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California woman goes to Mexico for cosmetic surgery. She doesn’t feel well after—then she learns it’s because they took a kidney

By Mar 3rd
Woman buys $116 Glossier perfume. Then she finds a $16 dupe at Marshalls: ‘I’m about to return that one’

By Feb 16th
Los Angeles woman finds $430 Shark hair tool at T.J. Maxx with no price. Then a worker says she can have it for $99: ‘I have never felt so betrayed’

By Feb 14th
Florida woman goes to nail salon. Then the manager ‘bullies’ her and a worker in front of the whole salon: ‘THEY MADE YOU CRY??’

By Feb 11th
Tennessee woman says your press-on nails will not budge if you use this glue. You can get it at Sally Beauty: ‘It’s like 14 bucks’

By Feb 9th
Woman gets free scalp detox sample from Ulta. Now she says she’s left with chemical burns: ‘You need to get a lawyer’

By Feb 7th
Woman’s hair wouldn’t stop falling out in clumps. Then she takes a look at her Dove shampoo + conditioner: ‘Me buying these literally today’

By Feb 4th
Georgia woman receives ‘extremely hard to find’ $180 Viktor & Rolf perfume from Ulta as gift. Um… is it used?: ‘Might be old’

By Jan 30th
Woman takes advantage of Bath & Body Works sale. Then the package arrives—and she realizes she may’ve been scammed: ‘Where’s the rest?’

By Jan 28th
Woman gets ‘addicted’ to product in bachelorette gift basket. She finds out it’s $26, so she asks the internet for a dupe: ‘It’s cheapest at Costco!’

By Jan 27th
Why could no one buy an Ulta Beauty World ticket? A cybersecurity expert weighs in: ‘I waited online for over an hour’

By Jan 25th
Florida woman picks up car from getting oil change at Walmart. Then the worker at the register starts sniffing her: ‘It was you’

By Jan 24th
Woman gets lip filler. Then she goes outside in the cold, feels what happens to it: ‘I was not warned’

By Jan 24th
Pennsylvania woman gets infection from nail salon. Then it leads to her finger being amputated: ‘I coulda lost my arm’

By Jan 24th
Brooklyn woman shows up 15 minutes early for $300 hair appointment. Then the Instagram stylist acts so weird that she leaves without service

By Jan 21st
‘A packet of soy sauce has more product’: New Jersey woman buys pack of minis from Sephora. Then she sees the insulting Gisou hair oil bottle

By Jan 19th
35-year-old Texas woman ‘grossly abused tanning beds’ in her teens. This $8 serum from Trader Joe’s has saved her from ‘crepey neck’

By Jan 18th
A woman gets her lip filler dissolved. Then she’s rushed to the hospital in an ambulance: ‘Did they dissolve it with a baseball bat?’

By Jan 18th
‘Sent hubby to get mine today’: Women are going crazy for the ‘Harbor Freight spray tan hack.’ Does it work?

By Jan 16th
‘Why would you do this?’: Woman gets bath bomb from Lush. Uh, why does it look like that?

By Jan 8th