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I'd love to see your deep dive on sengense (spelling?) I knew it was an mlm, but I had a friend selling lipsense and loved some of the colors. Bought 3, they made my lips crusty.
Love this type of content.In 2018 someone gave me a kit and the stuff was horrible the mascara was horrid I couldn't even wear the lipsticks I couldn't even give the creams away not even to put it on my feet
Had a childhood friend that sold this stuff for a while. I expressed interest in joining to make some extra money, and she contacted me outside of her social media to tell me "don't do it, I'm trying to get out!" Forever grateful for that heads up.
I was a rep for 5 years. I'm so happy I saw the light and left this cult. It's seriously made me not want to wear makeup again and I cringe thinking about how I sold it to family and friends.
Congrats for leaving! Just remember you were taken advantage of by people who scam for a living. Sharing your story may help others avoid being a target!
I lost a friend when she got sucked in by this brand. They basically love bombed her and told her that anyone who wasn’t willing to join wasn’t a real friend. I still miss her.
My heart! I am so sorry. I read your comment and I SWEAR it was like I could feel that pain and my own heart breaking. 😢 I hope your friend can find whatever it is she’s searching for and I hope you find your own healing. It’s so hard losing a friend to something like this. ❤
I think this happened to me aswell. Always wondered why she stopped talking to me but it was when she started selling this and I wasn't interested in joining or buying anything
Random thought, but you often hear in the MLM horror stories that Hannah Alonzo reads, once someone is out of the MLM, they not only feel embarrassed but equally sad for the friendships they lost. Wishing they could reach back out and mend the bridges. If your former friend is no longer in it she may want to reconnect but feels too embarrassed to reach out first.
I got sucked into buying their mascara a couple years ago but then I was harassed so much by the girl I bought it from to join her team I had to change my phone number and block her on everything!
Omg I feel this to my soul. I am basically stalked through multiple life phases by a pampered chef lady who I bought an olive oil diffuser from. Dear GOD they are relentless
This brand is why I can no longer use glitter. I had an allergic reaction so bad that my eyelids began peeling and this was about 10 years ago. I have had long term issues from this brand.
That's bloody awful, you poor thing. Sounds like you need to join one of those class action suits. I'm sorry your still having problems. That's shocking. 😞
I agree! You should sue over that 😳 I can’t believe I didn’t damage my eyeballs with the stuff I kept trying from them 🤦♀️🫣 especially the lash serum! It burned
Because the only people making money in them are the ones scamming and exploiting thousands of unfortunate naive people in their downline. 97.8% of people lose money in MLMs. People who have become successful in them push recruitment through the roof purely because it profits them and brings more hamsters to the wheel.
Wow I sure hope she gets out my God !!! Im sure she isn't married ? Hopefully a man wouldn't allow this for 10 years !!! As a team you must put money together
@@tiffanychill8219: ahaaa? What do you mean with: her Man would/should not do allowe "this"?? 😲😳😓🫣.....where are you living, that Men have to "allowe" their Wifes anything? I just fell from my Couch! 😂💪🏼 are you living in a backwarts Time-Machine - 😓😂🫣🖕🏼⁉️❓ OMG....YOU are still living 150 Years ago I think... Maybe I'm too European to you, bc I'm 70 Years old and I and my Mom and my Dad (both sadly died 1983 + 1986 😢) are never living like this.. they are both very "adult" still If they we're Born 1916 and 1918... To "allowe" something is so "old Way patriarchle"... I never would allowe my Man to treat me like this 😔✌🏼🙏🙏🏿🙏🏾👍🏼‼️🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼 And of course Couple needs to hold together as a Team ..also with their Money for building a strong Relation- and Compagnonship....but nobody have to "allowe" the Partner anything and also nothing to forbidden! Teamwork is' all we need and to be against something has not to Impact the Family in a bad Way. Of course not...I hope my fragile English is' understandable enough to explain it in the right Way.... 😅🫣💞👋👋‼️
I got sucked into this MLM a long time ago and I still cringe. Such a horrible horrible decision and I have personally apologized to anyone I sold to because I was so embarrassed. It did however get me interested in makeup and an example of what crappy makeup is.
I mean, on the bright side, as someone who grew up in the 90s when most affordable makeup was crap... Learning to use garbage makeup is like running with weights on. Using good makeup is so easy by comparison.
