Now before reading any further, please take this warning to heart: I AM NOT A MAKEUP GIRL. I’ve never worn makeup in a way that looks contemporary (well, maybe once, when my high school boyfriend’s mother bought me a lipstick at MAC (ravenette? Something -ette) that was pale, pale pink with a shimmer, and I applied it obsessively until it was gone, end of story). In recent years, with the help of friends who are more knowledgeable, or at least more adventurous, than I, I’ve found a look that looks OK (or doesn’t look like anything at all) and I’ve left it at that.
But every girl, even those of us who feel lost at sea upon entering Sephora, wants to try something new every once in a while. For me, it was lip gloss. But how threatening! Throwing oneself to the wolves on the cosmetics floor of Saks or Bloomingdales, or drowning in Sephora, finally paying $20 for something that may look plain ridiculous? Sounds great.
Fear not: yesterday I came upon the perfect solution: Missha! Missha is a makeup chain with over 200 outlets in its home country of South Korea and 7 shops globally, including its New York store at 516 Fifth Avenue (43rd Street). But more importantly, pretty much everything was priced at $5 or less, minimizing the cost of errors in judgment for makeup mistake-prone girls like me. I left with a sweet (as in great looking and fruity tasting) new lip gloss, $4.99, and a nail polish, $1.49, as well as a number of free samples. Watch out, mirror. Here I come.
Missha’s New York store is at 516 Fifth Avenue (43rd Street).