My thoughts on the Stardust/AL drama

First of all I'd like to thank everyone for responding to my last post and advising me to open a Paypal dispute. If someone could email me and tell me how to do this, or if I even CAN do it since I used an e-check, I would really appreciate it. Now to the real issue here... I do have opinions on the drama that has gone on, and I wanted to share my own feelings on it. I am NOT here to point fingers, tell you where to shop, where your loyalties should lie, etc. I would just like to share how I see the situation. I will also say this right now, some of the comments I have read on other people's posts about this are hateful and nasty, to people who don't even have anything to do with this situation. Discuss THIS issue, not any past issues that are completely irrelevant and unrelated. I am NOT going to tolerate people leaving such horrible comments on my blog- if I see them I will do the responsible thing and DELETE them, or I will set all the comments to be approved first. I refuse to allow people to leave derogatory comments about anyone and use my blog as a place to pick fights. I hope I don't have to do this, it's really pathetic that some people can't act like an adult over something like makeup. I welcome your opinions, different as they may be, as long as they are respectful. :) For anyone who doesn't understand what's been going on, I invite you to read this post by Phyrra. I think it seems like a pretty accurate timeline of events. I also think you should read this. I simply do not believe that Jenna had any kind of malicious intent here. I believe her when she says she just wanted some straight answers, and being the owner of another company, any way she tried to find out would be seen as her trying to "sabotage" Aromaleigh. Do I think that creating a fake identity was a good solution to the problem? No, but I can at least see WHY she did it. Do I think she took it a little too far? Yes, at some points, but as I said, I think her intent was just to get answers, not to harm Aromaleigh as a company. People seem to be looking only at the "facts" that demonize Jenna, and not even attempting to look at her side of the story. I looked at her email to MMM, and her blog entry, and they don't seem to be saying two totally different things to me, which is what is being implied (saying this makes her two faced and hypocritical). It DOES seem to me that people are twisting around a lot of what she said to try and make her out as supervillian #1 here. I also don't like how people are doing the whole "I'm being cyberstalked" thing. She didn't say that. She told people to stop harassing her. It is not the same. I also respect the fact that once she was found out, she gave an apology that I personally find to be sincere, and tried to show her side of the story while still not trashing Aromaleigh. I looked at Kristen's twitter and she's not exactly being professional here either. I think calling people psychos and nutjobs and using her kid to make Jenna feel even more guilty is a little ridiculous. I think if this had happened between Stardust and any other company besides Aromaleigh, people would be looking at things a little more objectively. It seems to me that many people ignore any wrongdoings of Miss K, while eagerly scrutinizing other companies. This doesn't fly with me. I don't feel comfortable ordering from Aromaleigh anymore because of some of her actions. I think people are manipulating what Jenna said and putting words in her mouth because they support Miss K. If this is way tl;dr for you- here's my short summary- I don't think Jenna went about handling this in the best possible manner, but she has also apologized for it, and I don't believe she had any intent in harming Aromaleigh. I think there are a lot of people who would follow Miss K and slam anyone else, regardless of the situation, and Jenna's words are being twisted to make her look bad. I will still continue to shop at Stardust because I think Jenna is a nice person who had good intentions, but didn't necessarily cary them out the way she should have. Thoughts and opinions? Keep it civil.

Unintentional Rasta EOTD & some very unfortunate drama

I guess the first thing I should say here is that I received the eyeshadow in shade "Raw Shock" for free. Veronica, being the darling that she is, sent me 3 sample size eyeshadows and one full size (of Sugar, the perfect white I've talked about, yay!) eyeshadow for free. It was such a great surprise for me when I got home from Texas and found a nice little package I didn't even order. :) As you all know, Hi Fi is my favorite company ATM, and has been actually ever since I first tried Veronica's products. I'm trying to DRASTICALLY cut my spending on makeup right now, like $40 per paycheck or less. There's a sale at Hi Fi right now so I know where that money's going, teehee. This look ended up looking all Rasta-y, I didn't see that at all when I planned it. Unfortunately, pictures never look as good as the real thing. IRL this looked soooo much better- Raid the King looked like it had this kind of glow to it with the way I blended it. I feel like my looks as of late have been pretty sub-par, so I was really happy with how beautifully this turned out. No full face pics cus I looked icky today and my lips are all dry and fucked up. What I used (all shadows by Hi Fi) Raw Shock (inner lid) Allegro (middle lid) Raid the King (outer lid and blended up) Sugar (highlight color, blended in) Queen of Disaster (below waterline) Covergirl eyeliner in brown black Urban Decay Lingerie eyelash primer Prestige My Biggest Lashes mascara The last picture is pretty dead on. LOVE IT And now here's something not pretty or nice, and it really saddens me that I'm talking about something like this. I recently found a great new blog, but by unfortunate circumstances- by hearing about the drama surrounding her and Miss K of Aromaleigh. If you visit her blog, you will see the post she made about her recent Aromaleigh order. If you read the comments, you can see the things Miss K said to her, the highlights of those including calling her a "lying, selfish person", a "nasty, unappreciative thing"... etc. She also said she didn't want her as a customer anymore. It doesn't matter WHAT Jennifae said (even though what she did say was extremely fucking mild)- what Miss K said to her is not just unprofessional as a business owner, but it's plain fucking mean and nasty. You don't treat people that way, ESPECIALLY if they are a paying customer- ever. You can read the review and see for yourself. I also took screenshots of Miss K's finest moments here, in case she sees the anger she has caused in me and other readers, and takes down her comments. I don't know if she thought she could get away with saying things like that to someone because their blog is new and small, and she didn't think anyone would find out, or what. I don't care. I am truly in utter disbelief she could ever say things like that to someone, especially considering how completely unprovoked it was. I can't tell you where to shop, but I will say I am never ordering from Aromaleigh again. On that downer note, I hope everyone has a lovely weekend. To cheer you up, here is baby sloth (from Cute Overload, obvs)