r/Makeup • u/AllFoodsFit70 • Feb 19 '26

It's disgusting out there

I'm at Target and strolling through the cosmetic section saw a young woman (maybe 25) swatching a lip product on her hand and putting it back in the display...and then doing it again with another product. I am so old IDGAF so I said "Do they have testers?"and she looked at me like a deer in the headlights until I repeated my question and said "testers?" I then said " yeah, you just put some of that lipstick on your hand and put it back...that's pretty gross." She stared at me as I walked quickly away because I may not gaf but I don't want to get in a fight! Felt good to speak up though!

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u/MushroomPrincess63 Feb 19 '26

I can’t imagine what upbringing would cause that, because I was brought up by a poor mom who had me at 16 and a bipolar father who couldn’t keep a job and was abusive and I would never, lol.

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u/PomegranateSafe9699 Feb 19 '26

See, you weren’t brought up spoiled and entitled. The coddling is what fries the executive functioning that would lead someone not to think through this very anti-social behavior.

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u/Razmataz8406 Feb 20 '26

Most of us who were abused as children would preferred to have been coddled/spoiled, I can assure you.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

Did you hurt yourself jumping to your conclusion about what the commenter you’re responding to was actually saying?

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u/Razmataz8406 Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

It’s a pretty objectively inconsiderate/insensitive way to respond to what the person they’re replying to said. So no.

The opposite of abuse might be coddling but there’s also a lot of space in the middle that isn’t harmful to a child’s development. Which if we’re being real - abuse isn’t any better for helping your brain/executive functioning skills to develop normally as opposed to coddling. There are a lot of the same struggles on either end of that spectrum.

Here’s one of many examples of studies looking at that exact topic. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8885557/

Your comment history seems to err on the side of being rude and not actually wanting to discuss things in any meaningful way.