“Sephora inside JCPenney” at Lakewood Center Mall

(Originally published 07/2009) Lakewood Center continues to evolve, and reinvent itself. Recent development has included opening a new Costco Wholesale store and the addition of Forever21. The mall now features Paris-based cosmetics retailer Sephora inside of the JCPenny department store.

The upscale cosmetics store has found a new home inside stores of its U.S. partner JC Penny and is expanding nationwide. The Lakewood store is one of the first 100 Sephora expansions in the U.S.

Sephora is a chain of beauty product stores founded in France in 1969 and acquired by Paris-based conglomerate LVMH in 1997.

The Sephora chain includes more than 750 stores in 21 countries. It carries over 250 brands of items that include makeup, skin care, fragrance, bath, hair products, hair tools, and beauty accessories, including Sephora's own private label.