u/Kodywifak

I went to Sephora today, got a 65 dollar Sephora favorites kit and when asked for my information I gave the number as well as name.

I drove a 3 hour drive home and found out after it was put under a completely different name, I contacted customer service and I repeatedly explained and told them that I am vib so a points multiplier should be Added.

I ended up receiving the points without the multiplier so I contacted again, to this, the chat was closed as soon as I restarted the problem.

I have tried to contact them multiple times and the chat was closed and now the customer support is closed.

Has anyone else had this problem? I have a very, very rare name and the name the points were put on was very common, like Sarah level common (not the actual name).

Tbh I've found support is not helpful and even the "real" representatives feel like AI, is this common? I'm not trying to be a Karen but I genuinely am very polite with staff and always make sure to thank them and the chats were still getting closed seemingly without reason

I would prefer Canadian based or ships to Canada, I'm starting my collection, I have Cherry punk by room 1015 so far and I got the sample from scentbird but I find the shipping is egregious compared to the actual sample price.i don't have alot of perfume knowledge but my preference is story perfumes (think toskavat, imaginary authors, syhlouette parfums) if that matters for finding brands

If anyone would also like to recommend some niche or unique brands I would greatly appreciate that!

I'm not going to say my age for privacy reasons but for some context I have not lived with parents sense 7 years, instead I've lived with grandparents and consider them parents.

My parents have been getting money from child tax credit to take a care of me sense I left but never have given any to me or my grandparents.

I have two siblings with them and they have been using the extra money from me to spoil them while seeming to forget about me. For example my very young brother got a 3 thousand dollar gaming set up for Christmas and I got a 100 dollar Amazon gift card in late February.

My parents hate me. They forget about my birthday and when they rember they yell at me on call for hours on end intell I'm sobbing, usually bringing up my weight, looks, intelligence ect.

My grandparents aren't much better, they are slowly draining me mentally and expecting perfection. I have bought all my own food, clothes, body care ect for 3-4 ish years, my grandparents are lower income and often put the finance burden on me.

I could explain more about the emotional toxicity I am facing but honestly that would be so long.

My birthday is in two days and my parents haven't even contacted me At all while my grandparents have been yelling at me, shaming my body, shaming my grades, insulting me and more.

Honestly I need to be emancipated or something because I am at the end of my rope with this bullshit and I will end my shit if I can't get out. As my birthday approaches I feel hallow. I feel numb and worn out and like I've been fighting an uphill battle where I'm about to fall.

To make all this worse, I am queer and If my family finds this out before I get a chance to leave, I will face worse conditions, even worse then situations I have not mentioned but almost lead to me seriously taking my life.

I might be imagining the toxic environment so feel free to tell me if I'm just being a spoiled brat but it's becoming unbearable to me. I seriously need some advice of what To do in my situation as well so please feel free to comment that to this post.

I'd like to preface this by saying I do not live with my parents, I Live with grandparents and I have for 7 years, I do not have funds to move out at this time.

I'm severely sleep deprived due to stress at work, exam prep (and test prep). I wake up at 6:45 am on weekdays to be able to go to classes and work on time. Now this isn't a problem, I stay up intell 12-2 am studying, the problem is that on weekends I'm forced to wake up much earlier.

Sense I've lived with my grandparents I have not been allowed a bedroom, I did have one but I was not allowed in it, the door was taken, I wasn't allowed lights or to sit on the bed during daytime ect, because of this I mostly slept and have continuted to sleep on the loveseat.

Recently my family has been getting up at 5 am, screaming, shouting, banging dishes, everything you can think of to wake me up. It's gotten so bad that's sometimes they will take the blanket off of me.

They will not stop or listen to me, I wear noise cancelling earplugs and I still hear them, honestly I have no idea what to do anymore because I am severely sleeper deprived to the point I fall asleep at work.

I'm honestly exhausted and have no idea how I will complete my exams of this continues.

Anyone got any suggestions as to how I can maybe get some sleep?

The ballad of Lucy gray is foreshadowing for both her fate and snows, might be dumb for just realizing this but dissecting the lyrics I really understood it. (Sorry for how long it is!!!)

