Now that the Holidays are winding down I can start blogging again. Retail is tough but exciting! To see all your products dwindle down to just nothing is quite an amazing thing to watch. It's very taxing on your mind and body so it's refreshing when it's finally over.
Anyway, I have had a very rare experience today.. I went to the Mall Of America in Bloomington, MN to meet a very cool Beauty Vlogger and to witness the grand opening of a cosmetic store, their first.
I was invited to go to the meetup on YouTube while watching makeup videos. The Beauty Guru is MakeupByTiffanyD. The store she helped launch today is called Sigma. They are based out of Minneapolis.
I stood in a VERRRRY LONNNNG line to meet Tiffany. She was very sweet. My two sons went with and they were not too happy to be trapped in a busy little makeup store, but they took photos and seemed to enjoy the fact that I was having a blast.
I did pick up a few coveted items from the store. I had my eye on this cool round tipped brush..
It's called the Precision Round. I want to try it to blend my concealer under the eye, it tends to smear off when I use my finger and other brushes seem too flimsy. I think I will like this on a lot.
I also picked up the Defining Eyes Kit, it was put together by the beauty guru TiffanyD herself! How cool. I should have gotten her autograph on it, but I don't think my kids could wait any longer to go shopping in the big mall.
This kit is in a very large box.. It's only downside. This kit has some amazingly pigmented, easily blendable colors that work well together throughout. It also comes with your everything in eye liners. You get two gel liners and a dual ended pencil with amazing color payoff. It also gives a beautiful dual ended brush. A wonderfully soft fluffy shading brush and a super soft pencil brush, one of my favorites in the brand. I usually don't prefer dual ended brushes because of the way I store mine.. Standing upright in a cup. But, if I just keep this brush in the kit, both ends will be fine. It's too pretty to leave in the kit, however. Oh well, I guess you can't have everything!
I did receive a gift bag with two freebies in it, how sweet of them to go all out on us for the grand opening. They gave me a small eye shadow palette and a travel eye shadow blending brush. Very cool, huh?
I did venture out of Sigma Beauty to go to other makeup stores in the mall. They have a gajillion cosmetic stores!
We had to get a few fun things from Lush.
We alway get a few Bath Bombs, they are too good to pass up. We picked Fizzbanger, Avobath and Dragon's Egg. I thought I would try some Tea Tree toner spray and a HUGE chunk of Karma soap. Left there under $50, which was a first.
I also picked up a fresh Blot Powder from Mac. It's my favorite touch up powder. It does a nice job of not building up during my midday touch ups. I prefer colored touch up powders. I've tried others that are colorless, they just don't give me that smidge of added color I need in the middle of the day.
I'm a little on the pale side so my powder looks like a colorless one. It's the lightest Blot Powder color available. It works so great on me.
We also shopped at a few other places, a cool bead store, Apple Store, a French bakery where we loaded up on macarons and coffee. You want to see our devoured macarons, don't you?
We looked at so much stuff! We ate our fill at amazing places, including Bubba Gump's Shrimp Company. Sooo Gooood! We did finish our shopping spree at the candy store called iCandy Sugar Shoppe. The had the biggest gummy bears I ever saw in person! We picked out pineapple gummy bears and clear rock candy on the strings. Love those!
I think that's it for my super fun day at the Mall Of America. If you have any comments or questions, please leave them in the comments! Thanks again!
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