What is black friday/Monday like at sephora? Do they have good online deals?
Last year I picked up a large size of the Purity Made Simple cleanser for $10 (it's usually $35). It was in store, but I'm pretty sure they had it online too.
Also, attention VIBs, if you like the Sephora sample bags they have right now and have multiple orders, you can get it twice, once with the code SEASONSET and the other with VIBSEASON.
Their FB page but posts get deleted and then the reddit makeup thread has a long post about it.
Apparently Sephora is trying to prevent resellers and in doing so they are just denying access to many people with Asian last names.
:/
My issue may not be the racial profiling. I just can't access sephora. The people claiming racial profiling seem to be saying they can't access their accounts.
Huh, fascinating.
I wonder to what extent people are underestimating how diverse Sephora's client base is, and I'm wondering if it just seems like a lot of Asian people are getting booted because Sephora has a lot of Asian customers.
When I went to the Rouge event, I was one of the only European-white people there. Of the 4 the 40 or 50 waiting outside to be let in, there were exactly 4 people (including me) that looked like they were of European descent. (yes, I counted.) The rest was probably an equal mix of black people, and people who appeared to have Middle Eastern or Asian backgrounds. It was probably the most diverse event I've ever attended. Love for makeup is post-racial, ya'll.
What is black friday/Monday like at sephora? Do they have good online deals?
Probably, but the site will be down.
in all seriousness, I'm told that at some point in December, Sephora has historically given out $20 off a $50 purchase coupon. I have no idea if it's limited to only certain levels of purchasers.
My hair has a mind of its own today and I poked myself in the eye with mascara. But I tried out Nyx's Shocking Pink and I really like it, and it has held up pretty well through breakfast and drinking water. I do have Mac Lip primer, but I'm pretty impressed and I think I can put off buying Mac's CYY.
But here is a FOTD with some of my new stuff. I LOVE MY NEW STUFF. Middle shade from the Hourglass palette. Bite Glace. Marc Jacobs eyeliners (brown and gold) which are the most incredible consistency.
The only new thing I'm not dying over is the Marc Jacobs 100 point mascara freebie. It's not lengthening enough.
Their FB page but posts get deleted and then the reddit makeup thread has a long post about it.
Apparently Sephora is trying to prevent resellers and in doing so they are just denying access to many people with Asian last names.
:/
My issue may not be the racial profiling. I just can't access sephora. The people claiming racial profiling seem to be saying they can't access their accounts.
Huh, fascinating.
I wonder to what extent people are underestimating how diverse Sephora's client base is, and I'm wondering if it just seems like a lot of Asian people are getting booted because Sephora has a lot of Asian customers.
When I went to the Rouge event, I was one of the only European-white people there.  Of the  4 the 40 or 50 waiting outside to be let in, there were exactly 4 people (including me) that looked like they were of European descent.  (yes, I counted.) The rest was probably an equal mix of black people, and people who appeared to have Middle Eastern or Asian backgrounds.  It was probably the most diverse event I've ever attended.  Love for makeup is post-racial, ya'll.
It seems to be only people with Asian last names, specifically Chinese and Vietnamese, not having account access. No one else is reporting the account lock out issue. (*Everyone else is having my issue of just not being able to access sephora.com however).
Reselling is probably a legit issue for Sephora but they are not handling it correctly. Just put caps on purchases. Easy.
*Anyway, looks like they are finally letting me on! And nothing in my cart was out of stock! Yes!
The reddit pic of people with bags and bags of stuff is insane.
I do understand now, though, why they don't make a bigger deal of rouges. Those people have no problem hitting it if they're reselling.
I don't understand why they don't say "two duplicates per person" or something. The Reddit thread said someone went into the rouge event and just cleared the shelf of all the special rouge items? And Sephora was just all hunky dory about it.
The reddit pic of people with bags and bags of stuff is insane.
