I work in a store which is known for their testers. Theyre out so that people can see the true colors, give it a smell, some test it on the back of their hands. If you wanted to try the lipstick on your lips, we have a completely different set that is hidden away for swatching - skin never touches those lipsticks, always giving the customer either a cutoff with a little spatula or applying with a new makeup brush. I've never seen anyone just openly trying out all of the lipsticks on their lips - seems way too gross even pre-pandemic. I think this is both on the customer for being publicly daft but also on the staff for not pushing for a hygienic application sitdown.
Worked on a makeup counter in central London for awhile.. Even during COVID by the time I have opened my mouth to tell them how they could possibly test it, some of them were already smearing lipstick directly on their lips... Some ppl are completely clueless regarding hygiene.
I'm a doctor and I really appreciate the way you discuss herpes. It's SO common, and people feel so guilty for it, because there's this culture of guilt and shame around "sexually transmitted diseases" that just makes life harder for everyone!
But if you're a doctor, why not point out the different types of herpes and different methods of transition. Genital herpes is not the same herpes that causes cold sores, chicken pox or shingles. Most forms are not sexually transmitted. From what Is talked about in this video it seems to be the cold sore form, not the genital form. So stds are not being discussed in the video.
@@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380 but there really is no need to give a distinction when cold sores can also be transferred to the genitals as well as genital sores being transferred/manifesting as cold sores... if somebody has cold sores (or even if they don't presently have a sore but have HSV1, the type of herpes *usually* associated w cold sores) & gave somebody oral sex, the person receiving the oral sex can get herpe sores in their genitals, even tho it is still technically HSV1 (again, the type of herpes associated with cold sores, chicken pox, shingles etc). they will still have to deal with the sores possibly reoccurring in their genitals for the rest of their life. it is also possible for HSV2 (type of herpes *usually* associated with genitals) infection to be transmitted to a person's mouth-in other words, you could develop a cold sore if you perform oral sex on someone with genital herpes (HSV2), although that type of transmission (HSV2 being transferred/appearing as cold sores on the mouth) isn't as common as HSV1 (cold sores) being transferred to genitals. but it is indeed possible for cold sores to be transferred sexually & if you saw someone with a cold sore, you'd have no way of discerning whether it was HSV1 or HSV2. same with genital sores, there's no way someone would be able to tell what type of herpes (HSV1 or HSV2) it was just by looking at the sores. & to the person who receives genital sores - the distinction between whether its HSV1 vs HSV2 doesn't make a tangible difference in their life, they will still have to deal with mouth/genital sores for the rest of their life & the stigma associated with it, even if it is just HSV1. &either virus can be transferred to either region regardless if the person presently has active sores. herpes is herpes, it is a virus that is transferred between skin-to-skin contact &/or saliva & other fluids. & for most people with either HSV1 ORRR HSV2, herpes doesn't impact their day to day life AT ALL besides the stigma attached to it. the only real difference between HSV1 & HSV2 is the stigmatization between the two...
“common-use” lipstick sounds so much more gross than “tester” lol, we should keep that as standard verbiage for these try-on products so that people remember how unsanitary they can be!
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I was in Walmart once, in the makeup aisle and saw a woman open a bottle of foundation, stick her finger in the bottle, get some out and put on her face, then put the lid on and put it back. I mentioned to her that she really shouldnt do that, that its very unhygenic, not to mention just ignorant. She just shrugged and opened another one. Ugh. I never buy stuff unless it has a safety seal now.
I just can't understand why people do this, its so disrespectful to the store and other people and its disgusting. I see it happen way too often. One time I bought a deodorant roller and when I opened it at home it stank and had armpit hairs on it, so I had to throw it away. Wasted my money on a used deodorant roller.. Now I just check them in store to make sure they are not used before I buy them :')
I honestly thought very few people actually put the testers on their face. I thought most everyone knew that was a bad idea. My mom taught me when I was like 5 that you never use random people makeup or even my friends makeup that makes contact with my eyes or mouth
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I have to say I was at Newman Marcus and la mer had jars open with little scoops and little jars for samples and no one working. I abused the heck out of those samples! I kept filling them up and tossing them in my bag
So the whole “Don’t share your chapstick with anyone that has a cold sore” warning that I used to hear waaayyyy back in middle school must have fallen under the cracks at some point. I thought this was common knowledge. I’ve had cold sores before, especially when it’s hot out, and I would never allow anyone to use my lip products. Same reason why I would not walk into a makeup store and try on their stuff. I believe the same warning was passed along when sharing eyeliners and mascaras if someone had a sty. Is it just me that remembers this?
First thing I taught my son when doing his stage makeup was never to share his mascara or eyeliner. We even practiced him saying no if anyone asked him to share those things!
No, I'm from 1985 and I remember when I was a tween adults warned us about sharing makeup and applying testers on our faces, it was ingrained in our heads to not do that !!
I once watched a lady in Wal-Mart finger-comb her hair, section it out, and test out six different conditioners by rubbing them through the ends of her hair. She put the caps back on all six bottles, put the bottles back on the shelf, and went about the rest of her shopping. People are nasty. Use utmost caution when shopping for anything that may have a safety seal, and don't use "common use" testers without sufficient decontamination between users. Also avoid Wal-Mart whenever possible.
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Shopping rule to live by...never grab the first item in the stack. It's either ppl sampling the product so there's less in it, coughed on and touched, or slobbered on by toddlers. Just double check the expiration date on the back items though.
For the record. I have also seen people drinking out of bottles at Safeway then putting them back. People using lotion at Target and putting back. And people drinking out of bottles at Kroger and putting them back. Be careful EVERYWHERE not just wally world.
I just NOW realized that two channels I follow are actually NOT of the same person but rather TWINS. The level of shookness I am experiencing has sent me tumbling down the stairs.
@@Beyondzz This guy has a twin, and Jun is probably talking about that they watch the twin and this guy and not realizing that they were in fact different people just twins
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I watched various videos from both of them for a while and I guess I thought it was one guy with 2 channels or something lol it took me a while to get it 🤣
Nah fr I started off watching them on Snapchat and was so confused when “Robert” had his eyebrow scar filled in. That’s when I realized that the story said James Welsh and I had just speed read it.
I really appreciate the fact that you _actually_ clarify that the title is clickbait at the beginning of the video... It still makes me want to watch the video as the subject matter is still interesting, whereas it's quite obnoxious to see a video whose content matter is totally discordant to the title, yet it doesn't even acknowledge that. Good work, James.
No, just no. Even pre-pandemic, all swatching went on my hand for hygiene purposes. I was taught by my Mom that testers were dirty just like money and one had to be careful with them. In all my years I have never put a tester on my face, horrifying. But then I had a friend use a tester eye product in store on her eyes because she had forgotten that makeup (it was eyeliner or mascara) and I was so revolted by that. This was all pre-pandemic, now it is even more terrifying. You could not pay me to use a tester on my face! Uggghh!
I was in TJ Maxx in Seattle, and I saw some lady use a liquid Lipstick, then put it back in the box and put it back on the shelf. I called her out for it but she just laughed and walked away, so I brought the product to the workers and told them what happened. I am SO cautious about what I buy from there now🤢
Uff i try to only buy sealed stuff from tkmaxx. People turn into animals when something is cheap. They just rip up the product, like if you did this anywhere else you would be forced to buy the product
Way before Covid I was testing in the back of my hand. I remember eyeballing in horror when I saw someone actually putting a tester on their face. Like I thought it was common sense.
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I used to work for Sephora, and omg, you wouldn't believe me if I told you how many PEOPLE comes in and grab the testers without even cleaning them and putting them on their faces. I would go up and ask to clean the testers and advise them not to apply the lipstick directly onto their lips; It's common sense!
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where i live youre forbidden in every drugstore/make up store to USE the testers on your face. theyre only for colour swatching on ur hand. seems like common sense 😂
@@sodense3402I've seen people stroll up to the make-up counter at Macy's and give themselves a full face by "sampling" different items. Like, it was a funny joke when we were kids, but yikes.
I used to work at Sephora, we had disposable one use lip aplicators, they were really cool and helped people see how the color looked on them. Most of us discouraged or straight down told customera to not use the testers without our help. Some were just playing dumb and acted aloof, or some took advantage of us being busy with other customers and secretly tried them on. Even though we had signs everywhere that stated its not allowed. Point being, sometimes it's not the staff's fault but the idiocy of the customers.
Yes, besides you always have customers who actually open new products to use them as testers. I'm always inspecting the products on signs of use before purchasing. (not all of them are sealed by the maufacturer)
Yeah. I wanted to test if a concealer matched my skin at Sephora and the worker had brought another concealer from the back for me to test with a one time use brush.
My 2 cents: There is no way in the world I would use a tester actually on my lips. I swatch on the back of my hand and hold it up next to my face. If that doesn't do...🤷🏾♀️ If some random "M.A.C." employees came up to me at a concert with open lipstick and a glare in their eye I'm calling security on them AND Rihanna!😂😂 M A.C. makes enough money, if they wanted to promote a product they could give out promotional minis. I think people need to take some responsibility in how they got sick. It's very unfortunate nonetheless.
Agree - great humour with you. Thanks. The cosmetic industry (and others) are not likely to disappear but people are doing the little extras as they can afford them more so now maybe. Imo. It's a riding high industry with people discovering how important self care and pampering may be to over all well being. Many love to dabble in make up and for others it's a great career. Hygiene and sanitation are part of self care. Larger companies are surely turning enough profit to offer individual samples or to get demo pods for promoting their products. Consumers are now paying for these- which was not norm not so long ago. They can write it off as advertisement expenses probably. ? And may he doing so anyway even with the charge to customers. I think I might be tempted to ask the rep trying to apply a community Lippie on me to be so kind as to demonstrate the product on themselves for me.
Right u can shave the top part off the lipstick spray it with alcohol and then use a single use stick for lips and swatch it on the back of your hand that way u can actually wash off any bacteria and germs off your hands when u got to wash your hands afterwards so no germs spread.
With lipsticks/lipgloss I never try it on my face. Once in awhile I will swatch on back on hand but I just go by color and assume it will be a half a shade light when I put it on. A few times I was off but Most times I’m good. I have so many lipsticks/gloss I just use another color to make it work. Most of the time, I’m good. It may be an extra step but I have no problem with this over the alternate.
I work at Ulta, ALL testers are back. Guests are “encouraged” to use them in a hygienic way, and applicators and alcohol are available, but employees are not allowed to help them apply the testers in any way. It’s an “At Your Own Risk” kind of thing.
Oh wow. I'm a beauty advisor at Priceline in Australia and I'm still there for helping people with testers. They were all removed during the height of the pandemic but most are back now. I don't have an issue with foundation coz it's concealed in a tube/jar/pot but I absolutely CRINGE when I see people applying eye-liner to their eyes and WATERLINE and lipstick on their lips 🤢 Like I sanitise stuff but farrrrrrk whhhyyyyyyyyyyyy 😫
I had an employee shade match on my skin (back of my hand) just the other day, but they cut the doe foot off so it’s just plastic , would have preferred them use a clear colour mixing palette but oh well
Horror story - I used to work for a well known beauty brand and as always we were pushed to do demos on people's skin to demonstrate moisturisers etc. A coworker was demoing a cream on the hand of a women and noticed it was covered in foundation. When enquiring about this the women had told her she had just been sampling in another store but the colleague noticed that she had a number of weird bumps on her skin. A DAY LATER - she has to call in sick. She got scabies and was completely covered with it! She had to boil all her sheets and clothing and had to be off for weeks to recover. Beauty retailers and customers - be very careful with coming into contact with other people's skin!
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Herpes can remain dormant for YEARS and recrudesce in times of stress. Some people may have it and never even experience an active cold sore. So really she can’t prove it’s Sephora’s fault at all. She could have gotten Herpes just as easily from kissing someone she was unaware had an active breakout or sharing a drink with someone or something of the like.
This is absolutely correct. Some insane percent, like 50-80% of Americans have oral herpes. You can have it and NEVER have a cold sore or even know. They don't even test for herpes during STD testing unless you have an active outbreak because of this.
Thank you! My thoughts exactly. There is no way to know if she got her herpes from the lipstick - a lot of people get it from relatives as babies. On top of that, as the experts said in this video, herpes is a fragile virus and it is very difficult to catch it from objects. Theoretically if you took a lipstick from someone directly after they used it and used it yourself, then maybe some of their saliva would be on the lipstick and the virus could survive long enough to transfer. But from a tester? Very unlikely.
two of the three people James talks about had the product put on them by people who should have absolutely been trained how to do it hygienically. Especially the lady who got it in her eye, she paid for the service as well.
@@jilliancalmes2281 im sorry, if someone gives you ZERO confidence that the product they are using has been sanitized or is 1x use only.. Get up and leave. Stop them immediately and leave. "Yeah" and "i aint got time for that" are 100% unacceptable answers to "has that been sanitized".. Covid or not.. 100% unacceptable.
What's hilarious about your point about covid and testers is that I was at a Sephora maybe two months ago and they had ALL their testers out. BUT I went to sample perfume, and when I asked for a sample tube they said they don't do perfume sample tubes anymore "because of covid" So the ONE possibly sanitary sample they could give you, they weren't doing. But all the makeup samples were out (and well used)
Back in the '80s, there was a cosmetics store in the local shopping mall, that didn't have any lipstick testers on display, although they did have them for complexion products. If you wanted to try a lipstick, you had to ask someone from staff and they would give you a tiny plastic blister pack and a tiny plastic spatula. But this was at the height of the AIDS paranoia, before anybody really knew how it spread. I wonder if something like this would work now. I can't imagine that stores could give them away for free like they did then, but they could probably sell them for a dollar apiece and call it a good compromise. I would pay a dollar or so for a hermetically sealed packet of makeup.
