The Five Best Beauty Stores in NYC
While online beauty shopping is convenient for restocking your holy grail beauty and skincare products, it's always good to try something new once in a while. Whether it’s smelling new fragrances or finding out how a natural oil feels on the skin, only a brick and mortar beauty store can satisfy your beauty senses (and oftentimes for free, which is a lot more difficult to achieve when you're looking at products on a website). While your local Sephora or Ulta can feel like a safe bet, New York City is brimming with unlimited niche beauty stores to explore, and you'd be missing out if you didn't try a few.
In addition to being full of great products to try, these locations will also have you snapping photos for the gram thanks to their aesthetically pleasing interiors. See five of our favorites below, ranging from the most trusted perfumeries to the chicest new makeup spots.
Atelier Beauté Chanel
Think of this storefront as a makeup playground. This interactive beauty workshop allows you to experiment with Chanel's variety of beauty products with stations set up for each step of your routine. Starting all the way from cleansers and fragrances and ending off with finding your perfect lip color, this workshop gives you unlimited options to find what's right for you.
Atelier Beauté Chanel Workshop is located at 120.5 Wooster St.
Credo Beauty
Credo Beauty is all about the all-natural and clean girl aesthetic. Looking to swap your old beauty products out for something more sustainable? Credo's mission is to offer transparency about skincare and makeup products that will work best for your skin, and the environment. With cruelty-free products that are selected from a variety of brands, check out this cute shop with locations in Brooklyn, SoHo, and the Upper East Side.
Credo is located at 99 N. 6th St., 9 Prince St., and 1140 Third Ave.
Aedes Perfumery
A longtime West Village gem now on the Lower East Side, this fragrance store contains every possible scent from niche European brands. Walking into the 20-year-old antique space transports one to a pied-à-terre in Paris. With chandeliers, roses in silver vases, and red drapes covering a mirrored wall, the Aedes Perfumery store takes the experience of buying a fragrance to a new level.
Aedes Perfumery is located at 16A Orchard St.
Senti Senti
Formerly known as oo35mm, this beauty store houses hand-crafted picks from all over the world, including beauty's latest trend of Korean skincare. With popular brands like Beauty of Joseon and RoundLab, Senti Senti has reinvented its store to fit the modern and chic element New Yorkers and travelers alike are looking for.
Senti Senti is located at 81 Mott St and 66 Ainslie St.
Lip Lab
We all know the drill at Sephora. You walk in and try all the makeup products until you’re basically ready to attend a gala. Lipstick brand Bite Beauty takes the beauty store experience a step further. Instead of simply selling lip products, the Canadian label lets you make your own shade. For $60, you get to choose and mix colors from 200 Bite lip pigments, apply a matte, creamy, or glossy finish, and even create how the lipstick is going to smell. Find the perfect shade for you, literally.
Lip Lab by Bite is located at 174 Prince St., as well as 160 N 4th St in Brooklyn (available by appointment or walk-ins.)
