Imagine if you went to the drugstore and all the makeup was locked up. You know like going to Best Buy to buy the latest iPhone but you have to get a sales rep to unlock the showcase it’s in. Would that be annoying to you"
One of my reader’s just commented in my L?Oreal Colour Riche Gold Addiction Lipstick and said that all the makeup at her local Walmart is now locked up and you have to ask a sales associate to unlock it for you to grab what you want.

WHAT!" Makes sense I guess considering people think it’s ok to open up makeup and start swatching it like their at a Sephora or the MAC counter at Nordstrom.
Sadly, drugstore makeup cannot be tested or swatched. In some cases, some brands have evolved and started arming their displays with samples to test or sample cards featuring popular shades that have tiny swatch samples but all in all, drugstore makeup isn’t like mid or high-range and the swatch and test experience unfortunately isn’t available with many brands. If drugstores or Walmart in this case are locking up makeup it’s likely for one of two reasons. One might be shoplifting or it might be people opening and swatching or just damaging makeup items. There is nothing more annoying than buying a lipstick, getting it home, opening it, and discovering someone squashed it or swatched it or maybe even applied it. And it’s damn hard returning it and explaining to a sales rep it was like that when you purchased...