It's prom time up here, that time of year when high school kids get ready for the biggest dance of the year. I'm taking the girl child around town looking for the finishing touches to her dress and she wants to stop at a local beauty supply store. I sigh saying it's not my type of place but okay. So we're in the store and she is talking to the store clerk who shows her to the makeup section and I'm just tagging along the only thing I can contribute to this whole affair is my money. They are going over all the different styles and the look the kid is going for and I glance over my shoulder and there are racks of fingernail polish. Not my thing but I point it out to the girl. I then notice the rack of files, fingernail clippers, tweezers and other implements of destruction when I notice the display of sanding sticks that made me say hmmmm. There were grits ranging from coarse enough to strip armor plating to fine enough to polish plastic to a high sheen. And not just boards but sponges of all different shapes, sizes, grits and the best thing? The Prices!!! I'm standing there pondering what I need vs what I want when a guy walks in walks up beside me, says excuse me, grabs several different items and the clerk goes and takes his cash and he leaves with a smile on his face. So the girl makes her selection of warpaint, I make my selection of abrasive items and head for the register. The clerk takes my money she comments on the sanding items and I say "I build models and I got thru a lot of different sanding sticks". She started to laugh and says the guy who was just in here does the same thing and is in there all the time.

Why has nobody mentioned this before? No more waiting for a shipment in the mail, no more ridiculous prices (not that they are really expensive anyway) but a bigger selection than I've seen in any hobby shop. So if you got a beauty supply shop in your home town, check it out. If you need to take your spouse or girl child to make you feel less weird about going into a beauty supply shop then do it. You might find something you need, want or gotta have.