Ok, I need one of you to go East, and one of you to go West. When you find my boobs, tell them we’re gonna meet right here near the middle!
Lol oh so Samantha bras and I are just a fail when it comes to shape match. However, if you can fit the mold, this bra is gorgeous! Pictures don’t do the color justice. The embroidery is beautiful and the appliqué on the straps is very eye catching. Straps are actually detachable. Assuming you can criss cross them in the back or swap them out for clear straps or fancy straps with crystals if you have or want to wear it as such. Straps are very wide set and eat my armpits like it’s a main course meal. Band is nice and firm. Very sheer and sexy, but it’s just not for me with the fit.

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Updated on Jul 15, 2019 Flag this

I have been lusting over the emboirderies on Samanta bras for months. But, before getting Magda to order some for me, I really wanted to try one in my size, or close to my size, to get a gauge of their fit and quality. So, for $30 I bought one from a fellow Bratabase user, figuring I'd rather risk $30 than $100+.

First, I'll comment on fit:

This band, listed as 65, is tighter than any 65 I have tried so far. That being said, it wasn't too tight to fasten BUT...the wires distort very, very quickly when the band is stretched on this bra.

Being an I cup, I knew ... it was going to be too big - I just wanted to see how much too big. I usually wear a 65G in EM bras and Samanata's calculator gives me 65H as suggested size.

The wires are much wider on this cup than I anticipated it would be. They go under my armpits.

Now, I am not sure if it's just because the cup overall is too big, but I suspect that it's A) wider than an EM would be in this cup size and B) they were distorted by me having to stretch the band to get it closed.

The straps are also too wide and the wing comes up into my armpit - all I suspect due to it simply being too big for me.

The thing that puzzles me the most about this bra is what's going on with the gore - it folds over itself and therefore, jabs me in the chest.

Also, when I laid this bra down to take photos, I noticed that when closed, the bra won't lie flat on the table. If this common in small band/larger cup bras? It doesn't happen on any of the others that I own.

Now, let's talk about quality of construction and appearance of the bra:

This bra is GORGEOUS. The embroideries are just as nice as they appear online in photos.

This one is a unique colourway - it's not blue and it's not purple. It's indigo. And the embroideries are gold with metallic copper. It's stunning.

It's a 3-part balcony bra with one vertical seam and one, upper, diagonal seam. There's a side sling in the cup, too, for extra support.

The band is a nice soft knit and the straps are super comfy and the embroidery continues half way up. Surprisingly, I did not need to shorten the straps up over my shoulder as I do in my EM bras.

The cups are made from a mesh that isn't quite as soft as the sheer mesh EM uses - I wonder would that change with washing?

Overall, I LOVE this bra, and would order more, but only if I had a little more confidence about what size and how the wires and gore would react in that size.
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30:9 65I

Cups too large, wires too wide, gore twists

Samanta

Mintaka (A122)

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Updated on Jan 08, 2019 Flag this

I love my first taste of Samanta! This style was not compatible with my shape but I now have an idea of what ones would work for me. From my understanding, this is a full-coverage style which is where most of my incompatibility comes from.

Pros:
Super cute, tts band that is comfortable and soft, awesome shape, depth is tts

Cons:
Samanta does not ship to the US so I cannot order directly (boo!), cups are too full coverage for me, cups rub and harass my armpits, and not enough immediate projection (very minor issue that I would have overlooked if I kept the bra), and the wires are on the wider side of average.

I would love to try more Samanta styles but I'm having issues finding stockists that ship to the US. Samanta does if you ask specially, but it's very costly. Their styles are so gorgeous and I'm so bummed that it's so difficult to order them.

I love Samanta's bras. I think they're gorgeous and very luxurious looking. Unfo

http://shortnstacked.blogspot.com/2016/10/samanta-mintaka-a122-in-65g.html

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Updated on Oct 10, 2016 Flag this

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This bra is amazingly good looking!! I'm too sad it doesn't suit me. It is the right size, but the cut is not flattering on me.

I ordered a A142 from Zulily but received a A122...

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Updated on Apr 24, 2017 Flag this

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purple colorway

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