Dear China Glaze,

Recently, I paid for six of the Avant Garden polishes with my own money, with the intention of swatching them for my (very small) beauty blog and of wearing them just for the joy of the colors.  I even included them in a recent "haul post" showing off what I'd gotten because I was so very excited.

That changed the minute I read about what your contractor did to Kelly of Vampy Varnish and to Sam of Fashion Polish.  It's bad enough that she stole pictures belonging to bloggers who work very hard at photographing and reviewing your products, but that the pictures were then used on both The Shopping Chanel Canada (where the pictures are still being used!) and ShopNBC without credit to either blogger is unforgivable.  The fact that China Glaze's PR division responses to the two bloggers involved was inconsistent does not speak well of your company.

China Glaze is not a small company.  You have the power to stop allowing TSC to sell your products, and I'm sure they'd comply with a request from your corporate office to remove the photos from their website.  However, the most you have done is to offer a lame apology and even lamer excuse to one of the bloggers.

We bloggers are all small fish in your great big pond, but we are also your customers.  Those of us who love your products would prefer to know that we buy from a company with integrity.

Please do your best to correct the wrong done to Sam, Kelly, and by extension, the entire beauty blogging community.  Until then, those six Avant Garden polishes will sit on my shelf and gather dust.

Sinful Colors, sinful theft and an easy, but possibly meaningless apology

Sinful Colors, which is now owned by Revlon, has stolen pictures from at least two nail bloggers and used them without credit and without recompense in a pamphlet distributed at Walgreens.

Details:

http://www.swatchandlearn.com/blog-news-sinful-colors-used-my-photos-in-their-pamphlet-without-permission-distributed-it-in-walgreens/

http://the-swatchaholic.com/?p=6081

http://www.reddit.com/r/RedditLaqueristas/comments/x2nrq/sinful_colors_steals_bloggers_images/

http://www.buzzfeed.com/lauram48/sinful-colors-steals-from-bloggers-6wjl

Revlon is big enough to know better and to act better, and although I don't have the Sinful collection MamaGlam does, I sure as hell have a lot of Revlon cosmetics, which are liable to get boxed up and mailed back to the company, I'm so ticked off right now.

Edited 07/25/12:

Revlon has apologized on its Facebook page, but since they didn't say anything about recalling the pamphlets or providing recompense to the bloggers, I'm still skeptical.