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"MAC should have known"? What? You think a grown ass woman would know not to put testers right on your face? I suffer from cold sores since I had a terrible bout of tonsillitis when I was 14. I totally understand the trauma, but there is a thing called self-preservation people.
As someone who has had cold sores (herpes) pretty much my whole life. My mom has had them her whole life and it's likely who I got it from. I only get a breakout about 1x a year and take a prescription antiviral and it heals up in a couple days. I thought sonething like up to 80% of people have it. Not all people will express it but can still have it. It's so common. Tbh. Most people just don't like to talk about it since it is extremely painful, embarrassing, and people can be really mean about it. I would not say it would destroy your life unless you mentally let it or are unable to appropriately cope with it. I didn't get my first breakout till my early teens either. At least that I can remember. I like to share my story to help break the stigma. It doesn't make you some nasty person.
Damn ive been reading a bunch of comments and its crazy the amount of stories of people being judgamental about cold sores n shit... like you said literally a fraction of the population DOESNT have herpes so its so weird to me there are places in the world were getting a cold sore is still taboo
I started getting cold sores really young, like 7 or 8, and my situation is just like yours. I got them young most likely from my mom. I was never made fun of, just saying, “I have a cold sore.” was enough for people to understand, but they suck. I didn’t realize for the longest time that it wasn’t normal but they were a once every two years type of thing, except for this year when I had back to back cold sore breakouts for about 2 months. Not fun, wouldn’t recommend and I had to explain to so many people why it looked like the skin around my lips was tearing off lmao
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Something very similar actually happened to me at the Dior counter at my local Macy’s. In my case I feel extra furious because I NEVER put the testers on my mouth but the woman at the counter INSISTED and showed me how she sanitized the lipstick thoroughly and how she sharpened the lip liner and sanitized it as well… what I wasn’t expecting was that she’d use a vile impossible to sanitize liquid lipstick on me when my eyes were closed (for the reveal) … I’m now permanently affected and when I went back (not to fight or threaten, but make them aware of the problem and to demand that they throw away the tester) the (same) woman had the audacity to tell me that it’s not that (had gotten a diagnosis) and that I should try some natural products (she recommended some…) to heal and that it was for sure stress that caused it…. This b***h didn’t even remove the tester… I waited around for another employee to show up and told her EVERYTHING and demanded that she damage it out in front of me. Im so upset about this but I feel like there’s nothing I can do about it. I have this forever and she took away my peace of mind and my ability to kiss my little boy for a few days out of the month, my ability to blow on his food when it’s too hot and then just look at me like I was an idiot and ignore my concern… was just the icing on the cake… 🤬 a big F U to that lady. Just to be safe if you’re ever at the Macy’s at the Pembroke Lakes Mall DO NOT STOP BY DIOR. If you want Dior go to Dillard’s and NEVER let anyone put those filthy things anywhere near your mouth. Learn from my mistakes even if they sanitize it… IT’S NOT WORTH THE RISK
You should calm down lol herpes isn’t a death sentence. There are over 100 different forms of herpes and you’ve probably already had 1 before and have a 50/50 chance of contacting another form in older age. At this point it’s like 1 in 3 people have it. Not a big deal, the stigma sucks but it’s not a big deal.
@@stefaniisimoneyeah but still it’s disgusting that you tried to prevent it and some random women gave you it and knowingly so ,ain’t no way you work at a beauty store and they don’t tell you about how unhygienic those samples are or if you don’t notice it naturally already with how many people touch them , nothing against people with herpes it’s just no one wants to get it or get it back again
Not to be rude but why woukd you close your eyes and lwt her put anything on yoir mouth if she was already pushing that she "sanitized" it? I wouldnt of closed my eyes and let her put anything on my lips.but thats just me
@@stefaniisimoneyou’re rude asf. Common or not, it hurts. It looks gross. It feels gross. It impacts her abilities to be close to her child. Empathy isn’t hard. Your lack of it is alarming. Shame on you. Be a better human. Do better.
as someone who grew up having HSV-1 and getting coldsores on my mouth (which is ROUGH especially in 8th grade and high school) I appreciate you mentioning how common it is. The stigma that can come with it is crazy when so many people have it and it's common to accidentally get it from someone without knowing.
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I’m sorry about the click bait title but I thought people would understand that it’s satire. It’s so ridiculous that it’s (I thought it would be) obviously taking the piss out of clickbait news headlines that claimed Rihanna gave people herpes 😂
Please change it, it triggered my trypohobia it felt really awful, I get it for the likes, but I follow you and I can't unsee it or block if it is on my feed.
Testers are still absolutely a thing. I usually have customers complain when something doesn't have a tester or when we couldn't use them in 2020/2021. I only ever use tester on the back of my hand, cause I don't feel comfortable using them on my face. But I have seen customers just take testers and go crazy all over their face, not giving a shit if they're clean or not, and not even using disposable applicators.
Using testers on your face is 100% disgusting (allegedly, in my opinion, for legal reasons, allegedly) I feel like this ability to have access to testers is really helpful for making purchasing decisions but swatch on your hands and arms you grubbs!!
You can even avoid swatching foundation and face products on your face. Use your neck or chest. Or better yet, I bring a foundation or product that I love that matches me, swatch it on my arm and find my matching shade by comparing. Same for lipstick. For mascara, i just focus on the mascara formula/ what it does and don't use the tester. If i buy it, using my own, old mascara wands, i can try different ways of using the new one for different looks. No need to rub someone's butthole on my eyes just to avoid spider leg lashes. Lol
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I've never worn makeup in my life and my skincare routine boils down to one product as-remembered, but I work alone as a night janitor so over 5 years I've gotten very desperate for new content to listen to while I work and this channel is surprisingly interesting to me. Very well presented.
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Anyone remember those super tiny Avon sample size lipsticks? I remember my grandma had a whole big bin of them and they were so fun to play with as a kid. I know it would probably be expensive to produce them for free, but even selling a sample size like that for a few bucks would be worth it if you didn't have to worry about catching something from someone. Hell, it's not just things like herpes, but even the flu makes me feel weird touching things that many people have potentially placed around their mouths or nose.
Right? I am GenX and we NEVER put the stuff on our faces. Testers were applied to the back of the hand or inner wrist and there was always hygiene wipes available to wash hands after. This whole putting lipstick on lips from a tester is beyond the pale. I don't even do that with my friends.
The only thing I’ll test on my face is a bullet lipstick, because you can wipe off the top layer with alcohol and then apply with a disposable applicator. Foundation I’ll test on my neck just to match a shade. Anything else just can’t be trusted. Basically if I can’t clean it first I won’t put it on my face.
I didn't even realize people used tester products on their mouth or eyes...yuck, lol. Why would you do that!? 😩 That kind of herpes is also so common, many people get it as children and my experience is that it's dormant most of the time. But maybe some people have worse flareups than others.
Herpes in general is super common and like you said most people have no symptoms and thus don’t even know they have it. I know someone who tested positive just during a routine test, had never had symptoms before and never had symptoms after. Like 50 years old, never once had a flare up. It’s unfortunate that the CDC doesn’t take it more seriously, they’ve basically just said “well, everyone has it so let’s not even worry about it.”
I get cold sores on my mouth lips... I have ever since I was a baby. They are soooo painful, I cannot imagine getting them on my eye lids or near my eyes. That would be the worst!
Yup, I studied epidemiology in school and this was one of the topics we covered. There's no way to prove WHEN someone contracted herpes. You can go your entire life with the virus in your system, and never have a single symptom. Likewise, you can suddenly develop symptoms years after contracting it (often when going through a physically or mentally stressful time). That's why it's so incredibly common. After taking that class, I just assume everyone I meet has it already, even if they think they don't.
Considering Robert started his make up career at MAC I'd love to hear his take on this. Testers have always grossed me out. Only ever tested colour on the back of my hand.
@@JamesWelsh Hi, I know it’s been 7 months but did you both eventually do a recording about this at some point? Or are you still planning to do it at some point? Or maybe dropping it entirely? :”D
I've only ever seen people test lipstick on the back of their hand or on the inside of their arm, they then clean it off once they've made up their mind so nothing is on the skin for more than five minutes. I've never seen anyone test a lipstick on their actual lips.
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I had a coworker name Elise, who has hpv and had cold sores all over her lips,but would go in stores and use lipgloss and lipstick that was out as testers ! Just disgusting ! She also refused to tell her ex husband she had hpv and having sex with her can cause him to have throat cancer later on !
This gave me flashbacks to the days when some people would feel comfortable enough to go into a drugstore just to do their *entire face* of makeup without any fear 😂😂
I work as a beauty advisor and the amount of customers I see applying stuff on their lips is extortionate. I keep telling them they're not meant to apply that straight to their face and they're like where's the sign that says??? Apparently common sense is not a thing anymore.
I went with my mother to Sephora to help her pick out a new mascara. She found one that she like but the color wasn't on the packaging or product. The Sephora employee took the mascara out of the packaging, opened it and swatched it on her own hand. She told my mother the color and closed it up and put it back in the box and then handed it back to my mother. My mother and I couldn't believe what we just saw. I'm pretty sure that my bottom jaw was on the floor. Needless to say that we left without the mascara. Point to the story, you can't even trust the new and packaged products at Sephora, let alone the samples.
I believe it because I've seen customers (often), and some SAs (very rare) open and use fresh products and then put it back! I will *only* buy sealed products, or a products that I can see the boxing folds show they haven't been bent open. I check top and bottom openings. People *are* gross!
Wow! This should have been reported to management and HQ. She should have been fired. Why do I say “fired”? Because any employee that would do something like that, I guarantee, is doing other things they shouldn’t! Goodness grief! I wouldn’t have bought the mascara either!
I was in a Sephora two weeks ago in the States (Florida, I know…). All the common use samples were out, and people were still all up in them while staff offered to help. I literally saw no change in how the store was being managed pre-Covid versus during the pandemic.
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Herpes in your eye is the absolute worst.I had it when I was younger. It was so painful and i never let my friends use my eye makeup especially eyeliner my friends would always make fun of me for “being afraid of an eye infection”.
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People actually put testers on their lips!? I've always just put it on the back of my hand, which is still not really that sanitary, but I feel like its better than the lips.. I really didn't think it was a common thing to put a tester on the lips, I guess I never thought people did that..
I'm reading the comments and can also say from in person viewing at stores, people do that. Even with lipgloss tube testers, there's some brave souls who apply it directly on their lips not just a lipstick bullet. 😂
Were I that woman, knowing that I had lupus which causes me to be immunocompromised I would have left when the 'artist" said she did not use single use products and applicators. I agree that Sephora bore responsibility of providing of the appropriate supplies the woman bears some blame for going ahead with the appointment.
At my store I see people using testers straight on their faces non stop. I’ll warn them when I see it, but it’s impossible to babysit and stop everyone. Personally, I think stores should have signs saying to ask for help with testing, but it’s really the customer’s own responsibility to watch out for their own safety. Also pro tip: never try on tubes of lip products that has doe foot applicators or mascaras even with disposable applicator wands bc I guarantee the tester was already contaminated by someone doing it wrong.
Same! In our store we have signs that encourage clients to ask help with testers, the team is really diligent about cleaning and helping, we have hygienic stations everywhere but... every day I see a woman applying a gloss directly from the tube or teens doing their eye makeup right from the tester palette... I cringe. People get very hostile when you approach them and recommend not to apply makeup from testers so I walk away. But I don't think people who test on their faces think that some don't wash hands after bathroom and then test lipsticks on their hands.. kids grab testers and put them in their mouths.. and all that bacteria is cooking under display lights! And all you can do is cringe and walk away.
I don't mind sharing that I have Herpes. I got it from an Ex who was cheating (and I was pregnant, too, so F*^K him). I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. It hurts, it affects more than the "spots" that show up. When I have a flare up it coincides with a ton of other symptoms like sciatica pain, cramps, upset stomach. It affects how well I can walk, how well I can take care of my kids. I'm angry that I have it, because I never should have, but I cannot imagine if I thought I had caught it from some makeup sample or artist how angry I would be that they gave it to me. We're supposed to be able to trust these companies, and for them to have such shit standards when we KNOW what unhygienic products and tools can do to someone is disgusting. I hope they had to pay SO much to the people who have gone after them for this.
@Courtney Parker I don't see how I am feeding the stigma, when I'm sharing my story instead of hiding it...? People should know what it can be like to have herpes from someone who isn't afraid to talk about it, so that when they feel or see symptoms they can go get checked out instead of feeling ashamed and not getting checked. You're entitled to your opinion, but I really don't see how sharing what this disease does to me and how angry it makes me that I have it 'helps to increase' the stigma around it. Even if it was just sores, it's not like it's a pleasant disease to have, and damn sure not something that I would want other people to have to deal with regardless of the severity of their symptoms. At the same time I'm not ashamed that I have it, and no one else should be either, so I talk about it fairly openly.
@Courtney Parker just because that’s YOUR experience, doesn’t mean someone else with it doesn’t struggle really bad with it. Foh with that “feeding into the stigma.” I don’t think people with it should be shamed, especially those who contracted it from a partner that was too careless to tell them. If you have a disease that is spreadable, you should ALWAYS tell someone before having sex. (And you’d be surprised at how many people honestly don’t care if you’re honest with them!) but at the same time, it’s not like we should be looking at herpes as a “positive thing” or a “normal thing” or something that “if we contract it, it’s okay.” Which is what you sound like you’re implying when you say “feeding into the negative stigma.” It has a negative stigma, because it is a negative thing that can negatively impact someone’s life in a HUGE way. I’ve seen the judgement, the way people look at you, the way people think of you, the way people talk about you, they think your dirty, your just “fast” (for lack of a better word) and that’s why you have it, they’re scared to drink from the same cups as you, honestly they’re scared to share ANYTHING. They think if you even touch something that they have touched, they will get it. I don’t personally have it but my best friend of many years does so I know allll the details of what comes with it.. not only does the person that has it get shamed, their friends get shamed. Their family gets shamed. They think that if that one person has it, their whole friend group and family must have it too. Now THAT is the negative stigma that has to change. The stigma that you must be “dirty” if you have it. Or you just sleep around and that’s why. The stigma that you will spread it to everyone around you as if it’s airborne or something. And the massive amount of misinformation that comes with it. And before she got on medicine for it, it was VERY PAINFUL for her. And still is very painful during a flair-up. Thankfully with the medicine she doesn’t have symptoms/flair ups nearly as much, in fact she rarely does, but when she does she goes through hell.
