I was kinda “down” and semi “out” for the last two days. I had a sore throat and slight fever on Christmas day and symptoms ballooned the following morning. Thanks to rest, lots of juice, a massage, and some paracetamol it didn’t get any worse and I’m better now. I did a bit of browsing on Ebay over two weeks ago and decided to give in to the holiday offers phone case makers HeadCase had via their online store E-cell Global (“e_cell” on Ebay). Regular price is about $8 per case, but with their holiday discount and FREE shipping offer I paid quite a bit less, nearly half price for all in fact. To be clear, Head Case phone cases are designed in the UK and outsourced to be printed here in the Philippines. What I like is I didn’t receive standard postal notices for these anymore even though they were FREE shipping. They delivered my orders all together directly to mom’s office in Fort. I initially chose four then added the Ariel surfing princess a couple of days later.
HeadCase, From LEFT, S3 i9300 Cases: CARINA NEBULA, CAT GEOMETRIC, SURFING PRINCESS HIPSTER, PINK FASHION FLAMINGO
Can you tell by my SURFING PRINCESS case that I’ve stocked up on phone swag for summer? Ariel splits her tail just to surf? Yes, please! The printing quality is moderate to high quality and the design doesn’t wrap around the whole case completely, the print stops short of about a third of an inch from the clear case edge. The clear case that the design is on is obviously what makes it cheaper. My ultimate favorite is this one they call “TIGER GEOMETRIC” but what’s strange is the face doesn’t look like a tiger. I think they’re mistaken, it looks more like a lion or lioness, I can tell from the chin and the eyes and all I could think of when I saw this was “Aslan” not “Shere Khan”. Generally, tigers have slightly larger, rounder eyes than lions, slimmer snouts, and their eyes are closer together, not as far apart as lions’ eyes. So to me, this is a lion. No one disagreed on Instagram, LOL. I also love that it blazes with multi-facets of the color of the new year and brings back childhood memories of Lisa Frank stickers and stationery.
I do know I won’t find fantastic graphic designs I can browse through locally as I was able to so easily do on their Ebay store. What I like is it’s not a printed, peel-off sticker they just slapped on a clear case, they’ve obviously got a special printer that makes veneer designs that adhere and mold to plastic. On my current case, the “Tiger” Geometric, it even looks like the darker facets in the graphics are beveled or embossed, you can see and feel it, so nice.
These are great but don’t naman expect Casetagram quality (which costs over $33 USD). When I say print quality is moderate (for $5-$6 I paid each) that’s because I still can see printer striping if you look closely at the medium tones (look at the flamingo case where it’s most obvious, that was the dud of the 5). I don’t mind too much about this for the price (about under Php200 each), I’m just really happy that my favorite designs, the cat, the lion, and the mermaid were printed well.
I skimmed through hundreds of designs within my phone category, nearly a thousand Samsung S3 cases on the “e_cell” Ebay site before picking these 5 (they do same designs for other smartphone models including iphones). By the way, if you’ve got the same phone as me make sure you’re looking at the Samsung S3 i9300 cases, NOT S3 MINI cases, easy to be mistaken. Have fun browsing :).