Forget trying it. I actually became a ‘rep’ for them. My best friend got into this and was like ‘hey I’m selling some makeup and you’re really good at it, I’ve told my makeup buddies about you and they really wanna see what you come up with’ so I purchased this bundle thing and tried some stuff, did some looks and next thing I know my weekly FaceTime with my friend (this was during covid) I was in a call with her ‘mentor’ I had a full time job, I was not up for selling and marketing my ‘own business’ (as they put it). The moment I declined I was slandered, my best friend was told I was horrible and abusive to them and I ended up losing her to the MLM. The irony of it all was they still used my makeup photos to advertise their products! Absolute cheek!
You legally own the copyright to those photos and they legally have no right to use your photos for anything. It's probably more hassle than it's worth but just so you know, its likely totally illegal what they did with your photos. (For context, I'm a photographer in Canada and have had to lookup all of these laws and learn my rights with my photos etc)
As a Gen X lifelong drugstore cosmetic user, I bought the eye shadow and mascara back in the day and thought, "I guess I must not understand bougie makeup." Thank God my daughter schooled herself in cosmetics over the years [recommending this channel, in fact!], so I now know what to look for in proper good cosmetics and what is just straight-up gaslighting.
I remember the height of this madness. My mom was a licensed cosmetologist in the 80s, and when she saw people using this mascara, she was like, "lawsuit waiting to happen"😂😂😂
Nooooo. A ex friend made me sell that crap. The fiberglass mascara almost made me go blind while trying to convince me it was green tea fiber and I MUST be allergic
For a second I didn't realize "fiberglass" was a typo and was imagining people using mascara with fiberglass in it 🙀 The sad part is, it wasn't that surprising, just disappointing...
@@Danisuzette I mean, asbestos is very similar fiberglass, and it's fibrous, AND it's natural... 🤔 You might be onto something! Sell the product idea to Younique!
Honest questions here if you don't mine me asking which are did you ever get some vision back or not at all?? Did you go sue the company? @@Danisuzette
I was a seller too when I was 18 (like 10 years ago) and couldn't even sell to my family bc my upline would sell to them instead of letting me. 🙃 the makeup wasn't even good.
@@dollmob1206I didn’t know about mlms before I joined. I slowly found videos about it on UA-cam but it was mostly “why I quit” videos back then and not big expose videos like they have now. I just wanted to hang out with some girlfriends, so I just sold to my mom enough to stay on. But then my friend who recruited me quit and ghosted us to sell something else. I quit after that. Desperate times is all I can say.
Every time I would post a selfie with makeup on, I would get approached by a Younique or Arbonne representative... I told one of them, "Girl, people who actually know how to use makeup, don't use that crap... no, thank you!!"
I love that you are adding your voice to the anti-MLM conversation. So many people are taken advantage of … not just the customers from what I can see they rob their own employees the worst of all
These companies out here using "natural" like that automatically equals good for you when anybody with a lick of sense knows that's not true. Sand is natural but I don't want that in my eye. Arsenic is natural but we don't use that in makeup anymore for damn good reasons.
I always appreciate the awareness you and James bring to MLMs. My mom is in the LifeVantage mlm and it's terrible. I can't talk about my mental or physical health otherwise I become a sales quota. Then when I say no it's a "well don't talk about X issue bc obviously you're not willing to get better" etc. Sorry for venting. It's frustrating but I appreciate the anti-MLM genre being talked about.
What makes me sad is that my friend joined this MLM and all of my interactions were here trying to sell me make up. Unfortunately it affected our relationship. I felt like she was using our friendship to sell me products. 😔
The thing I hate most about MLMs isn't their crappy products, it's the way they prey on people like stay at home mums who need an income and a job they can fit around the needs of their family. Rather than making any money they alienate friends and family by desperately pushing overpriced crap onto them and making them buy out of guilt and most of the time they end up out of pocket anyway. If we had a decent social set up where childcare was more affordable, bosses were more flexible with working hours and wfh was more accessable, these MLM companies would have less victims. Two single mums I know both tried Younique and both ended up with less money than when they started. I myself tried selling Avon decades ago when my firstborn was a baby, it took me 3 weeks of traipsing the streets with a baby strapped to my chest delivering and collecting catologues to earn £9.
