Meet the lady who eats her makeup instead of using for her face

22-year-old Brittoni has a weird habit. She spends upward of $200 a week on cosmetics and eats her way through 15 to 20 compacts a day with metallic eyeshadow in light brown, white and grey her favourites.

Brittoni's says her unusual habit started at age 5 and she has carefully hidden it away from her family. She tells mailonline…

'I cannot live without eating make-up, you can imagine it just coating your insides with whatever colour you're eating. It's just like craving your favourite candy bar.

Seeing all the colours made me want to taste it, once I tasted it, I just could not stop eating make-up.

I hide make-up everywhere around my house. Under the couches, in the flower vases, the freezer... My hair is long so I like to use it to conceal the make-up I would like to bring. 

I keep my addiction to make-up hidden because I'd rather not go through the hassle of explaining it to people.  My mother doesn't know but if she knew, I'd never hear the end of it and it would go on for hours and hours every day.'

'When I come into the store, I have to taste to make sure I bought the right ones,' she reveals. 'I would just pour some on my hand, look around to make sure no-one's walking down the aisle and I would just lick it. 

'If it's not the right kind and since nobody sees me lick it, I'll put it back. I know that's kind of wrong but I don't want to get stuck with something I don't eat or wear.'