Craves We Regret: Nail Pens, Target Dresses, & Hooker Heels

Posted by: Amelia McDonell-Parry Filed in: style
3:30PM, Friday August 15th 2008

We recommend a lot of rad products, clothing designers, and crave-able items on The Frisky. Occasionally, however, we discover that an item was not worthy of our desire or endorsement and we want to take it back. After finally sampling a few of these goods ourselves, we’re totally not craving:
1. Sally Hansen Nail Pen: I finally tried this bad boy and discovered two things: A) A nail PEN is a really good idea and definitely makes polish application easier, but B) the actual polish colors available are heinous (I made the mistake of going for a iridescent opal which was trés old lady), they apply very thin and watery, and they dry extremely matte.

2. Richard Chai Color Block Dress: This is so cute on the hanger and on the absurdly thin and tall model in the look book. The fabric used is actually quite lush and rich-feeling. Unfortunately, it is also ill-fitting and way shorter than it appears. Major disappointment.
3. Patricia Field for Payless: Pictures on the internet can be deceiving—I saw these in person and they were fugly, clunky, and more hooker than drag queen.

comments

par3
wrote on August 16 2008 @ 05:01 am: [report]

omg i’m hating this sugarmomma spam- so unoriginal.

toyen
wrote on August 16 2008 @ 02:35 pm: [report]

The Nicole by OPI pen ain’t bad!

Annika Harris
wrote on August 18 2008 @ 07:03 am: [report]

I totally agree on the Richard Chai dress. I tried it on and it was way too narrow in the shoulders, so the chest didn’t lay properly. The only thing I could fit was the orange and purple neon T-shirt. Also, I found that most of the Payless “designer” shoes look cheap and clunky.

Amelia
wrote on August 18 2008 @ 07:19 am: [report]

@Annika Harris I think the Richard Chai dress would either fit someone who is tall and really lean, or someone who is petite all around. I’m going to see if it looks good on my almost mother-in-law. She’s the latter.

Amelia
wrote on August 18 2008 @ 07:20 am: [report]

@SL Really?! Are the colors nice too? I think I might need to test drive that one.