Their "domestic violence" retreat that they used to push really hard to guilt people into buying is also pretty shady. I dont know if they still have it or not but i know it was a big part of their marketing back in the day.
the founders are also mormon and based in utah, so it 100% wouldn't surprise me if it's not even actual counseling from a professional and some religious people coming in instead 😒
Yeah, I remember that you had to prove that you were abused, and it was only a two day retreat for the people , and they were more likely to choose you if you had tattoos or you looked “damaged” in their words
I once watched a video of a woman showing their pigments. She literally dipped her brush in a pot of water, dipped the sopping wet brush into the pigment then wiped it down her cheek 😂 she had muddy glitter tears just streaming down her cheek and dripping onto her top 😭 like why your cheek anyway? Just put it on your eye where it's supposed to go 🙈 the pigments looked rubbish aswell.
If you ever see photos they post of their own palettes, they have that weird dry, skin-oil sediment crust. The kind you get when eyeshadow is so bad you have to dig your brush into the product, and scrape it just to use it. Though I can't imagine her solution was any better!
I live in Utah, which is where their corporate office is. I don’t exactly remember why, but I was gifted a TON of Younique makeup by a friend. Because I was a freshman in high school and didn’t have any money at that point, it’s the only makeup I used for a long time. Looking back at pictures, I looked HORRIBLE! I genuinely feel like I’m pretty good at makeup, even back then, but it really didn’t matter because the quality was so bad 😂 Also, I will never forget the PAIN of getting one of those freaking fibers in my eye 😭
When I worked at my first job 11 years ago my manager was a Younique rep. I'd just started getting into fun colorful makeup and she INSISTED on buying me one of the brands eyeshadow palettes as a gift for my birthday. They had set up a table at our store during a big sale event we were having (retail store) and I insisted that I didn't want any of the makeup 😂 even starting out I could tell the quality was not there. And her makeup always looked like the bad makeup you showcased here.
I am old enough to remember my mother using cake mascara! Tube mascara was invented before I started using makeup in my mid teens. IIRC most of the makeup brands tried out fiber mascara in the mid to late 70s or maybe early 80s and discontinued them. Those fiber mascaras were very clumpy, the fiber did not align with the real lashes and the fiber flaked off onto your cheeks. There is a reason none of the quality makeup companies do fiber mascara these days as far as I know! It's just not a good idea
Fiber mascara has always disappointed me ("tubing" mascara is where it's at these days, I get one from Miss A for $1.55 that I love!) I do remember when all the brands released fiber mascara in the early aughts. I kept buying different ones because I thought, if they all are doing it, it must be an innovation and I'm just getting the wrong ones... But no, they are all chunky and gross. So it is surprising to hear that it was a trend in the 70s/80s, why bring it back if it's still bad?! It's a stupid concept. Who cares if your lashes are longer and thicker if they are lumpy and flaking everywhere?
@@Sharmelle586 I really love Bésame. The cake mascara is easy to create my favorite natural 'my lashes but better' look. It stays for an afternoon but not all day on my extremely oily eyes. But more importantly, it doesn't create any eye irritation. I have issues with regular mascara irritating my eyes. The dry cake formula doesn't grow bacteria like wet formulas do.
My impression of Yoonique mascara was "🎵🎶spider-lash spider-lash" Even the lady from Yoonique showing the "correct" application technique was getting clumpy results. 😂
That's because she wasn't using the hair dryer to apply it!! 😆🤦🏼♀️ I can't believe the BS the reps would come up with to gaslight you about why you were wrong and they were right!
Ugh. I remember that mascara. One of my friends announced she was ‘starting her own business’ and when I found out what it was, my heart sank. I bought the mascara from her because I wanted to support her but it was really terrible. Luckily my friend walked away from it pretty quickly, but I know she lost some money she really couldn’t afford. I didn’t know about the faux anti-racism thing though. What a revolting company
Oh, I'm SO here for this. This was one of the two MLMs I ever participated in and it was so gross. I always hated the exploitation of CSA victims and their makeup sucked.
@@GlamGoreChaosQueen I’m cutting and pasting what their 501(c)3 states: “Saprea (formerly The Younique Foundation and Defend Innocence) is a nonprofit that provides resources to prevent and heal from sexual abuse.” It’s obviously just a tax haven but they have retreats too where CSA victims can attend for “healing”. It’s BS and the people have to pay for their travel there and meet all kinds of qualifications to attend. Their FB page will share stories all the time of victims they’ve “helped”. Their retreat is just love bombing, some yoga, a makeover and crap. It’s BS. Kiki Chanel did a video on it but it’s a few years old. It’ll still Apple though.
