Some What of a Newbie Lifter

Will post my hauls:)

[justasimplememebean]

I accidentally shoplifted chronic depression 10 years ago can I still return it in exchange for a personality

[angelifter]

me

[itsalwayshaulidayseason]

Me when i first started lifting: maybe ill lift this one lipstick, just one, cant be too sus

Me now:

[switchylifter-blog]

ridiculous long list of collected tips.

michael’s -no chase policy -cameras above the doors and registers -blind spots: knitting/embroidering, woodcrafts, paints, plants; avoid other customers -nothing is tagged -dress niceish -best if you go by yourself -go either an hour or two after opening or closing

victoria’s secret -no lp -bras are tagged, panties are not -no chase policy

terrible companies -too faced -lush -the body shop -urban outfitters -american apparel -whole foods -trader joe’s

starbucks -four cameras: over the door, over the safe, over the register & over the manager’s desk in the back. manager’s don’t have access to the camera footage; they can only access it after an ‘incident’ has occurred -no chase policy -watch out for other customers -bagged coffee and mugs make nice presents and are only inventoried once a month. -nothing is tagged -the fridge with juices and salads cannot be seen from the barista side of the counter. baristas not held liable for it -instant coffees are pretty good and there are cute mugs around christmas -don’t be a scumbag and steal from the tip jar jfc

general -double-check for secutiry tags -sensors inside cardboard tags in clothing -just double-check everything -if you’re lifting all day with your car, keep an empty gym bag in your backseat and dump stuff there in between stores -if the barcode is printed on the product and it is not a sticker, it won’t go off! -if you can, detag/conceal/etc in the men’s dressing room -bring your signifcant other and kiss them passionately if an SA is looking at you -grab two of everything you want - steal one and keep the other in the basket -be confident -don’t get cocky -be careful -if it feels wrong, put it back -browse openly -scope out the places beforehand -the umbrella method: close the umbrella most of the way and drop small items in it (pracitce at home!) -dress like a rich snobby white kid: skinny jeans with boots and a north face & infinity scarf

sephora -never just go in, lift and leave -look around and test out shades. have a question about stuff you’re looking at ready. -test everything. look interested in makeup and new to high end stuff -carry a bag from somewhere else that’s deep enough to shut at the top; ex. forever 21 bags -have a smaller purse and have like a hat or a pair of gloves or something (in the winter) that you can shuffle around in the bag so if an SA spots you mid-conceal or comes around a corner, etc, you can grab your gloves/hat/etc and put them on like you’re getting ready to leave the mall -listen to SA’s on their headsets. if you hear “so and so needs a bag”, drop and run -never lift from a jc penney sephora -if you lift from sephora and feel weird after, go to a place young people usually don’t go. then leave super hard. -it helps to be carrying something expensive with you, or wearing it. look expensive. have expensive taste. -if an SA asks you what you’re wearing for makeup now, always say something expensive. “nars sheer glow and a little bareMinerals powder” works for me. fake expensive taste. -don’t wear headphones. -don’t wear a beanie. -wear lipstick in a noticeable shade. wearing a bright bold lip will make it look you know what you’re doing. if you don’t, go in on a day you won’t be lifing and ask for a tutorial on how to do a lip. -wear heels. youll look classier. -take pictures of things. if an SA shows you an item, take a picture; you’ll look genuinely interested. -if you’re about to leave but feel like someone is onto you, stop and play with a foundation. ask for help finding your shade and ask for a sample. the whole process takes a really long time. act sincerely interested. talk about your current foundation (use an expensive one) and say it breaks you out a bit or dries you out. make it sound worse. have a whole conversation. -when leaving, do not look around at other people. do not. go from looking at a product, checking your phone/the time, then leave. this works well. fake a phone call! say “yeah, i’m just in sephora, i’m leaving in two seconds. where did you want to meet? okay! see you soon.” mentioning the store is pretty helpful. -be really nice.

