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When the paints are shipped to Secrist or shipped by air, the belly of the plane is not pressurized. Therefore stuff like that, that is liquid may have some of the thinner squeezed out by the pressure. It's not a problem, they are plenty good as it's really just a tiny fraction of the thinner. I just wiped mine off with a soft paper towel and they have been just fine.
Hope this helps explain a little

If you are concerned then you may want to put just a drop of thinner in that container and stir.
The table cloth thing didn't surprise me only because when I took my certification class, and my first class at the Secrist factory, they told us that this paint, even though it doesn't dry/cure without heat, should not be covered with plastic/plastic wrap as it would eat through it. Likewise, if you get those little inexpensive paint cups with the little lids, the lids will be sort of melted/eaten away from the paint. This is also why we use a porcelain/ceramic "glazed" dish for them. They are not supposed to be in metal and regular plastic can do the same as your table cloth.
The containers they come in are actually a special type of plastic.

I just set mine on a few layers of napkins. Funny thing is though... even though it would damage the tablecloth or those little plastic lids, etc... the plastic bags that the paint come in, even when the thinner leaks out, don't have any problem. Hmmm, kinda weird.

Wow, all this info is really helpful! One of the reasons I asked in the first place was because the paint did seem to go on thicker than it did for Pat in the course videos. I assumed it was my newbie inexperience causing the difference. (Of course we still won't discount that entirely! lol) For course #2 the premixed blush was thicker than I expected.

Next I had mixed the regular paints to do my second Zoe and she came out chalky so I figured I mixed it too thick. I ordered the new premixed flesh tone and stripped Zoe with acetone and applied the new paint. The premixed came out a bit chalky this time too, so before heat setting the paint I pounced with a clean wedge with thinner on it which took off most of the chalkiness. If not for all of your info I would not have known I could thin the new paint. Wheew! I did not want to have to start her a third time.

In course #3 Pat mixes the internal wash with thinner in a plastic squirt bottle. I bought a similar bottle in the art supply section in Hobby Lobby. Do you know if the Secrist squirt bottle is a special plastic like the pettite paint plastic containers or will my bottle from Hobby Lobby be alright?

If they are the mini pots of paint, they have a glass cyrcle inside the plastic lid rim, this is where thw paint leaks from. But do as the others have suggested or maybe email admin. I got mine from an Australian dealer, so I didn't worry. XXXX June.

Yes, thanks. I had already read the other threads about the chalkies. Today I got my new flat glass pallette. I think that will really help me get the paints thinner.