Girl it's the SAME story for me 😩 3 months pregnant and found out my man was cheating at a check up cause I physically couldn't see the outbreak 🙃 I just thought I was having some "pregnancy pains" as everyone likes to call them. I have a couple autoimmune diseases that cause my flare ups to become like yours and I'm so sorry you had to suffer the same fate 😔 What people seem to not understand is that herpes actually attacks your nervous system throughout your ENTIRE BODY and this can be super detrimental to people like us who could potentially have other factors that play into it. You're the strongest momma in my book and I'm glad you're speaking up about it because I've been so ashamed of myself for years over something that was NOT my fault but I'll always feel so disgusted with myself. I wish you all the best in life and I pray for healing 🙏❤
@@carissacouturexo don't feel ashamed of yourself!! It's not your fault, even if it was a one night stand or a hookup in a gross bathroom it wouldn't be your fault, it's the person who knew they had herpes or knew something was wrong and didn't go get checked out and care to not spread it who is to blame. It's nothing to be ashamed of, but it does suck to deal with. I'm married now, with one child by my husband, and thankfully he never has seen it as a problem and I'm always super careful when I'm in an outbreak or feel one coming (my right leg always has pains when it's coming). I can only afford the meds when I'm in an outbreak, I can't take them daily. I've identified habits that cause them for me, so my outbreaks are fairly rare most of the time, thankfully.
@@HainekoMikemalcom no it has no cure, it's lifelong. There are medications that can suppress outbreaks, called anti-virals, but they don't cure it. It's related to chicken pox, and it lives in your body dormant in between outbreaks. Similar to how chicken pox virus in childhood can cause shingles in adulthood, only for a lot of people it is much more frequent than shingles would be.
My mum works in a beauty department and she's seen people use mascara testers on their lashes. I just can't believe how relaxed some people are, even during covid they'll still use testers on their face. People will even open a new product to test and put it back! I will never trust a product that hasn't got a seal on it. People are gross
Pre pandemic I ALWAYS put common use testing items on my hand. My mum always said to assume they were dirty and honestly she was right. Its a shame this woman now has herpes for the rest of her life because of this one incident.
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ngl i think she'll be fine. people with cold sores get them once every two years on average, when their immune system is a bit low. this hErpEs is nothing serious unless you're giving it to a cancer patient, like a cold.
When I was young in the 70s every makeup counter had individual single-use lipsticks. They didn't roll up or down, they had just enough to use once or twice and were covered with a plastic cap. Everyone is so concerned about cost now, even though there's a *very* high markup on makeup.
@@happycamper4thewin avon even used to do eyeshadow testers. They were on a paper backing with a seal over it, you pulled it back and there was a little swatch of eyeshadow inside!
the employees can't actually keep up with all the customers trying everything on, so as a costumer you should be more careful and if you want to try something, ask someone to sanitise, it's easy. I saw so many customers complaining when the employee told them to not try directly to their skin, even during Covid, or just people going straight into lipstick and trying on several shades. I think a customer should be more careful about their own health too. Let's be reasonable.
Agreed. I try several things only on my hand. No way is a store employee going to have enough time to walk around sanitizing before and after me. I like to know what I am buying beforehand and dont return makeup I buy. I am a pigmented girl, not all lipsticks suit me and usually have to try it out on my skin to know what magic was going to happen. It's so unpredictable with my skin colour, lol. My lips too are pigmented so it's never an exact science even if I test it on my hand...so I would want testers
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My mom has cold sores (herpers) and growing up she always told me not to use testers in stores. If i wanted to try them i had to swatch it on paper or the back of my hand and hold it near my face. I ended up working in a discount euro store (basically a dollar or a one pound store) where we sold make up too. The horrors ive witnessed when people tried on our testers.... ive tossed out so many more than my boss will ever know about as he wanted us to just “wipe off” the testing tupes
I was with my sister when a Sephoria employee tried to insist on putting some brow pomade on my sister. I told my sister if she allowed it I would slap her, she already has problem with her skin the last thing she needed was something nasty from the sample. I used a disposable brush had her try it on her arm (where the skin was not broken). I was astonished that that employee would encourage that!
In my entire life I never used a ''tester'' on me. I remember a girl working in MAC came to me and took the tester and was like ''let's try that on you, oh I will wipe the top it's ok'' I felt personally attacked at that moment and I am sure that the lady was puzzled by the panic displayed on my face. Since I have memory my mother always told me to NEVER share or use personal hygiene products like hairbrushes, hair ties or beaty products if they touched the skin or even clothes. And I had a good reason to listen her, she is a doctor specializing in STD's. But I belive that her showing me her big medical encyclopedia with detailed pictures of every STD imaginable to me when I was like 5 was what did the trick, since my childhood I won't share my glass or water bottle even with my parents and I know they have nothing but I guess it's part of my normal behavior at this point. Will I do that to my kid if I ever choose to have one? Absolutly yes, not sharing your lipstick with your bf and be seen as somenone not so ''bf'' is better than having herpes or worse.
Love this series! I worked at the Clinique counter at Macy's early 00s and we had no brushes...testers were sprayed with alcohol before each use and everything had to be applied with cotton balls, q-tips, or tissue. Lipsticks were never applied from the tube, had to scrape off the bullet with the stick of the q-tip and on to back of hand as your pallette, from there dip in the clean cotton end of q-tip and apply to client's lips. Didn't leave much room for artistry or precision, but back then makeup looks were still pretty soft and natural, especially at Clinique. The Dior muas would roll their eyes at our lack of brushes. At least we never gave anyone herpes 🤷🤣
Oh thank god! I was cringing hoping you wouldn't tell a horror story about the lack of cleanliness at the Clinique counter!! That's been my brand ever since I developed sensitive skin at least 10yrs ago!! Was like ''Clinique et tu brute?!'' thank you for your service!
Yes!! When I worked for MAC, I saw people apply lipsticks directly onto their lips, more often than I’d like to admit. I’d always warn them & offer to sanitize it first, but you’d be surprised how many people genuinely didn’t care if the lipstick was clean or not. 🤢
Sometimes (especially in summer) your face skin tone is different from your hand's. What I do in this case is I draw a line with the lipstick on a tissue, put it in front of my face (not touching it though) and look in the mirror! Simple and safe
I can’t believe that woman sued Sephora!!! SHE used a lipstick knowing a million others could have done the same thing. SHE is the one with the bad hygiene. Honestly what has the world come to
It’s great to have testers so I can see the actual colour but there’s no way in hell I’d put that anywhere near my mouth or skin. It’s disgusting! Even if it’s sanitised and the top layer has been cut off it’s still a no and big risk for me.
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I would never go back to my teenage years . High school was hell ! And when you're a teen , you don't really know that life is completely different after high school .
Testers going onto face has always grossed me out. In addition, my sister 100% got herpes from a lipstick as a child when her makeup was done for a school play by the mum who did everyone’s. a bunch of kids did.
@@sarikatimmi this was in a Australian country town in the nineties. Suing wasn't really on the radar tbh. Nowadays, it'd definitely be persued I think
I mean that sounds tragic, but at the same time more like a freak thing. What I mean is, how many school plays and such have happened where kids all had their makeup done together with no incident? That was I think the usual practice for how makeup was done in school plays, and honestly, while stories like this may be more common than I know, this is the first I have encountered in a lifelong (I'm in my 50's) of school plays doing just that with no herpes cases. Maybe herpes is just getting more to be an issue even in young children now, and what was a rare case like this is becoming a regular concern. Regardless, I still think something like this is an instructive lesson. Why needlessly risk a child's health and future, when there must be practical solutions, like 'bring your own makeup' and a pre-play convo with parents as to what makeup exactly their kid will need and where to get it cheaply.
@@a.westenholz4032 with how common it is for the virus to remain dormant for looking periods of time, I think it's very possible that there are lots of other people with similar exposures who may not even be aware of it, or it may have been written off at the time as impetigo (aka school sores). She passed it to me and when I successfully avoid my triggers I can be flare free for years at a time. Plus, again, this was the nineties. It wasn't like we could just go Google what it was or get on social media and tell people about it at the time. I don't disagree that it should have been handled differently, but I also don't think that it is done that differently these days, unfortunately
Many of my close friends and family members have the herpes virus, most, if not all, had it since they were small children (as in hereditary). So it doesn't mean you sleep around or do naughty things just because you have the herpes virus 🤷🏼♀️
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I got herpes as a small child, sharing chapstick with a childhood friend, I was like 5 and didn’t even understand until later in life. I would get bullied and felt gross bc even my own parents wouldn’t share chapstick with me or let my brother share. I was too young to understand. As an adult I tested negative though. 🤷🏼♀️
I’ve been tested more than once as an adult, pretty much yearly, since right before I became sexually active. My mom is who told me it was herpes, she is a pharmacist, (not a dr) and treated me as if I had it. I was really young so they could have gotten me tested and I just don’t remember too.
@@BeccaBoo82 oral herpes (cold sores) and genital herpes, though caused by the same virus, are different. Getting a cold sore doesn’t mean you automatically have the other, and vice versa, so you may have tested negative for genital herpes, but you can still have cold sores under the right circumstances. The virus that causes this lies dormant in your body for the duration of your life once you’re exposed which means you still have it. I recommend asking your doctor about this.
@@BeccaBoo82 you might’ve had school sores(impetigo)Which looks super similar really contagious to. So she might’ve just jumped the gun in thinking you had herpes cause ive never heard of school sores until just looking into what could look like cold sores. Her being a pharmacist might’ve made her so sure that it was herpes and just never decided to get you tested. I know most people dont get tested they just stop sharing things
@@BeccaBoo82 you can only get tested for herpes if they get a direct sample from a cold sore. They will poke it and get a swab from that. Otherwise, a test won’t show if you have it or not from a regular mouth or genital swab.
Herpes can be shed before and after an outbreak, not just when there’s active sores, and about 75% of people who have HSV don’t know they have it. Basically, everyone should be careful around infants always lmao
@@WinterRose13 oh I agree its not his problem, I just mean the fact that he was kind of minimizing herpes and getting herpes from a tester like its no big deal. It can be.
this reminds me of when i was a kid and i was IN LOVE with mac lipsticks and my mom would never buy one for me (cause i was 10 lol) but i would always go to a mac store to use the testers, and my cousin saw it and she was like "aren't you scared of getting herpes or something with those? anyone could have used it" and it hit me and i got so scared and never tested makeup at any store ever again, and since i had no idea what herpes was every little thing i felt i was like "omg is that the herpes?"
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Disgusting . Once I got a beautiful red lipstick and I used for the first time at a Halloween party. After some drinks I took my lipstick to reapply it. My friend’s friend, a lady that I’ve never seen before, commented how nice the lipstick was. And she asked to look at it. She then proceeded to apply it to her lips. 🤬🤬🤬 How dare she? Seriously . I think she did that on purpose so I would give it to her. I went to the bathroom and threw my new lipstick in the bin .
I was always grossed out by people who applied testers to their face. I use them all the time, but only ever on my hand/arm- putting something on my face that has been touched by other people just grosses me out 🤢🤮
Reading the video title, my brain reminded me that people try makeup samples on their face. For example a lipstick sample on their lips, some people cause their own problems and should know better because it's open to the elements same for the general public. Hygiene aside of the store, it's a common sense issue because I for one dodge the store clerks when they try to apply makeup samples on my face. I also don't do it myself because bacteria, viruses and germs. 😐
@@Lethe_Nyx yall ahould be careful with anything that can be contaminated. Even putting. Contaminated foundation on the back of your hand can expose you to infections.. Like MRSA.. My ex got it from the gym.. On his leg.. Almost died.. Please keep anything that can be publicly contaminated away from skin.. Wash and sanitize your hands.. Stay safe.
@@mom23js I can tell you this I also don't do, one time I tested a jelly highlighter on the back of my hand. It left my skin itchy and red plus needing ointment, lesson learned. 🤣
My fiance has had herpes his whole life because he got it as a child from one of his aunts. I however have never had herpes so we're always very careful. Never kiss, share drinks, or chapstick when he has obvious cold sores. And whenever I do use his chapstick I cut off the top just in case he had used it when he had herpes. It's a really serious disease and I'm glad we've been so careful so I never get it. People should always be self aware when sharing something orally with anyone especially because you have to have a cold sore on your face to be able to share herpes 🤔
most people get it as a baby from their parents so unless you actually test for it you have no idea... you can go your whole life without having sores while having the virus. a little bit over dramatic
ok but 'serious' is overkill 😂to any person without any immuno-compromisations (where even the common cold can kill you) it is literally just an annoying blister on your lip. the same kind you get when shoes rub on you, except it happens via virus. people need to stop doing too much with the hysteria. because this is how people think it's some horrific STD.
@The_Winsome_Pixie there are plenty of people with herpes in my family. Herpes is pretty serious to me. It can make you more susceptible to other infections since you have open sores. It can also be more extreme in certain people.
I ended up in urgent care years ago with a terrible case of ocular herpes. I have an autoimmune disorder similar to Lupus. I take medicine that stops my own immune system from attacking body. Which also means that I get shingles and other outbreaks of things that can normally live on or in our body. My immune system isn't there to stop it from going out of control. I have a very close relationship with my dermatologist because of this. It's really common and people with autoimmune disorders.
