RANDOM THOUGHTS : BEAUTY

[jemly]

this thread has worked hard and deserves a proper rest. please now post in RANDOM THOUGHTS : BEAUTY PART DEUX 

http://community.sephora.com/t5/Beauty-Confessions/RANDOM-THOUGHTS-BEAUTY-PART-DEUX/td-p/2461692

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Ok so I've been wanting to make this thread for a while. I've also been wanting to start a "random thoughts" thread...but I figured I'd separate the categories so that at least the "beauty" one is on the front page, rather than hidden in off topic. So, have a beauty-related thought but don't think it's worth starting a thread about ? Post it here !

today I got a facial at an extraordinarily nice spa. A real treat. And the results were immediate and truly great. But guys: she pulled out a clarisonic and a foamy cleanser for that first initial cleanse, and I nearly had a heart attack. Great for a lot of people but most of you know how I feel about those things !!!!!! Overall, as I said, it was great and my skin is happy. But sheesh.

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SWATCH REQUEST THREAD HERE: http://community.sephora.com/t5/The-Swatch-Board/THE-SWATCH-REQUEST-THREAD/td-p/2223212

(have fun wasting even more time in the...) VINTAGE BEAUTY VIDEOS THREAD !!  http://community.sephora.com/t5/Beauty-Confessions/VINTAGE-BEAUTY-VIDEOS/td-p/1826210

RANDOM BEAUTY FACTS ABOUT YOU THREAD !

http://community.sephora.com/t5/Beauty-Confessions/Random-Beauty-Facts-About-You/td-p/2409264

[Blackwhiskey]

@Lyra vegan that's how my phone auto corrects you. Trad goth maleficent?

[lyravega]

That's hilarious! Lyra vegan! Why your phone hate me? 😄

Goth Maleficent... Interesting idea. Have you ever?

[etscore1]

How the heck do people manage to dredge up threads that are multiple years old and not seem to notice? And don't you dare try to tell me it's via the search bar because we all know full well that nobody who should be using it, does. 

On a related note, a shout out to anyone who was around back in the day of 1SultryScentNut's kooky, off the wall, borderline incoherant, stream of consciousness (?) postings. I enjoyed a trip down memory lane with this one... 

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1SultrySCENTNut 02-16-2014 02:36

