Skincare and Makeup Mecca Opens on Southport

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Let's guess here, your pores are large and you're sweating your makeup off, right? Chicago summers 'll do that to you, and then in the wintertime, you'll shrivel up like a bag of freeze-dried strawberries. Lucky for you, Bluemercury, one of the fastest growing luxury beauty and spa retail shops, just opened their second location in the city, up on Southport. Bluemercury’s newest 1,895 square foot location features 50 indulgent beauty brands from around the world and a luxurious skin spa with cutting edge, results-oriented treatments.

Bluemercury offers a large, yet tightly edited selection of unique cosmetics and technically innovative skincare products from: from more than 50 highly sought after brands such as Bobbi Brown, Laura Mercier, NARS T. LeClerc, Serge Lutens, Tammy Fender, REN, and Trish McEvoy. The unique factor to the business is that they bring more high-tech skincare into the mix with solutions like M-61, SkinCeuticals, Revive, Dermalogica and MD Skincare. Plus this store will have one treatment room available for facials, waxings, brow stylings, and makeup applications.

The designers of the store, which has taken the old Perchance Boutique location went for a "warm elegance". Find hardwood floors, oriental rugs and white marble counters which create an intimate and inviting atmosphere with contemporary fixtures in an open-air format for more free shopping.
· Bluemurcury [Official Site]