What autoimmune disease do you have that’s similar to lupus if you don’t mind me asking? I only ask as my little sister also has an autoimmune disease similar to lupus
😅I got herpes in the womb and it began flaring up when I was around 16/17. My mother had it but non of my siblings had breakouts. I think these lipstick herpes cases weren't caused by the lipstick but by a dorment case of herpes they had all along. The eye herpes I don't know honestly. Herpes is painful and it makes you feel unhappy when you have a flare up but it doesn't take over your life or your "image" like one of the girls stated.
PSA reminder to regularly get tested for STIs for your health and peace of mind. Let’s make this so common that no-one bats an eyelash! Gorgeous gorgeous girls know what’s up 💄💋 get cervical screening too if possible for those that can! My next one’s booked next month. Stay in charge!
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🤣 well I’m glad I’m not the only one who wears perfume to bed lol I get out the shower, do my evening skincare, dry my hair, get dressed for bed and then spray a few squirts of my favourite perfume over my bed top (not on my actual skin) before I get in bed and go sleep… just makes me feel really good lol
@@Tessalaurant it’s good to make yourself feel good before going to bed, wether it be perfume, mists or some other kinda thing. I think if you feel good before you go to bed the more relaxed and settled you are and then easier it is for you to fall asleep… I’ve been putting on perfume before bed for years and I will forever do it lol
80% of the population has the virus that causes the type of herpes that cause cold sores or fever blisters in their bodies. It can be dormant for years even decades, and most of us get it as children for the first time thanks to a relative who may have had then transmitted onto us. WE usually have a first cold sore outbreak as preteens that to stress and puberty. What many don't know it's stress is the largest factor of reactivation of the virus, so it's any sort of dental work due to the dryness that occurs to our lips, and a high salt diet. She possibly kept having these sore reemerge so often because she was not throwing away lip products she applied directly to the mouth while in active infection, and as she said herself always being inner constant stress, in my opinion this is a 50/50 fault situation. She should have known if the risks of using those testers and Sephora needed better warning signs and ways of testing safely.
As someone who has this permanent ‘problem’ (I do not know how I got it I was VERY young) I will NEVER use any testers except foundation for color matching and it’s usually done with help from an employee so I can make sure everything is sterile. Herpes is hard to manage and it’s a nightmare during a breakout. I used to go thru a lot of money on lip gloss and balm because you CAN’T use it ever again if you used it within days of a breakout, I now don’t usually buy high end glosses and such.
To be honest....ive never used a Lipstick tester and I never would. I feel like that's just really gross and you have no way of knowing who else used it😶
I still want testers to be a thing because I like to test the product before I committ to purchasing. However applying it directly to your face??? Where is these people's common sense, you apply it to your hand or wrist!
I was a freelance makeup artist and worked for Sephora in 2015-2016. When I learned that the store used “common use” testers for the makeup & skincare services, I refused to go through their makeup certification process. Wiping a powder or cream with alcohol does not make it sanitary. I ended up transferring to the fragrance department 🤷🏻♀️
I learned when I was a child to swatch on my hand and wash my hands after. I would never use a tester near my eyes or mouth. I know not everybody has a great deal of common sense so there should be signs up in every shop, but at a point, it's the fault of the person who used something they know has been touched by many people on their mouth. That said, sales assistants and makeup artists who apply unclean product to people should definitely be held accountable. That's 100% on them not the client/customer
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I would love to hear your views on the vintage brand "Ernest Laszlo" used by Hollywood stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor etc. Does it live up to today's standard? Was it really ahead of its time for back then? Much love James!
@ Kellie I reside in the UK, " back in the day" ( in my early 20's well after the Hollywood era) I used Ernest Laszlo products ! It was popular even though expensive then, it featured in Vogue & was used by many professional makeup artists when making up the models & their preferred skin care/ skin prep regime. I had the whole range of goodies, I would swear by the stuff ! I also used many Klorane products & Molten Brown hair products. Many years later there are a million or more other cosmetic houses who have their own range on the market. I still rate Laszlo !
I recently worked at a drugstore here in the UK and my God… you’d be shocked. People just don’t care. The amount of people that were mad there haven’t been testers DURING A PANDEMIC 😂 as a result more people than normal have been opening sealed products and testing them then putting them back. When we caught them, they’d be like ‘oh I thought it was a tester…’ did you Barbara? Did you? Products would be written off but God knows how many people weren’t caught. There isn’t usually lipstick testers anyway but people open the tubes all the time
I despise the stigma around herpes. I've had herpes for 5 years and literally my biggest concern is always around how OTHER people view my condition. There are times where it feels easier to not say anything but I'm legally obligated to tell anyone I'm intimate with that I have it in case anyone else got it from me. I've lost numerous relationships because of the stigma around herpes. Like I totally get that herpes sucks and can be uncomfortable, but it shouldn't feel like an automatic disqualifier just because someone with this condition non consensually.
I remember I got a cold sore which is herpes and was bullied in school for having it ....not my fault it’s very painful to and most likely they had the virus in them and didn’t had symptoms yet. It’s more common than you think
wait ppl have been using testers on their lips...? growing up my mom always told me they were unhygienic so to check the colour on my inner wrist to see if the colour suited my skin tone
We used to had a coworker who asked for lip balm, it had never happened to me but w my friend used to gift her the ones they were using, so when she asked me, I told her I didn't know where her mouth was and that I knew of first hand how nasty one could be because I kiss my dogs ond they kiss me back, so she never asked for lipbalm again, I think I made the world a better place 😂😂
My coworkers were sharing a vape the other day, and I called them out! I said, “you guys are brave as if we aren’t in a whole pandemic!” I think I embarrassed them some.
I used to work at a small Sephora store. During downtime, we would clean testers, make new testers, re-stock disposable wands, etc. Our store was honestly very clean. I would always let people know about the disposable wands we had and I'd sanitize with alcohol the stick lipsticks they would try on (this was before Covid). I remember I saw two women using a mascara tester and applying it to their eyelashes. I kindly reminded them of the disposable wands but they did not care. After they left the store, I took the tester out and made a new one. I also remember one little girl asking me if the Too Faced chocolate collection was edible! (Haha!!) Of course, I told her no, and that makeup was not edible. After some minutes, I saw her licking the tester palette! Thankfully, the mom was around and scolded her. Again, after they left, I took the palette tester out and made a new one. Sometimes, it's not the store's hygiene, it's the customers' behavior.
well had you not done that, it’s very likely someone would get sick. so yes while customer behavior leads to poor hygiene, the store is still responsible. imagine had you not swapped out any testers after seeing customers do that? you were directly responsible for other’s well being and probably preventing and contamination and spread of bacteria
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I can imagine this would be hard to prove. I can’t remember the actual statistic but something like 80% of ppl have the herpes virus in their body but only 20% show symptoms. It could lie dormant for years and years, your immune system is weak and 💥 a cold sore could pop up outta nowhere.
Yeah pretty much whats also scary is you can pass it sometimes and not even have a flair up. Or it can be infectious before you have one. So theres no way of knowing when its actually safe to kiss your partner.
I really just thought it was common knowledge that testers are only meant to be applied on areas like the back of the hand until I started working at Sephora and started seeing clients applying them directly to their face. The remover near the testers isn't there to imply you should apply it directly to the face rather it's just a way to remove the swatches you apply on your hands/arms. While I feel that it's not the store's liability if you choose to misuse the tester I do think more supervision and signage would be helpful to bring attention to how unsanitary and unsafe applying unsanitized shared makeup can be.
At some point you should just let them win the Darwin Award. If signs and well established warnings are being ignored, there is nothing more you can do.
Lol I was a teenager in the 1960’s so I’m of the pre-tester generation. We never got to try on anything ever. Even when testers happened they grossed me out & I never used them . I will never understand why anyone would ever ever ever have ever used testers! So gross 😳😂
I kinda see this as stupid people getting stupid prizes. Every time I use a sample I hear my mom nagging me in my head "swatch on your wrist... you don't know where that's been!"
Who actually uses tester lipsticks on their lips? Why would you use something that’s for everyone anywhere near you face? That’s as bad as kissing every stranger you see
I’m surprised lush hasn’t been hit with something similar. Thankfully they have limited mouth/lip testers and the sales ambassadors are good about staying on top of *those*, but despite all the popsicle sticks placed *all* over the store and the sales ambassadors trying to assist people… people stick their grimy fingers right into products anyway. The amount of times I had to scrape the top layer of a product after I saw too-late someone stick their hands in a lotion pot that sat right next to a cup full of popsicle sticks.
I work in a store which is known for their testers. Theyre out so that people can see the true colors, give it a smell, some test it on the back of their hands. If you wanted to try the lipstick on your lips, we have a completely different set that is hidden away for swatching - skin never touches those lipsticks, always giving the customer either a cutoff with a little spatula or applying with a new makeup brush. I've never seen anyone just openly trying out all of the lipsticks on their lips - seems way too gross even pre-pandemic. I think this is both on the customer for being publicly daft but also on the staff for not pushing for a hygienic application sitdown.
Right?!?! You’d have to be an idiot to think that’s ok… I don’t understand people sometimes
@@KG9551 people still don't wash their hands after using the loo so I don't know what to tell you, people are gross.
Agreed. Putting the testers on your face is like skipping the paper guard in public toilets lol.
I saw someone put tester lip gloss right on the lip 🤮🤮
Worked on a makeup counter in central London for awhile.. Even during COVID by the time I have opened my mouth to tell them how they could possibly test it, some of them were already smearing lipstick directly on their lips... Some ppl are completely clueless regarding hygiene.
I'm a doctor and I really appreciate the way you discuss herpes. It's SO common, and people feel so guilty for it, because there's this culture of guilt and shame around "sexually transmitted diseases" that just makes life harder for everyone!
But if you're a doctor, why not point out the different types of herpes and different methods of transition. Genital herpes is not the same herpes that causes cold sores, chicken pox or shingles. Most forms are not sexually transmitted. From what Is talked about in this video it seems to be the cold sore form, not the genital form. So stds are not being discussed in the video.
@@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380 but there really is no need to give a distinction when cold sores can also be transferred to the genitals as well as genital sores being transferred/manifesting as cold sores... if somebody has cold sores (or even if they don't presently have a sore but have HSV1, the type of herpes *usually* associated w cold sores) & gave somebody oral sex, the person receiving the oral sex can get herpe sores in their genitals, even tho it is still technically HSV1 (again, the type of herpes associated with cold sores, chicken pox, shingles etc). they will still have to deal with the sores possibly reoccurring in their genitals for the rest of their life. it is also possible for HSV2 (type of herpes *usually* associated with genitals) infection to be transmitted to a person's mouth-in other words, you could develop a cold sore if you perform oral sex on someone with genital herpes (HSV2), although that type of transmission (HSV2 being transferred/appearing as cold sores on the mouth) isn't as common as HSV1 (cold sores) being transferred to genitals. but it is indeed possible for cold sores to be transferred sexually & if you saw someone with a cold sore, you'd have no way of discerning whether it was HSV1 or HSV2. same with genital sores, there's no way someone would be able to tell what type of herpes (HSV1 or HSV2) it was just by looking at the sores. & to the person who receives genital sores - the distinction between whether its HSV1 vs HSV2 doesn't make a tangible difference in their life, they will still have to deal with mouth/genital sores for the rest of their life & the stigma associated with it, even if it is just HSV1. &either virus can be transferred to either region regardless if the person presently has active sores. herpes is herpes, it is a virus that is transferred between skin-to-skin contact &/or saliva & other fluids. & for most people with either HSV1 ORRR HSV2, herpes doesn't impact their day to day life AT ALL besides the stigma attached to it. the only real difference between HSV1 & HSV2 is the stigmatization between the two...
@@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380 that’s actually incorrect. Both common types of herpes can be transmitted to genital via oral sex
@Cleoldbagtra Allsorts same diseas slightly different strain in fact if someone has oral herpes and gives oral sex that can give SOMONE genital herpes
@@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380 You can have oral herpes in your genital area and genital herpes in your oral area. It depends which virus you contracted
“common-use” lipstick sounds so much more gross than “tester” lol, we should keep that as standard verbiage for these try-on products so that people remember how unsanitary they can be!
could be even called public use XD sounds even worse
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or maybe people should know better than to use it especially after everything we learned following covid
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I was in Walmart once, in the makeup aisle and saw a woman open a bottle of foundation, stick her finger in the bottle, get some out and put on her face, then put the lid on and put it back. I mentioned to her that she really shouldnt do that, that its very unhygenic, not to mention just ignorant. She just shrugged and opened another one. Ugh. I never buy stuff unless it has a safety seal now.
That's disgusting! I think I'll just put the makeup product near my face to see if it fits with my skin colour.
Lesson for next time. Skip the hygiene lesson and go straight to recording.
I just can't understand why people do this, its so disrespectful to the store and other people and its disgusting. I see it happen way too often. One time I bought a deodorant roller and when I opened it at home it stank and had armpit hairs on it, so I had to throw it away. Wasted my money on a used deodorant roller.. Now I just check them in store to make sure they are not used before I buy them :')
People do this at target all the time. I've detected hundreds of lip stick and lip gloss that doesn't last more than an hour on the shelf
Defected*
I honestly thought very few people actually put the testers on their face. I thought most everyone knew that was a bad idea. My mom taught me when I was like 5 that you never use random people makeup or even my friends makeup that makes contact with my eyes or mouth
I miss the days when you could get tiny little lipstick samples. My grandma always had a ton of those little Avon lipsticks
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Oh my gosh I completely forgot about those until you mentioned it!
Now you have to pay for them
That’s because people abuse them. So don’t blame the cosmetic stores stop giving out samples.