I do understand now, though, why they don't make a bigger deal of rouges. Those people have no problem hitting it if they're reselling.
I don't understand why they don't say "two duplicates per person" or something. The Reddit thread said someone went into the rouge event and just cleared the shelf of all the special rouge items? And Sephora was just all hunky dory about it.
Yeah, there are ways that they can control this stuff. It seems like the Rouge-only products are what is the main source of the abuse, and if the products weren't Rouge-only, there'd be less of an incentive to buy them all up and resell them. I suspect that the vast majority of Rouge people don't care about exclusive access to products. Advance access is a nice perk, particularly if it's a limited edition product, but they can cap advance access to one per person, and the problem is solved.
It also seems like they could easily set up a system to flag people who obviously buy things for reselling. For example, it seems like they could automate something that flags for review any time a purchasers' history reflects that they bought 5+ of one item within a 30 day period, or if they spend in excess of a certain amount in a 30 day period or something.
Vice 3 - this has a lot of fun colors that all go together pretty well. I still dislike the texture when attempting to get it on the brush. I will probably deal with it because fun colors. Eyes - Truth all over, Angel in crease/outer V, Freeze on middle of upper lid and lower lid, Last Sin on inner upper lid, Lucky on inner corner top/bottom. Tarte Bronze eyeliner on inner half of upper/lower. Too Faced Peacock eyeliner on outer hallf of upper/lower. UD Subversion prmer with Perversion (sample size) on top.
Cheeks - Tarte Natural Beauty Lips - Tarte LipSurgence Matte Lip Tint in Fancy with LipSurgence Lipgloss in Belle over it
ETA: I am really struggling with getting my eyeshadow even lately. I don't know what my problem is.
I don't understand why they don't say "two duplicates per person" or something. The Reddit thread said someone went into the rouge event and just cleared the shelf of all the special rouge items? And Sephora was just all hunky dory about it.
Yeah, there are ways that they can control this stuff. It seems like the Rouge-only products are what is the main source of the abuse, and if the products weren't Rouge-only, there'd be less of an incentive to buy them all up and resell them. I suspect that the vast majority of Rouge people don't care about exclusive access to products. Advance access is a nice perk, particularly if it's a limited edition product, but they can cap advance access to one per person, and the problem is solved.
It also seems like they could easily set up a system to flag people who obviously buy things for reselling. For example, it seems like they could automate something that flags for review any time a purchasers' history reflects that they bought 5+ of one item within a 30 day period, or if they spend in excess of a certain amount in a 30 day period or something.
Can someone link to the Reddit thread?
I actually saw mention of it and the picture on sephora's forum, not the reddit thread.
I'm $336 away from making Rouge for next year. I just don't know if it was really worth it this year - I don't care about "exclusive access" to new stuff, and there didn't seem to be any other perks besides a couple of events that I couldn't attend or were just meh. They claim that you get free gifts "just because" but I don't think I got anything like that - did any of you?
Can someone link me to the Ole kit everyone is using and loves so much? I just used the Sephora skin IQ and they are telling me I need the Ole total truth eye crème. LOL
I was finally able to get my sephora order complete. The only new, fun thing I got was an Hourglass blush. Everything else was just cleanser, makeup remover, eye cream and hair products. I am excited to try the Bumble and Bumble Hairdresser's oil, though.
I want lipsticks and eyeshadows, but I have a ton and I need to be more careful with money. Please let me stay though.
I love this stuff! I had a small sample earlier this year then ordered the larger bottle when I ran out of that. Don't use too much, it only takes a very small amount to get super soft hair.
And in there somewhere is the other link to the thread with pics that devolves into racist commentary about Asians buying in bulk to resell. Reddit thinks it's this thread that caused Sephora to lock out Asians. Lolololol. As if reddit has that power!
I used Ole Henriksen Rose Hips face oil today and blech that stuff smells like fish oil. Awful, awful, awful. I'm not sure I care what magic it will work.