Have you noticed lately that Sephora is selling the same deluxe samples that used to come with gwps?
I get that everybody needs to make dinero-but part of the fun was to get samples!
I’m not really into getting a sample of product that has had a bunch of germy fingers dipped in because some people don’t obey cosmetic etiquette. You know what I mean.
Those people who dip their fingers into jars, across eye shadow and actually apply lip color from the tube!
Seriously could anything be more gross?
They’ve done studies on how many of the super ick germs find their way into make up displays.
You know I used to be a ready participant in getting a free makeover at the counter-but the more germaphobic I get the less interested I am. I might put on a color on my wrist and wipe off with alcohol at the most nowadays.
Anyway.
Sephora used to go pretty good samples for VIB ladies and they were usable. But don’tcha hate the samples that are just a whisper of product? Like Skinceuticals Eye SPF. I know eye product is applied the size of a pea, but when I get a sample like that, I have to really be jonsing to try it to use the manini sample.
I’ve been buying product from Neostrata and Lovelyskin.com the last few times for skincare. I think Neostrata is really generous with the size and the amount of the samples, but so far nothing to write home about. Lovelyskiin sent me the Skinceuticals sample which is not their fault, but they don’t really have great samples to select from at checkout.
Lovelyskin.com does have a cool comparison table that you can see how different products stand against each other. I used it to choose an eye product last month.
So Sephora take a note-I’m giving you the bulk of my beauty dollars in the quest for the 500 point perks (really I paid $500 for those mini’s of Laura Mercier)?, so how’s about show your customers some love with better samples?
K
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