They were so cute
The only tester products I ever abused were the perfumes 😭😮💨😅
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I have to say I was at Newman Marcus and la mer had jars open with little scoops and little jars for samples and no one working. I abused the heck out of those samples! I kept filling them up and tossing them in my bag
Me tooooo especially as a teen when I couldn’t afford any 😅
So the whole “Don’t share your chapstick with anyone that has a cold sore” warning that I used to hear waaayyyy back in middle school must have fallen under the cracks at some point. I thought this was common knowledge. I’ve had cold sores before, especially when it’s hot out, and I would never allow anyone to use my lip products. Same reason why I would not walk into a makeup store and try on their stuff. I believe the same warning was passed along when sharing eyeliners and mascaras if someone had a sty. Is it just me that remembers this?
Yes!! I did musical theatre growing up and my mother really instilled that in me, because kids were sharing makeup left and right🤮
I guess so :s i dont even share when i dont have cold sore.. people might find me rude but i want to be sure..
First thing I taught my son when doing his stage makeup was never to share his mascara or eyeliner. We even practiced him saying no if anyone asked him to share those things!
No, I'm from 1985 and I remember when I was a tween adults warned us about sharing makeup and applying testers on our faces, it was ingrained in our heads to not do that !!
@Shanaya brigham Girl I’m so glad you free from DAAA HERRPPSSS!!! But that sounds like some scam likely shit and I don’t support iffy products.
I once watched a lady in Wal-Mart finger-comb her hair, section it out, and test out six different conditioners by rubbing them through the ends of her hair. She put the caps back on all six bottles, put the bottles back on the shelf, and went about the rest of her shopping. People are nasty. Use utmost caution when shopping for anything that may have a safety seal, and don't use "common use" testers without sufficient decontamination between users. Also avoid Wal-Mart whenever possible.
What the hell 😭😭😭😭
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Thats why you only get the stuff on the very back
Shopping rule to live by...never grab the first item in the stack.
It's either ppl sampling the product so there's less in it, coughed on and touched, or slobbered on by toddlers. Just double check the expiration date on the back items though.
For the record. I have also seen people drinking out of bottles at Safeway then putting them back. People using lotion at Target and putting back. And people drinking out of bottles at Kroger and putting them back. Be careful EVERYWHERE not just wally world.
I just NOW realized that two channels I follow are actually NOT of the same person but rather TWINS. The level of shookness I am experiencing has sent me tumbling down the stairs.
What
@@Beyondzz This guy has a twin, and Jun is probably talking about that they watch the twin and this guy and not realizing that they were in fact different people just twins
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I watched various videos from both of them for a while and I guess I thought it was one guy with 2 channels or something lol it took me a while to get it 🤣
Nah fr I started off watching them on Snapchat and was so confused when “Robert” had his eyebrow scar filled in. That’s when I realized that the story said James Welsh and I had just speed read it.
I really appreciate the fact that you _actually_ clarify that the title is clickbait at the beginning of the video... It still makes me want to watch the video as the subject matter is still interesting, whereas it's quite obnoxious to see a video whose content matter is totally discordant to the title, yet it doesn't even acknowledge that. Good work, James.
Agreed wholeheartedly 🙏🏻
💜💜🙏🏼 I only clickbait when it’s relevant haha thanks for the appreciation 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Absolutely. So usually you watch the video and almost all the way through they quietly admit it was click bait then glaze over it.
@@HauntedHeroine138 Yeah... And trust me, it's infuriating to witness as part of the audience.
@@JamesWelsh We all appreciate your sincerity James! And you're welcome.
No, just no. Even pre-pandemic, all swatching went on my hand for hygiene purposes. I was taught by my Mom that testers were dirty just like money and one had to be careful with them. In all my years I have never put a tester on my face, horrifying. But then I had a friend use a tester eye product in store on her eyes because she had forgotten that makeup (it was eyeliner or mascara) and I was so revolted by that.
This was all pre-pandemic, now it is even more terrifying. You could not pay me to use a tester on my face! Uggghh!
Same. You always swatch lipstick on the back of your hand.
Right? I wouldn’t share a mascara or lipstick with a close friend, let alone hundreds of strangers
Same!
Rightt. And even then, I'd immediately take out a wipie and clean off the makeup off my hand once I was done
I agree 100%! I've never and would never put on lipstick or any other makeup from a tester that hundreds of people have used. It's gross.
I was in TJ Maxx in Seattle, and I saw some lady use a liquid Lipstick, then put it back in the box and put it back on the shelf. I called her out for it but she just laughed and walked away, so I brought the product to the workers and told them what happened.
I am SO cautious about what I buy from there now🤢
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Uff i try to only buy sealed stuff from tkmaxx. People turn into animals when something is cheap. They just rip up the product, like if you did this anywhere else you would be forced to buy the product
This is terrifying
@@saraholschewski5331 yeah same here, and if it doesn't come sealed, I either closely inspect it, or just put it back.
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Way before Covid I was testing in the back of my hand. I remember eyeballing in horror when I saw someone actually putting a tester on their face. Like I thought it was common sense.
same!! or on my neck at least!!
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Common sense is a rare commodity these days.
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I used to work for Sephora, and omg, you wouldn't believe me if I told you how many PEOPLE comes in and grab the testers without even cleaning them and putting them on their faces. I would go up and ask to clean the testers and advise them not to apply the lipstick directly onto their lips; It's common sense!
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where i live youre forbidden in every drugstore/make up store to USE the testers on your face. theyre only for colour swatching on ur hand. seems like common sense 😂
@@sodense3402I've seen people stroll up to the make-up counter at Macy's and give themselves a full face by "sampling" different items.
Like, it was a funny joke when we were kids, but yikes.
I used to work at Sephora, we had disposable one use lip aplicators, they were really cool and helped people see how the color looked on them. Most of us discouraged or straight down told customera to not use the testers without our help. Some were just playing dumb and acted aloof, or some took advantage of us being busy with other customers and secretly tried them on. Even though we had signs everywhere that stated its not allowed. Point being, sometimes it's not the staff's fault but the idiocy of the customers.
Yes, besides you always have customers who actually open new products to use them as testers. I'm always inspecting the products on signs of use before purchasing. (not all of them are sealed by the maufacturer)
Yeah. I wanted to test if a concealer matched my skin at Sephora and the worker had brought another concealer from the back for me to test with a one time use brush.
My Sephora have them too and I don’t understand why they don’t use them or have them there it dangerous smh
there should be signs, this was likely a young girl
I absolutely agree.
My 2 cents:
There is no way in the world I would use a tester actually on my lips. I swatch on the back of my hand and hold it up next to my face. If that doesn't do...🤷🏾♀️
If some random "M.A.C." employees came up to me at a concert with open lipstick and a glare in their eye I'm calling security on them AND Rihanna!😂😂 M A.C. makes enough money, if they wanted to promote a product they could give out promotional minis. I think people need to take some responsibility in how they got sick. It's very unfortunate nonetheless.
Agree - great humour with you. Thanks. The cosmetic industry (and others) are not likely to disappear but people are doing the little extras as they can afford them more so now maybe. Imo. It's a riding high industry with people discovering how important self care and pampering may be to over all well being. Many love to dabble in make up and for others it's a great career. Hygiene and sanitation are part of self care. Larger companies are surely turning enough profit to offer individual samples or to get demo pods for promoting their products. Consumers are now paying for these- which was not norm not so long ago. They can write it off as advertisement expenses probably. ? And may he doing so anyway even with the charge to customers. I think I might be tempted to ask the rep trying to apply a community Lippie on me to be so kind as to demonstrate the product on themselves for me.
Right u can shave the top part off the lipstick spray it with alcohol and then use a single use stick for lips and swatch it on the back of your hand that way u can actually wash off any bacteria and germs off your hands when u got to wash your hands afterwards so no germs spread.
Literally this, like this is first time I've heard anyone actually using the testers on anything else than their hand/arm.
With lipsticks/lipgloss I never try it on my face. Once in awhile I will swatch on back on hand but I just go by color and assume it will be a half a shade light when I put it on. A few times I was off but Most times I’m good. I have so many lipsticks/gloss I just use another color to make it work. Most of the time, I’m good. It may be an extra step but I have no problem with this over the alternate.
Shit just take it home and return it if you hate it lol ppl really being gross and lazy and blaming anyone but themselves 😂😂
I work at Ulta, ALL testers are back. Guests are “encouraged” to use them in a hygienic way, and applicators and alcohol are available, but employees are not allowed to help them apply the testers in any way. It’s an “At Your Own Risk” kind of thing.
Oh wow. I'm a beauty advisor at Priceline in Australia and I'm still there for helping people with testers. They were all removed during the height of the pandemic but most are back now. I don't have an issue with foundation coz it's concealed in a tube/jar/pot but I absolutely CRINGE when I see people applying eye-liner to their eyes and WATERLINE and lipstick on their lips 🤢 Like I sanitise stuff but farrrrrrk whhhyyyyyyyyyyyy 😫
Eesh
Even before the pandemic, I would never ever try tester products on my face. Common sense ain't so Common.
@@Epictimeout because the skin on your hands/arms is a different colour to your face
I had an employee shade match on my skin (back of my hand) just the other day, but they cut the doe foot off so it’s just plastic , would have preferred them use a clear colour mixing palette but oh well
Horror story - I used to work for a well known beauty brand and as always we were pushed to do demos on people's skin to demonstrate moisturisers etc. A coworker was demoing a cream on the hand of a women and noticed it was covered in foundation. When enquiring about this the women had told her she had just been sampling in another store but the colleague noticed that she had a number of weird bumps on her skin. A DAY LATER - she has to call in sick. She got scabies and was completely covered with it! She had to boil all her sheets and clothing and had to be off for weeks to recover. Beauty retailers and customers - be very careful with coming into contact with other people's skin!
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Not sure you could catch scabies and know the next day. They are mites that live under the skin and are hard to gey rid of .
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@@oldwelshlady6584 You can notice really quickly
That's INSANE that someone would put a public lipstick sample on their lips. I'm sorry that happened to her but that's a really bad idea.
Dear RUclips, I am watching this because I like James Welsh, not because I need help for herpes, but thanks anyway!
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I got the same herpes adverts pop up as well 😭
Did you also get an ad for something about herpes?😂 Great, now we'll be getting them everyday lol
I got the add too!
Got the ad for herpes too😂😂😂
Herpes can remain dormant for YEARS and recrudesce in times of stress. Some people may have it and never even experience an active cold sore. So really she can’t prove it’s Sephora’s fault at all. She could have gotten Herpes just as easily from kissing someone she was unaware had an active breakout or sharing a drink with someone or something of the like.
This is absolutely correct. Some insane percent, like 50-80% of Americans have oral herpes. You can have it and NEVER have a cold sore or even know. They don't even test for herpes during STD testing unless you have an active outbreak because of this.
That’s what I was going to say, can’t it remain hidden for like up to 10 years? So how could u ever prove where it came from?
Thank you! My thoughts exactly. There is no way to know if she got her herpes from the lipstick - a lot of people get it from relatives as babies. On top of that, as the experts said in this video, herpes is a fragile virus and it is very difficult to catch it from objects.
Theoretically if you took a lipstick from someone directly after they used it and used it yourself, then maybe some of their saliva would be on the lipstick and the virus could survive long enough to transfer. But from a tester? Very unlikely.
@@chupaxf yup herpes is a crafty bitch. And it doesn't stay active on services for long.
Exactly. And the fact that she claims it's destroying her life is so dramatic. Seems like she just wanted to get some money.
If I were dumb enough to put a tester on my lips I would never let a soul on the planet know, much less sue the company for my own stupidity.
This^^
two of the three people James talks about had the product put on them by people who should have absolutely been trained how to do it hygienically. Especially the lady who got it in her eye, she paid for the service as well.
@@jilliancalmes2281 You're right. I wasn't talking about them though.
It was super common in the 90s/2000 and although everyone knew it wasn't great most people were okay and so kept doing it.
@@jilliancalmes2281 im sorry, if someone gives you ZERO confidence that the product they are using has been sanitized or is 1x use only.. Get up and leave. Stop them immediately and leave. "Yeah" and "i aint got time for that" are 100% unacceptable answers to "has that been sanitized".. Covid or not.. 100% unacceptable.
What's hilarious about your point about covid and testers is that I was at a Sephora maybe two months ago and they had ALL their testers out. BUT I went to sample perfume, and when I asked for a sample tube they said they don't do perfume sample tubes anymore "because of covid"
So the ONE possibly sanitary sample they could give you, they weren't doing. But all the makeup samples were out (and well used)
Back in the '80s, there was a cosmetics store in the local shopping mall, that didn't have any lipstick testers on display, although they did have them for complexion products. If you wanted to try a lipstick, you had to ask someone from staff and they would give you a tiny plastic blister pack and a tiny plastic spatula. But this was at the height of the AIDS paranoia, before anybody really knew how it spread. I wonder if something like this would work now. I can't imagine that stores could give them away for free like they did then, but they could probably sell them for a dollar apiece and call it a good compromise. I would pay a dollar or so for a hermetically sealed packet of makeup.
you can actually ask for samples at sephora. i think 2 a day. and its free
@@blairgowrie2924 it’s only certain items but I still. Wouldn’t want a lipstick sample because they take it from the tester
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Sounds like a good idea anyway.
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"MAC should have known"? What? You think a grown ass woman would know not to put testers right on your face? I suffer from cold sores since I had a terrible bout of tonsillitis when I was 14. I totally understand the trauma, but there is a thing called self-preservation people.
You can't have a title like that an not expect me to IMMEDIATELY click on it lol. Very nice very nice
Lol! I swear it’s clickbait for a reason 😂
@@JamesWelsh I love it. It's click bait about click bait haha
Omg . Had to see it . Very nice.
I have never been so hungry of needing of yt until now.
As someone who has had cold sores (herpes) pretty much my whole life. My mom has had them her whole life and it's likely who I got it from. I only get a breakout about 1x a year and take a prescription antiviral and it heals up in a couple days.