ulta -some ultas use soft RFID tags on their palettes/expensive items -if there are no blind spots, you can make one by facing the opposite way of the camera, or standing behind a partner -wear something fashionable. do your makeup well. break out your brand-name items… look expensive. look like you can buy that whole store if you wanted to. -bring a big bag; one that has structure so that SAs can’t tell if it’s full or not. lots of lifters like the Michael Kors  Jet Set or Selma tote. -walk in; if you’re greeted say hello and smile back -grab an ulta shopping bag. place it in the crook of your elbow. leave your purse up by your shoulder until you can get to a blind spot. -test stuff! -put some stuff in your ulta bag! try putting two of the things you want so it’s not as sus. fill it up with items so it won’t be as noticeable on camera. -find your blind spot and move your purse to the crook of your elbow. conceal. don’t linger. -put the stuff you don’t want back! -if you have a bad feeling, ditch and go -perfumes are super tagged don’t even think about it -don’t park anywhere near it so they can’t track your plates after you leave, just in case -best time: weekday evenings and weekend afternoons -go to prestige and take like one minute, then pick out some random item, then get a shopping bag so it looks like you actually want things -have a question ready, ask for a product they don’t have -blind spots: high-end skincare aisle, low-end haircare aisle, clearance? -do your best to look nice and cute! confidence is key -if you’re not getting good vibes, it’s okay to leave!

old navy -nothing is tagged and there are no cameras??? -dressing rooms aren’t monitored

groceries -go to the biggest 24/7 grocery store and scope it out at like 3-4 am -get a small cart with 2 layers and put two big reusable grocery bags there, open. put your groceries in there while you shop. then just walk out -it’s important that you scope it out before actually going. make sure nobody is stationed at the doors at all times. -if you’re nervous and there’s nobody at the door, walk out looking at an old receipt like you’re looking at how much you spent or the taxes or whatever

urban outfitters -find a store that gives out large paper bags with those stringy handles. ask for a couple for a project on ‘branding’ or something. fill up like a quarter of the space to make it look normal. -there are magnet sensors -little items like books, home accessories, and jewelry can be carried in your hands; find a spot where no one can see you and just stuff what you want into your bag. corners are always good

lush -blindspot in the back of the store with the foot scrubs

for specific things -amiibos aren’t tagged -lift more cotton panties because all that polyester shit ain’t good for your lil gnome garden (via liftinglily)

office depot -nothing is tagged -nobody cares -cute stationary

gap -dressing rooms aren’t monitored -only some things are tagged

icing -no tags

claire’s -fake tags/no tags

sally’s beauty supply -no cameras -no-chase policy -between 5 and 8pm is your best shot -an hour or so after they open is the best time to lift something large; another person doesn’t come in until 10:30 or 11:00

lifting bag -large structured bag so that you can’t tell when it’s full or not

hot topic -the corners are good -bracelets are probably tagged

pier 1 -nothing is tagged -cameras are to monitor employee theft -nice candles, jewelry, scarves, stationary and trinkets

barnes & noble -cameras in toys/collectibles, the music/dvds, comics, the gift card/accessories area, and the sitting/reading area -good blond spot: classic lit -books are tagged sporadically -get a cup of coffee!!

–> message me if you have any corrections or anything!

[lfting-qween-blog]

TIPS ON URBAN?

Hey guys, Ik there's millions of tips out there for Urban but ofc when I need some, I cant find any. I have a record player and I want some lps. (Anyone else love J. Cole here? 🙋🏽) And just some other regular tips for the store. Link a post or comment some helpful tips please! Thanks Lovies, stay safe and happy lifting! 💕

[niftyshiftylifty]

