Samples from makeup stores?

i read in a magazine that it is good to collect makeup samples to stash in your locker in case you need them, but it just seems weird. How do i go to makeup counters and stores such as mac and sephora and get samples without seeming annoying?Samples from makeup stores?
At Sephora stores, it's pretty easy. Act interested in the product you want, then ask and employee if you can get a little sample to try. Say something like this: ';Excuse me, I'm interested in this product and I was wondering if I could get a small sample to take home with me to try.'; You can also ask for perfume samples; the employee will take any perfume you want and fill a small plastic tube. The sample lasts at least a week.





At department stores, it can be a little trickier. Act interested in the products and ask for a sample. It helps to get a makeover then ask for samples of the products they used. Be nice and polite.





Remember: Act interested. They are more likely to give you a sample if you act like you will buy from them later.





Find the right people. Go to employees that look happy and nice, and who seem glad to help you. At my local mall, the employees at the beauty counters at Macy's aren't the most helpful and can be rather short with younger customers. However, at the Nordstrom's at my mall, they employees are super friendly and nice, and they are glad to provide with a sample. Observe people and watch them to find the nicer ones.





Don't go constantly. If you come back every week, the people will get suspicious. They will start to wonder why you keep coming in for samples but not buying anything. Keep visits to makeup places occasional. Salespeople do remember their customers.





Keep a lookout in magazines; sometimes they give out free samples online, and other times there will be an ad that you take to a store to get free samples. I have gotten free Kinerase, Murad, and Clarins samples by looking in magazines. Fashion magazines are more likely to have them (Elle, Glamour, etc.).





Good luck!





P.S. Don't ask for too many samples. One should be your max; two if the employee seems friendly. Let them offer the samples to you; don't ask for this, this, this, and this.Samples from makeup stores?
when you're looking around at the makeup counter, the workers are likely to approach you, and ask you about what you're looking for, show you these ';new'; products they get, and talk to them a little and mingle and a lot of times if they're friendly, and if you seem interested in the products they'll hand out samples, or if you buy something..a lot of times they throw in some sampler's of products, because they want people to try them, like them, then come back to buy them.


or some workers are so friendly they just hand out samples to people browsing, they did that at the perfume counters to me and my mom a few times :)


just don't go up to the counters making it clear that you just want samples of their stuff, that would be seemingly annoying.
Go at different time of day when sales people have changed shifts !