Azalea Square — Attraction in Summerville

I was in Azalea Square to go to Kohls & Target.

Kohls is great & and I love it more with addition of Sephora. I am an esthetician & love to browse the latest skin/beauty products that have been released. Having Sephora & Ulta close together gives me a better opportunity to comparison shop for products & prices! After I have done the things I explain below, I can then also compare online after having inspected them in person. Many times, I can find better prices at Amazon & other Beaty supply stores. Always compare online after your 1st purchase in a store!

To me, skin care products bought for the 1st time need to be done in a brick & mortar store! I need to feel its texture, how it absorbs, how it sits on the skin before other products are introduced, the scent notes it has, if perfumes or essential oils are added before more products are layered to change the notes of the original product. Layering products can be very confusing unless you are using products with no scents. Unless you are legit perfumer or someone very adept at mixing oils at home, you could end up layer products on yourself that could trigger headaches if the smell is too powerful to your olfactory system.

This is all just the first step of what I believe an esthetician should do when looking at products! Then you check the ingredients, their % of strength when dealing with acids & and make sure none are comedogenic to trigger pimples or comedones.

I could rattle on all day about skin, but I will proceed to Target.

My main reason for Target is the CVS inside the store. The pharmacists get to know you by name & give great advice.

Target also has interesting food items you won't find in grocery stores or Wal-Mart. I love their trailmix variety.

They also tend to have better clothes, but you will pay for that. They have a great athletic wear selection and underwear & I prefer the men's character t-shirts to the women's. They are usually less than $15 with a great selection.

They also have a pretty good book area for those of us who prefer paper pages. They are also amassing a nice vinyl collection! Even though it does irk me when I see prices on new stock when I bought originals at flea markets for less than a dollar!

That's my review! Hope it helps & sorry if I got long-winded about skin products, but I love to educate people about their skin & buying products!...

Prefer shopping here over the malls because I can get everything I need and want in one place plus an ocean of easy, free parking.

This shopping square is more like a shopping village- has a vast array of different varieties of retail stores-from clothes, to drugstores, to pet stores, to electronics and sporting goods. Also endowed with a huge variety of restaurants as well- from sit down places like Logan's Roadhouse, O Charley's, Ruby Tuesday, and Mellow Mushroom, to dozens of fast food selections to include TCBY, Chick-fil-A, Moe's, Smashburger, Marble Slab.

Azalea square also has gas stations at one's fingertips and even a Regal Cinema movie theater with comfy...

The stores on this side of town definitely have items I've not seen in others across the tri-county area. Navigating traffic is the biggest drawback as there's not much room for lane changes between lights. Make it easier for yourself and other motorists don't try and "shoot the gap" just make your turn at stop light then u-turn in a parking lot. You might have to wait a light cycle or two but it's a safe straight to cross back through the light. Wait on a light cycle or wait for a wreck to be cleared, which do you think would be quicker? There's remodeling going on at Target so there's construction...