# @smeharbinger on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Czl9SDwupoT
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/9884010-smeharbinger-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-11-13T16:33:58.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Harbinger (@SMEHarbinger) — https://gondola.cc/SMEHarbinger

## Caption

*Names changed to protect identities

Senior Harper Stevenson* walks over to an empty aisle inside of Ulta. Looking around to ensure no employees are watching, she shoves a hot pink Fenty Beauty lip gloss into her Louis Vuitton purse and walks out of the store.

She doesn’t need the lip gloss — Stevenson will stuff it in her makeup drawer alongside the 10 others just like it. And she has the money to pay for it, but ever since she started shoplifting a year ago, the thrill of seeing how much makeup, jewelry or skincare products she can steal without getting caught overrides any desire to pay for the items.

“Sometimes I’ll take things and I’ll get home and think to myself, ‘Why did I even take this? I don’t need it,’” Stevenson said. “But it’s just so easy to take things from stores, and I really don’t see that big of a problem with it.”

Stevenson is one of at least 67 other East students who shoplift, according to an Instagram poll of 218 students and community members. This aligns with a broader nationwide pattern of teen shoplifting, as approximately a quarter of shoplifters are under the age of 18, according to mental health center Newport Academy.

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