An Insider’s Guide to Makeup Shopping in Italy - Makeup and Beauty Blog

I don't know about you lot, but being the beauty lover that I am, whenever I travel to a foreign country I'grand e'er on the hunt for makeup products I tin't find back home. No refrigerator magnets for me; lipsticks are my favorite souvenirs! 😉

Follow me today on a little virtual shopping spree of Bologna, then that the next time y'all visit Italy, you lot'll be perfectly capable of finding your way through the Italian beauty jungle on your own.

Let's go to the old town then, shall we? Since there'southward a lot of variety in terms of stores, information technology'due south definitely the best identify for shopping, and we tin do a fleck of sightseeing as well… I'll see y'all by the Neptune Fountain, Bologna's most pop meeting point.

Neptune Fountain and Piazza Maggiore, the primary square, in the background

If you're interested in loftier-end cosmetics, we should become to a profumeria (beauty shop). Almost profumerie vest to big retail bondage, like Sephora, Limoni or Douglas, but quite a few independent stores still survive. Some of these are called bioprofumerie and only behave natural and organic products. Would you like to check one out?

This Limoni beauty store used to be a church, and it was congenital in the 18th century. Tin can you see the décor inside? Pretty cool, eh?

Another Limoni store right next to a fishmonger. At that place are lots of amazing contained food stores in this area. Would y'all like to have a look around?

Tortellini on display, one of Bologna's many specialties

Oh, y'all're saying you'd rather go to a makeup counter? Well, really, here we don't really have makeup counters. Our section stores are normally smaller than those in the United states of america, and most of the time their beauty departments only have self-service aisles instead of counters.

Coin, AKA the Italian Macy's

If y'all're looking for what you lot'd call 'drugstore makeup', we can't get to a drugstore.

Why, you inquire me? Well, because our drugstores ( farmacie ) are very different from American ones and don't sell much else other than medicines. The but beauty products y'all can find there are French pharmacy skincare (Bioderma, La Roche Posay, Avène, and the like), so if you're interested in Maybelline or similar Italian brands, nosotros should go to a supermarket instead.

Here, all supermarkets have a dazzler corner where you tin can find products in the drugstore price range. The same types of products can besides be found at Acqua & Sapone or Tigotà, two retail chains that specialize in cleaning supplies and personal intendance items.

I don't know if you have something like in the United states of america, simply they kinda remind me of drugstores, minus the drugs!

A farmacia (drugstore) on a pedestrian street in Bologna'southward old town

In the old town in that location are nigh 25 miles of porticoes, which will go on us sheltered from any kind of conditions

Of course nosotros're going to KIKO! Being an Italian visitor, their stores here are literally EVERYWHERE. There are also a few other standalone stores of similar brands yous may want to check out. One I personally know and like is WYCON, but the other day I set foot in a Flormar for the showtime time and saw they had this big selection of colorful nail polishes you might besides enjoy… Total centre candy!

Perusing Flormar'due south brandish for the starting time fourth dimension

If you're tired from all the walking and shopping (it'due south a hard life, I know), we tin can stop for a petty dejeuner whenever you lot want. May I treat you to a dainty selection of local cheese and common cold cuts?

OK, friend, now that our breadbasket is full, I think we can telephone call it a mean solar day. I hope you enjoyed our footling beauty bout of Bologna. Let's exercise it again sometime!

Carolina Braina

Hey, ladies (and gents), it'south Carolina here, reporting live from Bologna, Italy, to bring you the latest and greatest in dazzler from the skilful ol' continent! For an extra dose of that timeless Italian glam with a touch of humor and self-irony (because, you know, laughter is the best makeup), come say hullo at carolinapage.eu and Instagram.

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