Sephora, get over yourself!

Here's where I could rave about Sephora. I had planned on giving them some love here and telling you about the great time I had learning about how to apply cheek stain (so it doesn't look like I spilled ink on my face) from Canada's best make-up artist, Jake Surette. See, you can tell he is famous because he is wearing a baseball cap. All famous people wear those caps! I wanted to show you Jake's tips with pictures. Apparently, the sight of a woman, a make-up artist to the stars, a mirror, and camera frightens the people at Sephora because as soon as they saw me take this photo they told me to stop taking pictures. I could be telling many thousands of women to rush to Sephora to buy the blush that Jake is applying to my cheeks in this very photo, but I am not. Isn't it interesting that a place that  sells art supplies for your body doesn't allow photos of the artwork? The manager of Sephora should've offered us some eye shadow and lipstick to play with, then offered to take our picture together. I'd have bought more stuff and would be telling you to RUN to Sephora right now. Being a NO PHOTOS FREAK is just not good business. Whatever happened to making customers feel welcomed and wanted?
If I were not busy gazing lovingly at Jake's artwork in the mirror, I'd totally be writing to Sephora right now.

Comments

[Jane]

Jake does beautiful work! The uptight Sephora girls, with their poorly applied stains and cakey mascara, were probably jealous.

They love Jonathon Antin, though, and let him take pics. Probably because he'd cry if they didn't.

What a fun day, regardless of the Sephora bitches!

[John Krill]

Welcome to the world of "Put that camera away!" I hear it all the time. Remember the signs at the book festival: "Absolutly no photographs . . ." Go to museums today and the first thing the guards tell you is no photography.

I can't even walk into a store without a mimium wage clerk telling me "No photography" before they even greet you. In fact that is their greeting.

My suggestion is do it anyway.

And you're right that stores just don't get it. It's all free advertising. They just have to get over it.

PS: Enjoyed meeting you and your sister at the book festival.

[liz]

seeing you and jake together makes my day!

he is super talented, isn't he?

[Terry]

What if we planned a day where everyone walked into Sephora and started taking pictures...
Wouldn't that just send corporate into a tizzy?
Lovely cheekbones, by the way.

[TandJ]

I had a store at the Grove act like I was a terrorist for taking 1 picture of their wall display.

At least when I go in to the Japanese food market.. no one tells me to stop taking pictures.
My mother is tired of me sending her pictures of foreign food.

[Kimberly Kwan]

good lord! did you LOOK like someone who was going to steal their top-secret merchandising secrets??! get ovah yourselves, Sephora.

[Jake]

they couldn't deal with so much pretty, that's all-
i'm all in for "take photos at sephora day".

[Lisa Hoffman]

We "Pho-Blog-raphers" are used to gettin the old NO PHOTO SmackDown, right?
The last time that it happened to me, I asked the woman :
"...can I photograph you asking me not to photograph you?"....I thought that I was Hilarious. She, on the other hand, did not.
Huge, lost advert ops for sure. Fools. I'm going to tell my own Sephora girls and boys that a very prominent star in L.A. was rudely shut down and that they need to send us all samples of expensive perfume..NOW.

Snap on, Woman!
Lisa H.

[Ronda P.]

ok totally cracking up at the last comment. I hate the camera nay sayers. Why must they be intimidated by a lens? You think Sephora has issues....try snapping a picture at the chocolate bar in Sak's fifth Ave.

[SondiC]

I don't get this.
More and more retail places are acting like they are the Lourve (sp?) and don't want anyone taking photos of their "trade secrets". I get that NO PHOTOS deal everytime i try to take a pic in Starbucks too. And, considering that my blood (on a good day) is more caffeine than red cells, I could really be helping them advertise. But noooooooo....they just about have a stroke whenever i take out a camera. What the heck is up with that???
-sondra

[Beth]

I posted awhile back, about the same kind of thing....except I was in Anthropologie and they were told me NO NO NO photos....and then I took one while nobody was looking. They said it was company policy even though it's not written anywhere....WHAT ????
Beth
www.moredoors.blogspot.com

[Glenda Tkalac]

I was in a mall taking pics and a security guard came up to me and said I couldn't take any more pics. I said "what, is that a law or something" and he said it was the mall's policy and if I continued I would have to leave. Can you believe it?? And here I thought it was a free world? He said it was because I could be "scouting" for store design ideas. geesh!