Online Shopping Spotlight: Cherry Culture
Online shopping is the only shopping I do nowadays. “How do you know if you like it?” “How do you know it fits?” “How do you know it’s the right color?” Those are the many questions I hear from
people who clearly are uncomfortable with online shopping. But for a “get in get out type of shopper”
who is not only plus size but petite, it’s not like my purchases were ever
going to be perfect anyways. Online
shopping is my form of gambling for me.
I will have good and bad but the good will always outweigh the bad.
Cherry Culture is an online makeup store that sells
inexpensive brands of makeup. Youtube
makeup Gurus like Beauty Broadcaster mentions their site every now and then
when talking about inexpensive makeup sites. You can find some expensive brands
there like BeautyBlender, Japonesque and Model in a Bottle yet it doesn’t offer
the products that made them famous to begin with. Bad marks in my book for that, I originally
hoped that I was able to try these products at an affordable price because it
was out of season or it was the old packaging. But if you are hoping to find cheap
Japonesque Brushes or finally try Model in a Bottle setting spray, no luck
Cherry Culture doesn’t sell that.
NYX looks to be their most popular brand offering their newest
products of the season. Cherry Culture
prices match what you see in Target or Ulta, but Cherry Culture will sometimes
have decent discounts of products that will always make me come back to buy
more.
Recently the site offered a 40% off sale on their entire
site. NXY’s new stuff wasn’t out yet
(they were probably clearing out some room for it) so I took advantage of the sale and got a
bunch of Ardel Lashes. Usually the Ardell
110 Multipack runs 10.78 but I got them for almost 6.50 for my fave. There are some diamond in the rough on that
site especially if you want to try some unknown brands or you want to put
together a great inexpensive gift for the makeup lover in your life.
But I can’t say that the site is perfect, any avid online shopper will do their
research. In my case I tend to do my
research after I put my order in. (Remember
I told you it’s like gambling for me).
In my lastest order in which I placed on March 6th, I didn’t receive
my order in the mail by USPS until March 24th. That is a really LONG
time for standard shipping (what are they E.L.F.?) I couldn’t fathom why it
would take so long. I am glad that
Cherry Culture offers online tracking, but if your order take 15 days to
process fake lashes then clearly the company needs to work on their
process. Beautylish had a great discussion on their forums of the different experiences others had
with Cherry Culture. Many stated that
Cherry Culture actually contacted them to ask for their ID to verify
payment. WTH?!? Since when did a cheap makeup sites turn into
a TSA screening? Since they took so long I feared that I would
get that email. What would have I done
if that happened? I would have cancelled my order and start the long process to
ask for my money back ( I hate that) I
paid for my order with Paypal and I should warn you some were still contacted
to verify ID even though they paid through paypal. I would contact paypal to complain.
I have ordered three times from CherryCulture.com and have
been satisfied with all the outcomes. They packaged all of my orders very well, so well that sometimes it's hard to open. But nothing was ever received as damaged. So I feel bad of my next statement.
Sadly I would give the overall grade of a “C” though I deem the site as legit and never had
a truly bad experience with them except a long time to receive order, its their
lack of consistency with the general public that brings them down. Me as the simple blogger doesn’t have to
state it makes sense, but when you are
getting mixed messages from a popular site like Beautylish it will just confuse
the person who wants to buy on the site.
So Blogreaties, CherryCulture.com
buy at your own risk and I hope it pays out well.
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