i braved the houston galleria today, and since NM usually has nice christmasy decorations, i stopped through to check out the scene. i was literally besieged by clerks in smocks the minute i walked through the beauty section. i didnt make eye contact, i didnt stop to try anything, and was actually walking fairly quickly- but still they converged! i am reluctant to even set foot in there again, much less buy anything from the beauty army. i understand it's their job, but BACK OFF! and don't even THINK of spraying me with that perfume....
had to rant. let me know when its safe out there again....
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how funny!! I was at the Galleria this afternoon also but I stayed on the other end - at Nordies. They didn't seem to have a beauty army working today. I'm curious now and want to check out NM and their army of people
i think neimans is going nuts on the beauty end. they recently emailed out a survey about online beauty buying from their site and if i did it and why i didn't, etc., etc. the whole thing made me think that they seemed really intent on bulking up that end of their business.
i don't have an opinion about all the neimans beauty people irl but the nars counter ones are really annoying--condescending and clueless at the same time. like hello, i'm asking about an eyeliner brush, why are you showing me hydrating body serum?
Geez, I don't have a NM but I sure wish when I went to Macy's beauty section they would come swarm me! A couple days ago I went in to buy my favorite Estee Lauder lipstick in pink parfait. The lady saw me there but I had to go to where she was wait and tell her what I wanted to buy. Then seeing that I was actually buying instead of looking, she wanted me to buy the $46 makeup set valued at $200 which included the same lipstick I was purchasing. I told her no thankyou, since I don't use those other items. Then she was like, you can give them to somebody else. No thank you even though that is a fabulous deal for only $46. I didn't realize, but you have to purchase a perfume to buy that set for $46! She was wanting me to spend $100 instead of $22!