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[FormosaHoney]

Quote: Originally Posted by ohsailor /img/forum/go_quote.gif
 

Ahhh three posts in a row, but I think it did sell out again already /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> I remember checking the samples (as I do OFTEN, haha) and noticed it was back in stock, but for some reason didn't make an order or thought I would later. I checked about an hour ago, and it was gone. BUMMER. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />
Yeah, it came on late last night and I got 2 orders in, yay~

 

[LuckyMoon]

Quote: Originally Posted by SaraP /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  What?? Where??? Did it already sell out???
The new point perks have to come back out for March, right?

I want that UD Naked lipgloss.  I want it now.

 

[meaganola]

The new point perks have to come back out for March, right? I want that UD Naked lipgloss.  I want it now.

Huh. This just happened to still be in my editor:

A lot of these point perks go out of stock really quickly on the first day -- and then come back a day or two later and stick around for a few weeks.

The monthly perks don't usually come out until the 5th/6th, so I doubt we have seen the end of these. And as a side note, my Sephora app hasn't been working today! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[JenTX]

Quote: Originally Posted by v0ltagekid /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  I wanted to go, but I worked yesterday and couldn't make it /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

What did you think? what was ur fav part? tell me everything /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

Quote: Originally Posted by FormosaHoney /img/forum/go_quote.gif
 
Overall I thought it was good, but I do have a few complaints...

1 - They were requiring people to make an appointment for the future with the salon in order to get the goodie bag. This wasn't what was sold on the invitation. Why did we need to give up 500 beauty insider points for this if really we still have to pay money to the salon?

2 - The hair thing was kind of a joke. It was VERY limited in the amount of time you had with a hair stylist, so they were just hard selling you on Bumble & Bumble products and not really teaching you or showing you anything new with your hair. Even worse - they only did one small section of my hair with the product, so it kind of left me feeling undone and like I couldn't be in public afterwards. Furthermore, during the time I was supposed to be having my hair done, another woman tried to come up and hard sell me on needing to color my hair (in order to get more money on above mentioned required appointment). This was right after the stylist working to me was bragging to this lady that my hair color is natural. Yes, I have been blessed with an amazing shade of red (not bragging - i have plenty of complaints about my hair but color is not one of them). I would be stupid to ever color it considering how many people try so hard and spend so much money to try to get my color and it's not possible. I don't want to ruin my hair and I was actually offended that this lady would so hard sell on me needing to glaze my hair and add copper to it - especially after I just said how much I love my color and the stylist herself just said she was so jealous and impressed that it was my natural shade.

3 - The food was completely off theme. Hot dogs and big soft pretzels for a beauty brunch?

4 - There wasn't much to do to really keep you there for 4 hours, so having the raffles require that you are present to get them wasn't cool. I wasn't going to stick around for another 2.5 hours just for the chance that I might win a raffle. They should have had people come in during certain time slots rather than all at once at the beginning, and should have made the raffles eligible to be picked up at a later time so that you could come and go as you please. 

5 - It was very crowded (again the need to space out people coming). They did think out how everyone would get a "hair consultation" but there was definitely not enough time or space for everyone to try out the other services - manicures, brow bar, lip/eyelash bar. Lines were crazy to really do nails. I also lucked out that I was one of the first to realize there was a brow bar because lines were obscene after me.

6 - I actually really liked the colors that the Smashbox girls chose to use on my lips but they didn't write them down or give me any sort of way to remember what they were so I could sell the products.

All this said, I still did think it was good for really two reasons

1 - Ultimately the goodie bag was quite amazing. There were over $100 worth of products in there.

2 - Brow Bar. I was planning to get my brows waxed this week anyways, so this saved me $40 or so... The woman who did them was also quite talented. This said, I lucked out that I was able to get in. Only a few people were able to given the amount of time needed to do someone's brows, and there was only one brow expert.

 

[LuckyMoon]

@SaraP  The free Buxom lipgloss sample is back up. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[lovepink]

Of course the Naked lip gloss perk comes up after I just placed an order last night.  Now the question is do I risk the wrath of Sephora by placing a small order to cash in some points or miss a perk I really want?  Decisions, decisions.

ETA: The Divergent makeup is showing up as orderable.  I have the makeup in my Loves and it is available as add to basket.  And when I added it, it worked!

