The only difference is that she got caught. People take advantage of the fact that cosmetic counters have testers, displays and free gifts. A tester is a tester. A display is something different.

Desperate to get shoppers in the door, department stores are discounting the one item they had long been able to sell at full price: cosmetics. Some executives warned that discounting is a short ...

(WTNH) — A man was arrested after police said he was caught on camera destroying a Bloomingdale’s display counter at SoNo ... Jason Gilbertie entered the cosmetics department and started ...

For seven years, I worked as a makeup artist in almost every high-end retail store—from Saks Fifth Avenue to Barneys. Dressed in the beauty-counter uniform of head-to-toe black, my job was to ...

The beauty hall can be a scary place, we're not talking creepy-twins-from-The-Shining kind of scary, but with all the spotlights, jam-packed displays ... it comes to makeup counters, I've always ...

I always wondered what it would be like to stand on the other side of a cosmetics counter. So, when Kiehl’s opened its Valley Fair store a few weeks ago and invited me to shadow store manager ...

Welcome to Cosmetics Counter, an occasional feature by Marlena Kaesler, freelance makeup artist and former employee of MAC. In this space, Kaesler will offer her thoughts on new trends in ...

Welcome to Cosmetics Counter, an occasional feature by Marlena Kaesler, freelance makeup artist and former employee of MAC. In this space, Kaesler will offer her thoughts on new trends in ...

The CEO of Intimate Brands Inc.'s (IBI) beauty division is there to size up the competition, the cosmetics counters that crowd the first floor of every department store worth the name. Burns is ...