Beauty Pet Peeves 2

[veronika23]

The other thread was getting too long and difficult to load! 

So what are your beauty pet peeves? What grinds your gears? Share your stories!!!

[blackkitty2014]

@WinglessOne I agree ND org needs an overhaul. I keep thinking is it because their server crashed and they can’t recover the orders/info? Even if they have to manually process our orders, it would probably faster than their current speed now.

[WinglessOne]

@blackkitty2014  I do think their server (or one of their servers, if their volume’s high enough to need more than one) crashed that day. At one point during my first round of shopping, the site wouldn’t load at all. That’s on top of their apparent site launch issues, plus quickly selling out of certain items. Ugh. 

I hope you get your order! If I don’t hear from ND by 5 PM CT tomorrow, I’ll email them about my second order in limbo. 

[Loretta55]

I miss the paper confetti @WinglessOne! I emptied the sequins into a plastic sandwich bag so my friend from work could give them to her daughter. I tried to be careful but those sequins had a mind of their own and still found a couple on my countertop and the floor. 

[WinglessOne]

@Loretta55 I still find random sequins glamming up the floor in various rooms of my apartment. I’m sure I’ve stepped on a few and accidentally tracked them out into the common hallway, elevators, building lobby, and maybe even outside. 😄 I find a lot more plastic black stuff on my floors lately, though! 

[blackkitty2014]

Good to hear that you got refunds from ND @Loretta55 . What a mess! I was thinking about to wait another week to see if they can get their acts together. If not I just call my CC and cancel the darn transaction 🙄 And yes I agree about the PMG plastic confetti. My 4 yr old son even said “Hey who made a mess here” whenever he found a piece of it laying on the floor. 😂🤣

[Loretta55]

I am scared that my dog may decide to eat that plastic confetti @blackkitty2014 if he finds a piece. Also the sequins scare me!

[Luvstravel]

@xcicee, most Sephora stores I go into, even out of town, if I want to try something like a lipstick, I take it to one of the beauty stations and alchohol it myself. The sales associates always ask if they can help me, but when they see I'm in my on little world, they are fine letting me sample the products since they see I'm being very hygienic.

[xcicee]

Thank you both @Luvstravel & @curlychiquita ! I left work early and have been taking zinc tabs and drinking bone broth since then. Really hoping it goes away asap as I've been looking forward to having these days off for ages. 

That's also a great idea, I didn't know if it would work or not since the ones the assistants have are spray bottles but the ones we use are the squeeze ones. Honestly I never try on the testers at sephora bc they gross me out, I usually on swatch them, until the first sales assistant showed me how she disinfected them.

[curlychiquita]

I would have done the same thing (and regretted it, too). I hope you get well soon, @xcicee!

[makeitup305]

When you lose your most expensive lipstick- goodbye Hourglass Confession :’( . I’m so bummed.

[pocketvenus]

@makeitup305oh no! I hope you find it!

[Ispend2much6]

Just a friendly reminder to be extra careful when shopping online this week.  It might be a good idea to keep checking your credit cards for unauthorized purchases (I avoid this until the last minute, but I'm going to check too!) 

I signed into Ebates this afternoon, and kept myself signed in.  I just received a spam email with my Ebates password in the subject line, along with the message to "pay up now." 

It's disturbing that whoever sent that knew my password.

[scott1201]

Absolutely, @Ispend2much6 ! Last year on Black Friday I had a nondescript email from capitol one in my inbox that I’d normally ignore but opened for some reason. Turns out they’d found a suspicious charge and they were right! Crazy good algorithm because I’d been shopping a lot that day and the fraudulent charge was from a place I would normally shop. 

[Ispend2much6]

@scott1201   That really is amazing!

[Luvstravel]

@Ispend2much6, Thanks for the reminder!

[Ispend2much6]

@Luvstravel   You're welcome!

[itsfi]

This is a good reminder @Ispend2much6! Thank you! 😃

[Ispend2much6]

@itsfi   You're welcome!  I know when my eyes are glazed over because I'm trying to decide which deals to buy, nothing else is important, so I need to remind myself. 😉

[Kim888]

@Ispend2much6 the scammers are definitely out this time of year!! I keep getting fake emails from Hulu saying someone's using my account and I should click the email to fix it  with my password. Definitely a reminder to always go directly to the website if you suspect there is an issue and never use the links in the emails. 

[Ispend2much6]

@Kim888   Good point.  I almost got caught on one of those (not hulu,) and I'm usually really careful.  There is a scam going around our way where some police imposter calls someone and tells them they didn't show up for jury duty or something, do they have the correct address, and they will be arrested if they don't turn themselves in (this happened to someone who had recently moved.)

They had even somehow linked their phone number to the real police department one, even a badge number.  And because they kept pressuring her to let them come pick her up and escort her, she thinks they were traffickers!  If this is true.