Sephora

Great selection of makeup from so many brands. Definitely ask for samples to take home to try before buying especially the pricey skin care items. Staff knowledge is hit and miss depending on who you talk to but store is generally friendly.
You can get make up done by one of their staff if you have an event to go to and want something special like smokey eyes, tons of fake lashes etc. Just call and book an appointment, in turn you get an hour long appointment with their artist and you just have to buy $ 50 worth of items in the store as a form of payment. MAC does the same thing and I assume the other cosmetic counters use this same approach but at least with Sephora you have a lot of brands to choose from and really it doesn’t take much to get to $ 50. Though you just have to make sure you tell the make up person to have some restraint when applying makeup. Remember the people who work here LOVE make up and wear a lot of it which looks good on them but if you’re not comfortable with a lot of it on, tell them so.