LET'S TALK ABOUT SHEINSIDE.....

I was umming and ahhing over whether to do this review. 1) Because I didn’t want to talk about something negatively so early on in my blogs life and 2) because some of the problems were down to me. However, I decided to bite the bullet and do this anyway because Sheinside seems to be featuring on a lot of blogs recently, whilst I trust ally of my fellow bloggers opinions, I thought I’d put mine out there too.

I recently ordered the baby blue eye turtleneck dress that I’m sure you’ve probably all seen before. I believe it’s a direct copy of Zara one although I haven’t seen it in person to compare. The dress was fantastically priced at £8.78 from £11.90 so it being so cheap I thought I’d just go ahead and order it, as it’s from China it would be a hassle to return so I’m not really loosing a lot of money.

Starting off with the negatives that were my own fault. I ordered the dress in a size L. On most highstreet stores this would probably come in at a UK 14/16. I’m a 12/14 but when it comes to online shopping, particularly from overseas stores I tend to size up. I’m also around 5’10 so in general I’m quite a ‘big’ individual. Knowing this dress was from China, I probably should have realised that even the biggest size wouldn’t be right, but I went ahead anyway. Should have probably taken my own advice here because the dress was loose around the top, hugged to hips and came just above my butt cheeks, it’s very short. So really not good dress material for me.

Quality-wise, I’m on the fence. There’s no labels on the dress to tell me exactly what it’s made of (or how to wash it) but it’s a thinner, slightly cheaper feeling of that neoprene material that seems to be really ‘in’ right now.It was REALLY creased from the folds, as you can see there’s still some in there and that’s after three irons! The fabric itself is OK, but the finishing of the garment is pretty terrible. It hasn’t been hemmed and the edges are slightly wonky, giving off an amateur vibe. Before I even got it out the clear packaging I could see lots of loose threads and the seam on one side has already begun to come apart pretty much just touching it. I’d say it’s on a par with some of the cheaper Primark stuff, but at £8 I was hardly expecting designer quality, it’s just the little, simple things such as hemming that kinda bothered me?

Sheinside promises a lot of discounts and after signing up via Facebook I was sent a 25% off code, however when I put it in at the checkout it didn’t come off even though it said it did, maybe it was because it was on sale but this annoyed me, yes it was really cheap already but I couldn’t find anything in the T&C’s saying codes didn’t work on discounted items.

Now for the positives; obviously this site is really cheap and a lot of the stuff on there is really nice and direct copies of things found on the runway, so provided you don’t mind a dip in quality and you’re quite small and petite it’s definitely worth a look and not a huge gamble. My package arrived within 10 days, which I was pretty happy about considering with previous Chinese stores they’ve taken up to two months. Ordering overall did seem like a bit of a risk, I was never sent an email saying if my item had been dispatched and the tracking number they sent me was false. I only got a confirmation of payment and nothing else. Thankfully, my items did arrive and all turned out OK.

I’m sorry this was quite a long and rambly post, and the writing was probably a dip in quality in comparison to others, but I had a lot to say about this company! I’d love to know the experience you guys have had with them if any!

*I'm currently away travelling so this is a scheduled post but I will try to answer any questions ASAP :)