A beauty store offers the very best option for obtaining high-quality beauty products at a decent price. While you can often find some of these products -- especially shampoo -- at beauty salons, you'll generally find that the salons charge more for the privilege.

Beauty store employees can be a veritable goldmine of information about cosmetology. While they don't have to be licensed cosmetologists like beauty salon employees, they may very well be -- and in any case, they have a wealth of practical information about the products they sell.

With the advent of the Internet, you don't have to depend on brick-and-mortar beauty stores to obtain your favorite beauty products. There are online beauty stores that provide excellent beauty products at a discount through the mail, and they'll often send free samples, too.