I thought sonething like up to 80% of people have it. Not all people will express it but can still have it.
It's so common. Tbh. Most people just don't like to talk about it since it is extremely painful, embarrassing, and people can be really mean about it. I would not say it would destroy your life unless you mentally let it or are unable to appropriately cope with it. I didn't get my first breakout till my early teens either. At least that I can remember.
I like to share my story to help break the stigma. It doesn't make you some nasty person.
yeah its ridiculous how judgemental people are when it comes to cold sores. i only had them when i was a kid, have never had it since
Damn ive been reading a bunch of comments and its crazy the amount of stories of people being judgamental about cold sores n shit... like you said literally a fraction of the population DOESNT have herpes so its so weird to me there are places in the world were getting a cold sore is still taboo
I started getting cold sores really young, like 7 or 8, and my situation is just like yours. I got them young most likely from my mom. I was never made fun of, just saying, “I have a cold sore.” was enough for people to understand, but they suck. I didn’t realize for the longest time that it wasn’t normal but they were a once every two years type of thing, except for this year when I had back to back cold sore breakouts for about 2 months. Not fun, wouldn’t recommend and I had to explain to so many people why it looked like the skin around my lips was tearing off lmao
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It’s common to Americans it wasn’t common at all in Eastern Europe
Something very similar actually happened to me at the Dior counter at my local Macy’s. In my case I feel extra furious because I NEVER put the testers on my mouth but the woman at the counter INSISTED and showed me how she sanitized the lipstick thoroughly and how she sharpened the lip liner and sanitized it as well… what I wasn’t expecting was that she’d use a vile impossible to sanitize liquid lipstick on me when my eyes were closed (for the reveal) … I’m now permanently affected and when I went back (not to fight or threaten, but make them aware of the problem and to demand that they throw away the tester) the (same) woman had the audacity to tell me that it’s not that (had gotten a diagnosis) and that I should try some natural products (she recommended some…) to heal and that it was for sure stress that caused it…. This b***h didn’t even remove the tester… I waited around for another employee to show up and told her EVERYTHING and demanded that she damage it out in front of me. Im so upset about this but I feel like there’s nothing I can do about it. I have this forever and she took away my peace of mind and my ability to kiss my little boy for a few days out of the month, my ability to blow on his food when it’s too hot and then just look at me like I was an idiot and ignore my concern… was just the icing on the cake… 🤬 a big F U to that lady. Just to be safe if you’re ever at the Macy’s at the Pembroke Lakes Mall DO NOT STOP BY DIOR. If you want Dior go to Dillard’s and NEVER let anyone put those filthy things anywhere near your mouth. Learn from my mistakes even if they sanitize it… IT’S NOT WORTH THE RISK
Thats lawsuit material
You should calm down lol herpes isn’t a death sentence. There are over 100 different forms of herpes and you’ve probably already had 1 before and have a 50/50 chance of contacting another form in older age. At this point it’s like 1 in 3 people have it. Not a big deal, the stigma sucks but it’s not a big deal.
@@stefaniisimoneyeah but still it’s disgusting that you tried to prevent it and some random women gave you it and knowingly so ,ain’t no way you work at a beauty store and they don’t tell you about how unhygienic those samples are or if you don’t notice it naturally already with how many people touch them , nothing against people with herpes it’s just no one wants to get it or get it back again
Not to be rude but why woukd you close your eyes and lwt her put anything on yoir mouth if she was already pushing that she "sanitized" it? I wouldnt of closed my eyes and let her put anything on my lips.but thats just me
@@stefaniisimoneyou’re rude asf. Common or not, it hurts. It looks gross. It feels gross. It impacts her abilities to be close to her child. Empathy isn’t hard. Your lack of it is alarming. Shame on you. Be a better human. Do better.
as someone who grew up having HSV-1 and getting coldsores on my mouth (which is ROUGH especially in 8th grade and high school) I appreciate you mentioning how common it is. The stigma that can come with it is crazy when so many people have it and it's common to accidentally get it from someone without knowing.
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I’m sorry about the click bait title but I thought people would understand that it’s satire. It’s so ridiculous that it’s (I thought it would be) obviously taking the piss out of clickbait news headlines that claimed Rihanna gave people herpes 😂
Please change it, it triggered my trypohobia it felt really awful, I get it for the likes, but I follow you and I can't unsee it or block if it is on my feed.
I don't think it was clickbait - was pretty accurate to the topic but it was definitely gross to randomly see on the recommended page
Very sneaky
If you’re acknowledging it’s clickbait and saying “sorry”, then don’t do it?
James, now we're all going to be getting ads for herpes treatments and the like. Thank you sir😂
Testers are still absolutely a thing. I usually have customers complain when something doesn't have a tester or when we couldn't use them in 2020/2021. I only ever use tester on the back of my hand, cause I don't feel comfortable using them on my face. But I have seen customers just take testers and go crazy all over their face, not giving a shit if they're clean or not, and not even using disposable applicators.
It's never occurred to me to check testers anywhere other than th back of my hand.
Some people really just don’t give a damn 😅
When I learned people used testers on their face I was very confused. It was always on my hand and arm. This was far before any pandemic
some people out here trying to get a full face of makeup with testers alone......
@@MikuHatsune159 They literally are in some cases. People flaunt that stuff on social media and it encourages others to do it.
Using testers on your face is 100% disgusting (allegedly, in my opinion, for legal reasons, allegedly)
I feel like this ability to have access to testers is really helpful for making purchasing decisions but swatch on your hands and arms you grubbs!!
You can even avoid swatching foundation and face products on your face. Use your neck or chest. Or better yet, I bring a foundation or product that I love that matches me, swatch it on my arm and find my matching shade by comparing. Same for lipstick. For mascara, i just focus on the mascara formula/ what it does and don't use the tester. If i buy it, using my own, old mascara wands, i can try different ways of using the new one for different looks. No need to rub someone's butthole on my eyes just to avoid spider leg lashes. Lol
@@ophilianecr “rub someone’s butthole on my eyes” I AM CRYING 😂😂
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I've never worn makeup in my life and my skincare routine boils down to one product as-remembered, but I work alone as a night janitor so over 5 years I've gotten very desperate for new content to listen to while I work and this channel is surprisingly interesting to me. Very well presented.
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I'm the same way.
Anyone remember those super tiny Avon sample size lipsticks? I remember my grandma had a whole big bin of them and they were so fun to play with as a kid. I know it would probably be expensive to produce them for free, but even selling a sample size like that for a few bucks would be worth it if you didn't have to worry about catching something from someone. Hell, it's not just things like herpes, but even the flu makes me feel weird touching things that many people have potentially placed around their mouths or nose.
My mum has always said never use the testers on the face, like never.
I don’t really go shopping alone anyway.
Right? I am GenX and we NEVER put the stuff on our faces. Testers were applied to the back of the hand or inner wrist and there was always hygiene wipes available to wash hands after.
This whole putting lipstick on lips from a tester is beyond the pale. I don't even do that with my friends.
The only thing I’ll test on my face is a bullet lipstick, because you can wipe off the top layer with alcohol and then apply with a disposable applicator. Foundation I’ll test on my neck just to match a shade. Anything else just can’t be trusted. Basically if I can’t clean it first I won’t put it on my face.
Good.
My mom told me the exact same thing. Glad I never did.
Same, my mom is amazing ♡
I didn't even realize people used tester products on their mouth or eyes...yuck, lol. Why would you do that!? 😩
That kind of herpes is also so common, many people get it as children and my experience is that it's dormant most of the time. But maybe some people have worse flareups than others.
It’s EXTREMELY common! I throw out some stats but i forgot them lol
Same! That feels very weird to me.. It's just standing there out in the open in the dust with people around, and then to put it on the face?
Herpes in general is super common and like you said most people have no symptoms and thus don’t even know they have it. I know someone who tested positive just during a routine test, had never had symptoms before and never had symptoms after. Like 50 years old, never once had a flare up. It’s unfortunate that the CDC doesn’t take it more seriously, they’ve basically just said “well, everyone has it so let’s not even worry about it.”
I get cold sores on my mouth lips... I have ever since I was a baby. They are soooo painful, I cannot imagine getting them on my eye lids or near my eyes. That would be the worst!
Yup, I studied epidemiology in school and this was one of the topics we covered. There's no way to prove WHEN someone contracted herpes. You can go your entire life with the virus in your system, and never have a single symptom. Likewise, you can suddenly develop symptoms years after contracting it (often when going through a physically or mentally stressful time). That's why it's so incredibly common. After taking that class, I just assume everyone I meet has it already, even if they think they don't.
Considering Robert started his make up career at MAC I'd love to hear his take on this. Testers have always grossed me out. Only ever tested colour on the back of my hand.
I had a section where I was gonna interview him quick for the Rihanna x MAC but we didn’t get round to recording!
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@@JamesWelsh Hi, I know it’s been 7 months but did you both eventually do a recording about this at some point? Or are you still planning to do it at some point? Or maybe dropping it entirely? :”D
I've only ever seen people test lipstick on the back of their hand or on the inside of their arm, they then clean it off once they've made up their mind so nothing is on the skin for more than five minutes. I've never seen anyone test a lipstick on their actual lips.
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Right! That’s how you should but I have seen folks use it direct.
I had a coworker name Elise, who has hpv and had cold sores all over her lips,but would go in stores and use lipgloss and lipstick that was out as testers ! Just disgusting ! She also refused to tell her ex husband she had hpv and having sex with her can cause him to have throat cancer later on !
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This gave me flashbacks to the days when some people would feel comfortable enough to go into a drugstore just to do their *entire face* of makeup without any fear 😂😂
It is super common in Korea and I find it gross
I work as a beauty advisor and the amount of customers I see applying stuff on their lips is extortionate. I keep telling them they're not meant to apply that straight to their face and they're like where's the sign that says??? Apparently common sense is not a thing anymore.
Jesus I would have such a hard time not audibly judging them
@@mayanovak2497 I'd have already done so xD.
legally there needs to be a sign
@@seabreeze4559 there is a sign actually. They choose to ignore that as well 🙃
I went with my mother to Sephora to help her pick out a new mascara. She found one that she like but the color wasn't on the packaging or product. The Sephora employee took the mascara out of the packaging, opened it and swatched it on her own hand. She told my mother the color and closed it up and put it back in the box and then handed it back to my mother. My mother and I couldn't believe what we just saw. I'm pretty sure that my bottom jaw was on the floor. Needless to say that we left without the mascara. Point to the story, you can't even trust the new and packaged products at Sephora, let alone the samples.
wtf??? I would’ve chewed that crazy employee out lmao.
Omg😟 that’s HORRIBLE
I believe it because I've seen customers (often), and some SAs (very rare) open and use fresh products and then put it back! I will *only* buy sealed products, or a products that I can see the boxing folds show they haven't been bent open. I check top and bottom openings. People *are* gross!
Some of the boxes have anti tamper tape on it that wont stick again after opening, so you can check the box for the little circular tape piece
Wow! This should have been reported to management and HQ. She should have been fired. Why do I say “fired”? Because any employee that would do something like that, I guarantee, is doing other things they shouldn’t! Goodness grief! I wouldn’t have bought the mascara either!
I was in a Sephora two weeks ago in the States (Florida, I know…). All the common use samples were out, and people were still all up in them while staff offered to help. I literally saw no change in how the store was being managed pre-Covid versus during the pandemic.
What’s wrong with Florida?
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Lol
Idk I’m from Florida still live here and it’s not the greatest lol
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Herpes in your eye is the absolute worst.I had it when I was younger. It was so painful and i never let my friends use my eye makeup especially eyeliner my friends would always make fun of me for “being afraid of an eye infection”.
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How do you get it in your eye ?
@@mariastewart9820 There are so many types, my ex had it
People actually put testers on their lips!? I've always just put it on the back of my hand, which is still not really that sanitary, but I feel like its better than the lips.. I really didn't think it was a common thing to put a tester on the lips, I guess I never thought people did that..
I'm reading the comments and can also say from in person viewing at stores, people do that. Even with lipgloss tube testers, there's some brave souls who apply it directly on their lips not just a lipstick bullet. 😂
Were I that woman, knowing that I had lupus which causes me to be immunocompromised I would have left when the 'artist" said she did not use single use products and applicators. I agree that Sephora bore responsibility of providing of the appropriate supplies the woman bears some blame for going ahead with the appointment.
At my store I see people using testers straight on their faces non stop. I’ll warn them when I see it, but it’s impossible to babysit and stop everyone. Personally, I think stores should have signs saying to ask for help with testing, but it’s really the customer’s own responsibility to watch out for their own safety. Also pro tip: never try on tubes of lip products that has doe foot applicators or mascaras even with disposable applicator wands bc I guarantee the tester was already contaminated by someone doing it wrong.
You used the key word here, "babysit". I still get astounded when adults don't know how to adult.
Obligatory not a woman: what is a doe foot applicator?
@@baydiac it's a stick with the spongy end
Same! In our store we have signs that encourage clients to ask help with testers, the team is really diligent about cleaning and helping, we have hygienic stations everywhere but... every day I see a woman applying a gloss directly from the tube or teens doing their eye makeup right from the tester palette... I cringe. People get very hostile when you approach them and recommend not to apply makeup from testers so I walk away. But I don't think people who test on their faces think that some don't wash hands after bathroom and then test lipsticks on their hands.. kids grab testers and put them in their mouths.. and all that bacteria is cooking under display lights! And all you can do is cringe and walk away.
You’re absolutely right! Stores should put warning signs for these dummies.
