Sunday, February 27, 2011
Red Carpet Heaven :-)
Sorry I've been in hardcore mommy mode for the last couple of weeks... I will get myself back on track... Hope everyone is enjoying awards season... Tonight is up... Loving the red carpet... Will catch up this week... PROMISE~~xo P
Monday, February 7, 2011
I LOVE MY JOB!
I have no idea how it happened, but over the past few years, friends and family have turned to me for fashion/beauty advice. I love every question I'm asked and want everyone to know I am so flattered that anyone feels as though me or my style are trustworthy enough to ask for advice. Keep the questions coming, after I that was the point of this blog! I love to answer them... whether its here, email, text or facebook, I'm happy to help!!! Thank you all 14 of you who read my blog!! :-) My shopping is my "work" as I call it... I love every minute of it!!!! xo
Saturday, February 5, 2011
tempted to temptu....
HI... I've been so bad this week...sorry, I've hardly been online...tough week as mommy! But I'm back and have a very interesting story for you all ....
I ran out of foundation this week. I'm a Chanel girl, have used the same makeup for a couple of years, I switch off with bare minerals in the summer. One thing about me, I'm very simple with my makeup, same eyeliner since the 90's, love bronzer, and blush...total Nars girl, and nude lips, I don't go out of this "box" much. I decided to go to Sephora. LOVE Sephora...its like a toy store for me. I love makeup and although I'm boring I love to buy it all! I wanted the "Temptu airbrush makeup system"... I knew it was around $200 and I'd thought it through so I decided to go bite the bullet. I walked in completely make-up free.... fresh faced (or not so much), I hardly got a "hi"... hmmmm I thought. I'm here to buy one of the most expensive things in the store and i hardly get a"hi"...had I been decked out in makeup they would have been all over me. This PISSES ME OFF!!!!!! This was a "Pretty Woman" moment!!! So I approach whom I later found out was the manager. She was all done up and I asked about the system which was placed right in the front of the store. She said "Tiffany" would do a demo on me... I told her I was between that and another brand of foundation. So Tiffany comes over starts the demo... it was really so cool, a machine to put my makeup on! WOW!!! She finishes and I get up to look in the mirror and was like, "No, I know me, this isn't my look"...very pale and ghostly... so she sits me back down puts bronzer on with the machine... etc... still not good. I say to Tiffany that I need to move on to other foundation options...we start and she gets me a basket and I'm shopping away... 2 glosses, a primer set, foundation, a Nars boxed set, and a lash set. I'm in makeup heaven and completely buying "me"...my style... but totally not what I came in for. At this point Tiffany is awesome...she is enjoying helping me "think out of the box" and I'm enjoying the whole experience minus my sickly pale face!!! About 20 minutes into my shopping the manager rejoins us and tells me how "beautiful" I look.... BAHHHHHAAAAHAAAA.... I tell her no, its not for me and she literally put her hands over her mouth and was like "WHAT?"... i said "yeah, i know me and its not for me".... she was SO mad. I said to Tiffany, "Is she mad at me?" She said, "no, shes mad at me... I probably didn't do a good demo"....this whole thing was insane. I spent the same amount anyway and she was glaring at Tiffany for helping me so long. WHAT??? The moral of the story is, its makeup... why stress?? Its such a fun thing...the store was empty, the sales girl was amazing and her manager was so mad that she was helping me and so mad that I didn't buy the Temptu.... insanity... I spent my life in retail stressing over sweaters... If I could go back in time I would have done a much better job if I enjoyed what I did and didn't worry so much about "corporate visits and numbers"... that would have been easy if they let us do what we loved... This manager at Sephora was so brainwashed and stressed it actually broke my heart... I was there.
My point.... If you go to Sephora in King of Prussia...ask for Tiffany...she is so talented and amazing.... and don't sweat the small stuff.... life's too short... also if you decide to be a vampire for Halloween?! Get the Temptu...it will be perfect!! :-)
I ran out of foundation this week. I'm a Chanel girl, have used the same makeup for a couple of years, I switch off with bare minerals in the summer. One thing about me, I'm very simple with my makeup, same eyeliner since the 90's, love bronzer, and blush...total Nars girl, and nude lips, I don't go out of this "box" much. I decided to go to Sephora. LOVE Sephora...its like a toy store for me. I love makeup and although I'm boring I love to buy it all! I wanted the "Temptu airbrush makeup system"... I knew it was around $200 and I'd thought it through so I decided to go bite the bullet. I walked in completely make-up free.... fresh faced (or not so much), I hardly got a "hi"... hmmmm I thought. I'm here to buy one of the most expensive things in the store and i hardly get a"hi"...had I been decked out in makeup they would have been all over me. This PISSES ME OFF!!!!!! This was a "Pretty Woman" moment!!! So I approach whom I later found out was the manager. She was all done up and I asked about the system which was placed right in the front of the store. She said "Tiffany" would do a demo on me... I told her I was between that and another brand of foundation. So Tiffany comes over starts the demo... it was really so cool, a machine to put my makeup on! WOW!!! She finishes and I get up to look in the mirror and was like, "No, I know me, this isn't my look"...very pale and ghostly... so she sits me back down puts bronzer on with the machine... etc... still not good. I say to Tiffany that I need to move on to other foundation options...we start and she gets me a basket and I'm shopping away... 2 glosses, a primer set, foundation, a Nars boxed set, and a lash set. I'm in makeup heaven and completely buying "me"...my style... but totally not what I came in for. At this point Tiffany is awesome...she is enjoying helping me "think out of the box" and I'm enjoying the whole experience minus my sickly pale face!!! About 20 minutes into my shopping the manager rejoins us and tells me how "beautiful" I look.... BAHHHHHAAAAHAAAA.... I tell her no, its not for me and she literally put her hands over her mouth and was like "WHAT?"... i said "yeah, i know me and its not for me".... she was SO mad. I said to Tiffany, "Is she mad at me?" She said, "no, shes mad at me... I probably didn't do a good demo"....this whole thing was insane. I spent the same amount anyway and she was glaring at Tiffany for helping me so long. WHAT??? The moral of the story is, its makeup... why stress?? Its such a fun thing...the store was empty, the sales girl was amazing and her manager was so mad that she was helping me and so mad that I didn't buy the Temptu.... insanity... I spent my life in retail stressing over sweaters... If I could go back in time I would have done a much better job if I enjoyed what I did and didn't worry so much about "corporate visits and numbers"... that would have been easy if they let us do what we loved... This manager at Sephora was so brainwashed and stressed it actually broke my heart... I was there.
My point.... If you go to Sephora in King of Prussia...ask for Tiffany...she is so talented and amazing.... and don't sweat the small stuff.... life's too short... also if you decide to be a vampire for Halloween?! Get the Temptu...it will be perfect!! :-)
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