The late 2010s were a wild time for make up. In 2017 maybe I was in one of those virtual Facebook parties for Younique and the party was infiltrated by a LipSense rep or fangirl or something. It was like a weird battle of the MLMs in the comments and I think the LipSense girl got kicked out of the group and blocked. It was quite the experience.
I had a neighbor that sold it years ago. I know the mascara you're talking about because she wouldn't shut TF up until I bought some. I bought that, lipstick and some eyeshadow. It was all trash. Like, super crappy.
@@Kc-dq7zj mlm neighbors are the WORST, you just can't escape skating around the thin line of friend/acquaintance and they're so damn nice ☹️ I moved into a very ... unwelcoming neighborhood and the only person who is always friendly and helpful is this one lady who relentlessly pushes her catalog into my hands. It's a tragedy, really.
I need a deep dive on senegence. That lipsense lip colour is the absolute worst thing I’ve ever put on my lips. It burnt so much and people were telling me this was ok?!?! It soooo wasn’t
I had a friend who tried to rope me into being a rep. I tried several of their products, and the foundation "match" they told me would be for my Caucasian skin tone made me look like I had just gone to a really dodgy place for a spray tan! Yikes! I also tried their eyeshadow and they had no color payoff. Their mascara smeared throughout the day. Needless to say, I did not become a rep. I didn't even realize they were an MLM at that time, so thank goodness I didn't do it! Thanks for putting great info out there Robert! Your videos simply make my day!!
I remember trying the mascara from them, my cousin kept INSISTING I would love it and buy it forever, so I tried hers, it was SO clumpy and made my eyes itch and water! It looked ok but when she told me the price, I was like OH HELL NAW! And I said I'll stick to my loreal double extend lmao
I’m not a makeup artist and a no makeup girl, but I can tell just by seeing their makeup on people is just looks bad. Also in my opinion, a good sign that makeup is done right is when it does look realistic for every day use. Theirs doesn’t , I can tell it looks like something you would wear as part of a complete Halloween costume look, but not for everyday use.
When I was in High School, my mom had a friend who was working for this brand and arranged a little party between me and my friends to try this brand out. Me being 16 at the time, I was excited to learn more about makeup because I was still new to it, my moms friend did everything to convince me to get the fiber mascara which I did, but as I used it I realized how extremely horrible it was and I thought I was the SHIT wearing a whole ass spider on my eyes 😭😭😭
Honestly it’s relieving to see such a big beauty influencer trashing on MLM’s, especially on a beauty thing like Younique, it just legitimately gives me joy. :)
"Beauty has no skin tone" "They wanted to show off their amazing makeup skill with a new trend" nooo, please don't tell me this is going where I think it's going. NOOOOOOO IT ISSSSSS BBBRRRRUUUUH
Ugh so embarrassed to have sold this years ago. I didn't even know what an mlm was but once I found out and realized my mistake I ran. It was such a toxic environment the actual quality of the makeup wasn't even the worst of it. Those women are horrible people. So catty, jealous and total liars. I hate to see they are still going, not only them all mlms. It was definitely interesting seeing things from the "inside" however. Like a train wreck you keep watching 😂
@@dollmob1206catty, petty & (pathological) liars don't just talk - they bully others, demanding weaker members' blind loyalty. Contradictions of what they say & do occurs consistently. So when members question the flaws, catty liars usually shamed them for questioning the "great leadership" decisions + threatened them in some way, usually expulsion from the company, stripping benefits off, repossession of your gifts awarded to you from top directors before, or rank demotion. Cultish leaders make you feel guilty + try brainwashing you to think you owe them complete submission, after they have showered all their (conditional) "love" unto you.
@@dollmob1206 well I found reddit to start with lol the anti-mlm sub and one making fun of younique specifically. Then there were some really hateful comments from people who were against mlms. Which didn't say a lot for the anti-mlm cause, if you want to educate people on something usually attacking them and being cruel isn't the best way to go about it but I'm smart enough to realize there had to be a reason strangers were so against a makeup company that they would basically bully people online over it. It's wild. I hate mlms as well but I would not go about telling others the way I was told.
