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wesleysgirl ([personal profile] wesleysgirl) wrote2007-10-16 01:50 pm
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BPAL questions!

The lovely [livejournal.com profile] harmonyfb sent me BPAL imps to try, and I have questions. (I do know about the BPAL forums, but either my questions are extra dumb or I can't find the answers there.)

1. Where to you put the stuff when you try it out? On your wrist? Should you only do one wrist, or is it better to do both?

2. How do you put it on? I haven't actually opened an imp yet because I'm afraid of spilling it everywhere, but there's a little plastic wand type thing sticking down from the cap and I wonder if you're supposed to dip that into the oil? It seems like if you put your finger over the opened top of the vial and then tipped the vial, you'd end up with the scent on your fingertip and then transferring it to everything you touched.

3. Reviews I've read seem to talk about how the oil smells 1) in the bottle 2) when first put on the skin 3) some time after that and 4) much later. What kind of time period are we talking about here (between-times?)

[identity profile] wesleysgirl.livejournal.com 2007-10-16 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Cool! Thank you. That all makes sense, yay. I'm sticking to one wrist for trying things out, just in case something makes me incredibly allergic (you never know!)
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[identity profile] ladycat777.livejournal.com 2007-10-16 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Also, you have to tell us what you have and what you like, now :D

[identity profile] wesleysgirl.livejournal.com 2007-10-16 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay! I've got 8 BPALs -

BPAL:
Queen Alice (Mad Tea Party)
Endymion (Love Potions)
Lust (The Seven Deadly Sins)
Danube (Wanderlust)
La Belle Dame Sans Merci (Bewitching Brews)
Tweedledum (Mad Tea Party)
Milk Moon 2007 (A Little Lunacy)
Harvest Moon (2004) (A Little Lunacy)

And one imp from Posset's Perfumes:
Silver Roses

:-D
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[identity profile] ladycat777.livejournal.com 2007-10-16 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooooo. A Little Lunacy is a really nice LE, some very good stuff there, and the MTP is awesome.

I hope you like!

[identity profile] wesleysgirl.livejournal.com 2007-10-16 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
The Milk Moon 2007 is fantastic. I want to lick my wrist, LOL! Another question - if you write reviews on the BPAL forum site, do you use some version of your ladycat-ish screen name, or something totally different? If a lot of TV-fandom (as opposed to BPAL fandom) people use their LJ-ish names, I probably will too...

[identity profile] harmonyfb.livejournal.com 2007-10-17 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
You like it? Man, it hates me. Which sucks, cause I have a whole bottle. You want it?

[identity profile] vylit.livejournal.com 2007-10-16 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I might have some scents around for you to try if you would like to sample more. Oh BPAL, it is addictive.

My favorites are Snow White, Lilith, Dia de los Muertos, Aizen Myoo, and Gennivre. I could maybe sample out a little from my bottles of those too. What kind of scents do you like?

[identity profile] wesleysgirl.livejournal.com 2007-10-16 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure I know which kinds I like, LOL! Well, I know I like food scents, but I would have thought I didn't care much for flowers, and yet all the ones I have sitting here smell awfully good to me and some of them are flowery. I like resin-y smells like amber and dragon's blood.

I tried my first one this afternoon, Milk Moon 2007, and it's so fascinating! It smelled awesome in the bottle, then too strong and kind of ucky for a while, and now it smells FANTASTIC. I want to walk around with my wrist pressed to my nose, LOL. So yummy.

I would love it if you wanted to share. I can totally see now how/why it's addictive. Wow. :-D