Big News!!!
My small town just got its first dedicated beauty store. I have been waiting for the day that Sally Beauty Supply opened here. About a month and a half ago it was confirmed (I say confirmed because rumors of new stores run rampant in this town) that Sally Beauty Supply was opening and I was beyond excited. I began to stalk the Sally Beauty Supply website (which you can visit here) to see what was going to be possibly sold in this store and if it was going to be some place I would want to shop at.
First thing I saw was China Glaze and Orly nail polish. Now I don't really need any more nail polish but I have never been able to look at China Glaze or Orly nail polishes. I mean I can look them up online or watch YouTube videos but that very rarely gives you a true life color. I have had my eye on a few that might work but I just don't want to take the plunge and buy them online and be disappointed when they show up. Also all the options for nail art. Here all that I can get my hands on you can find at Walmart, Kmart, and Walgreens, which means limited selection and not much more than nail art stickers that really don't last.
So finally the store opens. I get my Mom to go with me since they might have something she wants. I'm so excited, kind of like a kid in a candy store, I get to the store and huge let down. First thing when you walk in is false eyelashes, only thing they don't sell the ones I like. They have some I might try however. They don't have any of the Orly nail polish in and the China Glaze that they did have was not the colors I have been wanting. So I walked around looking at a little of everything. I did like the fact that I can get all the stuff to do great artificial nails, meaning that I have more choice than just the nail kits at the drug store. I have always preferred to do my own because I can do them for much cheaper than at a salon and if I can do them why not save some money, most of the time I end up ripping them off a week later (yes I know that isn't good for your nails but I have very crappy nails anyway).
So we walk around a bit more and really they don't sell much of anything I would use. Not saying that they have bad stuff I just don't need hair extensions and I don't know how to use salon strength hair dye (I do plan to see if I can figure this out because I have just become obsessed with ombre hair and it would be nice if I could get closer to the color I want) and I just don't need most of what they sell.
I did pick up a few things that I think fit my needs:
So finally the store opens. I get my Mom to go with me since they might have something she wants. I'm so excited, kind of like a kid in a candy store, I get to the store and huge let down. First thing when you walk in is false eyelashes, only thing they don't sell the ones I like. They have some I might try however. They don't have any of the Orly nail polish in and the China Glaze that they did have was not the colors I have been wanting. So I walked around looking at a little of everything. I did like the fact that I can get all the stuff to do great artificial nails, meaning that I have more choice than just the nail kits at the drug store. I have always preferred to do my own because I can do them for much cheaper than at a salon and if I can do them why not save some money, most of the time I end up ripping them off a week later (yes I know that isn't good for your nails but I have very crappy nails anyway).
So we walk around a bit more and really they don't sell much of anything I would use. Not saying that they have bad stuff I just don't need hair extensions and I don't know how to use salon strength hair dye (I do plan to see if I can figure this out because I have just become obsessed with ombre hair and it would be nice if I could get closer to the color I want) and I just don't need most of what they sell.
I did pick up a few things that I think fit my needs:
Yep nail polish thinner. I have so much nail polish and some of them are on the older side. I figure they are still good just a little thick. This way I can try to save some of my limited edition polishes.
I decided to get these because I have read and heard good things about the Nail Tek line. My nails never seem to grow no matter what I do to them. Once I get a little length they seem to break right off. Hoping this helps with that and if not helps keep my polish from chipping.
The Spornette Big Wonder Tease Brush. A few years back when Birchbox first came on the scene they had a YouTube video about the Spornette Little Tease Brush. Of course I wanted that because I have flat no volume hair. That little guy never really worked for me. When I saw this I though maybe a bigger brush will work. I will have to wait and see.
So these lovely seem like something I could easily fall in love with. Whenever I'm doing my makeup I take a makeup wipe and use that to clean off my brushes as I go along. I just don't like leave a lot of extra left over makeup on my brushes after I'm done. So I figured these might work better than a makeup wipe. I will have to wait and see how these work. Maybe it will be my next holy grail item.
Now just to wait until they get the nail polish in so I can go wild.
(Side note: I went into my local Kmart a few days later and they have decided that my local store is going to start carrying a selected China Glaze and Orly polishes. Not any of the colors that I want but it is nice to see store stepping it up in what they will carry. Even if it is just because they don't want to lose business.)
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