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Dress like a very conservative Christian woman. The other day I did a full day of lifting and dressed in a nice sweater, long black skirt, black tights, conservative black heeled boots, put my hair in a tight bun and wore a cross necklace, and wore very natural makeup, and I’ve literally never been sussed less in my entire life.

1. I have lifted two masks and a face wash that I would have never been able to afford in an attempt to finally kick my HUGE acne issue.

2. I have extremely bad depression, anxiety, and agoraphobia. Most of the time, I refuse to leave my house/campus. Lifting has forged me to get out of the house, even to just scope out stores in my area.

3. This also means that I get more fresh air and sun that I normally do.

4. My depression also means that I often don’t have the energy to shower. When I lift I have to shower or else I’ll stand out. 

5. I’ve also been a lot happier and less reliant on alcohol and weed.

6. I really only get things that I need like glove and chap-stick (it’s VERY cold where I’m from and I get sick and my lips are very chapped often), shoelaces (mine broke on my only walking shoes), masks for my acne, etc., etc. These things make me healthier in small ways.

that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything

I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person

must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!

Remember the answer is: I stole them from the president.

me: it’s not that much.

friend: yeah but-

like, do you lift sistas have excess of anything just kinda sitting around but you can’t throw it away bc it’s still useful?

for me it’s sheets, pillows, jojoba oil, coconut oil, dog shampoo, urine remover, phone chargers, wireless mice, toothpaste, mouthwash, body wash, toilet paper, and paper towels. like.. they’re gonna be useful eventually hahah. but i have backups for my backups mainly bc i’m crazy so.

So I’m sick as a dog with nothing to do and I thought I’d give you guys some insider info from the retail places I’ve had jobs.

Basically all of them abide by the don’t assume rule where they’re supposed to ask you if you’d like to see pants to ~match that top~ and passive shit like that.

old navy: has LP at each store. Associates do get rewarded if they help catch lifters. They will file a police report and try to get your car tags. Mine filed the police report after they left, however, making it rather safe to lift from. They only monitored fitting rooms on the weekend. We were taught to look for large bags and strollers. V easy to lift from. Company is also very shitty. They hired me and like 20 other people for the crazy $1 flip flop sale and then stopped scheduling us. Never said we were seasonal employees. They just don’t care about the people they’re hiring.

Forever 21: no lp, but managers do watch cameras. I learned about lifters bringing magnets into places when I worked here, lol. My manager held a meeting one day because they found a purse literally FULL of sensors that had been detagged and left. They have greeters at the doors to stop people who beep and fitting rooms are always monitored, though the employees are usually swamped with racks of go backs and don’t care. Company is shit and don’t care about employees. They would literally lock us in there at night even when we were there HOURS past our shifts. One girl had a blood sugar crash and NEEDED food and they wouldn’t let her take 5 minutes to walk to the food court. Fuck this place, rob them blind.

Sephora: employees talk to each other on headsets and refer to suspected lifters as NORA. so if you hear a casual sentence about Nora being in skincare, for example, ditch your stuff. They will call security real quick. Don’t feel sus if they offer you a basket, they literally make us offer one to each customer. At my store there is ALWAYS someone in perfume and literally their only duty is to make sure no one steals perfume. If you even stepped a foot away from perfume when you were scheduled to be there you would be written up. Never go to perfume to lift. Cameras weren’t really monitored at my store.

so I get my hair done by this girl at Ulta. the first time we chit chatted but never had serious conversations. until today.

Somehow we got on the subject of lifting, and obviously I’m not gonna revert the subject so I fake acted like I was against it bc I planned on lifting while I was there lmao anyways.

Even though she’s just a hairstylist she knew EVERYTHING. And she made sure to tell me that the rules for that ulta are the same at every ulta.

She had told me a story about how some lady came in and stole $1000 worth of shit and they didn’t even know until they found the packages while cleaning and stocking. She told me that they would’ve never known if they didn’t review the security tapes. In my head I was like “why would u take shit out of their packaging lmao” Then she tells me how they have people there all the time who go in the bathrooms and steal and I was like “don’t y'all have security towers there?” she’s like “yeah but they find ways” I was like “wow that’s crazy I wonder how” 👀👂🏼 and she literally said “oh you just have to point the tag a certain way so the towers won’t go off” and then said “I probably shouldn’t have said that but I know you won’t say anything” Lowkey I felt bad cus she’s sweet and cool as hell. She also said they only CS you if you’re dressed bummy. When they’re suspicious of you they just watch you, not necessarily CS you. She also said that if they see someone stealing they LITERALLY cannot do anything. Like N O T H I N G. except call the cops. and she said people use that to their advantage and will come in and literally lift RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM! the ulta is in an outlet mall with other stores like old navy and stuff and she said they all communicate very well with eachother.

& idk if this has been mentioned but when someone lifts from Ulta they take a screen cap from the surveillance and hang it up in their break room / office. She alllllssssoooo mentioned that LP only comes ONCE a month. and sometimes they’re also reps for stuff like the Pureology and shit.

She also mentioned racial profiling is very real but that’s obvious with everything amirite?

SO, key points mentioned:

- Ulta cannot and will not apprehend you so if they do it’s technically “illegal.” - If you point RFID tags a certain way (idk which way) you can conceal in the bathroom. - Won’t necessarily CS you if you appear to be browsing, only if you’re dressed bummy and “look suspicious” before the act of concealing - Will WATCH when suspicious. - Hang pictures of lifters in office / break room