RFID tags

Okay, I keep seeing questions about RFID tags, so I figured I’d answer some of the more commonly asked ones here. What does an RFID do? Basically, this little circuitboardy thing sends a radio frequency (RF) signal to the gates as you leave the store with one that hasn’t been deactivated at the register (ie. purchased). The gates then beep, and it can look suss. Can other things cause gates to beep? Short answer: yep. Pacemakers, magnets (in some models of gates), RFID tags sewn into clothes or handbags or books which haven’t been deactivated or removed from other shopping trips can all cause the gates to go off. A beeping gate might be cause for “Can we please check your bag, sir/ma’am?” but in and of itself, it’s not a guilty verdict. (A gate PLUS suss behaviour or getting caught concealing, and you’re a tad screwed, though.)  How do you deactivate RFIDs? When scanned at the register, a series of lights/magnetic pulses will kill the tag. Obviously not having a register scanner is going to mean you can’t DIY this like you can with tag removal. So removal or destruction is your best option. Removal These are sticky motherfuckers. They’re designed to be difficult (or at least fiddly and arduous) to remove, and they’re sometimes hidden inside things: packaging, on the sides of boxes, on products in boxes… even INSIDE products. If you’re doing a dressing room conceal, go through EVERYTHING in order to find any. (On dressing room concealing, too? A tip from your truly: always take in an extra item or two that you don’t even intend to try on, because it’ll buy you more time in the dressing room. It obviously takes longer to try on four tops and a dress as opposed to one top.)   Then what? Then use something to stick the tag elsewhere, or hide or destroy said tag. Hiding This is the easiest way to deal with them: peel em off surreptitiously (don’t look at your hands while you’re peeling!) and then either a) scrunch them up in tissues and dispose of said tissues after in a bin in-store (after trying on sopme makeup samples and then wiping them off your hand with the tissue), or b) stick then to something else in store where they won’t be found for a long time (underneath a shelf in a slow-moving item section at the back) or c) scrunched up into a little ball of nothing and left on the floor/in a bargain bin for someone to sweep up as random rubbish, or d) stuffed into an open-style box of another product.  Destroying If you slice through the square bit, (like, cut the square in half), which reacts to the RF, you’ll kill it. Damaging around this will affect the circuitboard, giving it a shorter range, though it still might go off at the gates. If you’re going to sabotage the thing, best do it properly and kill it entirely rather than take chances. Where are they? On just about everything valuable, and sometimes, in cheap shit, just because retaillers like seeing lifters dance. High end and expensive cosmetics are a typical find, but perfumes, makeup brushes, eyelashes, small accessories? Can be found there. Lately, a trend seems to be putting them inside stickers which, have, say, a barcode, price, or a warning on them. Occasionally they’re on items as “protection” from customers opening them. Sometimes you can see through them and see the circuitboard underneath, sometimes the paper they’re contained in is VERY thick and you can’t. My personal motto is “If it’s thick, don’t let it stick,” and generally that’s served me well.  But the item already has a hard tag on it… And there might be an RFID one lurking inside, too. Particularly with handbags and wallets, check the zippered sections inside them. One visible hard tag can be a deterrent to most lifters, but the ones who can remove that tag might get confident… and the RFID inside will catch them out. It’s probably called “a two-pronged approach to loss prevention” or something. Always check inside things, people. 

[lfting-qween-blog]

why cant you look at it?

[biebertheif]

THE STRUGGLE TO HIDE SHIT FROM YOUR PARENTS CAUSE THEY KNOW YOUR BROKE AS FUCK

[peachythief]

How to hide shit from ur fam

A tutorial on how to keep your new stuff from your parents. I have a very intense abusive mom and she is home every day 24/7 (she doesn’t work). 

So what do you say when you come home with $100+ worth of shit when you were only given $20?

LEARN TO COMPACT

I know that when I get out of a friend’s car after a day of lifting (or even a quick nab of random shit) my mom is staring at the bags I’m carrying. If your parents/siblings go through your bags- as mine have once or twice then you have to come up with discounts, and name stores. Be as casual and nonchelant as possible, even a bit happy about your “found discounts”. It’s also possible to pass your makeup/bags/clothes/etc off as a knockoff if your parents can recognize expensive brand names.

