At Sephora, I just happen to be looking at a certain aisle for eyeliner pencils when I was approached by J'me (pronounced like "Jaime). Having been feeling friendly for the whole day, I exuberantly told her about my vision for my face painting and asked what I can do to achieve that effect. She told me about several of my options and demonstrated the possibilities of her line of makeup, Make Up For Ever. And let me tell you...It.Was.Amazing. It's designed to be incredibly versatile, mixed and matched to whatever one might like. The company designs for Cirque de Soleil. As soon as I heard that, I knew that they know what they are doing (Ever seen a Cirque show? Fucking crazy.). It is waterproof. She demonstrated that by drawing a line with a shimmery blue pencil on the back of my hand. After it fully dried, I rubbed it hard with my finger and it barely smudged. I have never seen that before. So she recommended that I pick something that will work for what I want but also useful for everyday. Exactly what I hoped for, and I didn't even tell her. Oh and the colors they have are absolutely amazing. I am usually not a person for extremes, but seriously, amazing. Supposedly, the company is known for this one line called Flash Color, and it is pretty much creamy pigment. It doesn't matter what your skin color is, what you see in that little pot will be what comes out. Add some of their shimmer, and the texture of the color and the color changes as well. The shimmer, it turns out, can be added to lotion, nail polish, anything you can think of. The pigment can be mixed in to lotion, haircolor, other things as well. Like I said, versatile.
In the end, I bought a black cream shadow, two shimmers, one in greenish white, another light gold, as well as diamond dust. The shadow functions as a base to really bring out the shimmers without the natural skin tone distorting and dulling their colors. The diamond dust glitters like broken glass.
I came home, excited to try out my design. And the effects are exactly what I wanted. It looked gorgeous. I will post pictures of my final design and execution of it after the masquerade since I still have to tweak the design a little bit.
J'me was extremely helpful. Normally when I go to a store, I am fairly wary of salespeople, but when I talked to her, she listened to what I wanted to do and suggested different options and left me to decide. When I asked whether I should buy some liners to highlight different parts, she talked me out of that and suggested using what I have, but in a different way. When I asked her whether I should buy some synthetic fiber brushes for the cream makeup, she told me to go to an art store to buy them since they are basically the same thing. How awesome is that?
I feel a little amazed how I happen to be at that aisle at a brand that I normally wouldn't look twice at and she passed by and asked if she could help. When I asked for her business card, she told me that she is only at the store maybe once or twice a month. What coincidence that she was there and this company specifically does this stuff?
This reaffirms my belief that a good salesperson finds out what you need, recommends something, and make you feel good about spending your money. Even now, I feel excited about what I bought.
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