Where do you purchase your beauty products the most? Department stores (e.g. Nordstrom, Macys), specialty stores (e.g. Sephora), online, or brand-specific (e.g. Kiehl’s, MAC)?
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Nordstrom or brand-specific, usually!
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I buy most of my make-up at my local department store, Douglas or Sephora and I always buy mineral make-up online.
In the UK I go to places like Selfridges or Debenhams (:
Nordstrom, Sephora, and Ulta (either online or at the store). I also buy Clinique at my local Navy Exchange, because everything there is discounted for military families! 🙂
Most of the time i’m in sephora, macy’s, mac or ulta.
Sephora, Marionnaud, MAC, sometimes Printemps.
Sephora (I just discovered and one is opening in my city this fall!!!) department store and drugstore.
Online, for sure
Department store and the drug store. Department has both mac and clinique. My fav
Brand-specific or online. Sometimes specialty stores (for high end).
on line, brand specific, department stores, drugstore and/or sephora.
i usually only buy makeup from MAC or sephora…drug store brands dont really work well for me…I only buy from MAC dillards or macys when my MAC store is sold out.
Here in Montréal, we only have 2 good department stores who only carried luxury brands. We dont have a Sephora near, it is outside the city. We have one MAC store where i buy most of my stuff. It is sad that most of the good brands online dont ship to Québec or even Canada. And when they do, the shipping rate is outrageously high.
I live in Laval and in the Carrefour Laval, there’s a MAC store, The Bay (they have product like Too Faced that you can’t find everywhere) and a Sephora (fall 2009) so I’m quite lucky I have everyting in one place.
Pharmaprix (Shoppers Drug Mart for the rest of Canada) and it’s new franchise Murale are the Best!
As for Sephora it is a bit dispointing I’ve been a couple time in Point-Claire and the store wasn’t well keet up (bad managing I guess)
I buy 95% M.A.C so I go to either the Pro store here in NYC or the M.A.C free standing store that’s across the street from M.A.C Pro.
Same here Diedre, I go to the exact same stores! Other than MAC I purchase from Sephora and other brand specific stores such as l’occitane, Bare Escentuals and Origins. Occasionally I but from department stores or the drugstores.
MAC stores (free standing or at the Bay if I want HBC points), Sephora, online and Shoppers Drug Mart
sephora stores, mac stores, and mac online when things are sold out (but I don’t like that as it takes forever and I don’t love the website’s design)
Nordstroms,Sephora,Ulta or Cosmetic Company!
Sephora and Mac
MAC, Sephora, and Target for the drugstore stuff
Either Selfridges, Debenhams or Boots (Superdrug for High Street Brands) and then online if I definately know I want the product and don’t need to test colours.
Mostly online since it’s cheaper than in-store 🙂
Sephora, MAC and online.
usually at a macy’s or mac store
mostly Saks or Henri Bendel, and on occasion Barneys.
The Bay, and when I go to the States Sephora and Macy’s
I USUALLY BUY MY MAC FROM MACY’S AND SOMETIMES FROM THE MAC STORE
I usually buy my stuff from Sephora. I occasionally go to the MAC counter in Macy’s to pick up my Liquidlast liner.
Sephora, online for mineral makeup and Mac store
online followed close second by brand specific and department stores
Mac, Sephora, Ulta, CCO, Online… I’m all over the place!
Sephora or drugstore!
I buy them from all sorts of stores but for the most part I either go to MAC or Sephora.
i have a credit card with macys so i make it to a point that it’s my card to use for health and beauty products only!
Macy’s, Nordstrom, Ulta, Sephora, or Target!
Sephora, MAC, Macy’s, Nordstrom, QVC and drug stores.
Mostly Nordstrom or MAC online.
MAC pro, The Bay, Sears, London Drugs and Shoppers Drug Mart
MAC, Ulta, Target, and drugstores.
MAC Sephora and Nordstrom, in that order :).
MAC (yea for 4 The Bay counters & 3 stores w/ in a half hr driving distance!), Sephora, Shoppers Drug Mart, and just about anywhere else that sells makeup!
Usually online and at Sephora!
I buy a lot of make up on eBay, also Boots (I have their Advantage Card and get points), Superdrug (usually GOSH brushes as they’re great), Debenhams (have their Beauty Bonus card)and Mac from either online, Bentalls or House of Frazer (department stores).
Nordstrom, Barneys, Sephora
Sephora or MAC
Mostly Sephora because there are a lot near me lol.
The Bay & Sephora
The Bay and Walmart (because it’s always cheaper than shoppers drug mart) but never online because shipping to Canada is ridiculously expensive.
Walmart, Happy Harry’s, and Rite Aid for me.
Mac cosmetics or sephora
99% of my stuff I buy online – different online shops, specktra, etc. I also go to Sephora but that’s like once a year because Sephora is 300km away so I go there only when I’m staying at my bf’s (that’s more often but I don’t have the need to go often to Sephora).
I prefer more online shopping although I like to swatch some stuff and so but many stuff we don’t have here that I’m buying online. 🙁