'[She] had no concept of boundaries': Woman spikes her foundation with self-tanner, turning her makeup-stealing roommate's face orange as payback

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Dec 15, 2024 9:00 PM EST

Living with someone shines a light on all of their worst qualities. As someone who's had a whole slew of strange roommates, housemates, and nearby neighbors, I can confidently say that some relationships are better at arm's length. Nobody needs the Q-tip mess or the disorderly dirty dishes tower 'soaking' in the sink staining their friendships. And worse, if you realize your roommate is not actually the kind of person you can stand to be around, you might just be stuck with their antics until the lease is up. 

This woman found a clever way to call out her roommate's bad behavior. After months of stealing her makeup (which is expensive, by the way), this entitled roommate thought she had their living situation figured out–what's mine is yours, right? No way, sweetheart. As it turns out, the best way to prank a thief is to poison the thing they're obsessed with stealing, so this woman only thought it was fair to add a self-tanner to her foundation, teaching this orange-faced robber the consequences of thievery.

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    Roommate Kept Using My Makeup Without Asking, So I Made Sure She'd Never Do It Again
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    I shared an apartment with a girl who had no concept of boundaries. She constantly "borrowed" my stuff without asking clothes, shoes, and worst of all, my makeup. I
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    told her countless times to stop, but she always brushed it off like it wasn't a big deal. The last straw came when I found out she had used my expensive foundation for a
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    party and didn't even bother cleaning the bottle. That's when I decided it was time to teach her a lesson. I went out and bought a cheap, old foundation from
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    the dollar store and swapped it with mine, adding a bit of self-tanner to the mix. I left it in plain sight on my vanity and waited. Sure enough, the next weekend, she waltzed out of the bathroom with an orange face. I didn't say a
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    word as she headed off to her party. The next day, she came home furious, complaining that people had been
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    laughing at her all night. I just smiled and said, "Oh no, maybe it wasn't your shade." She didn't touch my stuff again after that.
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    TheSarcastic Devil Did she not use a mirror when applying it? How did she not notice before leaving the house?
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    RumBunBun Self tanner doesn't change the skin a different color instantly. It happens gradually over 30 to 60 minutes or more.
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    Heebie-jeebies386 Nice. I knew someone who's roommate like to use her perfume. So pried it open when it got low and peed in it. Hid her new bottle and left the cologne out. Chick doused herself in and was none the wiser. Fabulous job on the foundation concoction.
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    invasiveclouds maybe you should lock your room, in case she catches on and does the same thing with your stuff
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    BurlinghamBob I lived in a small apartment building where the tenants could have their washing machines in the basement. Someone kept using our machine at night. Leaving notes and even taking the
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    knobs off didn't stop them. They used pliers to set the cycles. I cured my problem by emptying a box of Ritz royal blue dye in the washer. They didn't use it after that.
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    StromGames People always pretending something isn't a big deal when it's not something happening to them. You have no idea if it's a big deal for me or not. You have no right to dismiss my concerns as if they don't mean anything.
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