At this point in the game if you are on social media and have EVER looked at a beauty related topic, I am certain your Facebook or Twitter algorithm has forced this article on you, with it’s epic click bait title.
Yeah I did it too. Deal with it.
If you know me, or have been around for awhile you know my feelings on children and parenting well are pretty set in stone. I support anyone who wants to have children but for reasons like the above, this life is not for me.
There are multiple issues why this article and the mass amount of coverage has frustrated me beyond reason.
- Why is this news? Is there nothing else going on in this world that i
s more important than a child hand smashing some testers at a makeup store? If that’s the case, Trump must be gone, world hunger is solved, and the Middle East has found peace. Wait…. I didn’t wake up in that world. Did you? - The headline is miss-leading. It reads as though a child walked into a Sephora, grabbed palettes off the display and smashed them onto the ground in a fit of rage over the lack of the right cerulean blue crayon to colour in that duck they are working on. – I would be pretty pissed too kid…BUT This is not what happened. Said child ruined testers. Testers that were already written off, and are sent to the store, to be tested. I have seen some adults do worse work on testers, than this.
- Should the parent have been watching the child? Of course they should be. That goes without saying. Does that mean these mothers, fathers, cousins, brothers, sisters, former roommates should not be able to go shopping for that they need? No. That’s ridiculous. Settle down twitter. Don’t tell people when they can and can’t shop and with who. Mind your own damn business, and please refer to item #2.
4. This is a teaching opportunity for parents, children, and staff. There is NO reason the parent shouldn’t have been paying attention to the child this long. Please… pay more attention. The child should learn to ask to play with anything on display. It might have stopped some of this damage from occurring, the parent could have easily explained they were in fact, not finger paints. (For a toddler anyway, they are definitely finger paints for me). As for the store employees…. how did no one notice this happening? This is your store, your place of work. Have some pride, explain to the child what they are doing. Would you let someone steal from you? I would damn well hope not. The idea is to be on the floor and paying attention to your customers and what they are doing in your store.
/rant
Thoughts? How many times have you seen this pop up on your feed?
Ccosmetic Chaos 
This only popped up a few times for me. It’s a horrifying sight but after my initial shock, I thought, “Well at least it was just the testers and not actual product.” But I agree why was this kid not being watched. I see this too often. So many Parents these days let their kids just run wild with no discipline. If I did that and my mom caught me, I wouldn’t gotten the tar beaten out of me. But my parents raised me not to be a damn heathen. I usually knew when to keep my hands to myself.
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Yeah man for sure. I am annoyed for many reasons lol
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There’s so much drama about this!
It’s totally click bait.
And the people who are looking at the situation as so black & white – so no child should ever be allowed at the mall? Are we even sure that it was a child who did this?
I have more questions than answers.
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Same. I just feel like… okay so there is a tester display thats a bit messed up and I’m like yeah sob
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