Remember that neon-purple eyeshadow your grandma gifted you over the holidays, because “it just looked so darling”" You know, the one that you politely tried on for her, then immediately returned after she left" Yeah, we’ve all done it, and maybe you, too, have wondered what exactly happens to those lightly-used-and-returned products after you’ve said goodbye to them at the register.
Turns out, they don’t go back to a special factory and get recycled into sweaters for the homeless. Most of the time, stores like Ulta and Sephora actually end up throwing them in the trash at the end of the day, and lest you think nobody would want to go through a pile of trash in the name of beauty, two beauty vloggers are proving you?and pretty much everyone else?wrong by recording themselves dumpster diving for makeup, and yes, the internet is freaking out about it. MORE: The 25 Best YouTube Beauty Vloggers
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Vlogger Shelbi, known by her fans on YouTube as Shelbizleee, is one of many vloggers taking advantage of the golden dumpsters at Ulta and Sephora. In a recently posted video, Shelbi shows off a large, dented, cardboard box that she discovered in the trash behind her local Ulta, excitedly saying, ?I finally found the returns box!? before removing damaged and dirty-looking products, one by one, for the camera. ?They took the lids and the caps off of all the foundations [and] off of all the lipsticks,” she continues in t...