Selling second hand make up. Why is it so hard

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i have a liquid blush. Used once. £££. Would be easily resold/reused, but vinted say new only

You can sell part used bottles of perfume on eBay. I have done so a number of times.

Do you buy used make up, OP? If so, then sell it wherever you buy yours. If not, then there is your answer.

I don't get the hysteria ffs

I would buy an eyeliner as it could be sharpened once before use to remove the bit that touched the seller's eye

I'd buy a lip colour or eyeshadow or anything that you apply with your finger and just scrape off a little of the top layer

Because it's not hygienic, surely?

Sellers get round it by saying it's new.😜

Some high end make up comes in pump bottles (like DIOR foundation) where it's impossible to take off the top and the only way to get the make up out is the pump.

You'll find that although you have to list is as new, in the actual text sellers say 'tried once' and things like that.

TBH it's down to buyers and I don't know why Vinted and Ebay police it.

Buyers buy at their own risk.

Perfume doesn’t have an applicator that goes on your skin, and the bottles isn’t opened, just the spray nozzle pressed.

It’s also almost entirely alcohol, so hardly conducive to growing bacteria.

In stores, they spray the ends of stick foundation and lippie with some kind of anti bac.

I'm not 100% convinced about that and always feel a bit 'meh' when they use it on me.

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Like others - I wouldn't take it for free, I certainly wouldn't pay for it!

But you could do that with clothes or earrings!

Yes, clothes are washable, but you can also clean-up make up. Just like they do in stores- spray lippie with anti bac.

Try Shpock

Bacteria!

You get round it by saying 'tested once'.

I tried to sell a DIOR bottle of foundation, with a pump so I'd not been 'in' the bottle. It was an expensive mistake, (colour was wrong) costing me £45.

Vinted asked for the barcode etc on the cardboard box. I didn't have it, only the glass bottle. So I couldn't list it.

I'm in London and seen plenty used make up and used swimsuits sold in charity shops.

I have rosacea. If I sold a blusher I'd used once, I could well pass it on to the buyer.

While I'm sure you are very hygienic, the people on vinted don't know that.

Same – I pass it on to family or friends

TBH this bacteria thing is OTT.

A LOT of the high st make up is 'tested' when on display. Not all brands are sealed. So you could easily be buying a lippie or something that's been 'tested' in the store.

Before Covid, very few High St brands were sealed and you could tell they'd been swiped as testers.

Not defending it, but I think the choice is the buyer's not the platform listing it.

FWIW I won't buy 2nd hand clothes for the same reason.
Some skin conditions are infectious and no guarantee that washing at 30C will kill them.

Rosacea is not infectious.

You can sell things like that on ebay.

Feel like everyone has forgotten ebay exists! It’s so much better for selling.

It can be related to a proliferation of dermodex mites? Although think there are probably other more complex things going on with the skin as well. (E.g. inflammation can enable mites to flourish, etc.)

My two skills are being poor and intrepid, so I would buy second-hand makeup, but only if it was an expensive brand I couldn't normally afford.

For example Fenty or Mac makeup. I'd grab that shit and ask questions later. For sure. I love the thrill of a real bargain. I'm your target market OP!

I would assess the risk for myself. You can always try a swatch elsewhere on your body to test before putting on face.

You need to sell in the right places. In fact it's never occurred to me to check the availability of second hand makeup before. New horizons have opened up😊

if its unopened but second hand then i can understand, but used and unopened unlikely.

Blimey people sell anything these days, second hand make up is grim,

No one wants to buy manky used make up. Gross. 😷