Part of their strategy is to let shoppers try out thousands of shading, sparkling, contouring and highlighting products—including Urban Decay eye shadow, Chanel perfumes and Smashbox lipsticks. There are no pushy salespeople. Just bright lights, open containers and plenty of mirrors.
Their self-service stations invite people to test the limits of what’s free—and many do, treating the places as extensions of their own bathrooms.
Biology professor Elizabeth Brooks and her team of researchers at Rowan University examined beauty testers at retailers a decade ago, ranging from high-end department stores to drugstores. The results from the oft-cited study showed that testers from more than 50% of products were contaminated with bacteria.
(from the Wall Street Journal)
When mooching cosmetics, be wary
of catching some nice dysentery.
Bacteria teem
in all the cold cream,
and on the lip gloss microbes tarry.
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