Do you prefer to shop in store or online?
Online! I am such a homebody, lol!
— Christine
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Definitely in-store. I like being able to swatch products. I like interaction with a knowledgeable sales associate. And I love the instant gratification of leaving with product in hand.
Are we separated at birth? My comments are almost identical to yours.
I agree with you, Seraphine! This is one of the most enjoyable aspects of purchasing cosmetics, skincare, fragrances, and heck, even clothing!
Definitely online the only con is that online you don’t get to try much you don’t get as many samples as if you visited a Macy’s beauty counter or any beauty brand representative that makes me try more and buy more
I enjoy both, but I confess I sometimes get overwhelmed when I go to the store. Then again, the are brands that are only available on line and I would love to drop into Sephora’s or some other place near me to near me to purchase or see the product.
I love shopping in store, like to see in person what i am buying.
Me too! It is more time consuming to shop in person in so many ways, and I hate it when sales people follow me and act pushy. I like that I can browse products online, read up on reviews before purchasing at your own pace.
I love shopping online, but many things I need to swatch in store. Expensive things I rarely buy without trying in person.
I hate shopping in stores for makeup. It’s feast or famine. Department store makeup counters are a barren post-apocalyptic wasteland where no help exists. Or it’s a Sephora in the middle of some customer service directive prompting salespeople to hassle me every minute or two as I browse. I walk away from both experiences extremely annoyed—without purchasing.
No doubt about it – in person all the way. I’m all about instant gratification; when I see something I like enough to buy it, I want it right away. Also, I spend a lot on cosmetics and skin care and I like to try/swath before I fork over my money.
I prefer to shop online, I don’t have the pressure of buying products immediately, I can get cash back or search coupons more easily, I save time not going to stores.
But I still prefer to periodically visit the stores just from browsing… sometimes I really need to swatch a product to see if it’s what I really want.
When I lived across town in Old Town Scottsdale, I had access to a Neighborhood Trolley bus that connected me to both the Scottsdale Fashion Square, plus other neighborhood and Tempe Orbit Buses, and so I really enjoyed going out to the all the beauty (and clothing) stores in person!
Unfortunately, over here, all I have are the Valley Metro buses, and it takes two of those in order to get literally ANYWHERE now.
I would much rather go in person, but now that is just a big hassle, so now I do almost everything online out of necessity.
Online. I’m busy. I also have back pain from an old car accident injury, so some days I can’t walk around much. I don’t have to drive two or three towns over. I don’t have to deal with people. There’s less temptation to impulse buy.
I just love your “I don’t have to deal with people.” I feel that way so often.
Generally, I do prefer to shop instore, but living here in Aus we don’t get either the brands I am after or only a limited collection from them, so I am forced to shop online for the products that have caught my attention. There is nothing like seeing something you’ve really liked here on this blog in the shop so you can swatch it yourself.
Definitely online. I’d be fine with in-store except for the decimated state of testers and customer service being hit or miss. Seems to be better stock online anyway.
Before I moved from a city that had loads of makeup stores and department stores I would have said in store. I really loved going to any of the stores to browse, to swatch, to talk and more often than not going home with a little, and sometimes a huge bag filled with goodies.
Now the closest Sephora is about 150kilometers away, we have a very small local store only 45 km away but I’ve not been there since before covid came along. So these days it’s on line absolutely. Besides I now like so many indie brands and these I have to buy online anyway so. Online it is.
I used to love shopping in store for things like lip products, but I can’t trust people to be vaccinated and not selfish and so I do it all online now. I have terrible social anxiety and was just starting to get over it, and I hate that that was taken away from me.
When I was younger I could spend all day shopping. Now with a little bit of a back problem walking those tiled concrete floors has my back throbbing in no time. I love to swatch and actually see the products before I purchase but it’s more time efficient to shop online, I think I actually save money from not going into the stores, pretty things catch my eye and end up in my bag whereas that doesn’t happen online.
I prefer shopping in store. I like to see and swatch in person the products that interest me.
In store if I’m trying something out for the first time, and online for things I use regularly.