Amadiz Beauty has a history of providing failed goods as prizes for doll events. They market themselves as a luxury segment studio and yet the prizes they provide are far from being any kind of luxury items.
One notable and recent situation involves the prize wig for the winner of Historical Myth 2017 Moscow event.
The photos here show an elaborate wig with beading and flowers, with a complex hairstyle. When the winner received the actual wig, the paper flowers fell off and some of them fell apart.
The top part near the parting had a piece of weft just cut and glued in place, the glue was visible from many angles.
The left part of the wig had glue spots (previously covered by fallen off roses) and the glue damaged plastic faux-pearl beads. Discoloration and deformations are clearly visible in the photo.
Also some locks were showing discoloration due to hair styling products.
The winner posts a review of this prize wig in her personal blog. Another Historical Myth event winner of a similar Amadiz Beauty wig also adds the photo of the prize they received, with wig cap being clearly visible between hair wefts.
Commenters ask whether or not the winner is going to contact Amadiz Beauty for repairs, which brought up an earlier story - where the same winner also received an Amadiz Beauty wig as a prize and did contact them when it was too small to fit her doll. It ended up with the wig cap being cut and an elastic fabric being sewed in, instead of thorough repairs.
Georg Ramensky of Amadiz Beauty rushes to comment with the offer of help and repairs for their clients as stated in the warranty section of certificate of authenticity.
The winner replies that she presumed she was not eligible for their customer service due to her winning the wig as opposed to buying the wig.
Georg Ramensky states that the service Amadiz Beauty provides is equal for all the Amadiz wig holders and they're happy to make their clients happy. They also agree to pay the postal fee of sending the wig in question for revisions.
So far so good? Yeah. But not quite.
The situation with the prize wigs is being widely discussed on the anonimous BJD community BJDLeaksBranch where Georg Ramensky of Amadiz Beauty is a moderator.
Anons state that this level of quality for a wig submitted as a prize for one of the most important Russian BJD events, is unacceptable no matter how good a customer service the Studio provides.
Offended wig maker Kate Ramensky of Amadiz Beauty makes her statement.
Kate Ramensky quote, abridged:
"[] I am saying this as a person, not as a firm representative. I am an educated hairdresser [] and started my doll wig making career in 2012. Since then I have made many wigs with creative technologies and tried my best to make them as realistic as possible. Now I am teaching other wig makers of our studio. [] If a wig has obvious faults then it's wrong and needs to be fixed or remade.
But every mistake is the responsibility of the one who made it. But all mistakes save fatal ones can be fixed. Therefore I can never understand people who are unsatisfied with something but wait and keep silence, or those who talk behind the master's back about being unsatisfied. Every adequate master is always ready to fix their mistakes.
[] I am making 4 wigs a day regularly and 5-6 a day before any events. For Historical Myth event we decided to provide 3 complete wigs and 3 certificates, totaling 750 usd. [] But I am making these wigs for free out of respect for the event organisers and guests who worked very hard. Georg and me are always happy to see others' meticulous work and we wanted to thank them by making these wigs. Maybe we should've given prize certificates but we wanted to make more material prizes for people.
I admit that this is the mistake of the wig maker. And it is very sad when it's a gift and it disappoints. But sometimes people make mistakes and they deserve the chance to fix them. It's not good to post anonimous statements saying our quality is "shit" instead of contacting us directly. []
I will answer several queries that have been brought up here.
Why did we use the plastic beads? Because we didn't have any others. It was not a commission wig, but an experiment. If a client wants Svarovski beads they will receive Svarovski beads whether the client is Russian or foreign.
Why the flowers fell apart? I dunno. They were fine. They're easily removed as it is a feature of Amadiz Beauty wigs.
Do our wigs always have defects? No way. If there are faults, we always pay for shipping the wig back to us for fixing. But Russian clients contact us for client service five times less often than foreign ones, preferring anonimous bullying instead.[]
My husband Georg is always professional in dealing with clients and their demands, always polite and friendly. [] That's why it's very hurtful to see all those lies from the person who never told us she was not satisfied. This is hypocrisy. []
As to that first problematic wig, it was due to unusual doll head that it didn't fit. We have done our best to fix it and we have proof of that. [] The client left us a neutral but well-meaning review and that was that. If only the client told us properly she was not satisfied, we'd refund her happily and did everything in our power to rectify the situation. But she never did. Not then and not in this situation. []
We do not hate Russian clients and never call them names. This is lies. We work to make every commission a success. []"
TL;DR - Amadiz Beauty representatives Kate and Georg Ramensky state that they made the wig, faulty as it was, but those unsatisfied with the quality of the prize are stinking liars.
(Important note: customer service in Russia is notoriously bad, that's why Russian clients avoid using it for the most part.)
Also, Amadiz reps have a tendency to make blogposts where they heavily allude to their clients and make unsavoury comments about them, all the while pretending to be speaking "in general". They remain true to themselves in this situation as well, on one hand saying that the client shoud contact them directly, while on the other hinting that posting your personal thoughts about their product in your personal blogspace somehow makes you a hypocrite and a dishonourable person overall.
The Historical Myth 2017 winner decides she doesn't like this level of customer service with masked insults from Amadiz Beauty and forfeits the prize altogether. Amadiz Beauty refunds her to save face, but boasts about selling the prize wig to someone else, someone foreign, as it was for its full price of 149 usd. Amadiz reps claim that the foreign client was elated to buy this wig, unlike the ungrateful Russian rabble.
However, according to True BJD Confessions Tumblr, not all foreign clients of Amadiz Beauty are satisfied.
There's also a review from DOA user in the same vein.
This discussion also brought up a situation where the client explicitly forbids the publication of the photos of costume she commissioned from Amadiz Beauty, wanting to show it on her own doll first, only to see the photos posted on their blog the moment costume was completed.
Amadiz Beauty will not let you show the stuff you commissioned from them first. They will always beat you to the punch, so don't hope to wow your friends with something made by Amadiz.
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Projekt IAN by Larkin Schattenkind, on Flickr