 

[gemstone]

I was really disappointed that it was one the UD lip junkie glosses in naked 2 instead of their new line of naked glosses. They former I could take or leave, but I was excited for a moment about maybe trying part of their new line

 

[lovepink]

Quote: Originally Posted by gemstone /img/forum/go_quote.gif

I was really disappointed that it was one the UD lip junkie glosses in naked 2 instead of their new line of naked glosses. They former I could take or leave, but I was excited for a moment about maybe trying part of their new line
Thanks for pointing that out!  The packaging on the mini kind of looks like the new lippies packaging.  I clicked on it and it took me to the lip junkies which I hate.  So much mint and sticky!

But I really want the Divergent makeup.  I think I will order it and take back my Sephora order from yesterday when I get that! 

 

[FormosaHoney]

Quote: Originally Posted by Jennifer Leigh /img/forum/go_quote.gif
 
Overall I thought it was good, but I do have a few complaints...

1 - They were requiring people to make an appointment for the future with the salon in order to get the goodie bag. This wasn't what was sold on the invitation. Why did we need to give up 500 beauty insider points for this if really we still have to pay money to the salon?

2 - The hair thing was kind of a joke. It was VERY limited in the amount of time you had with a hair stylist, so they were just hard selling you on Bumble & Bumble products and not really teaching you or showing you anything new with your hair. Even worse - they only did one small section of my hair with the product, so it kind of left me feeling undone and like I couldn't be in public afterwards. Furthermore, during the time I was supposed to be having my hair done, another woman tried to come up and hard sell me on needing to color my hair (in order to get more money on above mentioned required appointment). This was right after the stylist working to me was bragging to this lady that my hair color is natural. Yes, I have been blessed with an amazing shade of red (not bragging - i have plenty of complaints about my hair but color is not one of them). I would be stupid to ever color it considering how many people try so hard and spend so much money to try to get my color and it's not possible. I don't want to ruin my hair and I was actually offended that this lady would so hard sell on me needing to glaze my hair and add copper to it - especially after I just said how much I love my color and the stylist herself just said she was so jealous and impressed that it was my natural shade.

3 - The food was completely off theme. Hot dogs and big soft pretzels for a beauty brunch?

4 - There wasn't much to do to really keep you there for 4 hours, so having the raffles require that you are present to get them wasn't cool. I wasn't going to stick around for another 2.5 hours just for the chance that I might win a raffle. They should have had people come in during certain time slots rather than all at once at the beginning, and should have made the raffles eligible to be picked up at a later time so that you could come and go as you please. 

5 - It was very crowded (again the need to space out people coming). They did think out how everyone would get a "hair consultation" but there was definitely not enough time or space for everyone to try out the other services - manicures, brow bar, lip/eyelash bar. Lines were crazy to really do nails. I also lucked out that I was one of the first to realize there was a brow bar because lines were obscene after me.

6 - I actually really liked the colors that the Smashbox girls chose to use on my lips but they didn't write them down or give me any sort of way to remember what they were so I could sell the products.

All this said, I still did think it was good for really two reasons

1 - Ultimately the goodie bag was quite amazing. There were over $100 worth of products in there.

2 - Brow Bar. I was planning to get my brows waxed this week anyways, so this saved me $40 or so... The woman who did them was also quite talented. This said, I lucked out that I was able to get in. Only a few people were able to given the amount of time needed to do someone's brows, and there was only one brow expert.
Thanks for the indepth review!  

It sounds very unlike a hair spa experience and it was only redeemed by the $100 SWAG bag.  The needing to make a appointment thing sounds really dodgey, like something they made up themselve!  I can not even think that if they ran that by Sephora, Sephora would have okayed it.  I don't like the pressure sale either.  It wasn't their open house, you actually handed over 500 points to be there, to be treated like a guest not the target of aggressive sales tactics.

I really appreciate you writing this out.  You might want to email Sephora with a link to this MUT and let them know how things turned out.  I'm sure they'd be a little horrified to know that the salon was trying to peddle coloring service to you while you were a captive client that was meant to be resting...  

I think suggestings and consultations are valuable if I inquire about a specific subject but nothing glazes my eyes faster then hard-sale.  

