Dear diary: Customer service is just so bad!

Yesterday I went out, I decided to go to the shops to buy a couple of gifts for my friend for her birthday this weekend. I wanted to create a little gift box for her, if you guys don’t know, I love making gifts and making it personal and just getting all artsy crafty, if that makes sense. Here’s a link of a gift idea I came up with if you want to check it out. http://lalalinee.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/nifty-gift-idea.html

I mean okay, I’m prepared to deal with rude people, like I know not everybody out there is going to be nice or treat customers or people in general the way they should be treated, maybe because they’ve had previous bad experiences with other customers but can I just say, not every customer is going to be rude. I mean, I feel like I blog about retailing all the time because I’m just so shocked with how bad customer service is. I get that you have a job to do but it takes 2 seconds to say hello when somebody walks into the store, you don’t even have to ask if I need help with anything but just greet me and then you can get back to doing whatever you have to do.

I think in retail it’s so important to be nice and not to judge, I mean at the end of the day, you’re trying to make a sale and trust me I walked out of so many stores yesterday because customer service was just that bad, I was all ready to pay for what I wanted, too bad they took too long talking to each other about their hair.

For me, it does bother me that people can just be so rude, but worse for them because I will never walk into those stores again and it just creates a bad image for them.

Too bad, so sad is all I can say.

I'd love to know is it just me or is customer service pretty bad?

FEEL: Lucas' papaw ointment review

August august august, guys it's august already! I feel like july just flew by.

Today I want to talk about Lucas' papaw ointment.

Lucas papaw ointment

I'm going to include a little link for all of you if you want to check it out and see why so many people rave about this product, which I'll include at the end of this blog.

My story..

This product has been around for a while and was crazy popular when I was in high school, I am not kidding one day I was like my lips are so dry at the moment and my friends would literally whip out their papaw ointment and say you should use this, it's really good.

Being stubborn, I never really jumped on the ban dwagon of papaw ointment because I wanted to be different and not have what everybody else had, I don't know, it's hard to explain. People would rave and rave about this product and I wouldn't really care to much about it.

The other day my fingers swelled up and it was so red and itchy that I had no idea what was going on with my fingers, I later figured that okay an ant bite or many because it felt so inflamed, swollen, red, itchy and just overall ugly and if any of you have ever had an ant bite, you get it right? And talk about biting in an awkward place too, if it bit me on my leg I don't think I'd care too much but fingers? Really ants?

The swelling went down because I rubbed a wedge of lemon over it but I still got left with some rough skin and skin that looked deflated if that made sense, it's hard to describe. A loss of elasticity I'm going to call it. I decided because it was there in my bathroom I'd try it out on the ant bites because at that point nothing was working and to me, using that, there would be no harm. Within a couple of hours, it looked so much better, almost completely healed now, the skin is looking normal and no dry or flaky areas. My thoughts, love it and it works!

My mum actually had a skin  reaction the other day to a sunscreen and her cheeks were so inflamed and red she was complaining that it was burning her and that it hurt. Immediately I was like, wash your face and cold compress, which helped and overnight she applied the papaw ointment and the next day it was amazing, it wasn't completely healed, but the swelling went down, the redness reduced, it's crazy when products really work sometimes.

What you use it on...

This product has so many benefits and it's not only an ointment that relieves but also cleanses the problem area. You name it, cuts, minor burns, chafing, splinters, cracked skin, nappy rash, insect bites (me), splinters, thorns I could go on.

My love for it..

What I really love is that, it's not only a product that works but it's inexpensive. You get so many crazy creams and ointments out there that are pricey and you're not even sure if it's going to do the job, with this ointment even  if it doesn't work, you've only spent at minimum $4.95 (that's how much I paid) 

The sizes and packaging..

You've got 3 sizes, the 25g which comes in a tube form, which is just great to pop in your handbag. Talk about convenience. You have the 75g tub and also one that comes in 200g, if you use a lot of it.

I don't normally talk about packaging with products but with this one, it's simple and in a vibrant red colour, you just can't miss it.

Links and last few words..

If you guys want to read a bit more, head on over to their website and check it out for yourself. All I can say is I've got the little 25g tube in my bag everywhere I go now.

http://www.lucaspapaw.com.au/

Till next blog, have an amazing day everybody!

Dear diary: When your phone breaks, turn to facebook..

.. or some type of social networking site.

People are really mean.

So today my phone broke and I’m going to blog about how I feel because I’m so frustrated right now.

I’ve only ever had 2 phones, my first one being a nokia 6610 and my recent one a nokia 6760. I’m not that type of person who needs a phone with all these apps or you can do this on this phone and you can do that, you can get how many gigabytes you want. I don’t care. To me a phone is a phone and as long as I can call people, text people and they can reach me and I can reach them it’s fine.

