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Best Beauty Supply Stores In Orange County

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The best beauty supply stores are filled with everything from makeup and hair products to brushes, moisturizers, hair extensions and tweezers. Some also offer additional services like hair styling or makeup application. No matter what time of year it is, shopping for beauty supplies and pampering yourself is a thrilling experience, made better when you can find exactly what you're looking for — and some unexpected bonus items as well. Whatever you need, one of these stores is bound to have it. Happy shopping!

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17th Street Beauty Center
283 East 17th Street
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
(949) 642-1717
www.beautyjunky.com

For over 20 years, 17th Street Beauty Center has offered professional products to the local community. With a selection you can't beat, the high-quality products sold here are used in salons all over the world. Many of the brands can be purchased on their website, but the store has an even wider selection—bareMinerals, Frankie Rose, L'Occitane en Provence, Paul Mitchell, Sexy Hair, Obagi Medical and Redken are offered exclusively at the Costa Mesa storefront. Choose from hair and skincare products, makeup, nail products, bath products, candles and beauty accessories. On top of their retail products, 17th Street Beauty Center offers haircuts and coloring, but they'll also help you with things like trimming the extensions you buy in the store to match your hairstyle or length and eyebrow waxing.

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Beauty Avenue
124 East Yorba Linda Boulevard
Placentia, CA 92870
(714) 528-5511
www.beautyavenuesalon.com

Beauty Avenue also doubles as a beauty supply store and salon. With a large supply of hair products, including brands like Biosilk, It's a 10 Miracle, Matrix, Paul Mitchell, Pureology, Texture and Redken, they also have tried-and-true brands like Loreal, and trendy products like TIGI Bedhead and Moroccanoil. In addition to salon-quality hair products, they offer popular products for skincare and nail care as well as cosmetics. Grab some Kiss Me Mascara, OPI nail polish and Glo Minerals products. Their salon services include standard haircuts and coloring, but more unique items like perms, Japanese hair straightening and keratin blowouts. Beyond hair services, visitors can get firming, stress therapy or microdermabrasion facials, get various body parts waxed or get acrylic, gel or silk wrapped manicures.

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Planet Beauty
20 City Boulevard West
Orange, CA 92868
(714) 769-3420
www.planetbeauty.com

Planet Beauty is one of the best beauty supply stores around, and also one of the most popular. The Orange location, which can be found at The Outlets at Orange, has many high-quality products that are staples within the beauty world. Like the other beauty supply stores on this list, the items they sell cover a wide range, but they are sold at very reasonable prices. Pick up more unique products like after-sun lotions, brow enhancers, hair oils, deodorant, cuticle creams and men's shaving tools. They sell popular brands like Morrocanoil, philosophy and Smashbox, but they also carry plenty of hard-to-find hair products that are used at luxury salons. Be sure to ask the employees if you need more information about the products as they are well-informed and will sometimes even provide samples for you to try before you buy.

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Modern Image Beauty Supply
21771 Lake Forest Drive
Lake Forest, CA 92630
(949) 855-3217

Modern Image Beauty Supply is another store that has a combined hair salon. With a skilled staff that specializing in cutting hair, waxing eyebrows and providing customers with the exact look their seek, they form great relationships with their clients. If you're coming in for beauty supplies, you'll find that the employees are also quick to recommend different products and show you right where you can find them in the store. The store offers popular brands like Zoya, bareMinerals, Moroccanoil, OPI and Epicuren as well as some unique items like Tan Towels—wipes that provide a tanned look.

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Beauty World
13206 Harbor Boulevard
Garden Grove, CA 92843
(714) 636-1234

Selling popular brands like NYX, Paul Mitchell and Ardell, you'll be able to find almost anything you're looking for at Beauty World. The Garden Grove store has a wide selection of cosmetics, including everything from lipsticks, lip liners and eye shadows to mascara and fake eyelashes. Beauty World is filled with hair products as well, like shampoos and conditioners made specifically for colored hair, extensions, hair dye, oils, hair accessories, heat protector. Beauty World also sells a variety of high-quality wigs, one product that many beauty supply stores do not carry. They do offer a variety of other products, accessories and tools, but their specialty is hair and makeup products. One aspect which makes this store stand out though is their affordable pricing on products that tend to be a little more expensive.

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Beauty Supply Zone
16377 Bolsa Chica Street
Huntington Beach, CA 92649
(714) 840-0159
www.beautysupplyzone.com

The owners of Beauty Supply Zone are a married couple that do everything in their power to provide a positive experience and help you enjoy your visit to the store. Beyond their wealth of knowledge, they offer recommendations and help you find products that are going to work for you. Because the store also doubles as a hair salon, one of their main focuses is on hair products. The store offers brands like Acme, Champkom, Agadir, COLURE and AG Hair. The owner herself is a hairdresser for the salon, and the wife and the others work to build relationships with their clients rather than simply cutting their hair. Beauty Supply Zone also has good prices on premium goods.

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Sally Beauty Supply
16585 Von Karman Avenue
Irvine, CA 92606
(949) 955-9486
www.sallybeauty.com

Sally Beauty Supply is another popular store and probably the most recommended beauty supply store in Southern California, especially for hair products. Their selection of shampoos and conditions, hair oils, dyes, heat products, styling products and other accessories is outstanding. They also carry makeup, nail and skin care products as well as salon products and equipment, making them one of the most recommended stores by professional stylists and hairdressers. Employees sometimes throw freebies in and there is a membership program called the Beauty Club Card that offers rewards like discounts and free products.

Ashley Ryan is an Orange County native that loves traveling, live music and photography. She blogs at Pure Wander and freelances for a variety of publications including Newport Beach Magazine and Laguna Beach Magazine.
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