Make the clothes, accessories look as little as possible. Hide makeup/jewlery inside clothes/under bigger items or even in your pants (I usually would hide lipsticks/eyeliner in my waistband)

DISPOSE OF RECEIPTS IF YOU MADE PURCHASES!

And make sure you get rid of them before you get home. Because if you lie and say there was a sale at a store you actually purchased something at and your parent happens to find the receipt lacking the item you allegedly bought… It’ll make things a lot harder to explain and point very clearly to you stealing. 

HIDING THINGS

No discount applies to everything, your parents aren’t gonna buy that you “totally got that Kanken bag for $20!” along with 2 Peach palettes. Learn to keep the stuff you lift out of their eyes, they can see it once or twice but don’t just leave it out. I personally have an old crate to keep my shit in. Good places to hide your stuff is:

-Up high in a closet

-In a shoebox

-Under your bed

-In a desk drawer

-Under underwear

-Under clothes

etc, etc. Hope these tips helped a lil, it’s mainly for snoopy parents. I may be stating the obvious but oh well

[jackingqueen]

FOR ALL MY ANONS ASKING ABOUT MY MAGNET:

these are all the sensor tags (that i’ve seen or that stores in my area use) that a NEODYMIUM N52 MAGENT will definitely & quickly remove 💋

[lifting-nihilist-blog]

Sometimes I’ll see a good sale and get excited, and then I realize how ridiculous I’m being cause ykno I’m just gonna steal it anyway

[shopliftingqueens-deactivated20]

Attention all shoplifters! I went to a mall for the first time and noticed the stores didn’t have sensors so I thought I could just take a bunch of stuff without worrying about tags. But a girl walked in and an alarm went off. I was confused and looked around and noticed that there are sensors on the ceiling that I never would have known about if it wasn’t for that girl. Pure luck.

[light-lifting-deactivated201805]

Y'all wanna learn how to get free soda coupons?

[light-lifting-deactivated201805]

Things you’ll need: a Coke machine with a 1800 number on it, a cellphone, and a mail/po box. 1. Go to a mall or Walmart anywhere with a coke machine 2. Call the number then just select 1 and 1 again on the menu. 3. Tell the person you were buying a soda and it got jammed. They give you a $1 coupon and round up so if a drink is 1.75 you’ll get 2 coupons. I said I put in a 5 and it took my money 4. They’ll ask for your address to send you the coupons and then you’ll get them in 7-8 business days.

[paradise-panda-person]

This can be used for so so many things! Email/call corporate of almost any chain restaurant (red lobster, olive garden, chili’s, ect) explain how you had a bad experience(have a story ready when they ask, about how they got your food wrong 3 times and it took over an hour after ordering) but mention how much you normally love eating there. Make sure you don’t mention the name of the waiter so you don’t get caught or get anyone in trouble. They’ll throw gift cards at you to keep you from leaving a bad review online. Boom, 50$ lobster dinner. Just please always tip your server, they’re just tryina make a living and since you just got a free meal it won’t hurt to leave a nice tip!!

I use stuff like this all the time, if I’m at an arcade or something I’ll fidget with the machine for a min before telling an employee it ate my money. Say you put a $5 in the token machine and they’ll just give you $5 worth of tokens. It’s not even worth their time to ask questions. Go nuts but always be nice to employees, they’re just doing their jobs!!

[stickayfingers-blog]

Urban outfitters

Lp’s - £115 Mario Badescu skin care - £21 EOS shave cream - £6 PRYNT X2 - £280 Firefly lights - £10 Firefly clip lights - £15

Selfridges

Bobbi brown corrector - £19.50 Bumble & Bumble Surf shampoo - £21 Bumble & Bumble Surf conditioner - £21 Bumble & Bumble Surf invasion - £21 Shu uemura glow creator - £? NYX matte lip creams in London and Stockholm - £11