About a decade ago, my best friend tried to talk me into selling Younique due to her Mom pushing it onto her and then onto me as I’m a makeup artist. Luckily, I already knew better and firmly declined, but I decided to try their 3D mascara. I fully admit I LOVED it at the time! Had no issue with the fibers and my lashes looked full and great, no dry clumpy spider lashes and it was easy to remove. When I purchased it again months later, they had changed the formula, claiming “new and improved” and it was the opposite of that. It was terrible and I was so bummed out! It was the only mlm product I had ever tried that I originally loved so much that I bought it again and they went and made it horrible. I used the new formula 2-3 times before trashing it. I told my best friend I was done with using any Younique products and she quickly stopping trying to sell it herself not long after that.
Oh my god, that 3D fiber lash tried to blind me! It was the absolute worst. Just trying to apply the fibers I was instantly in tears and my eye FULL of tiny little flecks of this spiky crap
I love that you're branching out your content lately. I am a beauty lover and an antiMLM girl so I absolutely love seeing the intersection. I couldn't get away from the 3D fiber lash back then. I thought it was a gimmick then, I absolutely wouldn't try it now lol..
I feel like Coty probably bought in not because of good product but probably because their books looked good for a business investment because this brand drew so many people into buying so bad. I felt so bad for all the people getting fooled and spending money on this when color pop and L’Oréal do so much better for less
I fortunately never fell for the younique mess, but an MLM still managed to get me. I was gifted whatever that color stay lipstick was that smelled like turpentine and felt like it turned your lips into plastic. (Lipsense I think?) I used it exactly once and the smell NEVER WENT AWAY. Then, when k tried to get it off my lips I couldn’t. I ended up having to scrape my lips raw to get it off. Even oil wouldn’t budge it 😭
My social circle includes a few unrepentant huns,I remember the Younique craze. I was still into high end stuff from sephora (these days im *almost* exclusively drugstore & boxycharm lol), and I'm not usually proud of my own past snobbery, but in this case I feel ok... that was embarrassingly bad makeup. It did shake up the weird Mary Kay trend here, tho, I still know women who think MK is high end, ufda 🙄
I was gifted a makeup kit when they first came out. Being who i am i didnt want to waste it. I ended up liking 1 shade of eye shadow that wasnt too bad pigment wise. Tried to call to get more and was told they didnt sell single pans of their shadows. Knew right then this company was... different and never got anymore.
the way shes smiling so aggressively while applying the mascara is honest to god terrifying. like HOW did anyone watch this and think "yes this makes me feel optimistic about this product!" i feel like shes gonna climb through my window at 3AM💀
I remember when the brand was setting up and they went on a recruitment drive. I'd never really heard of MLM's at the time and was interested when they described this 'new brand' and joined a group. I quickly realised it was some sort of cult and left before they launched 😂 I had a few friends offering me free products to try because I was into makeup and it was all a big pile of shit 😬 don't even get me started on the terrible videos people who had no business selling makeup were making 😂
I had “friends “ who pressured everyone into buying these products so I purchased quite a few and none really impressed me . The foundation broke me out and separated pretty quickly in the bottle and the “friend “ who shade matched me did a horrible job so what a waste of money .. mascara fibers were every where on my face and the “friends “ never spoke to me again when I didn’t give a glowing review of their makeup .. so yeah I agree with this , my experience was not a great one and costly at that !
The moment Robert said this first line of this quote, I auto finished it for him. "Turns out there's shit in their eyes, but it ok! It's just natural shit in their eyes" 😂
so glad you have done a video on this, I was on long term sick, unwell and vulnerable and ended up signing up as a younique rep to keep my mind busy and I loved makeup, looking back it makes me cringe, it's so pushy very cult like and so glad I saw the light, I ended up buying so much of the makeup to showcase on my social media, I ended up owing money on credit card not making money its awful MLM x
My bff's mom back in 2016-17 sold Younique. The prices for their products were INSANE. My bff never pushed anything on me hard, but she did try to get me to try this mascara. Girl, no. My eyes are super sensitive anyway and I HATED that entire "fiber lash" trend. She stopped using the mascara soon after anyway because the fibers always got in her eyes and it just took so long to do.
I remember one girl at a club having the most STUNNING and BLINDING highlighter, and she said it was from Younique (thankfully my sister-in-law told me it was an MLM so just walk away lol). I had a couple friends ALWAYS post about the new 4D mascara, and I ALWAYS knew what it was before reading it all, because the whole post was filled with a million emojis lol
I’m so here for this video- I was a ‘green status’ rep for 3 years. I was in DEEP too. While my time with them really allowed me to grow my skills with makeup- the quality wasn’t there at all. The spray foundation was awesome- the eyeshadow was hit and miss. The fiber mascara was not it but the epic mascara was. Bottom line the company is crap, and the majority of the products were crap.
