{"id":338058,"date":"2025-08-12T09:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338058\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T09:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:13:13","slug":"why-is-birmingham-enjoying-a-beauty-shop-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338058\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Birmingham enjoying a beauty shop boom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">TikTok and Instagram beauty influencer Yasmin Hussein said it was the range of products drawing customers back into brick and mortar shops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Birmingham needed a store like Space NK to come, it&#8217;s what was missing,&#8221; the 27-year-old from the city said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s loads of brands stocked at the store that everyone knows and loves and it came at the perfect time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Founded in 1991, Space NK first opened its doors in London&#8217;s Covent Garden in 1993. It stocks over 130 beauty brands and has more than 80 stores across the UK and Ireland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Charlie Evans, head of retail for the chain, said the Birmingham opening was part of a big expansion over the last 12 months. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Customers have been calling out &#8211; shouting out &#8211; to be in Birmingham and we&#8217;ve had some really big cities &#8211; but Birmingham is our most important,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two-storey store will open at 10:00 BST, creating 40 new jobs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first 500 customers will receive a goody bag, as well as a Birmingham-themed challenge in the shape of a bucking broncho to take on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TikTok and Instagram beauty influencer Yasmin Hussein said it was the range of products drawing customers back into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-338058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}