 

[meaganola]

I went to a Bumble + Bumble 500-point event back in September that the invitation specifically said would include a $150 swag bag with full-sized items, and during the event, they kept saying that we would get a tooth-whitening pen. The swag bag had a bunch of not-for-resale (not even travel-sized) samples and a bottle of the then-pre-release Pret a Powder dry shampoo -- and no tooth-whitening pen. I didn't care about the latter, but my guest had really been looking forward to that. I wrote a long email pointing out the vast discrepancies between the way it was promoted and what was actually delivered, and they refunded my points. I don't think I would have been as annoyed by the whole thing if the email hadn't specifically promised $150 but delivered under $30 (yep, I was so annoyed that I did the math) -- and if I hadn't talked my guest into going by sending her the email that I had received. It was really embarrassing when she looked in the bag and said, "Wait a second, I thought you said it was all full-sized stuff? And where's the tooth pen thing?" (And then there's the part where they never bothered to deduct my points for the event to begin with, so I ended up a thousand points ahead by the time everything was all said and done. I'm still sitting on thirteen hundred points -- between this whole thing and my many other Sephora purchases -- waiting for something good to spend them on.) (I *did* end up going in to a different location for the salon for highlights, but that was pretty much only because they had a 50% off deal going on if you booked that day, and it brought the cost down to a point where I decided I could go ahead and splurge. I love the way the highlights turned out, but I'm not spending $200 -- what would have been full price -- on them again, so I need to look into the Aveda or John Paul Mitchell schools one of these days.)

 

[kawaiiwoofs]

@meaganola i pretty much exclusively go to the aveda school here (institute of beauty and wellness) and i love it! there's a bunch of beauty schools in my area that are nicely priced. the only downside is you have to be prepared to spend lots and lots of time there. i think my shortest hair cut was about an hour (longest was 2). my boyfriend's sister got her hair colored at the institute and she was there for 4-5 hours... everyone she told thought she was exaggerating but i've definitely seen the process take that long! 

 

[meaganola]

@usofjessamerica Ooh, thanks for the rec!  If I can listen to my iPod/read/play with my iPhone while they work on my hair, I'm fine with spending lots of time there, especially since it would be once-every-few-months thing for me.  Take a book!  Take a snack!  Make a day of it!  Added bonus:  The Aveda school is just a few blocks from the main Powell's.  If you don't know what that is, you're not a book freak!  Funny thing:  I temped next door to Powell's, and I spent a lot of time in the store just killing time and not being in the office during lunch because my coworkers were weird, but I very, *very* rarely bought anything.  The closer I work to a place where I could spend tons of money, the less I actually spend.  When I worked in an office located on mall property, I did a *lot* of window shopping but rarely bought anything.  Hmm.  Apparently, the lesson learned for me is that I need to spend a lot of time looking at things in stores, and then I'll never buy them.  I guess that's why more time spent in Sephora results in less makeup being purchased!

Uh...  Excuse any incoherence in the preceeding.  I'm going to go to bed now.  So tired I can barely form sentences, nevermind sentences that *make sense*!

 

[kawaiiwoofs]

[@]meaganola[/@] love powell's! Yeah def bring magazines books, etc. I feel like the coloring process takes a while whether you're getting done by a student or a professional. I've treated myself to an Aveda school spa day (nails, massage/facial, brows, hair cut. I won a service package in a raffle). First - it was a long day to be there! Second, this woman checked in at the same time as me and she was still there by the time I was done with my hair cut. And in Sephora Related News! My store keeps having BLAH in-store point perks. Hopefully this new month brought new perks. My points are burning holes in my pockets (although I'm very picky and protective when it comes to my points)

 

[felicia1995]

 

[JenTX]

Thanks for the indepth review!   It sounds very unlike a hair spa experience and it was only redeemed by the $100 SWAG bag.  The needing to make a appointment thing sounds really dodgey, like something they made up themselve!  I can not even think that if they ran that by Sephora, Sephora would have okayed it.  I don't like the pressure sale either.  It wasn't their open house, you actually handed over 500 points to be there, to be treated like a guest not the target of aggressive sales tactics. I really appreciate you writing this out.  You might want to email Sephora with a link to this MUT and let them know how things turned out.  I'm sure they'd be a little horrified to know that the salon was trying to peddle coloring service to you while you were a captive client that was meant to be resting...   I think suggestings and consultations are valuable if I inquire about a specific subject but nothing glazes my eyes faster then hard-sale.  

