Ashley Rivera

Contributor at Sketch My Soul

About

Customer service rep, suburban Philadelphia, 31. The first soulmate sketch order came out of a wine night with my college friend Cora, who found a sketch service on her phone and suggested ordering one as a breakup distraction. She bought into the idea for about five minutes, then completely forgot about it. I was still thinking about the sketch three weeks later when it finally arrived as a PDF in my Gmail.

Zooming in on the pencil crosshatching at midnight, trying to work out what the face looked like up close, it had nothing in common with my ex. Something about that landed differently than I expected. A few weeks later I ordered a second service, mostly to see whether the results would match. They didn't. That question has been running in the background ever since.

Four services tried over the past three years, all ordered from the kitchen table in my apartment in Norristown. All four sketches are pinned to a corkboard above my desk right now. My coworker Josephine thought the whole category was ridiculous until I showed her the side-by-side comparisons one afternoon. She went completely quiet, then placed her own order that weekend. My childhood friend Phoebe, who takes every result seriously that the rest of us laugh off, calls me after every new post sometimes before I've finished writing it. The group chat nickname has been the Soulmate Sketch Lady long enough that I've stopped contesting it.

These reviews run on customer service documentation habits: write down what actually happened, not what you were hoping for. Specific delivery timelines, the real ordering workflow, what the finished product looked like against the listing. Credentials in spiritual or psychic fields aren't part of the picture, and I don't present them as such. These services are entertainment. The reviews treat them that way, without mockery for people who find them meaningful and without pretending they're something they're not.

If you're working through something genuinely difficult, the right place to go is someone who knows you or a licensed counselor who can actually help. A sketch isn't that.

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Some links here are affiliate links. Buy through one, I earn a small commission and your price stays the same. The commission doesn't influence which services get reviewed. The disappointing ones are documented here too, and those tend to be the most useful reviews anyway.