Would You Use a Tester’s Lipstick?

Though I’m not much of a makeup fan I do stock up on makeup every now on then as the need arises and the trends sway. The latest trend being the Maleficent makeup by Mac which was sold out all over the world and was restocked once by Mac in Kuwait but by the time I went it was all sold out again. If you were lucky you’d come across an almost empty lipstick with a bit of remnant Maleficent red that you could try but that’s about as far as you’d go with trying on Maleficent’s makeup. 

Which brings me to the centre of this topic, now if you are going to try a lipstick tester, how would you try it on exactly?

All my life I’ve tried shades of lipsticks by smearing tester lipstick on the back of my hand. Never before did I ever think it was appropriate to lift up the tester lipstick to my lips and just “try it” by coating my lips with the colour and smacking them in front of the mirror together for a final touch. I never thought people did that in the first place, I personally thought all humans trying tester lipstick on face of planet earth used to do so by applying the colour to the back of their hands like I do.

Until one day, I was in a makeup store, and there was this lady painting her lips in glee, it kinda brought back memories of Ursula the sea witch from the little mermaid painting her lips by squeezing a sea creature then tossing him away! I was appalled, then disgusted. It is one thing touching the lipstick to your skin, disgusting enough that it will be touching several skins, and its a totally different thing to having that lipstick touch your lips, and your saliva, and god knows what food particles that had just passed through! Could you get sick by trying on lipstick? If that lady had the flu that most likely every single woman who used the lipstick on her lips afterwards g63 would have the flu for sure!

Am I paranoid? Has it always been this way, women trying on lipstick by applying it directly to their lips? How do you try on a lipstick tester in a store before purchasing it? To be frank after I’ve seen that lady try it on I’ve been reluctant even to try tester lipstick on the back of my hand. What do you think?