I have it on pretty good authority (i.e. the clerk at the Sephora in Florida told Kym and so it MUST be true… dear Lord, let it be true…!!!!) that Sephora is coming to Vancouver.

This summer. Pacific Centre. I hope.

Heavens, I haven’t been this excited since I heard the New Kids on the Block are getting back together. Oh right, that wasn’t too long ago. Well, still.

Oh Sephora, dear Sephora. You draw me in like a magnet and I flit from shelf to shelf to stoke the fire of my desire with fabulous glittery Fresh eyeshadows, buttery Bombshell lip glosses and glowing Nars blushes. I’m like a diabetic in a sugar-free chocolate store; like a butterfly with ADD in Buchart Gardens; like Rob in EB Games when they’re having a 2 for 1 Xbox game blow-out.

And dear, sweet Sephora, how you love me back. Like that time I ordered that Diorshow mascara from you online and you sent me an email thanking me for my order and called me “gorgeous”. Or how you remembered my birthday and not only sent me an email but gave me a gift – a free luxurious 1.7 oz tube of Naked Body Butter which my sister-in-law in Calgary had to pick up since, alas, you have not yet graced us with your presence here in Vancouver.

But that is (hopefully!) about to change.

And halleluja to that.

UPDATE: Apparently I was a little optimistic and Sephora is NOT coming to Vancouver any time soon.