Makeup that doesn't look good- do you throw away or hang onto it?

[Anonymous]

What do you do with makeup that you got home and it just didn't look good on you. Throw it away? Give it to a friend? Keep it in the hopes you can mix it with other makeup?

[Anonymous]

Try to return it if I can. Otherwise I offer it to my sisters. If they don't want it, throw it out. No sense keeping something that doesn't work for you.

[Anonymous]

Always try to return. Even used drugstore makeup can be returned within a week, if you have a receipt.

[Anonymous]

The only thing I keep is lipstick. I have a lipstick palate with 5 spaces for different colors: I keep a range of shades in it, from a pigment-free gloss to dark red. Lipsticks that don't do it for me color-wise are saved for the palate so that I can mix them into something I like.

[Anonymous]

I put it in a drawer and throw it away 3 years later. But that's dumb of me. I should return it, I'm just too lazy to bother. Even expensive fancy organic makeup that I ordered online (or especially makeup that I order online).

[Anonymous]

I returned something to Ulta and was asked, "You didn't use it, did you? DID YOU?"

You don't know it doesn't work until you try it. So does that mean everyone returning makeup is lying to the cashiers?

[Anonymous]

How can you return it--if you used it??

[Anonymous]

Read Ulta return policy:

ULTA is dedicated to bringing you an unparalleled shopping experience from start to finish. If you are not completely satisfied with a product for any reason, just send it to the Ulta.com Returns Center for a refund. You may also return it to your local Ulta store for a refund, exchange or in-store credit.

Nowhere does it say that only unused, unopened products can be returned.

I personally bought lipstick at CVS after foolishly believing a certain beauty blog. It was awful - both the color and the texture on my lips. Took one application to figure this out. I took it back to the drugstore, explained what was wrong, and got my $ refunded.
Now, if I took a half-full product back to the store, the outcome might have been different.

[Anonymous]

I am really shocked that people are returning makeup! It's not like the store can sell it again ...

[Anonymous]

Makeup pricing takes possible returns into account.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Read Ulta return policy:

ULTA is dedicated to bringing you an unparalleled shopping experience from start to finish. If you are not completely satisfied with a product for any reason, just send it to the Ulta.com Returns Center for a refund. You may also return it to your local Ulta store for a refund, exchange or in-store credit.

Nowhere does it say that only unused, unopened products can be returned.

I personally bought lipstick at CVS after foolishly believing a certain beauty blog. It was awful - both the color and the texture on my lips. Took one application to figure this out. I took it back to the drugstore, explained what was wrong, and got my $ refunded.
Now, if I took a half-full product back to the store, the outcome might have been different.

Your bad. I couldn't bring myself to return used make-up.

Blame the blog, not the store that eats your purchase and can't resell it.

[Anonymous]

Sephora returns make up open/used with no issue.

[Anonymous]

Toss it

[Anonymous]

When my kids were little I gave them small cakes of old makeup, blush, eye-shadow etc. They used to grind it up and draw pictures with them on the patio.

[Anonymous]

Why don't you use the tester in the store?