I don't mind sharing that I have Herpes. I got it from an Ex who was cheating (and I was pregnant, too, so F*^K him). I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. It hurts, it affects more than the "spots" that show up. When I have a flare up it coincides with a ton of other symptoms like sciatica pain, cramps, upset stomach. It affects how well I can walk, how well I can take care of my kids. I'm angry that I have it, because I never should have, but I cannot imagine if I thought I had caught it from some makeup sample or artist how angry I would be that they gave it to me. We're supposed to be able to trust these companies, and for them to have such shit standards when we KNOW what unhygienic products and tools can do to someone is disgusting. I hope they had to pay SO much to the people who have gone after them for this.
@Courtney Parker I don't see how I am feeding the stigma, when I'm sharing my story instead of hiding it...? People should know what it can be like to have herpes from someone who isn't afraid to talk about it, so that when they feel or see symptoms they can go get checked out instead of feeling ashamed and not getting checked. You're entitled to your opinion, but I really don't see how sharing what this disease does to me and how angry it makes me that I have it 'helps to increase' the stigma around it. Even if it was just sores, it's not like it's a pleasant disease to have, and damn sure not something that I would want other people to have to deal with regardless of the severity of their symptoms. At the same time I'm not ashamed that I have it, and no one else should be either, so I talk about it fairly openly.
@Courtney Parker just because that’s YOUR experience, doesn’t mean someone else with it doesn’t struggle really bad with it. Foh with that “feeding into the stigma.” I don’t think people with it should be shamed, especially those who contracted it from a partner that was too careless to tell them. If you have a disease that is spreadable, you should ALWAYS tell someone before having sex. (And you’d be surprised at how many people honestly don’t care if you’re honest with them!) but at the same time, it’s not like we should be looking at herpes as a “positive thing” or a “normal thing” or something that “if we contract it, it’s okay.” Which is what you sound like you’re implying when you say “feeding into the negative stigma.” It has a negative stigma, because it is a negative thing that can negatively impact someone’s life in a HUGE way. I’ve seen the judgement, the way people look at you, the way people think of you, the way people talk about you, they think your dirty, your just “fast” (for lack of a better word) and that’s why you have it, they’re scared to drink from the same cups as you, honestly they’re scared to share ANYTHING. They think if you even touch something that they have touched, they will get it. I don’t personally have it but my best friend of many years does so I know allll the details of what comes with it.. not only does the person that has it get shamed, their friends get shamed. Their family gets shamed. They think that if that one person has it, their whole friend group and family must have it too. Now THAT is the negative stigma that has to change. The stigma that you must be “dirty” if you have it. Or you just sleep around and that’s why. The stigma that you will spread it to everyone around you as if it’s airborne or something. And the massive amount of misinformation that comes with it.
And before she got on medicine for it, it was VERY PAINFUL for her. And still is very painful during a flair-up. Thankfully with the medicine she doesn’t have symptoms/flair ups nearly as much, in fact she rarely does, but when she does she goes through hell.
Girl it's the SAME story for me 😩 3 months pregnant and found out my man was cheating at a check up cause I physically couldn't see the outbreak 🙃 I just thought I was having some "pregnancy pains" as everyone likes to call them. I have a couple autoimmune diseases that cause my flare ups to become like yours and I'm so sorry you had to suffer the same fate 😔 What people seem to not understand is that herpes actually attacks your nervous system throughout your ENTIRE BODY and this can be super detrimental to people like us who could potentially have other factors that play into it. You're the strongest momma in my book and I'm glad you're speaking up about it because I've been so ashamed of myself for years over something that was NOT my fault but I'll always feel so disgusted with myself. I wish you all the best in life and I pray for healing 🙏❤
@@carissacouturexo don't feel ashamed of yourself!! It's not your fault, even if it was a one night stand or a hookup in a gross bathroom it wouldn't be your fault, it's the person who knew they had herpes or knew something was wrong and didn't go get checked out and care to not spread it who is to blame. It's nothing to be ashamed of, but it does suck to deal with. I'm married now, with one child by my husband, and thankfully he never has seen it as a problem and I'm always super careful when I'm in an outbreak or feel one coming (my right leg always has pains when it's coming). I can only afford the meds when I'm in an outbreak, I can't take them daily. I've identified habits that cause them for me, so my outbreaks are fairly rare most of the time, thankfully.
@@HainekoMikemalcom no it has no cure, it's lifelong. There are medications that can suppress outbreaks, called anti-virals, but they don't cure it. It's related to chicken pox, and it lives in your body dormant in between outbreaks. Similar to how chicken pox virus in childhood can cause shingles in adulthood, only for a lot of people it is much more frequent than shingles would be.
My mum works in a beauty department and she's seen people use mascara testers on their lashes. I just can't believe how relaxed some people are, even during covid they'll still use testers on their face. People will even open a new product to test and put it back! I will never trust a product that hasn't got a seal on it. People are gross
Pre pandemic I ALWAYS put common use testing items on my hand. My mum always said to assume they were dirty and honestly she was right. Its a shame this woman now has herpes for the rest of her life because of this one incident.
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ngl i think she'll be fine. people with cold sores get them once every two years on average, when their immune system is a bit low. this hErpEs is nothing serious unless you're giving it to a cancer patient, like a cold.
When I was young in the 70s every makeup counter had individual single-use lipsticks. They didn't roll up or down, they had just enough to use once or twice and were covered with a plastic cap. Everyone is so concerned about cost now, even though there's a *very* high markup on makeup.
In the 90s you used to get those tiny little tubes as a sample too, I remember my grandmother having them.
I remember getting those little 2 or 3 use lipsticks from my mom’s friend who was an Avon lady. So much fun for a 10 year old 😄
@@happycamper4thewin avon even used to do eyeshadow testers. They were on a paper backing with a seal over it, you pulled it back and there was a little swatch of eyeshadow inside!
I remember that! By the '80s, they were single-use blister packs, but the idea was the same.
See, would love that to still be the case. People now would probably just try and steal them all 🤦🏼♀️
the employees can't actually keep up with all the customers trying everything on, so as a costumer you should be more careful and if you want to try something, ask someone to sanitise, it's easy. I saw so many customers complaining when the employee told them to not try directly to their skin, even during Covid, or just people going straight into lipstick and trying on several shades. I think a customer should be more careful about their own health too. Let's be reasonable.
Agreed. I try several things only on my hand. No way is a store employee going to have enough time to walk around sanitizing before and after me. I like to know what I am buying beforehand and dont return makeup I buy. I am a pigmented girl, not all lipsticks suit me and usually have to try it out on my skin to know what magic was going to happen. It's so unpredictable with my skin colour, lol. My lips too are pigmented so it's never an exact science even if I test it on my hand...so I would want testers
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My mom has cold sores (herpers) and growing up she always told me not to use testers in stores. If i wanted to try them i had to swatch it on paper or the back of my hand and hold it near my face. I ended up working in a discount euro store (basically a dollar or a one pound store) where we sold make up too. The horrors ive witnessed when people tried on our testers.... ive tossed out so many more than my boss will ever know about as he wanted us to just “wipe off” the testing tupes
I was with my sister when a Sephoria employee tried to insist on putting some brow pomade on my sister. I told my sister if she allowed it I would slap her, she already has problem with her skin the last thing she needed was something nasty from the sample. I used a disposable brush had her try it on her arm (where the skin was not broken). I was astonished that that employee would encourage that!
In my entire life I never used a ''tester'' on me. I remember a girl working in MAC came to me and took the tester and was like ''let's try that on you, oh I will wipe the top it's ok'' I felt personally attacked at that moment and I am sure that the lady was puzzled by the panic displayed on my face. Since I have memory my mother always told me to NEVER share or use personal hygiene products like hairbrushes, hair ties or beaty products if they touched the skin or even clothes. And I had a good reason to listen her, she is a doctor specializing in STD's.
But I belive that her showing me her big medical encyclopedia with detailed pictures of every STD imaginable to me when I was like 5 was what did the trick, since my childhood I won't share my glass or water bottle even with my parents and I know they have nothing but I guess it's part of my normal behavior at this point.
Will I do that to my kid if I ever choose to have one? Absolutly yes, not sharing your lipstick with your bf and be seen as somenone not so ''bf'' is better than having herpes or worse.
Love this series! I worked at the Clinique counter at Macy's early 00s and we had no brushes...testers were sprayed with alcohol before each use and everything had to be applied with cotton balls, q-tips, or tissue. Lipsticks were never applied from the tube, had to scrape off the bullet with the stick of the q-tip and on to back of hand as your pallette, from there dip in the clean cotton end of q-tip and apply to client's lips. Didn't leave much room for artistry or precision, but back then makeup looks were still pretty soft and natural, especially at Clinique. The Dior muas would roll their eyes at our lack of brushes. At least we never gave anyone herpes 🤷🤣
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Oh thank god! I was cringing hoping you wouldn't tell a horror story about the lack of cleanliness at the Clinique counter!! That's been my brand ever since I developed sensitive skin at least 10yrs ago!! Was like ''Clinique et tu brute?!'' thank you for your service!
An advert going “IF YOU SUFFER FROM HERPES THIS MIGHT BE FOR YOU” loudly in front of everyone 🤣🤣🤣
Saaaaaame 🤣
same💀💀
@@squiishiie to try on in on
Yes!! When I worked for MAC, I saw people apply lipsticks directly onto their lips, more often than I’d like to admit. I’d always warn them & offer to sanitize it first, but you’d be surprised how many people genuinely didn’t care if the lipstick was clean or not. 🤢
Sometimes (especially in summer) your face skin tone is different from your hand's. What I do in this case is I draw a line with the lipstick on a tissue, put it in front of my face (not touching it though) and look in the mirror! Simple and safe
I can’t believe that woman sued Sephora!!! SHE used a lipstick knowing a million others could have done the same thing. SHE is the one with the bad hygiene. Honestly what has the world come to
It’s great to have testers so I can see the actual colour but there’s no way in hell I’d put that anywhere near my mouth or skin. It’s disgusting!
Even if it’s sanitised and the top layer has been cut off it’s still a no and big risk for me.
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"I want to take you back to being a teenager."
Me: Please don't.
I would never go back to my teenage years . High school was hell ! And when you're a teen , you don't really know that life is completely different after high school .
Testers going onto face has always grossed me out. In addition, my sister 100% got herpes from a lipstick as a child when her makeup was done for a school play by the mum who did everyone’s. a bunch of kids did.
id sue
Omg that’s awful
@@sarikatimmi this was in a Australian country town in the nineties. Suing wasn't really on the radar tbh. Nowadays, it'd definitely be persued I think
I mean that sounds tragic, but at the same time more like a freak thing. What I mean is, how many school plays and such have happened where kids all had their makeup done together with no incident? That was I think the usual practice for how makeup was done in school plays, and honestly, while stories like this may be more common than I know, this is the first I have encountered in a lifelong (I'm in my 50's) of school plays doing just that with no herpes cases.
Maybe herpes is just getting more to be an issue even in young children now, and what was a rare case like this is becoming a regular concern. Regardless, I still think something like this is an instructive lesson. Why needlessly risk a child's health and future, when there must be practical solutions, like 'bring your own makeup' and a pre-play convo with parents as to what makeup exactly their kid will need and where to get it cheaply.
@@a.westenholz4032 with how common it is for the virus to remain dormant for looking periods of time, I think it's very possible that there are lots of other people with similar exposures who may not even be aware of it, or it may have been written off at the time as impetigo (aka school sores). She passed it to me and when I successfully avoid my triggers I can be flare free for years at a time.
Plus, again, this was the nineties. It wasn't like we could just go Google what it was or get on social media and tell people about it at the time.
I don't disagree that it should have been handled differently, but I also don't think that it is done that differently these days, unfortunately
Many of my close friends and family members have the herpes virus, most, if not all, had it since they were small children (as in hereditary). So it doesn't mean you sleep around or do naughty things just because you have the herpes virus 🤷🏼♀️
Glad you talked about this! I’ve had ocular herpes since I was six years old. HSV 1 is actually very common, but people still stigmatize it.
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I got herpes as a small child, sharing chapstick with a childhood friend, I was like 5 and didn’t even understand until later in life. I would get bullied and felt gross bc even my own parents wouldn’t share chapstick with me or let my brother share. I was too young to understand. As an adult I tested negative though. 🤷🏼♀️
That might be a false negative cause herpes never goes away. Its also possible you might’ve had something else that just looked like it.
I’ve been tested more than once as an adult, pretty much yearly, since right before I became sexually active. My mom is who told me it was herpes, she is a pharmacist, (not a dr) and treated me as if I had it. I was really young so they could have gotten me tested and I just don’t remember too.
@@BeccaBoo82 oral herpes (cold sores) and genital herpes, though caused by the same virus, are different. Getting a cold sore doesn’t mean you automatically have the other, and vice versa, so you may have tested negative for genital herpes, but you can still have cold sores under the right circumstances. The virus that causes this lies dormant in your body for the duration of your life once you’re exposed which means you still have it. I recommend asking your doctor about this.
@@BeccaBoo82 you might’ve had school sores(impetigo)Which looks super similar really contagious to. So she might’ve just jumped the gun in thinking you had herpes cause ive never heard of school sores until just looking into what could look like cold sores. Her being a pharmacist might’ve made her so sure that it was herpes and just never decided to get you tested. I know most people dont get tested they just stop sharing things
@@BeccaBoo82 you can only get tested for herpes if they get a direct sample from a cold sore. They will poke it and get a swab from that. Otherwise, a test won’t show if you have it or not from a regular mouth or genital swab.
I hope he touches on the fact that someone with an active herpes sore that kisses an infant can be really dangerous.
That's great to know, but it's not really his responsibility as this isn't an educational video about herpes. Thanks for letting ppl know that, tho!!
Herpes can be shed before and after an outbreak, not just when there’s active sores, and about 75% of people who have HSV don’t know they have it. Basically, everyone should be careful around infants always lmao
@@WinterRose13 oh I agree its not his problem, I just mean the fact that he was kind of minimizing herpes and getting herpes from a tester like its no big deal. It can be.
