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When buying cosmetics and beauty products for your kit or with your clients, ensure you look professional – it’s amazing how differently sales counter staff will treat you.

  • Respect your own hygiene code of conduct at the counter.
  • Remember, it only takes one client before you not to tell the counter staff that she or he has herpes or pink-eye and then without the right application technique enforced, the chances of cross-contamination are high.
  • Don’t trial products directly onto your client or yourself when testing.  Do you know where that lipstick has been or whose fingers were in that blusher pot?
  • When the beauty counter staff are doing a live demo, unless they wash their hands with alcohol gel in front of you just before they start work, walk away…… you are exposing yourself to hidden dangers.
  • Ensure the demonstrator uses single use and disposables at all times, doesn’t double dip and decants all products to a clean palette or clean hand before applying.
  • Do not let any sample product come directly into contact with you or your client without using the right disposables and ensure it’s decanted appropriately and looks right.