Kiko

Sculpting touch - £10

Marks and Spencer

Living proof timeless pre shampoo treatment - £26 Living proof restore mask treatment - £37 Pixi make up setting spray - £16 Alpha H liquid gold24 hour cream - £51

Boots

Masque bar luminising charcoal mask - £10

John Lewis

Urban decay naked 3 pallet - £40 Aromatherapy associates bath oil - £45

Apple Store

Beats rose gold & gold £180 iPod touch - £170

Valentines presents for bae 😘 Naked pallet (above) Beats (above) Victoria secret silk dressing gown - £44

Total - £1144 ✨

[lucylifter]

How in the living fuck did you get the beats and the iPod touch? I need you to teach me goddess!

Every Apple Store I’ve been in is overrun with staff, do you just go when it’s super busy?

[lfting-qween-blog]

VS/P1NK PENCIL TAGS ON PANTIES

My VS/P1NK pencil tags panties now, wby guys? not all of them have the tags at my store, I was able to dig thru the drawers but only a few lucky pairs were not tagged.

[makeupalleyliftrp-blog]

Dude I am so fucking sick of seeing too faced’s goddamn chocolate bar palette or the peach palette. Ugh. Like if I could go without seeing any of their products then I would be a happy camper. That’s what started all out of this mess with Ulta.

I mean good on you for getting what you got but please don’t feel pressured to get these horrible pallets because you see them on every single haul pic on this site. I’ll be straight with you and tell you they’re not that good imo.

[liftingstardust]

I agree with you, Too Faced cares more about the packaging, marketing, and themes of their products way more than the actual quality. The only reason I would (and do) lift their stuff is to boost and take advantage of the hype surrounding these palettes

[lfting-qween-blog]

V$/P1NK PANTY PENCIL TAGS?

Hey guys! I was in LA the other day and I went into a popular P1NK in a bougie mall, and the panties had pencil tags on em! (some were not tagged but a majority of them were). I thought that was just because it was LA. When I got back home I went to my local mall and the employees at my P1NK were occupied pencil tagging panties!!! have your P1NKs been doing this?? They caught on, and now it will be harder. Not impossible, but harder:( (again, not all were tagged, but lots of em were. I kinda had to sift thru them to find untagged ones in my size)

[lfting-qween-blog]

V$/P1NK PANTY PENCIL TAGS?

Hey guys! I was in LA the other day and I went into a popular P1NK in a bougie mall, and the panties had pencil tags on em! (some were not tagged but a majority of them were). I thought that was just because it was LA. When I got back home I went to my local mall and the employees at my P1NK were occupied pencil tagging panties!!! have your P1NKs been doing this?? They caught on, and now it will be harder. Not impossible, but harder:( (again, not all were tagged, but lots of em were. I kinda had to sift thru them to find untagged ones in my size)

[lfting-qween-blog]

🌸MALL HAUL🌸

Lu$h: * Whoosh Shower Jelly: $7.95 * Mask of Magnaminty: $14.95 * Gorgeous Facial Moisturizer: $87.95 (Lu$h can fuck off with that ridiculous price)

Sephoooraaaa: * B3autyblender swirl: $20 * 0rigins GinZing peel-off mask: $27

P1NK, not pictured because it was a gift to my friend: * 3 thongs: around $31.50 ($10.50 each) * The Date push up bra: $36.95 (I got lucky and found one untagged!!)

M@cy’s: * T00 Faced Mascara Melt off: $17

🌸TOTAL $$$ SAVED: about $243.30 w/o tax and rounding and all that math shit🌸

[bougielifter]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[novicelifter-blog]

I’ve never been to Lu$h but isn’t that gorgeous thing supposed to be insanely hard to snag? Amazing haul sweetie💙

[swipeymcsugar]

How is the gorg moisturizer?? And ladies lemme tell ya about that Lūsh coffee scrub mask tho….catch that on your next lush rush it’s amazing

[lfting-qween-blog]

@novicelifter It was so easy! It was on a normal display with the rest of the Lu$h mosturizers, so I just threw it in the bag