@@Hannah-zw9ow yeah this. Its a huge misconception that its only passable when you see the sores. Its honestly why its spread so much
Really anything is dangerous to an infant its why you dont kiss peoples babies.
this reminds me of when i was a kid and i was IN LOVE with mac lipsticks and my mom would never buy one for me (cause i was 10 lol) but i would always go to a mac store to use the testers, and my cousin saw it and she was like "aren't you scared of getting herpes or something with those? anyone could have used it" and it hit me and i got so scared and never tested makeup at any store ever again, and since i had no idea what herpes was every little thing i felt i was like "omg is that the herpes?"
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Disgusting . Once I got a beautiful red lipstick and I used for the first time at a Halloween party.
After some drinks I took my lipstick to reapply it. My friend’s friend, a lady that I’ve never seen before, commented how nice the lipstick was. And she asked to look at it. She then proceeded to apply it to her lips. 🤬🤬🤬 How dare she? Seriously .
I think she did that on purpose so I would give it to her.
I went to the bathroom and threw my new lipstick in the bin .
I was always grossed out by people who applied testers to their face. I use them all the time, but only ever on my hand/arm- putting something on my face that has been touched by other people just grosses me out 🤢🤮
Reading the video title, my brain reminded me that people try makeup samples on their face. For example a lipstick sample on their lips, some people cause their own problems and should know better because it's open to the elements same for the general public. Hygiene aside of the store, it's a common sense issue because I for one dodge the store clerks when they try to apply makeup samples on my face. I also don't do it myself because bacteria, viruses and germs. 😐
Yeah took me a minute too, I've always used the back of my hand or those little sheer papers if I wanted to see it closer to my face.
@@Lethe_Nyx yall ahould be careful with anything that can be contaminated. Even putting. Contaminated foundation on the back of your hand can expose you to infections.. Like MRSA.. My ex got it from the gym.. On his leg.. Almost died.. Please keep anything that can be publicly contaminated away from skin.. Wash and sanitize your hands.. Stay safe.
@@mom23js I can tell you this I also don't do, one time I tested a jelly highlighter on the back of my hand. It left my skin itchy and red plus needing ointment, lesson learned. 🤣
My fiance has had herpes his whole life because he got it as a child from one of his aunts. I however have never had herpes so we're always very careful. Never kiss, share drinks, or chapstick when he has obvious cold sores. And whenever I do use his chapstick I cut off the top just in case he had used it when he had herpes. It's a really serious disease and I'm glad we've been so careful so I never get it. People should always be self aware when sharing something orally with anyone especially because you have to have a cold sore on your face to be able to share herpes 🤔
@be bd they only don’t kiss them when they have the cold sores
most people get it as a baby from their parents so unless you actually test for it you have no idea... you can go your whole life without having sores while having the virus. a little bit over dramatic
ok but 'serious' is overkill 😂to any person without any immuno-compromisations (where even the common cold can kill you) it is literally just an annoying blister on your lip. the same kind you get when shoes rub on you, except it happens via virus. people need to stop doing too much with the hysteria. because this is how people think it's some horrific STD.
“A really serious disease”? While people should be smart and not share certain items… calling it serious is an exaggeration.
@The_Winsome_Pixie there are plenty of people with herpes in my family. Herpes is pretty serious to me. It can make you more susceptible to other infections since you have open sores. It can also be more extreme in certain people.
I ended up in urgent care years ago with a terrible case of ocular herpes. I have an autoimmune disorder similar to Lupus. I take medicine that stops my own immune system from attacking body. Which also means that I get shingles and other outbreaks of things that can normally live on or in our body. My immune system isn't there to stop it from going out of control. I have a very close relationship with my dermatologist because of this. It's really common and people with autoimmune disorders.
What autoimmune disease do you have that’s similar to lupus if you don’t mind me asking? I only ask as my little sister also has an autoimmune disease similar to lupus
😅I got herpes in the womb and it began flaring up when I was around 16/17. My mother had it but non of my siblings had breakouts. I think these lipstick herpes cases weren't caused by the lipstick but by a dorment case of herpes they had all along. The eye herpes I don't know honestly.
Herpes is painful and it makes you feel unhappy when you have a flare up but it doesn't take over your life or your "image" like one of the girls stated.
I'll admit, after Jaclyn Hill I wouldn't have been shocked if someone did get herpes or similar reaction from using bad lipstick 🤷♀️
Dretiko on RUclips have a permanent cure for HSV1-8 I got cured making use of his herbs,
I never understood how anyone was ok with trying on lip or eye product testers 🤢
PSA reminder to regularly get tested for STIs for your health and peace of mind. Let’s make this so common that no-one bats an eyelash! Gorgeous gorgeous girls know what’s up 💄💋 get cervical screening too if possible for those that can! My next one’s booked next month.
Stay in charge!
Meeting Dr Ewi1 on RUclips has really been one of the best day of my life after years of suffering I have been finally cured from herpes thanks doc God bless you.🙏
🤣 well I’m glad I’m not the only one who wears perfume to bed lol I get out the shower, do my evening skincare, dry my hair, get dressed for bed and then spray a few squirts of my favourite perfume over my bed top (not on my actual skin) before I get in bed and go sleep… just makes me feel really good lol
That’s a good idea! I wear perfume for myself anyways so why not have a little bit of good scent headed to bed?
I always put on perfume before I go to bed too.
Actually in some cultures that's very common
I have started to use body mists after showers, and now I am inspired to spray body mists before going to bed every evening. :3
@@Tessalaurant it’s good to make yourself feel good before going to bed, wether it be perfume, mists or some other kinda thing. I think if you feel good before you go to bed the more relaxed and settled you are and then easier it is for you to fall asleep… I’ve been putting on perfume before bed for years and I will forever do it lol
80% of the population has the virus that causes the type of herpes that cause cold sores or fever blisters in their bodies. It can be dormant for years even decades, and most of us get it as children for the first time thanks to a relative who may have had then transmitted onto us. WE usually have a first cold sore outbreak as preteens that to stress and puberty. What many don't know it's stress is the largest factor of reactivation of the virus, so it's any sort of dental work due to the dryness that occurs to our lips, and a high salt diet. She possibly kept having these sore reemerge so often because she was not throwing away lip products she applied directly to the mouth while in active infection, and as she said herself always being inner constant stress, in my opinion this is a 50/50 fault situation. She should have known if the risks of using those testers and Sephora needed better warning signs and ways of testing safely.
Dretiko on RUclips have a permanent cure for HSV1-8 I got cured making use of his herbs,
As someone who has this permanent ‘problem’ (I do not know how I got it I was VERY young) I will NEVER use any testers except foundation for color matching and it’s usually done with help from an employee so I can make sure everything is sterile. Herpes is hard to manage and it’s a nightmare during a breakout. I used to go thru a lot of money on lip gloss and balm because you CAN’T use it ever again if you used it within days of a breakout, I now don’t usually buy high end glosses and such.
To be honest....ive never used a Lipstick tester and I never would. I feel like that's just really gross and you have no way of knowing who else used it😶
I still want testers to be a thing because I like to test the product before I committ to purchasing. However applying it directly to your face??? Where is these people's common sense, you apply it to your hand or wrist!
I agree 100% I also use testers but on my hand lol.
I was a freelance makeup artist and worked for Sephora in 2015-2016. When I learned that the store used “common use” testers for the makeup & skincare services, I refused to go through their makeup certification process. Wiping a powder or cream with alcohol does not make it sanitary. I ended up transferring to the fragrance department 🤷🏻♀️
I learned when I was a child to swatch on my hand and wash my hands after. I would never use a tester near my eyes or mouth. I know not everybody has a great deal of common sense so there should be signs up in every shop, but at a point, it's the fault of the person who used something they know has been touched by many people on their mouth. That said, sales assistants and makeup artists who apply unclean product to people should definitely be held accountable. That's 100% on them not the client/customer
Meeting Dr Ewi1 on RUclips has really been one of the best day of my life after years of suffering I have been finally cured from herpes thanks doc God bless you..🙏
I would love to hear your views on the vintage brand "Ernest Laszlo" used by Hollywood stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor etc. Does it live up to today's standard? Was it really ahead of its time for back then? Much love James!
@ Kellie
I reside in the UK, " back in the day" ( in my early 20's well after the Hollywood era) I used Ernest Laszlo products !
It was popular even though expensive then, it featured in Vogue & was used by many professional makeup artists when making up the models & their preferred skin care/ skin prep regime. I had the whole range of goodies, I would swear by the stuff ! I also used many Klorane products & Molten Brown hair products. Many years later there are a million or more other cosmetic houses who have their own range on the market.
I still rate Laszlo !
I recently worked at a drugstore here in the UK and my God… you’d be shocked. People just don’t care. The amount of people that were mad there haven’t been testers DURING A PANDEMIC 😂 as a result more people than normal have been opening sealed products and testing them then putting them back. When we caught them, they’d be like ‘oh I thought it was a tester…’ did you Barbara? Did you? Products would be written off but God knows how many people weren’t caught. There isn’t usually lipstick testers anyway but people open the tubes all the time
I despise the stigma around herpes. I've had herpes for 5 years and literally my biggest concern is always around how OTHER people view my condition. There are times where it feels easier to not say anything but I'm legally obligated to tell anyone I'm intimate with that I have it in case anyone else got it from me. I've lost numerous relationships because of the stigma around herpes. Like I totally get that herpes sucks and can be uncomfortable, but it shouldn't feel like an automatic disqualifier just because someone with this condition non consensually.
I remember I got a cold sore which is herpes and was bullied in school for having it ....not my fault it’s very painful to and most likely they had the virus in them and didn’t had symptoms yet.
It’s more common than you think
wait ppl have been using testers on their lips...? growing up my mom always told me they were unhygienic so to check the colour on my inner wrist to see if the colour suited my skin tone
We used to had a coworker who asked for lip balm, it had never happened to me but w my friend used to gift her the ones they were using, so when she asked me, I told her I didn't know where her mouth was and that I knew of first hand how nasty one could be because I kiss my dogs ond they kiss me back, so she never asked for lipbalm again, I think I made the world a better place 😂😂
My coworkers were sharing a vape the other day, and I called them out! I said, “you guys are brave as if we aren’t in a whole pandemic!” I think I embarrassed them some.
Testers are not ment to be used on the face but on the hand. I use to tell people all the time, when I worked in The body shop.
I used to work at a small Sephora store. During downtime, we would clean testers, make new testers, re-stock disposable wands, etc. Our store was honestly very clean. I would always let people know about the disposable wands we had and I'd sanitize with alcohol the stick lipsticks they would try on (this was before Covid). I remember I saw two women using a mascara tester and applying it to their eyelashes. I kindly reminded them of the disposable wands but they did not care. After they left the store, I took the tester out and made a new one.
I also remember one little girl asking me if the Too Faced chocolate collection was edible! (Haha!!) Of course, I told her no, and that makeup was not edible. After some minutes, I saw her licking the tester palette! Thankfully, the mom was around and scolded her. Again, after they left, I took the palette tester out and made a new one.
Sometimes, it's not the store's hygiene, it's the customers' behavior.
well had you not done that, it’s very likely someone would get sick. so yes while customer behavior leads to poor hygiene, the store is still responsible. imagine had you not swapped out any testers after seeing customers do that? you were directly responsible for other’s well being and probably preventing and contamination and spread of bacteria
Also, your skin looks so beautiful freshly cleaned. 😍 The slight rosiness is really pretty to see on you.
Meeting Dr Ewi1 on RUclips has really been one of the best day of my life after years of suffering I have been finally cured from herpes thanks doc God bless you.🙏
I can imagine this would be hard to prove. I can’t remember the actual statistic but something like 80% of ppl have the herpes virus in their body but only 20% show symptoms. It could lie dormant for years and years, your immune system is weak and 💥 a cold sore could pop up outta nowhere.
Yeah pretty much whats also scary is you can pass it sometimes and not even have a flair up. Or it can be infectious before you have one. So theres no way of knowing when its actually safe to kiss your partner.
I really just thought it was common knowledge that testers are only meant to be applied on areas like the back of the hand until I started working at Sephora and started seeing clients applying them directly to their face. The remover near the testers isn't there to imply you should apply it directly to the face rather it's just a way to remove the swatches you apply on your hands/arms. While I feel that it's not the store's liability if you choose to misuse the tester I do think more supervision and signage would be helpful to bring attention to how unsanitary and unsafe applying unsanitized shared makeup can be.
I agree, there should be a sign. particularly for younger customers who may not be aware of the risks
At some point you should just let them win the Darwin Award. If signs and well established warnings are being ignored, there is nothing more you can do.
Lol I was a teenager in the 1960’s so I’m of the pre-tester generation. We never got to try on anything ever. Even when testers happened they grossed me out & I never used them . I will never understand why anyone would ever ever ever have ever used testers! So gross 😳😂
I kinda see this as stupid people getting stupid prizes. Every time I use a sample I hear my mom nagging me in my head "swatch on your wrist... you don't know where that's been!"
Dretiko on RUclips have a permanent cure for HSV1-8 I got cured making use of his herbs..
Who actually uses tester lipsticks on their lips? Why would you use something that’s for everyone anywhere near you face? That’s as bad as kissing every stranger you see
I’m surprised lush hasn’t been hit with something similar. Thankfully they have limited mouth/lip testers and the sales ambassadors are good about staying on top of *those*, but despite all the popsicle sticks placed *all* over the store and the sales ambassadors trying to assist people… people stick their grimy fingers right into products anyway. The amount of times I had to scrape the top layer of a product after I saw too-late someone stick their hands in a lotion pot that sat right next to a cup full of popsicle sticks.
the amount of people i see in lush using the tester stick as a spoon to eat the lips scrubs?? wayyyy too high
Okay but I received a Herpes ad right before clicking this vid. The internet be watching what we doing lol 👀