Fashion Square Updates with Sephora
October 28th 2008 by Kelly in Charlottesville
Sephora is open! I like Sephora, I can’t think of a non-chain where women buy makeup (Clinque, Maybelline, MAC…) so even though it’s a chain, it’s a fun place to get makeup. Sephora has a little of everything to make you prettier, smell nice, and your skin healthier, very unCharlottesville if you ask me. There is one side for girl products(and the whole middle of the store) but the men have one side of the store too, and it’s a big store. They have every cologne and perfume you can think of and an assortment of body washes, lotions, body butter, and scrubs. Then they have a ton of makeup and tools to fix you up.
Sephora is one of those stores that you can spend a lot of time in because there are so many things to look at and try. I was getting really annoyed yesterday when I went in to check it out because the employees wouldn’t just let me wander. Every time I walked to a new area to look at something another employee would pester me and try to sell me on the products. I would rather just look for myself, and if I need help I’ll definitely ask. If you ever watch infomercials at night, you will see some of the products at Sephora (bare minerals, Coloron Eye Envy, GoSmile Teeth Whiting), that’s why it’s fun to wander because you can check all these things out and read about them. Sephora has a lot of kits to show you how to apply makeup or use a particular makeup brush or tool.
October 28th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
I have seen those Bare Minerals infomercials. It’s a pretty big difference from the before and after pictures. I included their website below, you can click on the pictures on the left and see the before and after of each of the girls. I bought it, I think it’s great makeup but it would have been nice to test it out in the store. http://www.bareminerals.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-BareMinerals-Site/default/RealResults-Select?CustomObjectUUID=bcqYYiaagJgU6aaactXIMU5gcT&SkinShadeCondition=&SkinTypeCondition=&SkinCondition=&SelectedPage=
I didn’t like buying the whole kit, on the Sephora website it looks like you can just buy pieces of it, that makes it easy.
October 28th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
I like Sephora but coming from someone who doesn’t wear makeup, it’s kind of overwhelming. There’s so many different things in there and so many competing brands its hard to pick out which one really is the best. I hate being pestered too- the good thing about the sales people there is that they know what they’re talking about. I have a friend who used to work there and knows everything about every product in the store.