Cos Bar of Charleston

I love this store and the people that worked the day I was there–
I had never been to Charleston before, my friend drove us down (visiting from Chicago) and once we parked and took a couple steps there in front of me was Cos Bar-​I could vaguely see «Armani» from inside and I knew I had to go in-​The store is a scaled down Sephora, boutique with select lines, but good lines; Cle de Peau, Sisley, Yves Saint Laurent, Armani, Dior, Trish, NARS etc. As well skincare lines, perfumes, polishes etc.
I had gotten a new shade of the Armani Luminous Silk foundation before my South Carolina trip, yet every time I’d look in the mirror of my rental car all I saw was an orange face, I looked bad-​As well I kept getting these painful bumps on my forehead and hairline, so not normal for me–
I just wanted to wash my face and start over that day and I decided to ask if I could do just that, wash my face and someone make me over-​The manager on site that day said I could, I just needed to buy 3 items, which has been the easiest task of my life thus far-​The manager asked what I was using to wash my face and I told him La Mer and he let me grab the testing items and go into the bathroom and wash away–
Came out bare faced and the fun began-​I was told that Cle de Peau would be really good for me, so I sat down and an artist named Shawn started on me-​Very nice guy and worked his brush magic on me, he wouldn’t have let me walked out with something that did not match my skin-​Side note, this is the best foundation I have ever used and I’m a makeup whore so I have tried pretty much every product you can throw at me–
Next I sat with Cameron Eubanks, yep, the girl from Real World: San Diego and Southern Charm and she applied bronzer and blush-​Love the bronzer, I’m a makeup snob so I never use the Trish line, never really appealed to me, but the bronzer works for my skin tone-​Used the face fabric clicky pen for blush and loved that product–
Then I had the new Yves Saint Laurent Leather Fetish eye quad used on me and loved that as well, that is what I wanted on me in the first place so happy to get a softy smokey eye applied–
I walked away with the products they used on me and Shawn was awesome and gave me 2 samples of the Cle de Peau skincare products-​Still testing out and thinking of buying in the future–
There is something about this store, it’s smaller than Sephora, but feels clean, is clean and there are not annoying SA’s that make you feel like you don’t’ know what a lipstick is-​They know what they are talking about there and it was awesome to see they had Fall collections in the store–
I seriously wish I could somehow work at a Cos Bar, possibly corporate b/​c I love the store that much–
If you are in the area stop in, they took care of me and Cameron was so sweet while I was a psycho fan and freaked out over her putting makeup on me-​Sorry, just a sucker for reality shows!