bad comments from their page as Person #2 mentioned that night. 

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Nail Art Society: February Bag

Hey everyone

Today I have a new product to show you. Pure Ice sent out an email showing off my nails along with about 30 other people who participated in the Pure Ice Your City contest. In the email there was a promo code for half off of Nail Art Society. Nail Art Society is a monthly subscription where you receive nail art and polish. This is designed to be the newest trends in nail polish.

Now if you go onto their Facebook page you will see a lot of people cancelling their subscriptions, at the time of this article posting I can tell you that I have already cancelled mine. I will be posting my 2nd and final bag next week. I was nervous going into this, but though, hey for $10 I might get some neat stuff.



It comes in a black bubble wrap envelope. Some people have complained that theirs came open, might didn't. Inside there was a card with some instructions on back on how to achieve the design on front. It came with a nail file block, Finger Paints in Expressionism Red (This is not one of the polish brands advertised on their website, by the way), nail lace, Love in cursive foils, chains, and a dotter. 


These little things were a total pain. They were very stiff and would not lay flat against my nail. I used a top coat to stick them on with and tried putting a top coat on top to hold it on, which is what I do with everything that I stick to my nails. It just wasn't working. In fact it almost ruined my Valentine's Mani. More on that mani later.



To be honest, this is probably going to get tossed in a box. I have no idea what I would do with this. I'm not a fan of putting full sheets on my nails. I don't have huge nails so this just seems like a waste. 


This is the dotter. Look how tiny it is! This was the best part of the whole package for me. I have lots of dotters, but not one this tiny. 


The bottom is the size of a small dotter. Just fabulous.


I'm not sure what I'm going to use these chains for. I'm tempted to paint them black and use them in a mani. I'm not a fan of the color of gold at all. So I'll have to tweak these for sure. 

I used the block to file down my acrylics (oh yeah I got acrylics for 2 weeks so be on the look out for long nails!). And the Finger Paints I have used only when I needed red for my Minion nails which I haven't posted yet. :)

I got all of this for $10. Which for the most part is a fantastic deal. But I have a discount on the whole program. Most people pay $19.95 for this, which I really wouldn't have been thrilled with. Especially considering that I only plan on actively using maybe 3 items. 

I also didn't like that these all came out with a theme for Valentine's Day. I got mine in the mail on Valentine's Day. By then I'd already picked out my mani for the day. And I tried before I went out to eat to attach the LOVE piece to my thumb, my biggest nail. It was a completely fail. And I do not plan on using those again. They ship out on the 9th or 10th of every month so with Valentine's Day right on the edge of that I would have rather received a random sort of things,  not something that is designed for a holiday almost on it's way out. 

Keep in mind I kept my subscription for another month, and March's bag is a doozy, so keep your eyes peeled next week for that review!