Going to Superdrug and buying a lipstick ..aibu?non essential ?

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I have to collect a prescription from Superdrug today.
My lipstick has ran out (I know first world problems )
Would I be unreasonable to grab one whilst in Superdrug collecting prescription.
I don't want anyone to think I'm not taking this lockdown seriously and being a idiot buying lipstick when it's not essential.
I have anxiety so worry about stupid things.
What would you do ?

Buying other things while you are already out is actually a good thing!

We do need shops and an economy when this is all over.

If it's not going to cause issues for the staff I don't see why not.

Well I wouldn't since the aim is to be there as briefly as possible - for your good and for the good of the staff and other customers.

It is going to make zero difference if she’s there another 30 seconds picking up a prescription. Yet more people making up the rules as they go along and berating others for not following their made up version.

I picked up some hair dye in Boots over the weekend while I was in there to buy toothpaste and cough medicine. No-one batted and eye lid, and equally I didn't think to notice what my fellow shopper (we were only allowed in the shop 2 at a time) was buying. If you are anxious about this OP, just think that unless anyone whose opinion you value is watching what you buy in the shop, then it doesn't matter if there is any judgments going on! In other words, just buy the lipstick 💄

No issue here, you needed to go into the shop anyway and bought something that was being sold. If lipstick cheers you up it’s essential.

Our pharmacy doesn't let you in. You have to knock on the door/wait in the queue and they will bring your prescription to you.

Might be better off in the supermarket OP.

I bought myself some gin whilst doing an essential shop yesterday, the gin isn't essential but the food was. I passed the alcohol isle on the way to the tills.

I don't see the issue with treating yourself to something that will make you feel good, so long as it's from the place you're going for food/medicine.

You are there for essential purposes so buy it

Jesus Wept. Of course it's ok.

If the trip itself is essential that's ok. In fact it makes sense to buy other things you want in the same transaction so you cut down on future trips. I would make a list of other pharmacy items you need too.

When I went to Tesco on Saturday the make up stands were all still open. I didn’t buy any make up, but picked up some hair dye, which is a very similar non essential product.

Op, you are going to the shop anyway, So pick up anything else you need while you are there. Try to think forward and if you are due to run out of anything else in the next couple of weeks, pick that up now too to prevent an extra journey.

My last essentials food shop at Co op I also bought an eyeliner and a root touch up thing.
I thought as I was already in there why not?
Didn't hold me up at all. Just grabbed them and carried on

If i were running the UK right now i'd say that womens make up and lipstick were essential items. The Gov will have to relise that its going to get very difficult to keep people cooped up like we are now for long periods in order to prevent lots of MH issues longer term.

A small concession to peoples well being i think is in order!

I see nothing wrong in buying it. You need to go there anyway, picking up few extra's while you are there is totally fine, imo. Plus, these small things make us feel positive and keep us going. So, don't worry. Just buy them.

It’s fine buy whatever you want! I went there the other week and bought 2 nail polishes as I can’t get my nails done anywhere obviously! It’s important that you understand that you do not need anyone’s permission for buying anything in a shop which is still open!

Buy the lipstick. You're there anyway, for an essential purpose, so I doubt anyone would begrudge you the lipstick

Agreed - and sometimes a lipstick is more than just a lipstick. This story is well-known - you probably have heard or read it before, but I share it again. It is from here:

fransorin.com/one-small-act-kindness-saved-lives-impact-giving-lipsticks-women-brink-death/

British Lieutenant Colonel Mervin W. Gonin, commander of the 11th Light Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C. was among the first British soldiers to liberate Bergen-Belsen in 1945. In his diary, he gave a more graphic description of the effect of the lipstick:

“It was shortly after the British Red Cross arrived, though it may have no connection, that a very large quantity of lipstick arrived. This was not at all what we men wanted, we were screaming for hundreds and thousands of other things and I don’t know who asked for lipstick. I wish so much that I could discover who did it, it was the action of genius, sheer unadulterated brilliance. I believe nothing did more for these internees than the lipstick. Women lay in bed with no sheets and no nightie but with scarlet red lips, you saw them wandering around about with nothing but a blanket over their shoulders, but with scarlet red lips. I saw a woman dead on the post mortem table and clutched in her hand was a piece of lipstick. At last someone had done something to make them individuals again, they were someone, no longer merely the number tatooed on their arm. At last they could taken an interest in their appearance. That lipstick started to give them back their humanity.”

OP - if you suffer from anxiety, and are at the end of your tether over what is happening to us all at the moment, this may be the tiny thing which keeps you sane and helps you hold yourself together.

As others have said - don't go out for lipstick - but if you are there anyway BUY YOUR LIPSTICK!

Why not? Lift your own spirits, and you will lift the spirits of those around you, too.

Zaphod I've seen you make this point on various threads and you're right every time, you must feel like you're banging your head against a brick wall. I feel like it needs to be made into a banner up at the top of the coronavirus topic.

DH is getting serious cabin fever today and said he "needed" to go to the shop today to buy food. We have plenty of food, just not the food he wants right now. We're wrangling about what is an essential trip and I'm holding firm. Until we run out of milk, we can survive eating stuff out of the freezer and cupboards at which point we'll go and do a big shop and get all the "essentials" he wants now (orange juice, crisps, bacon etc).

Absolutely get some. I'm a general prepper and am often trying to explain to mostly male , mostly US preppers that lipstick and makeup is like armour for some women. You can face whatever obstacles and challenges are thrown at you with some makeup on to make you feel better. At the very least it is an important morale booster.
I'm not a makeup wearer but I totally get why other people do wear it.
Go afraid. Feel better with some new lippy. Even a bit.

I picked up a script today from my local Well Pharmacy and they were actively encouraging me to look at the 3 for 1 Rimmel stand.

Must have stuff to shift .

I went to boots yesterday for sanitary towels. Also bought shampoo and conditioner.
Half the shop was closed off but items like make up had been put close to the tills.
Don't underestimate the lipstick effect... something small like that can have s huge effect on morale.

And again, there is no list of essential items. If I go for my fortnightly shop and see a pair of socks (mine are on their way out), I’m going to buy them. I’m astonished that people are asking this. What do we consider essential? Are people not buying chocolate/booze/nice butter/treats? Only plain bread and bare essentials? Come on!

Just buy the lipstick! No judgement here, your prime mission is collect a prescription after all

Now how did that happen - was meant to be a 'grin' not 'gin' fgs

I think if you're in a shop anyway for an essential purpose, grabbing a non-essential is fine but I'd say only touch that item. I've been operating on a 'if I've touched it, I need to buy it' basis when I've had to go shopping, sounds like you can do that no problem if you know which lipstick you want.

I was in Superdrug on Thursday to collect a prescription and did some shopping at the same time, it was fine. The make-up was all still accessible but there were notes on the displays that they were not topping the stock up so when it was gone it was gone.

I would say check the opening times before you go - with ours, the pharmacy opens an hour before the rest of the shop & stays open an hour and a half after the rest has closed again so you can’t buy anything non-pharmacy during those times.

Good lord. These threads. 🙄