His Teen Daughter Won’t Stop Swiping And Ruining Her Stepmom’s Makeup So This Dad Is Telling The Internet He Got A Lockbox To Solve The Problem
A dad has been married for the past 2 years to his 38-year-old wife Barbara. He has a 16-year-old daughter named Molly from a previous relationship.
Molly and Barbara do have a good relationship, and they share a lot of interests; makeup being one of them.
Barbara has expensive taste in makeup, and she buys all of the higher-end brands for herself to use.
“Molly loves makeup especially the more expensive stuff,” this dad explained. “She, unfortunately, can not afford expensive brands because of money and so she started taking my wife’s makeup.”
The thing is, Barbara doesn’t like that Molly swipes her makeup and her accessories like makeup brushes, but Molly does it anyway, and she has ruined a lot of Barbara’s beauty-related things.
Molly has been taking Barbara’s makeup without her permission for the past 2 months, and Barbara has had to go out and replace everything Molly borrowed and destroyed.
“I, of course, had many conversations with Molly about it and her argument is always that women can share makeup and besides this is family and her stepmom is like a mother to her so why not take each other’s stuff,” this dad said.
He made it clear to Molly that she could not continue to take whatever she wanted from Barbara and that she needed to start asking for permission.
Molly brushed him off before walking off, clearly not taking him or the situation seriously, and recently this became an even bigger issue despite the fact that he spoke to Molly.
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“Days ago my wife told me Molly took a whole set of makeup products and hasn’t returned it then said she threw it away when asked about it,” he continued.
He was very upset about Molly’s behavior, especially since Barbara does not want to reveal to Molly just how hurt she is by what she is doing.
Instead, Barbara just quietly went and bought duplicates of everything Molly took from her.
It was then that this dad decided to come up with a solution once and for all, so he purchased a lockbox for Barbara to keep all of her makeup in.
He then went back to Molly and had another conversation with her in which he laid out her punishment.
Molly wasn’t phased by being punished, but as soon as he let it be known to Molly that he bought Barbara a lockbox for her makeup, Molly lost it.
Molly insisted she should be able to keep using Barbara’s makeup, before sobbing about how she can’t pay that much money to use the nicer makeup.
Molly lamented about having to use cheaper makeup which she feels “damages her skin.” She also called her dad “selfish” and “mean” and thinks he should be “encouraging her shared interest in makeup with her stepmom.”
I think we can all agree that sharing an interest with someone and taking/ruining someone’s things without asking is definitely not the same thing.
Here’s what the internet had to say.
“Seriously, as a woman, sharing make up especially eyeliner and brushes is absolutely disgusting. The only thing my mother & I will share is foundation (just to try it out) or a blush brush. Anything else is just gross.”
“Also if she’s ruining her brushes and makeup, the daughter is either an idiot that has no idea how to use makeup or purposefully damaging the products.”
“…Get your daughter some NYX or e.l.f. makeup. Both are good cheap brands that aren’t going to damage her skin. Urban Decay, Tarte, & It cosmetics are good medium-priced brands.”
“Teenagers have no business getting high-end makeup especially if they’ve shown that they ruin the makeup.”
“It can transfer diseases, especially in the eyes. It’s rather unhygienic. Plus repeatedly ruining someone’s belongings isn’t acceptable.”
“You were right to prohibit this behavior. But for the sake of her health please ensure that she doesn’t use cheap 2$ makeup, it can be detrimental to her health.”
“You don’t need to sustain her items purchasing or buy her high-end stuff, but just clarify to her the dangers of poor quality makeup. It doesn’t mean that she’s entitled to your wife’s makeup, it’s unrelated.”
“She is better not wearing this at all than using uncertified products. If they’re legitimate and she falsely says it, never mind.”
“I got a nasty case of strep throat after sharing a lipstick with a fellow bridesmaid at a friend’s wedding. Definitely learned a lesson after that.”
“Jumping on here go add that ‘cheap makeup’ doesn’t damage her skin. I assume she is using drug store makeup. My holy grail base products are all drug store.”
“I can see not necessarily wanting to use eyeshadows from the drugstore as they are not as pigmented and stuff but otherwise most drug store brands are not that far off from expensive stuff.”
“If she is struggling with bad reactions then she should switch up what she uses or she isn’t properly removing it.”
“…I’d suggest to maybe look more into drug store brands as well as skincare together and help her to figure out how to save up for some more expensive stuff. That way she can still share her interests with her stepmum, without stealing or destroying things that aren’t hers.”
“She thinks it’s okay to steal from people she loves. That’s just messed up logic on all levels. Plus the whole point of being an adult is to slowly be able to afford all that crap you couldn’t have as a teenager. It’s a right of passage she needs to understand.”
You can read the rest of what the internet had to say about all this here.
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