I soooooooo nearly joined but stopped after having to post on behalf of a friend who was a "boss lady" and like wtf. So pleased I dodged that bullet ... Keep up the great vids Robert x
I had multiple family members selling Younique, having parties, and the 3D mascara was all over Facebook. But it was so damn expensive, and I wasn't going to buy from everyone. I spent around 200, foundation, 3D mascara/gel, eyeshadow, makeup bag. The eyeshadow was ok, the fibers were flaking off, foundation wasn't good for my conbo kit. I just felt bad for my cousin so I bought it. Last mlm I bought from. Never again lol.
I was actually a Younique rep for a few years in college. I made like $100/year, maybe. I didn’t ever ask anyone to “join my team”. I just posted videos of me using it in a private fb group and sold enough to support my own habit. I honestly loved their liquid foundation from the early days and the cream eyeshadows and a couple other things I liked. The products I didn’t like, I just didn’t promote, including the 2 step fiber mascara, the regular one wasn’t bad. But they discontinued all the stuff I liked and I left. Then I heard about all the behind the scenes drama that happened shortly after I left and I’m glad I got out when I did.
I'm crying, I keep seeing comments like "hooray for anti-MLM" and I was like "???? * Fear* on This channel?!?" Because I only knew MLM can stand for "men loving men" but I didn't know it's also "multi level marketing" XD
I had been a sucker and purchased the kit with intent to sell when it first started getting popular, when I received my make up , it was garbage . I never sold a thing, I tried to get a refund and they kept giving excuses until I gave up lol
Your video was recommended to me by CC Suarez! Unfortunately, I have had experience using Younique products. In 2017, I was looking for a new foundation to use, and a Facebook friend recommended Younique. She told me that she could “match” me for foundation “with just a selfie!” It seemed sus since this girl was white and I’m black, but I thought I’d try it. I had no idea what mlms were and I thought I was supporting a nice girl in her small business. I send her my selfie, she tells me my shade (which seemed close enough to me), and I pay the $99 for the foundation, concealer, and makeup brush. That foundation was WAY too light for my dark skin!!! When I told her she was way off on color matching me for my foundation, she suggested that I get a darker shade and mix the two. I laughed out loud when I read that message, sent her a “no thank you”, and bought Fenty foundation instead! When I heard about their performative BLM hashtag, I laughed and said “The irony is that their foundation has the least amount of shades for black and brown people”. AND, it’s essentially blackface.
I fell for the mascara years ago when my cousin was selling it. It was awful!! The fibers kept getting in my eyes and irritating them. I never bought another thing from them after that.
Younique headquarters is located 15-20 minutes from where I live. So are doTERRA and Young living, and Seint is also in Utah. These MLMs REALLY prey on Stay at home moms who feel obligated to not work outside of the home thanks to Utah's predominant religion, but are struggling financially. It's disgusting.
A very close childhood friend of mine along with also a beloved cousin tried this make-up brand and both had severe reactions to it. I learnt from their mistake and never gave it a go. They both healed but did go on to "bad mouth" the brand to everyone they could.❤
I was a rep for this brand for 2 years. I felt like you do, that if I'm selling makeup, I should actually know about makeup and be open to criticism or critique. It was weird to me that there were no trainings from "uplines" about application, so I started researching and learning on my own. What bothered me the most, and why I got it pretty fast after being roped in, was that their production couldn't keep up with how frequently they introduced products. So you'd get these products that people actually liked, but then by the time your customers would want to reorder, the product was discontinued. I was like this is not sustainable and i wonder how they're still in business. This was back when they were pretty new.
I had a “friend” contact me days after my best friend died suddenly. She brushed that off and managed to sell me a mascara. I wasn’t in my right mind at the time and she knew it.
I wanted fiber mascara to work so much! The length was outrageous, but couldn't get past the flakey horrible mess that came with it. I think Physicians Formula has one, too.❤
My friend used to sell younique I thought I was being a good friend by buying from her (this was before I discovered Chelsea, Savannah, Erin, JJ and friends). I brought their splurge pots (cream eyeshadow)and they were so expensive for mediocre products they dried up in a month then my friend then convinced me to buy a younique rose water to freshen up the eye shadow that was really expensive as well when rose water is £2 in boots. I'm glad people are covering yonique because it's big in UK and I don't think it gets as much coverage as the likes of monat etc.
