NYC Woman Claims Rihanna-Endorsed Lipstick Gave Her Herpes!

A woman from Harlem who bought a MAC lipstick endorsed by singer Rihanna is claiming that she ended up with herpes after using the product she bought from a pop-up shop at the singer's concert at the Barclays Arena in Brooklyn. The woman, 28-year-old Starkeema Greenidge, is now taking MAC to court over the incident, suing them for missed work and using unsanitary products.

Greenidge told the New York Daily News that a MAC worker applied a sample of the Barbadian singer-endorsed lipstick, called RiRi Woo, on to her lips before the show in Brooklyn. However the waitress ended up with quite the opposite to irresistibly kissable lips when they began to balloon and she had to go to hospital where she was diagnosed with the incurable disease. The waitress was forced to miss two weeks of work because of her ailment and pins the blame squarely on the MAC cosmetics team for using unsanitary methods.

The herpes-ridden waitress went on to say that she went to the Manhattan Supreme Court with the hopes of forcing the company to be more sanitary in the future, otherwise “This is going to happen over and over again if nothing is done,” she said. Greenidge went on to say the company need to train its employees better in working in a sanitary manner, such as using disposable tubes or swabs to apply the lipstick. Her lawsuit papers claim, “(MAC) didn’t use a fresh or new lipstick tube, but rather one that had been used for other patrons.”

The singer probably didn't bank on endorsing a product that gives people herpes

The unfortunate concert goer contracted the disease when she went to the May 7 Rihanna concert at the Barclays Center, stopping at a MAC popup shop at the venue beforehand to allow one of the workers to apply a sample of the Rih-endorsed product. She is suing the cosmetics company for an unspecified amount, claiming the herpes caused her “mental anguish and emotional distress.”

Neither MAC, the company the singer signed a multi-million endorsement deal with in February this year, nor Rihanna have made any comment on the lawsuit.

The singer hasn't commented on the lawsuit