Beauty confession time….
I was thinking about my many a trip and adventure through Sephora this morning. I noticed that every single time I hit up the mall or I walk past Time Square or 34th, I can’t pass a Sephora without walking in for a little lookiee. I wonder if this means I need some sort of intervention or worst therapy?
Picture the Muse laying on some shrink’s couch telling them, “Well it’s like this Doc, I can’t seem to pass by a Sephora without walking inside, it’s a compulsion of mine!”
Worst yet…I think I’m one of those people that hangs out at Sephora! GASP!
Jump!
Yesterday was a super long day at my office and completely stressful! I passed by Sephora on my way home and of course, as always, I had to compulsively go inside to have a peek.
Much to my horror I realized I was being all creepy and just hanging out at Sephora. Swatching, looking, playing..but NOT buying! Gasp! Nothing really tickled me and I think the MA’s got the disturbing vibe from me as they started following me around like I was going to snatch a used lipstick at any moment and make a mad run for it.
The funny thing is I didn’t even mind them following me around and I was just in my own little world, de-stressing. I casually glanced down at my watch and realized I spent near 90 minutes walking around Sephora.
OMG!
Does this mean I hang out at Sephora?!
How many times had I done this in the past….
Total Beauty Confession but it’s happened more times than I like to admit.
Eep!
Go on, confess, how long have you hung out at your local Sephora without really buying anything…?
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Yep, I can totally picture this topic being on the next episode of Intervention on A&E. I also can’t leave the mall with out stopping in at Sephora. I can walk around and around the displays and look at everything in the store and I am totally content without buying anything. Just being in the store is good enough for me. =) I am also like this in Lush stores.
LOL Jackie me too! I spent near 90 minutes just looking and not buying a single thing…after I left I felt so much better! It was like having a massage LOL!!
Luckily (or unluckily, depending on how you look at it) for me, I don’t have a Sephora nearby… I do spend a lot of time browsing the website though.
LOL jonnie I do too, too much time
I do it all of the time. The embarrassing part is that they all recognize me and chat. I really just want to go in and check out the new sparkly stuff without having to talk about it. In Baltimore, we only have 1 Sephora (there is one is a town about 25 miles away also), so it’s not like I can switch up which store to visit. My husband refuses to go to the mall with me because he knows we will end up in Sephora for no less than 45 minutes each time we walk by.
hey kelly lol same here. I HATE when they recognize me. I feel really diseased when that happens. Worst yet…I got to several different stores and EVERYONE in EVERY STORE recongizes me LOL!
haha your poor hub!
eek – i think we have the same problem?! everytime i pass by a sephora i tell myself i don’t NEED anything but once i pass the door handles i find myself reaching to open the door. tell myself – “OH let’s just see what’s new” we might have to go the same Doc …..
winnie we’ll be ok! we can get through this together
hahahahaha omg your so funny!
lol vanessa
Love this post. I can totally relate. People recognize me too at various makeup aisles. It’s funny yet sometimes a little embarassing when I’m with other people. An intervention is clearly needed on my end too.
michelle isn’t it weird when people recognize you? I totally feel strange when I get that smile that says “I know you, you were here last night and the night before!” Sometimes I also feel people staring at me and I’m horrified to think maybe just maybe they know me from the Internetz! LOL
Wow…I love to stop in beauty stores like sephora and look everything, try the stuffs without worry about time…its an awsome therapy…I think we can get great ideas…and sometimes I break my concentration with other people passing around me with “that” make that I already tried! Its funny too that sometimes we know so much more then the people that works there….I think I’m crazy…but I like these stuffs…rsrsrs…
Btw…I’d love to find you at sephora!!!lol….lots to talk…lol….LOV MUSE!!
LOL Sonia I agree. It’s a great place to get ideas and just meditate a bit
LOL!!!!!!! I’d totally chat you up at Sephora Sonia 
We can have them set up a table so we can have coffee amidst the makeup! hehe!
haha hun you are the cutest! if i had sephora here i would have done the same. once on a trip to paris with my boyfriend i spent more than an hour at sephora! i loved it though! just swatching and looking around. i agree i hated the MAs that followed me around! :p
LOL aretha
glad I’m not alone in my hour long expeditions at Sephora 
I hate MA’s following me about 
but I try to ignore them 
sephora-holic!!! tsk tsk tsk. I am the total opposite….I am addicted to online shops even though I hate window shopping but I do it online :/…and once my paycheck is in my hand then I get to shopping. It’s really a terrible habit and I think majority if not all woman have this habit…it’s bad for our wallets…but we just want to look pretty, feel pretty, be pretty…and find cosmetics, products…and other goodies…to help us with. But who says I need a doc…:D
haha suz!