"We fell on hard times and we lost our bright color

You went to the dogs and I lived by my charms"

After the hunger games snow expesaly fell into hard times and started into his spiral of power hungry obsession. He quite litteraly "went to the dogs" by getting his scholarship revoked and turned into a grunt in 12 while Lucy went back to get Covey.

"I lived by my charms" also refers to how her singing helped her survive in the arena and influence culture inside the district (fashion ect)

Skiping over a few lines to "Then one day you left, saying I was no good" which is a direct forshadowing to how Lucy gray haunts snow even after her "death" (sense it's unknown if she died or not I'm quoting it.) Snow is haunted by her memory and when he left her in that forest, he does everything in his power to erase her influence and memory from society.

It also shows up in his fashion, a very muted, elegant and not bright, colorful fashion like what's popular on the capital, and Lucy gray.

(I personally think the style evolved from Lucy's style and tigris helped it evolve in the hunger game costumes)

"Well, all right, I'm bad, but then, you're no prize either" this directly ties into snows complex that he has every right to control what he wants because he sees himself in a light which makes him above others(like a prize). This can also refer to how she killed people for survival making her "bad", but snow did it for pleasure, he could have easily defended himself in the arena without a death but didn't, he killed his friend for no reason, he continued to kill for his own ego and control over the district's.

"Just let me remind you what I am to you" Snow is constantly reminded of who Lucy is to him, how his obsession with possessing her haunts him every day. No matter how hard he tries to scrap her memory from history, it remains in him. It remains in the culture. It surrounds him in gesters, songs, people.

"Cause I am the one who looks out when you're leaping

I am the one who knows how you were brave

And I am the one who heard what you said sleeping" Lucy gray sees his dangerous and reckless behavior, she's sees how he will risk everything for what he wants, she can see through him and despite seeming to be coy, she's anything but.

"I'll take that and more when I go to my grave" he tries to send her to her grave and she takes the knowledge of what he did to his best friend to her grave, she takes not only every detail about him she knew to her grave, but she took his sanity. After the snake bites him that's when he truely starts to unravel.

" It's sooner than later that I'm six feet under

It's sooner than later that you'll be alone" once again, forshadows how snow tries to kill her and he is alone, he killed everyone who trusted him and will continue to do so.

"For when the bell rings, lover, you're on your own" after the hunger games a switch changes in snow, when the bell rings morals erase, Lucy gray manages to keep these morals but snow does not and this leads him to be alone, it's leads him to never get the same trust out of anybody that he did from Lucy.

"I am the one who you let see you weeping" Lucy seen his empathetic side, when his classmate was killed infornt of him he was mortified and the shift from that to a dictator who doesnt feel any any remorse for killing anything or anyone for entertainment and authority.

"I know the soul that you struggled to save, to bad I'm the bet that you lost in the reaping" snow struggled to and ultimately lost the battle of keeping himself pure and moral,he also lost Lucy due to this. From the beginning Lucy was a bet, a bet on his future, to him she was a stock he had to invest in, and despite trying to love her, I'm not world would he be capable of it because she was a possession in his eyes.

"Now what will you do when I go to my grave?" While it seems like a question and is posed as one, it taunts him because her "dying" is what ultimately seals the obsession with becoming a dictator and fosters the yearning for power.

Sorry for the lengthy deep dive, it's probably been talked about hundreds of times but this is the first time I've watched the movies and started reading the books,I love how despite her mysterious role Lucy gray has so much forshadowing in her music and her character truely is a song stuck in snows head.

I checked the samples an hour ago and it was fully stocked with perfumes, fondation, ect, now it's just two samples which won't even load in properly.

Anyone else notice this?

I feel like Sephora Canada always gets screwed over, between offers, discounts, sizing, hell even brands, I feel like Canada gets ripped off. Not only are most of the Sephora bags over priced there also under servicing.

Idk I feel like it's something nobody talks about.I'm newish to makeup and skincare and the majority of recommendations for my skin type are made for more oily skin and I have extremely dry skin, idk if this app problem is just me but the recommendations are very in accurate as well as shading.

Talking to American friends most do not have this so I'm genuinely wondering why Canadian consumers are screwed over.

I've been saving up gift cards for my birthday (in mid/ later June) for a while, I saw there's currently a Sephora fragrance bag available which would break the every 2 month cycle.

Idk, I'm just wondering do I can decide if I should spend some of my gift cards for this sample bag and use the rest later