I had to lash out like I did at irresponsible, loud, rude, snotty, and obnoxious Sales associates earlier like that because I have seen them, ones I knew for 15 years that treated me like gold, then the next time they saw me , before coming back to ohio, snub me like trash because I was paralyzed from the waiste down and was no longer the high end money hogging Music Exec, that I had been. Lets move to Christmas, 2013, Beechwood Mall, Cleveland, Ohio. I live a TOTALLY different life now, My husband had lost his job at General Motors as a Supervisor due to "cut backs" after being there close to 20 years, right out of highschool. I have learned to walk and they found it a miracle that a doctors group at L.A. Central said I was paralyzed from the waist down and would never walk again.I get to Ohio with my child, I attempt suicide on my birthday....I dont remember much but woke up from a coma, apparently it was a 5 week coma, looking at the television in front of me..Talladega Nights was playing...and start scraming because I didnt know if I was in heaven, heck, or dead. I was alive and suddenly a room full of white coats were trying to prod and poke me, I remember it was dark out and I felt like I had to urinate...SURPRISE...I am not paralyzed! Within months I could walk and I do walk ( it just looks as if I have had a stroke on my left side, except my face is untouched - 1 scar where the top of my lip was ripped in half ) I went out and the bad scars they did their best to cover with plastic surgery are now covered with beautiful tattoos and flesh colored ink so they cant be seen. Anyway, Christmas 2013, My Jeep Commander broke down ( mind you, I have 1/16 of the money I used to make..the guy who caused the accent outside Modesto was on meth, in a stolen semi, had no insurance, and after it was all said and done I walked away with just enough to pay med bills, thank the paramedic who brought me back to life 3 times, and purchase a house in rural ohio where my family originated -there are only a handfull of us left on this earth now...but anyway, I can drive a hand controlled car, my Jeep was being fixed so I had no choice to get out my 1977 trans-am my grandad left me. I parked in the first handicapped spot in front of SAKS  because I wanted to return a pair of Versace Jeans tht were 3 sizes too big. I was wearing my winter boots, Hollister Sweatpants and Hoodie with a black leather biker jacket over my clothes.I had my Medium Black and White Gingham Dooney and Bourke Purse and a Pink Cleveland Browns Cap with my ponytail pulled thru the adjustable back. I walked into Saks and IMMEDIATLY 6 sales associates started following me, I had a SAKS bad, with the jeans and a receipt I wanted to return. I got near a counter and turned around - ALL OF THE SALES ASSOCIATES TURNED AWAY AND PRETENDED TO DO SOMETHING TO SALE ITEMS BY THE REGISTER. I could hear them snickering at me and staring when they thought I was not looking. I asked for assistance and 3 walked away from me like they had not heard me.I headed farther into SAKS, towards the Mens department. I was met at the counter by a man who said Hello, I handed the receipt and jeans and he started to ask me odd questions why I wanted to return them, here he was waiting on a security guard AND a Beechwood,Ohio Police Officer. I told the officer why I was there, I showed him the receipt and jeans, he handed them back to me with the bag and said he was so sorry but I had to leave the store and the mall in general because I "bothered " the Sales Associates. I left in tears, I could tell he was not happy doing his job but had no choice. I drove home , over 3 hours, in tears. I sent them with my friend to a SACKS in Columbus, Ohio to exchange them for me when she got off work as a Highschool English Teacher. I was judged by my clothes, the car - wich is a very beautiful car-and unfirtunatly, my disability. This is whu I am now VERY HARD on associates that do not come off as genuinly nice from the first moment I lay eyes on them or hear their voice.

I appologize for such a rant earlier, but I wanted all you ladies out there to know why. I buy alot of high end items still, why do I always have to look as if I wlked out of a business meeting or salon for a night at SOHO.

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[etscore1]

I had to lash out like I did at irresponsible, loud, rude, snotty, and obnoxious Sales associates earlier like that because I have seen them, ones I knew for 15 years that treated me like gold, then the next time they saw me , before coming back to ohio, snub me like trash because I was paralyzed from the waiste down and was no longer the high end money hogging Music Exec, that I had been. Lets move to Christmas, 2013, Beechwood Mall, Cleveland, Ohio. I live a TOTALLY different life now, My husband had lost his job at General Motors as a Supervisor due to "cut backs" after being there close to 20 years, right out of highschool. I have learned to walk and they found it a miracle that a doctors group at L.A. Central said I was paralyzed from the waist down and would never walk again.I get to Ohio with my child, I attempt suicide on my birthday....I dont remember much but woke up from a coma, apparently it was a 5 week coma, looking at the television in front of me..Talladega Nights was playing...and start scraming because I didnt know if I was in heaven, heck, or dead. I was alive and suddenly a room full of white coats were trying to prod and poke me, I remember it was dark out and I felt like I had to urinate...SURPRISE...I am not paralyzed! Within months I could walk and I do walk ( it just looks as if I have had a stroke on my left side, except my face is untouched - 1 scar where the top of my lip was ripped in half ) I went out and the bad scars they did their best to cover with plastic surgery are now covered with beautiful tattoos and flesh colored ink so they cant be seen. Anyway, Christmas 2013, My Jeep Commander broke down ( mind you, I have 1/16 of the money I used to make..the guy who caused the accent outside Modesto was on meth, in a stolen semi, had no insurance, and after it was all said and done I walked away with just enough to pay med bills, thank the paramedic who brought me back to life 3 times, and purchase a house in rural ohio where my family originated -there are only a handfull of us left on this earth now...but anyway, I can drive a hand controlled car, my Jeep was being fixed so I had no choice to get out my 1977 trans-am my grandad left me. I parked in the first handicapped spot in front of SAKS  because I wanted to return a pair of Versace Jeans tht were 3 sizes too big. I was wearing my winter boots, Hollister Sweatpants and Hoodie with a black leather biker jacket over my clothes.I had my Medium Black and White Gingham Dooney and Bourke Purse and a Pink Cleveland Browns Cap with my ponytail pulled thru the adjustable back. I walked into Saks and IMMEDIATLY 6 sales associates started following me, I had a SAKS bad, with the jeans and a receipt I wanted to return. I got near a counter and turned around - ALL OF THE SALES ASSOCIATES TURNED AWAY AND PRETENDED TO DO SOMETHING TO SALE ITEMS BY THE REGISTER. I could hear them snickering at me and staring when they thought I was not looking. I asked for assistance and 3 walked away from me like they had not heard me.I headed farther into SAKS, towards the Mens department. I was met at the counter by a man who said Hello, I handed the receipt and jeans and he started to ask me odd questions why I wanted to return them, here he was waiting on a security guard AND a Beechwood,Ohio Police Officer. I told the officer why I was there, I showed him the receipt and jeans, he handed them back to me with the bag and said he was so sorry but I had to leave the store and the mall in general because I "bothered " the Sales Associates. I left in tears, I could tell he was not happy doing his job but had no choice. I drove home , over 3 hours, in tears. I sent them with my friend to a SACKS in Columbus, Ohio to exchange them for me when she got off work as a Highschool English Teacher. I was judged by my clothes, the car - wich is a very beautiful car-and unfirtunatly, my disability. This is whu I am now VERY HARD on associates that do not come off as genuinly nice from the first moment I lay eyes on them or hear their voice.