So today I dropped it and it’s not the first time it’s been dropped and with nokia phones, the backing usually just comes off along with the battery, the screen has never cracked on me. But being a slide phone, this time it slid open and smashed on the floor so the sliding is broken and the film that attaches the information together or whatever I don’t know, it just snapped so it’s broken and it won’t turn on.

I was like, I can fix it. NO I CANNOT! I literally don’t even know. So as soon as I got home I spent 3 hours going through all pre paid phones I had, to find that 4 out of 5 of them are all locked! So I went back to my nokia 6610 and the battery is literally dying, I’m not talking just charge it, it’ll be fine. NO! it’s that old that even if do charge it, the battery is going to die.

I thought that’s okay I can still get all my info from the sim card, oh guess what guys, it’s not SAVED ON MY SIM CARD!!!!! And then I was like oh wait it has a micro sd card, so maybe all the info is there. Spent half an hour calling up people asking if they had a card reader, thankyou for family for living close by, got it. So I managed to save some pics and videos and music but I have no peoples. I have none of my contacts saved on this sd card and I am so devastated because it’s all saved on my phone that doesn’t even turn on now, calendar dates, notes. IMPORTANT THINGS! And before anyone goes well you should of backed up your phone and update info daily onto your computer from your phone, just don’t. I already feel so poop inside and it doesn’t help when you go on google to find answers to fix the problem and you get smart comments like that. Alright why do people have to be so mean? A simple, try getting it repaired at a mobile repair shop or recommend a good place you can get it fixed, is fine. People need to calm down with the things they say sometimes. I don’t even know.

All I can say is thank you for social networking sites at least I can get some numbers off there.

FEEL: Yes to tomatoes acne spot stick REVIEW

Okay I’m kind of mad right now. Although I love trying out new products that I get or are given to me or I buy for myself, I really don’t like it when this one product I have seems to be working for everybody else but me, well 90% of people calculated by my own made up statistic, but you know what I mean.

What is Caroline talking about you may ask? Well I’ll tell you, okay, I’m talking about this Yes to tomatoes clear skin acne spot stick.

Yes to tomatoes clear skin acne spot stick

Where do I begin, okay mostly girls but some guys may relate to this if you’ve seen the ads, you get a pimple or you feel a whopper of a pimple coming on and you’re stressing out because people are just going to stare at it and with stress comes more pimples (if you’re like that) and you just need clear skin for this one event you may have. It always happens, your skin could look fiercely clear for one week and then when you actually have to be somewhere or go to a party or a rocking event, lol, yeah I’m laughing at myself I just said that, you have this huge pimple and no not at the side where you can sort of hide it with some hair but smack bang right in the middle of your face, so it’s like your pimple might as well be saying hello to everyone you meet.

I was so excited to try this spot stick out because just as I got it, I got a massive red pimple because I don’t even know, I think because this week I just went a bit cray cray with the deep fried food, whoops.

Reading the reviews on this product as well got me so excited and kind of a bit sad to say this, what I was reading was that it worked really well for A LOT of people who tried it, but unfortunately not for me, well sort of. 

What is it?

Yes to tomatoes clear skin acne spot stick

It’s a roller ball spot stick which targets all those blemishes you may have and allows you to apply the product on the spot or blemish that needs it unlike you facial washes or scrubs which you apply all over your face.

What’s in it?

With any acne or pimple treatment, you’re going to find that it contains salicylic acid which helps to unclog pores, break down any blemishes and also control the oil.

It also contains bisabol and ginger which helps with the redness you find on your pimples and it helps to reduce it and also tomatoes which have lycopene which is great as that will help to control the oil.

How to use it?

I think the one thing that annoys me about this is having to apply it 1 -3 times a day especially for those really severe blemishes and even though it’s a quick little roll on, what if you’re the type of person that wears a lot of moisturiser or foundation all day.

The roller ball

When applied..

Applying it, it’s fun, it’s a different product, it makes you feel like you’re targeting that pimple. It goes on clear which is hard to see and make sure you give the tube a good shake so the roller ball doesn’t get stuck.

What I like about it?

I do like however that it is just for those spot blemishes, the smell is nice, I do really feel like I am doing something to prevent these pimples from getting worse, it’s not a drying product, my skin doesn’t get irritated. I think with the Yes to tomatoes brand, they’re products are very mild.

So why am I mad?

I guess I’m definitely bummed that it didn’t work as well for me, in my opinion it’s not a miracle worker, the blemish isn’t going to disappear overnight, there may be a slight difference, I definitely will say the redness on my blemish has reduced a fair bit and

My thoughts overall..

I would recommend this for those pimples that get really red. As for zits or blackheads or whiteheads, not so much as these lie deeper in the skin so I don’t think it works that deep down. But from what I gather overall it’s a product that would work for the majority.