Has anyone been to the CCO at the Carolina Premium Outlets in Smithfield? I've been begging some friends to accompany me there and I thought I would ask if it were worth it first!

Wow I didn't even know they had a CCO at Smithfield. I shopped there all the time. I guess I spent too much time in the DKNY Jeans store when it was still open.

What is the name of the CCO?

Could you provide any more info on where the other center is? If I'm going to drive out there, I'd love to hit up two centers instead of just one!

All I can find is Cosmetics Company / Estee Lauder(919) 934-7474 (from outletbound.com), but the store is easy to find if you know where to look. I want to say it's over by the Coach outlet store, but unless you head over there, you're going to miss it by looking near the rest of the stores. I think that the addition that the cosmetics store is at is relatively newer than the rest of the complex, too. As far as my experience with the store, they don't like it if you swatch a lot of things, even if you do it hygenically. And I don't remember there being a huge selection, since the store itself isn't very big, or it wasn't when I went there last year. I doubt they've moved, too. I'll probably go back this year, but I don't expect to find all that much.

The store in in the newer section of the outlet. It is near the coach store and right beside Ralph Lauren Kids and Tommy Hilfiger. The store has one counter dedicated to MAC. Always check the fishbowl at the checkout counter. There are usually palette refills there and discontinued shadows. I went 2 weeks ago and they have a good variety of things. Lots of Holiday stuff from last year, natural skinfinishes and brush sets. HTH

Ahh ok- thanks everyone I don't walk around the outlet, I just go to the same 3 stores- that's how I missed it.

Yaaayy!! So I've never been to a CCO before, nor had I ever heard of them til I joined specktra. After reading about them on here, I looked up my closest one (which is only about an hour away) and took a trek out there! Here's what I found!!

Glitter: Jam Session (they also had a turquoisey blue one that I can't remember the name of, and smaller jars of a yellow and pink one that I can't remember the names of.)

Pigments: The ones I got were Sunnydaze, Apricot Pink, Entremauve, Accent Red, Blue Storm (A64 batch...don't know if that means anything...i heard something about blue storm batches. I mean, I know what the batch number means, but ok yeah anyways. lol). The others that they had were ones that I already have or am getting later that aren't LE --- they were Lovely Lily, Softwash Grey, and Blue Brown. They also had quite a few of the Dress Sets from the end of last year in the warm colors.

They also had some e/s that I wasn't really interested in: Mancatcher, In Living Pink, Lavender Sky, Black Tied in a seafoam green pot, Innuendo, Beauty Sleep, and something I didn't expect to see----Interview/Purple-x Duo mineral e/s.

Anyways here's pics of what I got...just 5 pigments and 1 glitter.

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oh now i really want ot go find myself a CCO

Your CCO is way better than mine, nice haul!!

Thanks to kuuipo1207's post, I figured a trip out to the CCO store wouldn't be a complete waste of time. But I didn't think I'd find so many cool things!

Stuff I saw but didn't get included: the set of 5 warm lipglasses for $20 from last year's holiday stuff (I think), the set of four shadesticks from the same time period that included Royal Hue, the set of warm pigments from that same time period too, a bunch of blushes in pot and Sunbasque in pan, a bunch of random foundations and concealers in different formulations, lots of lipliners, lots of Chromeglasses, some e/s including Mancatcher and Black Tied from Lure like kuuipo1207 mentioned as well as the mineralized duo, the cool eyes set from Patternmaker from last year, two quads (Take Wing from Untamed and Sweetie Cake), a set of three lipsticks (including See Sheer), some bags, a lip palette from last year's holiday stuff too, some beauty powders, a few brushes, some e/l with sparkles, a set of 3 lipgelees, a decent selection of pigments (including Pinked Mauve, Apricot Pint, Lovely Lily, and Entremauve) and a few glitters in vials and jars, one glitterliner... Basically nothing too earth-shattering, but it was really fun to paw through everything!

Stuff from other brands at the CCO- lots of single e/s from Clinique, some skincare that was barely discounted (we're talking $1 discounts) from them, some random Origins stuff, Bone cream e/s and Peony and Gold Shimmerbricks from Bobbi Brown (there was one more but I don't remember the name), some Prescriptives foundation and lipstuffs... I didn't look at the EL stuff much, so I can't report about it.

And as for Stila: Pussycat Dolls palette, two re:Orient palettes, a couple lipsticks, one Blackberry lipglaze and lip pencil set for about $16, lots of different brushes, a few lipsticks, two pan e/s without containers (one was Jade), and a silver can with the Stila girl on it in a blue outfit (?) and three brushes for about $30. There wasn't a lot of makeup available, but it seemed to me like there was a nice variety of Stila brushes available.

So I know what you're thinking... so what did I buy? So let's get on with that! This includes stuff for me and for my sister in law:

Fluidlines: Delphic, Haunting, Lithograph
Pigments: Accent Red, Blue Brown (I got the last one)
Face stuff: Desirous blush, Shell Pearl (gave this one a bad review but when I put it on (instead of the MA) I liked it!), Studio Stick foundation, Shock and Shine Glimmershimmer
E/s: Clinique's Peacock e/s
Lip stuff: EL Pure Color l/s in Raspberry Pop, Clinique Azalea l/g x2, Pulsesetter and Already Fab! Chromeglass, and Wild 'Bout You!!!!! I'd wanted that for months and finally found it!

Hope you enjoyed reading about this CCO and what it has!

Dang it...I was hoping they'd still have the Blue Brown by the time I got back to NC next month. lol. Great haul!

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I went to this CCO this past Saturday and picked up 209 eyeliner brush and Moth Brown eyeshadow( I didn't buy it when it came out). It was so crowded that I did not spend too much time looking around.

I just went there yesterday, and they had all the barbie eyeshadows, except for the green one. I bought the last refined enriched bronzer from the lure collection, shell pearl and sunsparked pearl beauty powders-they had TONS, retrodaze lipstick, pink freeze lipstick-from the belle azure collection, and 3 different bobbi brown shimmer bricks- peony, gold, and the last brownie they had. I saw some mini sets and a bunch of pigments that I already have. I may be going back this coming up weekend.

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