Pacific Mall, or Pmall, is my favourite place to shop for beautysupplies. The cramped rows of stalls provide a seemingly never-ending stream ofnew products to shop through, and the prices are better than anywhere indowntown Toronto. Deborah Lippmann may be $30 with tax at Holt Renfrew, but atPmall, they're sold for as low as $15. True, I probably spent the extra 15dollars on the gas to get there, but that's just another reason to stock up, right?
My friend Brianne and I recently braved the half-hour driveto go shopping and ended up having the best day. We gothorribly lost on the way there (multiple times), then got lost for ages insidethe mall, too.
We drank yummy bubble tea, ate so many noodles, and aguy even sent his friend over with cups of soy milk and say "complements of thegentleman in the black hat over there"--not cocktails, not even bubble tea,but soy milk, and more importantly, soy milk that is given out to everyone freewith their meal. We didn't drink it, but the gesture was sort of amazing.
Mostimportantly, though, we sifted through amazing foreign beauty supplies forhours.
From miscellaneous beauty shops filled with the prettiest hair-cutting scissors and sponges you've ever seen, to extremely curated brandedstores like Tony Moly and Holika Holika, Pmall has it all.
I usually hold back with my spending as best as I can when Itake a day trip there, but since I've been working two jobs nonstop thisholiday season, I decided to treat myself a bit more than usual.
I came homewith so many amazing, wonderful things.
I hit up Holika Holika first because I love their magical witchaesthetic and they have an amazing assortment of tea scented face masks. Aftera lot of contemplation, I settled on a milk tea mask, a lavender tea mask, andthe most glittery gorgeous iridescent blue opal nail polish (sold in acontainer that looks like a precious gem).
At Tony Moly, I followed Mari's always on-point advice andbought an amazing lavender blush. It looks so cute and magical on my cheeks, Iam a little bit addicted. It only cost $9, so I also bought a little powderpuff with a bow, and a peach hand cream sold in a peach, because how could Inot?
Then I found strawberry foam hair rollers like the ones Madeline wrote about on xoJane. How could I not?
Then there were the hair clips... And that other nail polish...But it was gold and so glittery and only two dollars! So you know... HOW COULD I NOT?!
Where do you go to spend all your hard earned money on beautyproducts?