I appologize for such a rant earlier, but I wanted all you ladies out there to know why. I buy alot of high end items still, why do I always have to look as if I wlked out of a business meeting or salon for a night at SOHO.

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[heartsmyface]

A little bit of BT history :')

How on earth was I unable to stop reading?  

[jadeann]

"Lets move to Christmas, 2013..." makes me think of A Christmas Carol.

[jemly]

this was magical

[txcatx]

I wasn't here for that, either, but I was so intrigued by the train wreck and kept reading. I saw her talk about getting salespeople fired when she didn't think they were being genuinely nice to her or something?!

[JenniferOhJenny]

That was...kind of sad. Also somewhat frightening.

[annec322]

Yep.  I remember her very well.  Those were some scary late nights.

[kethry70]

I can't believe I just read that whole incoherent mess 😮

[malday]

I remember hahaha

[Anonymous]

I've been noticing years-old threads getting dredged up weirdly often the last few weeks and wondering how and why that happens. I wasn't around when that rant was posted, but boy was it an experience yesterday!

[Anonymous]

Just imagine George Takei's "oh myyyy" gif here. Because.

Oh my.

..That's quite a trip. What on earth?

[lyravega]

Good ol' times. It was like...

[Tamara76]

@lyravega The Jensen memes are giving me the feels though....  ❤️

[BlueEyeAli]

Oh my....what even is going on? haha  That's is some kind of rant... :s

[MK89]

hahaha oh gosh I remember her! 

[Haleyhale]

Wow, what did I just read, curiosity made me click the spoiler.. No words..that is one epic ramble

[karap03]

Anyone know any Nordstrom promos that can be used on beauty?

I am thinking of making a large beauty purchase and getting the GWP. Wanted to see if there's any beauty promos floating around so I can get the most bang for my buck.

[BrideSona]

Do you have a nordstrom card? They have a point system. And at certain times (like Mother's Day) coming up they have point multipliers. Every 1000 points you get a $20 note to spend in the store or cafe. Its easy to get up there with the points. Depending on what brands you buy you can also get lots of GWP per brand. They carry most of the traditional beauty brands that you see in high end stores. 

[Anonymous]

I used the skin store 20% off for price matching.