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 ?

Lipstick was considered such an essential in 1944/5 that it was provided to women when they were liberated from concentration camps. Buy the lipstick, we need anything that lifts our spirits.

Things are tough enough at the moment, if a lipstick makes you feel better grab it without a backward glance since you’re in Superdrug anyway. @SchadenfreudePersonified I’d heard that quote before, very aposite. In communist Russia western lipstick was highly prized too.

I agree with Zaphod.

We have been asked to go to the shops as infrequently as possible.

What you buy when you are there doesn't matter.
It is essential trips, not essential items.

Better to go once a week and get fags and chocolate than every day for bread and milk

Thanks everyone
Sorry if my post offended anyone.
It's a confidence thing with me,I like having a bit of makeup on as it makes me feel better.
I've been ordering foundation /powder etc off amazon and selecting one delivery but my shade of lippy isn't available on there.
My Superdrug has a pharmacy at the back of store.

thewisdomdaily.com/how-a-haircut-nail-polish-and-lipstick-saved-untold-amounts-of-lives/

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@Xiaoxiong DH is going out for us about every four or five days and almost the moment he gets back in the house, we start making the list of what we’ll need or would like for the next shop! It’s frustrating not to be able to nip out for one thing we fancy or even need but it’s safer this way.

It helps that I’m meal planning at least a week in advance, as I’m sure you are!

Exactly re essential trips but buy what is available when there. I'd hurry if I was going at a time that people were queuing to get in but who is to decide what is essential in your trolly? Some people think milk is non-essential, some feel tea is. I'm doing my best to limit to one trip a week, i'm going in the evening when it's quiet, i'm distancing, using the scan and go, but i'm buying what I need and want when i'm in there. No panic buying, nothing particularly frivolous, but if I want chocolate and biscuits and ice-cream and they have it, then I'll buy it. 4 adults in our house so doing as normal a shop as possible and hopefully enough to last a week. If I wanted and needed a lipstick then I'd get one.

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. But loads of people will undoubtedly come on and say "of course you can"

I said this. I haven't changed my mind and I'm a big make up wearer. The point was not to "zap joy" or to "make up rules". The point was that the OP didn't actually said she knew exactly which one she wanted and standing around choosing a lipstick and touching multiple testers etc would be very foolish and irresponsible IMO. But obviously I acknowledge (and did from the outset) that most others would disagree anyway. Everyone is free to do it their own way. I'm not actually bothered anymore. We are staying at home indefinitely and I'm only bothered about my own family now.

If you are already here for an essential then it is fine. If you go just for lipstick, it is not.

It is the journey which is the issue when we talk about essentials. You're already there and you pick up something non-essential and its fine.

Good lord. These threads.

And yet you are here commenting on 'these threads'. FGS get over yourself - people are being over zealous so it's understandable that the OP might feel a bit anxious to be seen to be treating the current situation with flippancy.

@SchadenfreudePersonified that is one of my favourite accounts of liberation. It illustrates so well the simple ways in which ‘non-essentials’ absolutely are essential to humanity and can be instrumental in holding on to one’s humanity and in affording it to others.

It certainly does, it’s one of my favourites too.

Customer's who do this are really stressing out the people that work in places like Boots/Superdrug

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52129008

*customers not customer's

I’m off to get bread and veg shortly, and plan to get some wine, plus sweets for the little boy next door (I post them through the letterbox) while I am there. I wouldn’t go for wine/sweets specifically.

I love the whole lipstick effect theory. I’m a lecturer, always wear red lipstick, and my students generally think I made it up!

I'd buy it once I'd got the prescription.

Yes, you can. Always refer back to the regulations www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/350/contents/made. Take a copy of them in your hand bag printed out in case the police stop you as I do.

These posts are getting daft now.
If you're there to pick up your prescription anyway, then why on earth can't you pick up a lipstick whilst you're there?!
I'd see your point if you were driving into town just to choose a new lippie and nothing else, but whilst you're in a shop for legit purposes?
Crack on with it!

Oh yes, lipstick is up there with paracetemol and hand sanitiser in terms of essentials

I still have to go into work ... I'm helping keep the primary school open to look after KW children! So yes, I want to look decent.

I’d chose what item I wanted online first to ensure I’d be spending minimal amount of time around the store but I’d defo pick up what I needed.

It's clear from what everyone has said that the different chemist branches all have different rules.

I went into Boots, on Friday, to get a click and collect order (they'd divided 3 items into 2 separate parcels and I'd already found out from the customer helpline that one parcel had arrived in store and one had gone missing)

I didn't know which items hadn't got there until the assistant opened the parcel for me; turned out that they hadn't delivered the parcel with body lotion and tampons, so I asked if it was ok to buy them while I was in the shop.
I was told it was fine, I could buy anything except perfume and makeup.

(They were restricting the number of body lotions you could buy to 2 bottles, not sure if there were restrictions on tampons - I'd only intended to buy one of each anyway)

There's currently no testers but agree that it's fine to buy the lipstick as your primary purpose for the trip is to collect a prescription. Also worth noting that a lot of Superdrugs have different times for the shop and pharmacy- the shop part usually closes earlier.

Oh yes, lipstick is up there with paracetemol and hand sanitiser in terms of essentials

I never wear any makeup at all, so not essential in my eyes either.
If someone's picking up a prescription in the same shop anyway though, I don't see the harm in getting a lipstick too if that's what's they want?
If they didn't want people to buy them they should shut the aisles.