Don't waste your time on Vinyl.
written by Julie R. Neidlinger 3 comments link this postNo, I'm not talking about records vs. CDs.
Bath and Body Works is a store that makes me sneeze just thinking about it. It's a stinky store. I go there, of course, because I love perfume. I love perfume in single doses, a limitation that, unfortunately, Bath and Body Works does not follow. I always regret going there because it never fails to give me a headache before leaving.
Stinky store. Some scents ought not be mingled.
A few months ago I purchased a bottle of Deborah Lippmann's Overpriced Nail Polish "Vinyl", Exclusive at Bath and Body Works. (That's not exactly the name it goes by in the store, mind you.) I chose the pale color aptly named "This Must Be Love" which, as such things often are, it wasn't.
"I love this non-color," I said to myself in the store, and I bought it.
As with all cosmetic purchases, I mistakenly think I'll use it and become fabulous and lovely once I'm wearing it.
"This Must Be Love" is really "This Must Be Hate." Because it is.
"You'll love this polish!" the clerk said. "It's so tough -- never chips on me!" She then sprayed my bag with some horrid floral scent and left me gasping for oxygen and brain cells.
Who wears this nail polish and never has it chip? I'll tell you: people who do very little with their hands. "This Must Be Love" certainly didn't hold up today at work as I scrubbed, sanded, cut and fought with the laser machine and some toxic plastic material that stunk up the whole store and made Dennis tell me that I was "stinking up the whole store."
"You're stinking up the whole store."
"Thanks. It's every girl's dream to hear that," I said.
Stinking up the whole store, like Bath and Body Works, except they have yet to offer a line of "fresh cut PVC" spray.
I wish I could be more eloquent in describing this hideous nail polish that cost $8 for .2 fl. oz.(!!!) but I really can't. It just sucked. And I still can't figure out what color it is.
Labels: fashion, my life, product placement
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 10/02/2007 07:42:00 PM
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3 Comments:
I hate it when that happens!
As for me? OPI polish. Stout stuff...and I shoot shotguns, repeatedly - nothing jacks with nail polish more.
By 
Janie, at
2/10/07 21:14
You needn't worry about me. I believe I can refrain from purchasing any "vinyl."
By 
Will, at
2/10/07 23:05
I also find it hard to resist Bath & Body Works' siren song... But I love all that girly bathing crap. One of my best purchases there: a rolling, hand-held massager from the Spa Blue line. It improved our marriage. My most irritating B&BW moment (aside from walking into a store in September to find it decked-out for Christmas) was wandering around the store at the ripe old age of 23. I asked an employee to point me toward the newest line of some sparkly, smelly body spray. I was told that at "our age," we should seek out skin care products instead of perfumes. "OUR AGE"?!?! I was 23, with a wallet full of cash, and she's going to discourage me from buying the item I came in for? It was probably the first I left the store empty-handed. At least my melodramatic eye-roll wasn't lost on her...
By Lois E. Lane, at
3/10/07 10:53
