Snag it while you can! The Laura Mercier Beauty Break is now live at ulta.com and free with orders of $60 dollars or more.
These always tend to sell out fast especially when they have full-size items inside. This set has a full-size Real Flawless Luminous Perfecting Finishing Powder as well as deluxe Blush Color Infusion in Ginger, Pure Canvas Primer Hydrating and a Caviar Stick Eyeshadow in Rose Gold.
Enjoy!
Smaller drugstores? That’s apparently the order of business as large chain drugstores like CVS and Walgreens start testing our smaller locations. Apparently, chains are opting to create stores that are one-fourth the size of regular locations to focus more on healthcare and pharmacy needs. In doing so, these chains hope to form a more lasting connection with their customers. I guess the aim is to be more like your smaller, local mom and pop pharmacy. According to reports Walgreens could close a “significant portion” of their underperforming stores in the next few years plus chains like Rite Aid have already filed for bankruptcy. The writing has always been on the wall for these chains in my opinion when taking into cheaper alternatives like Amazon, Walmart, and Target. It’s just too expensive to purchase personal care items like makeup, shampoo, and even deo at Walgreens or CVS.
Not only are chains like Walgreens and CVS dealing with fierce competition from places like Amazon but also, they are dealing with huge theft issues. Apparently Walgreens has even opened digital kiosks in some cities like Chicago where you place an online order and pick it up at the kiosk. Not to mention Walgreens has already opened 100 mini drugstores focused on health and they plan on opening more of these mini locations in the future. The stores normally have four aisles and a pharmacy at the back with very limited staff as the store doesn’t require a larger team of people to run it.
Long gone are the days will the days be when you can walk into a drugstore and grab a gift card, greeting card, carton of milk, your z-pack, and a pack of M&Ms. These new locations will focus more on health and less on beauty, personal care, and other items. In ten or twenty years, will the drugstore go the way of the CD? The DVD? The cassette tape? Will we tell our kids that their used to be huge drugstores where you could buy an array of makeup, greeting cards, eggs, milk, candy, and drugs all at one location? Will they be amazed by such an idea?
I don’t think I’ll miss drugstores! Will you?
I’ve always been a huge fan of Lush Cosmetics and I still am on some levels. It’s expensive (especially in recent years) but it’s always been a significant part of my bath and body routine and years and years ago it was part of my skincare routine as well. I’ve since stopped using a lot of their skincare because as you get older you become wiser and realize not everything is good for your skin as you believed it to be. I got a little smarter about what I was putting on my skin and realized Lush Cosmetics wasn’t really a great pick when it came to skincare. But I was still very much a fan of their shower gels, shampoos, soaps, bubble bars, etc…!
I used to love to shop on the Lush UK website but they sadly no longer ship to the USA. I’m not a big Lush store girl for a few reasons, one of which is how aggressive the sales reps have become. Years and years ago it wasn’t nearly as awful as it is now. But the past several years they’ve literally ruined the entire experience of shopping at a store. They are way too pushy, even when kindly saying, “Thanks, I’ll let you know if I need anything!” They just come at you so forcefully. “Oh you have this shower gel in your cart you need to try this product too as they smell the same!” “Oh, try this on your skin. It feels amazing!” “Oh you really need to check out our gift boxes!” “Oh this new and it’s a must!” It’s just an endless stream of pushiness to a point you get a migraine within minutes of walking in the door. There is no peace when shopping at a physical store. The other thing I never really liked about Lush stores is the fact the soaps, bombs, bubble bars, and a few other items are all “naked” with no packaging. Lush stores always have a ton of foot traffic be from curious new shoppers or seasoned veterans. That means everyone is touching everything and so are their kids and teenagers. I just find it gross that hundreds of people are touching the same bath bomb, sniffing it, and putting it back into the bin for someone else to buy. It just seems disgusting.
So, about 99% of my shopping experience with Lush has been done online and up to a few years ago it’s been an ok experience but as of now I’d go so far as to say Lush shipping sucks.
Ok, Sephora, we like this kind of foundation testing. Sephora has a new Favorites Set and I sort of dig the idea behind this one! It’s the new Sephora Foundation Try-On Sample Bag With Redeemable Voucher. Here’s how it works!