I admit I do lots of my shopping online too! absolutely! Not only fee pretty/look pretty but also OWN lots of pretty things LOL!
Oh good, sounds like I am normal
I do not have a Sephora, but for a while I did this hanging out at MAC and just was browsing around, chatting with the MAs.
My theory is that a total change of scenery helps you de-stress
Dunno, but it really is calming, especially the not buying part
LOL Nia
Oh thankfully I don’t do that at MAC the MA’s scare me too much to attempt it LOL! 
it really is. it’s kinda like meditation! LOL or medication maybe LOL!
Psh I don’t even deny it! I know if I’m going to a mall I’ll be gong to a sephora haha! And I can’t help but spend 90 mjns before I buy something, there’s so many choices and so many things to look at thanks to the muse!
LOL Hailee I’m sometimes in denial
hehe awww shucks thanks
I feel so honored I cause your woes 
ha!
Hahaha! Hilarious!! But I must admit, I do the same thing!! I swatch around and play and later on realize that quite “some” time have passed and I haven’t really decided if I wanted to get anything. This happens when I just wanna see if there’s something new. And funny part is, people start to recognize you! Hahaha. Like at my local nordies, counter managers already know me by name and even have my number on their list and call me whenever they have something new..They know my addic…eek…passion
hahah But sometimes it feels weird though when I go to the stores and start saying hi almost to everyone. LOL
LOL K metoo
SAME here for Nordie’s so scary 
I used to have a girl, Susan, who called me from Saks whenever the new Givenchy stuff was out LOL! I feel the same way…it’s both weird and nice!!!!!!!
I would totally do that if I lived near a Sephora. It probably isn’t as creepy logging into their website just to look at all the new products available. I also wander around bookstores, looking at books and journals, and wondering if I should buy anything. Most of the time I buy something, whether I need it or not. (I can always justify buying a new lipstick/lipgloss or hand lotion.)
Don’t the MAs at the Sephora you stopped by recognize you? I’m assume you do wander into Sephora on your way home and buy gobs of things every once in awhile.
OMG kate me and you both! I have a kindle but I still love the smell of books so I always go to the book store to unwind, have a cup of tea, and just read (on my kindle LOL they must hate me!)! MA’s dont always recognize me as I do alot of online ordering not so much in store
Counter girls def know me as I spend a heap at counters but Sephora I end up buying online most of the time dunno why?!
Oh god, I think I do this too, but not for as long as 90 minutes! xD You beat me there, muse. I go there with my friends sometimes, and we walk around, talk and swatch things. It’s a great destresser!
And… I don’t mind when the MAs follow me about. But when they rearrange everything I’ve just touched, it’s very irritating. Though I can’t help but wonder how many people actually walk in there to snag a tester?!
LOL Ceriene bet you did 90 mins and never realized it! LOL! I go with my best friend Jai and we can stay for hours swatching, talking, etc…he’s probably one of my only friends that is as into makeup as I am
God…ya…I feel like I have a disease that they have to wipe stuff down and rearrange it and stuff after I touched it. GRRR!
I would love to just hang out at Sephora (closest one 1000 km away in another country) after ar stressfull day at work! It sounds perfectly sane to me =) It’s like some kind of meditiation, or like going to ones church or temple =)
LOL exactly kerstin!
We don’t have sephora in NZ, but I compulsively look at the cosmetics department of department stores / pharmacies, I cannot pass one without going in. So every time we walk past one, the SO has to tug my arm a few stores ahead to make sure I don’t go in. But I browse online often enough which he can’t stop me lol.
omg me too marcy same here. If can’t go into a department store without stopping into the beauty section
LOL you can stick your tongue out and say nanner, nanner!
I do the same thing! I call it getting my fix, even if I don’t buy anything I just soak it all in, touch , feel, smell.
hehe emily! me too
It’s a joy!
OMG….so I’m not alone in this world. I totally do that all the time. I also hate when the MA recognize me and follow me around like every steps… It’s surprising that I can spent 2 hours in the beauty department/store without loosing my concentration, I only last about 15 minutes in class LOL…. love muse… you’re the cutest..
god liz hate when they follow me
LOL I’m the same! Totally break concentration during work but can concentrate for hours on makeup!
hehe aw thanks *hugs*
It’s cos-medication Muse and we all need some!
LOL robin