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Anna R.

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1 Review by Anna

  • VENUS Swimwear

2/7/16

First off, just know that their return policy (or at least the policy for my particular order) is they will either refund or exchange your order, but you pay for return shipping (exchanges ship to you for free), which ultimately puts you in the hole $15 just to try on a piece of clothing (roughly $8 to ship, roughly $7 to return).

Seriously though, any clothing website that doesn't allow for customers posting reviews is extremely sketchy. Obviously every site uses models with perfect bodies, a fair bit of photoshop, and deceptive wording. So it's hard to know exactly what you're purchasing. And that's why customer reviews are helpful; they'll tell you how it really is.

Knowing that, and even reading through a couple reviews here, I took my chance. Because the bikini top I found was just SO cute! It was the "color block push up bra top" (a bikini top). I'll include the picture on the site along with pictures of the actual product worn on a more common body-type.
I noticed most of the reviews focused on long shipping time, horrible return process, and overall poor quality of the piece. Well, I wasn't in a huge time crunch (didn't need it for a month), I never bother with returns anyways because they're always a huge hassle, and how can a bathing suit be low qualty?- all bathing suits are made of the same type of material, so I knew I couldn't be shocked there. And from the picture, the design seemed pretty straight forward. What could go wrong?
Well, for anyone figuring a bathing suit is the exception to the "poor quality" complaint, you are wrong. There was nothing push up about it, the fit was horrendous (though slightly my fault because I was torn between two sizes and ended up choosing the smaller of the two), and the overall aesthetic presented on the website is actually physically impossible to achieve without making alterations to remove the convertible aspect.
Though I will say the material, stitching, and mega-cool slider back strap (why don't all bras have these?), was spot on. And shipping was actually decently quick. Only took 4 days.

So yea, like I said, if you choose to shop at venus.com, you're taking a gamble. Because odds are, you're either going to be out $15 with nothing to show for it, or out however much you spent to purchase something, and stuck with what you never would have bought had you tried it on in a store.

-----Picture Explanation-----
So as you can see, the bikini top is very simple. Black cups, blue halter straps. In the product picture, the straps are really the focal point, and cover a decent amount of the cups. But when actually worn, there is no magic that keeps the fabric stretched over the cups. They just smoosh into a thin little hardly noticeable strap! And can you see the support? Or rather, the lack-there-of? Using my hands to hold things up to where a normal push-up would keep them, it's clear to see how small the cups are (unfortunately I don't have 3 hands, so I couldn't get a picture demonstrating the size problems). I would be mortified if my crush saw me in this. Life would be grand if I had fake tits and didn't need any support in a bra/bikini... but for me, that's just not the case.
This might be cute if you had really small breasts. Small enough that support isn't a problem, and your boobs don't come out much and therefore won't push the straps aside. But for anyone B cup and up, I'd say, don't even bother.

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“I wanted this top and am so glad you posted cause I would've been mad to get what you got. Thank you for the warning”

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