Shopper: Elaine Offers
Date/Time: 8.5.2014, 12:20 p.m.
Store: Make Up For Ever
Location: 8 East 12th Street, New York
Total Spent: $981.00*
While in New York City to do Helen Mirren’s makeup for a press event, Santa Monica, Calif.-based artist Elaine Offers visited the Greenwich Village outpost of Make Up For Ever for the first time. “They are celebrating their 30th anniversary and I wanted to stock up on the new launches, especially the eye shadows,” says Offers. “I came at the right moment because there was hardly anyone in here, so it was very relaxing.” The 50-year-old, who spends $10,000 annually on beauty, prefers shopping in-store rather than online so she can play with the products. “Beauty is an all-sensory thing with the colors and textures,” she says. “It makes it fun.” But her go-to item is all about utility: blotting papers. “I like to use creamy textures that melt into the skin, but they layer up, so I’m constantly lifting up the oil as I apply makeup,” she says while habitually patting her face with a tissue. “When I don’t have them I freak out.”
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Shopper: Terrance Welcher
Date/Time: 8.5.2014, 2:47 p.m.
Store: MAC
Location: 7 West 22nd Street, New York
Total Spent: $307.00*
Terrance Welcher, a 30-year-old makeup artist, visited the Flatiron MAC pro store to add punchy new colors to his kit, and to be inspired by the offerings. “I consider this store a lab. You can come in and concoct new things,” he says. “I’m working with Remy Ma, an urban artist and rapper, and she has some shoots coming up so I like to come in here and be creative.” Welcher, who spends $6,000 a year on makeup and skin care, likes MAC products because of the quality and affordability. “You get a bang for your buck. People forget that we are artists and invest in tools,” he says. “We need to have clean things like mascara and lipstick so we can give those away [to our clients] when we use them.” For Welcher, makeup is all about how it makes a client feel. “Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder,” he says. “You never know what you are going to put on someone that will spark them to see their own beauty.”
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