I love this store and the people that worked the day I was there-…read more
I had never been to Charleston before, my friend drove us down (visiting from Chicago) and once we parked and took a couple steps there in front of me was Cos Bar-I could vaguely see "Armani" from inside and I knew I had to go in-The store is a scaled down Sephora, boutique with select lines, but good lines; Cle de Peau, Sisley, Yves Saint Laurent, Armani, Dior, Trish, NARS etc. As well skincare lines, perfumes, polishes etc.
I had gotten a new shade of the Armani Luminous Silk foundation before my South Carolina trip, yet every time I'd look in the mirror of my rental car all I saw was an orange face, I looked bad-As well I kept getting these painful bumps on my forehead and hairline, so not normal for me-
I just wanted to wash my face and start over that day and I decided to ask if I could do just that, wash my face and someone make me over-The manager on site that day said I could, I just needed to buy 3 items, which has been the easiest task of my life thus far-The manager asked what I was using to wash my face and I told him La Mer and he let me grab the testing items and go into the bathroom and wash away-
Came out bare faced and the fun began-I was told that Cle de Peau would be really good for me, so I sat down and an artist named Shawn started on me-Very nice guy and worked his brush magic on me, he wouldn't have let me walked out with something that did not match my skin-Side note, this is the best foundation I have ever used and I'm a makeup whore so I have tried pretty much every product you can throw at me-
Next I sat with Cameron Eubanks, yep, the girl from Real World: San Diego and Southern Charm and she applied bronzer and blush-Love the bronzer, I'm a makeup snob so I never use the Trish line, never really appealed to me, but the bronzer works for my skin tone-Used the face fabric clicky pen for blush and loved that product-
Then I had the new Yves Saint Laurent Leather Fetish eye quad used on me and loved that as well, that is what I wanted on me in the first place so happy to get a softy smokey eye applied-
I walked away with the products they used on me and Shawn was awesome and gave me 2 samples of the Cle de Peau skincare products-Still testing out and thinking of buying in the future-
There is something about this store, it's smaller than Sephora, but feels clean, is clean and there are not annoying SA's that make you feel like you don't' know what a lipstick is-They know what they are talking about there and it was awesome to see they had Fall collections in the store-
I seriously wish I could somehow work at a Cos Bar, possibly corporate b/c I love the store that much-
If you are in the area stop in, they took care of me and Cameron was so sweet while I was a psycho fan and freaked out over her putting makeup on me-Sorry, just a sucker for reality shows!