Snag the Sephora Favorites Foundation Try-On Sample Bag With Redeemable Voucher for $10 bucks in a variety of color packs like Rich, Deep, Medium, Light, etc..and inside you’ll find 12 different foundation samples to try out. If you find one to love you’ll get your $10 back on the purchase of the full-size. Nifty right? If you’ve purchased the Kosas Take The Site Home Kit it’s sort of the same thing but way cheaper! I WOULD love to see more brands doing this as it makes it so much easier to try something before you commit to buying a full-size that’s much more expensive. I think it’ll reduce waste as well and returns which can be a real problem for department stores and specialty stores like Sephora!
Here’s the shade selections available for each skin tone!
Foundation Set A – Rich:
Armani Beauty Luminous Silk sample shade 15, 14
Lancôme Teint Idole Glow sample shade 540C, 530W
Lancôme Teint Idole Matte sample shade 535N, 540C, 530W
MAKE UP FOR EVER HD SKIN sample shade 4N78, 4R76, 4N74, 4R72
Saie Glowy Super Skin sample shade 34
Foundation Set B – Deep:
Armani Beauty Luminous Silk sample shade 13.5, 13.25
Lancôme Teint Idole Glow sample shade 515W, 520N, 510N, 505N
Lancôme Teint Idole Matte sample shade 525W, 520W
MAKE UP FOR EVER HD SKIN sample shade 4Y70, 4N68
Saie Glowy Super Skin sample shade 31, 32
Foundation Set C – Tan:
Armani Beauty sample shade 8.75, 8.5
Lancôme Teint Idole Glow sample shade 455W, 445N
Lancôme Teint Idole Matte sample shade 450W, 440N, 445N
MAKE UP FOR EVER HD SKIN sample shade 3N54, 3Y56, 3R58
Saie Glowy Super Skin sample shade 26, 27
Foundation Set D – Medium Tan:
Armani Beauty Luminous Silk sample shade 7.8, 8, 7
Lancôme Teint Idole Glow sample shade 425C, 430C
Lancôme Teint Idole Matte sample shade 420W, 425C
MAKE UP FOR EVER HD SKIN sample shade 3N48, 3R50, 3N42
Saie Glowy Super Skin sample shade 19, 21
Foundation Set E – Medium:
Armani Beauty Luminous Silk sample shade 6.5, 6.25, 6, 5.8
Lancôme Teint Idole Glow sample shade 355N, 400W
Lancôme Teint Idole Matte sample shade 340W
MAKE UP FOR EVER HD SKIN sample shade 2Y30, 2Y32, 2Y36
Saie Glowy Super Skin sample shade 16, 18
Foundation Set F – Light Medium:
Armani Beauty Luminous Silk sample shade 5.2, 5.25, 5.75
Lancôme Teint Idole Glow sample shade 320C, 310N
Lancôme Teint Idole Matte sample shade 305N, 335W*, 250W
MAKE UP FOR EVER HD SKIN sample shade 2N22, 2Y20*
Saie Glowy Super Skin sample shade 7, 10
Foundation Set G – Light:
Armani Beauty Luminous Silk sample shade 4, 4.25, 4.5
Lancôme Teint Idole Glow sample shade 220C
Lancôme Teint Idole Matte sample shade 135N, 215C, 205C
MAKE UP FOR EVER HD SKIN sample shade 1R12, 1N10, 1N14
Saie Glowy Super Skin sample shade 4, 5
Foundation Set H – Fair Light/Fair:
Armani Beauty Luminous Silk sample shade 3, 3.75, 1.5
Lancôme Teint Idole Glow sample shade 110C, 120N, 125W
Lancôme Teint Idole Matte sample shade 100W, 115C
MAKE UP FOR EVER HD SKIN sample shade 1N00, 1R02
Saie Glowy Super Skin sample shade 1, 3
Sephora Favorites Foundation Try-On Sample Bag With Redeemable Voucher is available now! What do you think of this cool idea?
Lucky enough Ulta is celebrating National Lipstick Day all week long! The sale ends shortly so be sure to grab some of my favs before the sale is over 🙁