Good Morning! Happy Hump Day! It’s been a crazy week not only in my real life but also in my beauty one as lots has been going down.
One of the top stories of the month was the fact that news broke that Ulta is reselling used makeup which I told you about late last month. The issue has escalated into an actual lawsuit at this point. As you already know a former employee alleged that while working at Ulta she was taught how to sterilize and repackage returned makeup items and pop them back on the shelves to resell to unsuspecting customers. Hello gross! This was all speculation until recently when not one but two lawsuits were filed against Ulta alleging that the employees do indeed clean of and resell used makeup as new.
Ulta customer Meghan Devries of Illinois filed the most recent lawsuit which claims that Ulta “has a routine practice of repackaging and resealing beauty products that have been previously purchased, used, and returned… before returning those used products to its shelves to be purchased by other consumers.” Last month, an LA-based woman also filed a similiar lawsuit.
I’ll be following this news very closely because I’m quite curious if they will win these cases. It would be mighty difficult to prove something like this so I’d love to see what sort of evidence is presented in the case.
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