I took your advice and e-mailed them on Facebook. I wrote the email stating I hope they will take my feedback to improve on future events. We shall see if they respond. In regards to the appointment, many girls were saying they were going to later cancel the appointment. This isn't good for the salon either, who is now holding their time slot from other customers. I'm still debating. The stylist I was set up with is the same who I made my appointment with and her hair looked great and she was very nice. I'm still very annoyed by the other salon employee though who was saying I need to color my hair. Her stylist obviously just said otherwise so this was just blatantly trying to sell me on something to make more money. I believe that woman was some kind of manager, so that turns me off to the salon as a whole. Secondly, I am very pleased with my current stylist and he is also MUCH more convenient for me, even if he charges more than the deal they offered. Having someone new cut your hair is always taking a risk. All this said, I also feel bad for the brow lady. She was excellent and I would actually pay good money and drive the long drive to see her... But I'm so turned off by her employer that I am also unsure of that at this point either. We shall see... The worst part is, had she not spent so much time hard selling me on coloring my hair (which should have been extremely obvious to her that I would never do), I would have really been listening to the stylist about the Bumble and Bumble products she was trying to recommend to me, and would have run to Sephora to buy the (or may have even bought them right there in the salon). Instead, the short time allotted to teach me about the sponsor's products was interrupted and cut short by this awful hard sell.

 

[JenTX]

I went to a Bumble + Bumble 500-point event back in September that the invitation specifically said would include a $150 swag bag with full-sized items, and during the event, they kept saying that we would get a tooth-whitening pen. The swag bag had a bunch of not-for-resale (not even travel-sized) samples and a bottle of the then-pre-release Pret a Powder dry shampoo -- and no tooth-whitening pen. I didn't care about the latter, but my guest had really been looking forward to that. I wrote a long email pointing out the vast discrepancies between the way it was promoted and what was actually delivered, and they refunded my points. I don't think I would have been as annoyed by the whole thing if the email hadn't specifically promised $150 but delivered under $30 (yep, I was so annoyed that I did the math) -- and if I hadn't talked my guest into going by sending her the email that I had received. It was really embarrassing when she looked in the bag and said, "Wait a second, I thought you said it was all full-sized stuff? And where's the tooth pen thing?" (And then there's the part where they never bothered to deduct my points for the event to begin with, so I ended up a thousand points ahead by the time everything was all said and done. I'm still sitting on thirteen hundred points -- between this whole thing and my many other Sephora purchases -- waiting for something good to spend them on.) (I *did* end up going in to a different location for the salon for highlights, but that was pretty much only because they had a 50% off deal going on if you booked that day, and it brought the cost down to a point where I decided I could go ahead and splurge. I love the way the highlights turned out, but I'm not spending $200 -- what would have been full price -- on them again, so I need to look into the Aveda or John Paul Mitchell schools one of these days.)

Had this bag not lived up to the hype, I think people may have rioted. They were already very mad about having to make appointments. All this said, I still feel I ultimately did have to pay for it given I was forced to make an appointment to get it. I wrote to Sephora on Facebook, so we will see if they say anything or offer to give me back points.

 

[JenTX]

[@]meaganola[/@] love powell's! Yeah def bring magazines books, etc. I feel like the coloring process takes a while whether you're getting done by a student or a professional. I've treated myself to an Aveda school spa day (nails, massage/facial, brows, hair cut. I won a service package in a raffle). First - it was a long day to be there! Second, this woman checked in at the same time as me and she was still there by the time I was done with my hair cut. And in Sephora Related News! My store keeps having BLAH in-store point perks. Hopefully this new month brought new perks. My points are burning holes in my pockets (although I'm very picky and protective when it comes to my points)

My store always has blah point perks and barely gives me samples. I almost shop exclusively online for this reason. Only reason to go in store for me is to get something I need right away. Even if you are buying one thing - do employees look at your account and see how much money you spend at Sephora? I would think they would give me samples even if I am buying one thing, given the amount I spend.

 

[meaganola]

My store always has blah point perks and barely gives me samples. I almost shop exclusively online for this reason. Only reason to go in store for me is to get something I need right away. Even if you are buying one thing - do employees look at your account and see how much money you spend at Sephora? I would think they would give me samples even if I am buying one thing, given the amount I spend.

If you're Rouge, the store by my office will give you one sample at checkout, usually a skincare foil. That's it. In semi-related news, the UD Naked gloss point perk is back up. I *hate* Lip Junkie (and any other plumping lip product), but I do want to try one of the Naked glosses, so I decided to go for it even though the link goes to LJ instead of Naked like the photo. It has been my experience that when the text/link and photo don't match, the photo is correct, so fingers crossed!

 

[saku]

divergent makeup collection is now available for rouge! anyone snagging this?

 

[eliu8108]

I really want to try the Divergent set, but I have way too much as is

  And I think I'd like to see reviews first!