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The Rudest, Grossest Things Customers Do, According To Beauty Store Staff

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If you’ve walked around a big beauty store when it’s busy, you may have experienced the chaos that employees face daily.

They often have to deal with annoying issues, from returns of expired products to people using unsanitised testers and “Sephora babies” raiding the store for Drunk Elephant skin care.

HuffPost spoke to three past and current employees who work in big beauty retailers – and they shared the most entitled things customers do in stores. Are you guilty of these?

The most entitled “I can’t believe they just did that” behaviour

Often, customers think it’s OK to open products not marked as testers to try them on, but that’s not the worst employees have to deal with.

“I once watched a 40-plus-year-old woman squeeze a tube of foundation out onto the display and smear it around like she was finger painting in art class. I was stunned,” said Sophia Burow, who worked at a beauty retailer for three years.

“Another time, a couple came in with their 5-year-old son, who ran around unsupervised for two hours, destroying anything he could get his hands on. Entire eyeshadow palettes were scratched out, and a bottle of body oil was sprayed onto the floor. It took us hours to clean everything up,” Burow said.

Customers can get abusive, said NJ, who has been working at a beauty retailer for two years (they asked to go by their initials to protect their privacy). Once, a shopper forcibly took an object from NJ’s hands.

“I once saw a customer expose their full breast at the MAC counter to swatch a nude lipstick, so they could shade match it to their nipple,” saidBM, who has been working at a beauty retailer for four years (and also prefers to use their initials for privacy reasons).

“There was also a customer who sprayed a Snif fragrance in........

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