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"And You get a gift card, and You get a gift card, and You get a gift card!!!"
*So many photos! Will upload the swag in a bit
The event wasn't about that at all but it certainly felt like an Oprah moment all day! It was such a blast hanging with Katie, Carol and the BIC Babes. The grand store opening event was amazing! Thank you for letting me be one of the lucky chosen ones to attend this event @KatieBT @CarolBT @TeamBIC
There is something thrilling about having a Sephora store all to yourself. What a fabulous, spacious store with vaulted ceilings. Plenty of room to walk around. I love how thoughtful they planned the layout that they put the makeup station in the front and the skincare section in the back. For those that might be self conscious when taking off their makeup. Oh, and the windows that let in natural light. Perfect for swatching marathons! It has a lot more room to move than the old location.
As Zombie and I were oohing and ahhing at the store (we went to the Tarte section,) Carol handed out the 1st round of gift cards. It was a kick seeing my BIC name on the To label card.
We had a Contouring Masterclass with Jeffrey the LionHeart English and the lovely Myiesha - Sephora's Beauty Directors. What a treat to be taught by him in person instead of a video. Jeffrey introduced us to Marcus the senior makeup artist instructor at the Grove Which, I loved his makeup/attitude so much, I would take a class here. Even if it would be a trip to get here. Maybe when i have a friends outing I can come down early for a class. 
I love Jeffrey's Fashion analogy in making contouring make sense. What I learned is if you don't have a good base, your look isn't complete. Contouring is basically like the underwear for the face. Well, I guess I like to be naked most of the time, lol! Unless I want that cut chin.... Anywhoo, he says it is the main reason why when we take pictures there is flashback or colors are muted.
Katie was our contouring model and he quickly started putting on bronzer in dark streaks across her face. We were all scared for her but he explained its good to put it on before foundation to take those non flashback pics. That is why he recommends cream based products that are pigmented and you can set with powder or eyeshadow for lasting efects. Now that the base has been covered, the key to rounding out the look is to accessorize. Whether you want your eyes or lips to stand out, you will need that cream to enhance the vibrancy of that color. This will help in taking fabulous pictures!
Ever since this class I am always on the look out for neutral cream eyeshadows and blushes. Those office lighting pics are horrible sometimes and I hope this works to improve it. In fact, I have already bought two, a Bite multistick and Ilia multi haze cheek and lip.
After the all too brief class, we headed upstairs to celebrate Sephora's new partnership with Orange Twist! What a great way to be able to get a facial or peel or body coolsculpting. Then, after feeling your best with their skincare treatments, you can go to Sephora and feel even better with some makeup! The place is upstairs so you have to take this black ops elevator. It's just a black hallway, but those were the vibes. When you get to the 2nd floor, the atmosphere had changed. The whole place smelled like the most perfect sent of citrus. Very relaxing! I liked where you get the facials, the whole wall is a window looking down on Sephora. Neat if you get the window seat and can people watch as you get a facial. Nicole the director gave us a tour of the place and showed us the instruments for cool sculpting and the light therapy room. Sounds interesting to freeze fat. They had big and small attachments for your butt, stomach and chin. I might want to try it to trim down some chin fat 🙂 . After the tour, they handed us some swag for customers that were signing up for their $3500 light treatments. It was a nice surprise and included ~$200 off service coupon! Later, I was under the impression that you could get a small vial of it when you spent $75. The cashier didnt know anything bout it so I went upstairs and talked to Nicole. I guess it was for the facial but I couldnt get since i had just done an AHA mask. As a consult, Nicole told me to make an angry face. I thought I was doing one but her and all the girls were like, "are you even making an angry face?" , you have no lines! LOL, I still kinda want to try it even if it is a little scary. . I have heard if you start early it wont look like a plastic surgey gone wrong when you get the treatments and look more natural.
The store was about to open so Carol and Katie led us to the Sephora Holiday pop up. The setup was really cute with a lounger to sit and film a quick holiday message. Of course it took at least 5 tries to get a decent video. One day I will get better at this. Once you did a video, you could email or text it and the SA's gave us a card to take back to store and spin to get a Sephora gift card!.
We went back to the store to spin the wheel. I put very little effort to spin to get a $20 gift card but the arrow flipped 2 spaces and got a $15 GC instead. With a little shopping before lunch, I had to beeline to Pat Mcgrath. It was beautiful seeing all that PMG but the section was kinda small. I think it needs extra displays to showcase the palettes and more room to swatch 😀. Carol tracked us down again and handed out more gift cards and Orange Twist certificates! Then the store manager surprised even Carol and Katie and gave us another gift bag! And validation for parking-THAT IS A HUGE DEAL! They did not have to provide that but they did. Anyway, looks like it was a Fenty gwp for the grand opening. I was sooo excited and think it was one of the best Brand gwp's I have seen at a store.
Soon, it was time to go to lunch. Our destination was Catch LA. What an amazing, instagram worthy restaurant with fantastic food! Once again, I must go back to another BIC picked restaurant. The view from the rooftop was unbelievable. Been to LA but never a rooftop restaurant! While we were eating and taking pics Carol handed out another bag! She said we had to guess what theme the gifts were. When we saw Pat McGrath!!!!! and Charlotte Tilbury, we knew it was Communiy chosen top pics! It was so thoughful of them to plan this event and spoil us. What a perfect day to spend time with Friends/acquaintances all the while sharing our love for beauty! I never imagined I would be making such friends through this community and Sephora. I truly feel super blessed. Thank you again Teambic for all the work you do!
Swag pics and Randomness!
