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I polled Liftblr asking for their personal opinion on which stores are easiest to lift from. With the influx of new members due to the exposure of the community, I thought it might come in handy for those of you who are just starting out.

Honorable mentions:

Nike

Sephora

JC Penny

Target

H&M

Macy’s

CVS

I have good luck with Hot Topic - at first I thought one of mine had no cameras - but actually both have no cameras. One has towers, one doesn’t. Mine are very, very easy. I don’t know about yours. There are very few, 4 at most attendants in the larger store, and at most 2 in the smaller one. Mine’s not tagged, so I told my partner to use the method of double-hanging to lift the crop top she really wanted. They did count, since they have to unlock the doors, but they did not noticed the double hung shirt. She put it on underneath her sweater and we left.

Bath and Body Works has very few blind spots, but it’s still very easy as the attendants themselves are easy to avoid while you find one. I’d suggest using a partner as your blindspot while you pretend to look at things. Stores with the large open doorways that go from wall to wall don’t even need concealing - you can just walk the fuck out.

Pink is easier than VS in my experience. There was a good blindspot by the doorway connecting the two stores together. That doorway also led into VS’s perfume and makeup section, so I walked out of VS with a Love Spell perfume to conceal it in Pink.

My Wal-Mart personally has little to no cameras in the Sporting Goods and Auto section. It was a long walk from Cosmetics, though, so I had to slip things up my sleeve and walk there to conceal properly. There was also a blind spot in the women’s clothing section - near the bras, panties, scarves, wallets, backpacks, and jewelry. It was near the dressing room, but still concealed.

Forever 21 had tags on all the clothes and almost all of the shoes - I however managed to find a pair of shoes without tags AND in my size, but I got lucky. It was one of two pairs. I also was able to find untagged panties AND bras in one of them. It’s a good place to lift cute hair bands/accessories and lip gloss.

My Barnes & Noble has two levels. The downstairs has lots of cameras and most of the electronics and such that they sell. Upstairs, however, they have all of the novels, like Paper Towns, Maze Runner, Harry Potter, etc. books. And that floor also has the children’s books and stuff. This entire floor. THE ENTIRE THING - had 0 cameras. I concealed in the side room with the novel shelves. I managed to get out with three books.

My Claire’s/Icing was pretty easy. Icing had a huge column in one corner, which was an unfortunately large blindspot in the bridal section. I used it to conceal a fair few items. Their only camera was in the center over the register. I go to two different Claire’s. One has cameras everywhere and several mirrors, and the other falls into the same category as Icing - one over the register, and had two mirrors on the center sides. I got out with a huge flower crown, a phone case, and a few more things. Therefore, mine is considerably easy.

My Lush is INCREDIBLY small. A 8x14 room at the absolute most, with several tables and the counter taking up 50% of the space, it was damn near impossible to hide and conceal. Especially with the fact they had like 8 attendants and 10 customers, excluding my partner and I. Sure, we could’ve grabbed something and just walked out, but we ran the risk of being seen by several people. 2/4 of the walls were windows, as it was on a corner in the mall. There were no cameras.

Both of my Sephoras are damn near impossible. One has cameras everywhere, and the other we got customer serviced to death even though we concealed where no one could see us. We had had an eyeliner, a Naked basics, and a Too Faced blush, but we decided to leave with nothing.

I haven’t hit Michael’s yet, but I’m going to soon - maybe even tonight. They have SEVERAL things I’m looking for, so I’m gonna see what I can get my hands on. I’m specifically hitting it for Copic markers - I’ll come back bearing news.

My Michael’s was the second place I ever lifted from. There are only a few cameras near the entrance and one down the beads aisle, which of course is mainly what I go there for. But that one has a monitor too, so you can see what it sees. I’d say the best place to conceal would be in the woodworking, knitting, or fake plants section.

Okay so I think we’ve all been there… you’re trying to lift and have a couple things strategically held in your hands to make it look like you have less than you do, and an SA comes up and asks if you want her to start a fitting room. So irritating, right?? Well, depending on the store, this may be your ticket to getting everything you planned on lifting and more.

First off, as soon as someone asks you if you want them to start a room for you, say yes and thank them, then give them what you’re holding. Don’t act weird about it, tell them you’re going to keep browsing. Stores that do this are often pretty dedicated to customer service, so chat them up. Tell them you’re trying on different things to see what you want for Christmas/your birthday. It helps to go to the store beforehand to see if they count or ask for your name, if there’s cams, whatever. Never give them your real name, if you buy something pay in cash.

Keep shopping, pull a bunch of random things carefully paired with things you’ll lift. Pro tip: if you want something brightly colored, patterned, or otherwise noticeable, pick it up in several sizes. Every once and a while ask them to take the stuff to your room.

Now, make your final collection. I like to get something bulky, typically in black, and tuck what I’m going to lift around it. If someone comes up again and offers to take that stuff to your room, politely decline and tell them you’re headed there now. Work quick grabbing the rest of what you want, then get to that room.

Mit should be a mess of random things you picked out. Locate what you intend to lift. When someone comes to check on you, ask for a couple things in different sizes. Ask for suggestions that are like “hey do you have any other button up skirts like this in a different material?” Or “Do you have any other colors of this bra?” Get them confused about what you’ve brought into the room.

Conceal everything how you prefer, though I recommend on body because that’s what I’m all about dude. Try and slip out when nobody’s around. Put some stuff on the return rack and leave some in the room. Make a clean getaway.

Everything people have said before is true

No cameras anywhere, they’re literally against company policy. People steal shit all the time, but we’re always doing things so we never notice. And even if we do, we’re not allowed to confront you because the company doesn’t want a lawsuit.

OUTFIT ✨ okay basically go for the complete opposite of what you’ll usually wear, but still look basic - probably sounds confusing but that’s my fault, basically think this everytime you’re picking out a lifting outfit : if I go on the news, I want people to think ‘that doesn’t look like [Y/N]!’ If you usually wear crop tops and shit wear something that’s more Nana style or conservative - vise versa (I suggest to always bring some kind of coat or jacket with you - even a fucking flannel or light cardigan if its hotter) wear something different each time you lift from the same place, or just in general. I can’t stress this enough

If you have itty bitty tiddies stuff your bra, if you have big ol tiddies try to make them look smaller or wear something that doesn’t do them justice lmao (I often wear lose fitting clothing). Change this up too!! Go once with huge boobs then again with no boobs.

MAKEUP ✨ -fRECKLES!! freckles can drastically change a persons face, if you don’t have any - draw them on and cover your face in them!! Mine usually end up looking like acne but that’s fine! They’ll look for someone with excess acne and that’s not me ((: I use a brown eye pencil or brown eyeshadow or eyebrow shit to dot it on my face - blend it a little so it looks more natural then go over it with a translucent setting powder.

- EYEBROWS!! eyebrows also drastically change your face (: if you have thin or invisible brows tHEN LUCKY YOUUU!! Make them any colour you want, change the shades each time. Arch them differently, play around with thickness (: just make your eyebrows darker and thicker than what they naturally are. If you want to make them look natural then fill them in a little messier and mess up the hairs.

-CONTOUR!! your literally changing your facial bone structure … fuck it upp, go above and beyond!! Make it look like your a completely different person

-fALSE LASHES!!! again, go above and beyond ! make it look like they’re not your eyes

-FOUNDATION use one that’s a shade lighter or a shade darker than your actual skin tone. Get a fake tan/tanner if you can or if you want to!

Put fucking moles and beauty marks on your face lmao idc just look different!!

ACCESSORIES✨✨ - Fake nose ring (no septum or anything that’ll bring attention to you! Just a plain boring ass hoop on your nose) if this fits in with your aesthetic then yay! But if you feel it looks out of place on you then skip it (:

-Glasses ! Again this can drastically change someone’s face. Wear different glasses each time, or switch it up if you just have two pairs. Go without them sometimes then the next time go with them on

HAIR ✨✨ -Part it differently each time

- Go once with it up then the next time have it down (do different styles with it up, braids, buns, ponytails, idk what else lmao)

- Make it a different texture/style each time. Curl it, krump it, straighten it

- fake bangs or get them out of the way

- If you have wigs use them!! 100%

- Extensions if you have them !!

It’s been a while. I’ve got good news and bad news. First - the bad news. I was smuggling make up at Sephora right and like no SA were around and I made sure not to do it in front of customers either because like no thank you, and okay so like I smiled at this one girl(regular customer)who looked my way and then 30 seconds later I see her talking to an SA and that SA looks my way so I fucking know I’ve been made and then I haul my ass outta there, I didn’t have time to ditch my shit because 1. I was about to piss myself and 2. I’m a greedy mofo. After I leave the store, I hear “excuse me, do you want a basket?”. I turn back and the SA is inside the store and she’s says again “do you want a basket?” and I was like ??? no I didn’t get anything. And she’s like “okay but do you want a basket for the things you were looking at?” and I was like no and she was like “well do you wanna come back into the store and show me what you were looking at?” and I was like ???? noooooo, and she was like “where is the stuff you were looking at?” and I’m like I put it back where it was and she’s like “where” and I’m like ????? right there (pointing in the general direction of where the stand is), BYE. And I hauled assssssss. I didn’t run but I fucking sped walk down the mall hall and fucking ran through the door and omg it was like WHAT THE FUCK. I CHANGED MY FUCKING CLOTHES BEHIND A TREE, I WAS SO SKETCHED OUT.

I’m Black. I have no car. I live in a small town. I have very noticible features. I’m over the age of 18. Five. Fucking. Strikes. If a video clip of me lifting were to show up on the local 10'oclock news, everyone in a 200 mile radius would know who I was and I’d be sitting in jail right now getting fucked with a broom handle.

I’m going to take the advice of lifters who have been lifting for years, the ones who haven’t been caught. Its really weird how people are simutaniously criticizing me because I don’t have pictures of risky $2,000 hauls with descriptions of how an SA ran out after me screaming and snapping pictures with a $3,000 Canon while re-blogging posts about how lifting isn’t a competition.

So yeah, as much as I’d love to say fuck a wig, fuck a car, fuck common sense and hop the bus to steal $1,538.57 worth of foundation and primer from an Ulta 50 miles away I know that my ass would be grass.

So yeah. I still plan on lifting. But getting caught is not an option, and I know that I’m too inexperienced to pull off any significant haul without getting caught and looking like a fool.

I didn’t join this community to impress anyone or tear anyone down, I joined because I’m a cheap anti-Capitalist bitch and ya’ll seemed like cool people, and that maybe if enough of us bounced ideas off of each other we could seriously fuck over rich white white men.

Like, I’m sorry, but purring “do you want it?” into your partner’s ear before you fuck is hot.

Looking into your partner’s eyes and asking “may I?” in a voice breathy with desire before you kiss them is super hot.

and “Do you want me to pin you up against this wall and fuck you till you’re screaming my name?” is just basically dirty talk.

What the actual fuck is wrong with you?  If asking for consent ruins sex you’re what?  A rapist who sucks at talking dirty?