Ugh....my mom buys from her friend. She says she really likes the mascara. This is since way before I even knew how evil MLMs are. I cant get her to stop.
And Coty is owned by Unilever (formerly Cheseborough-Ponds) which also owns Elizabeth Arden, Elizabeth Taylor, Clinique, Ragu & Preggo, Old El Paso, Lipton-Knorr, Aveeno, Jergens, Vaseline, Mentadent, Colgate, Sensodyne, Aim, Dial, Irish Spring & about 500 other brands
OT/I love you, Robert! Not only have i learned a lot from you, but i could listen to you read the phone book and feel relaxed. After a hectic, loud day, your voice is very soothing. So thank you for being there. And when you and James are together, i just giggle along with you 2! ❤ Back on topic/ I remember everybody and their brother pushing younique back awhile ago. I didn't try that one, but i fell for a similar one that cost $50 (yeah i know 😩) that did absolutely nothing. Well, except fibers getting all over my face (with a top coat on) and in my contacts (OUCH!).
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It is a fantastic channel! I have really enjoyed it.
I love this channel and all of its content always ♥️☮️🖤
I'd love to see your deep dive on sengense (spelling?) I knew it was an mlm, but I had a friend selling lipsense and loved some of the colors. Bought 3, they made my lips crusty.
Love this type of content.In 2018 someone gave me a kit and the stuff was horrible the mascara was horrid I couldn't even wear the lipsticks I couldn't even give the creams away not even to put it on my feet
The way the younique lady was forcefully smiling so hard whilst applying the mascara gave me "hide the pain Harold" vibes 💀
Soooo creepy😅
her face is me trying to stay sane at work 😂
Why does her voice sound like an AI being held hostage?
i came here to leave a comment about her smiling. it’s so funny looking 😭
Looked painful 😅
Had a childhood friend that sold this stuff for a while. I expressed interest in joining to make some extra money, and she contacted me outside of her social media to tell me "don't do it, I'm trying to get out!" Forever grateful for that heads up.
That corp trainer is being held hostage and her name is Jackie. You cant convince me otherwise.
😂😂😂 she is far too happy for just applying crusty fury mascara
I'm wheezing, she looks like she is being held at gunpoint
#freejackie
Smile like a maniac if you need help! 😂😂😂
I was a rep for 5 years. I'm so happy I saw the light and left this cult. It's seriously made me not want to wear makeup again and I cringe thinking about how I sold it to family and friends.
Congrats for leaving! Just remember you were taken advantage of by people who scam for a living. Sharing your story may help others avoid being a target!
Same. 5 years. I cringe thinking about how much money I spent on product for myself alone 🫣
It matters most that you left. Ths Internet stranger is proud of you ❤
You lived and learnt. Welcome back to the real world 😂
Thank you for leaving, I hope you can get back your love for makeup. Getting roped into a cult isn't your fault.
I lost a friend when she got sucked in by this brand. They basically love bombed her and told her that anyone who wasn’t willing to join wasn’t a real friend. I still miss her.
My heart! I am so sorry. I read your comment and I SWEAR it was like I could feel that pain and my own heart breaking. 😢 I hope your friend can find whatever it is she’s searching for and I hope you find your own healing. It’s so hard losing a friend to something like this. ❤
I think this happened to me aswell. Always wondered why she stopped talking to me but it was when she started selling this and I wasn't interested in joining or buying anything
Random thought, but you often hear in the MLM horror stories that Hannah Alonzo reads, once someone is out of the MLM, they not only feel embarrassed but equally sad for the friendships they lost. Wishing they could reach back out and mend the bridges.
If your former friend is no longer in it she may want to reconnect but feels too embarrassed to reach out first.
Same
It’s scary how much these MLMs operate like a cult. Sorry about your friend
We love an anti-mlm king ❤
"Let's be real". My wish for 2024 and beyond.
I got sucked into buying their mascara a couple years ago but then I was harassed so much by the girl I bought it from to join her team I had to change my phone number and block her on everything!
Wow!!!
Holy cow, that’s crazy.
what!?
Omg I feel this to my soul. I am basically stalked through multiple life phases by a pampered chef lady who I bought an olive oil diffuser from. Dear GOD they are relentless
🤣
This brand is why I can no longer use glitter. I had an allergic reaction so bad that my eyelids began peeling and this was about 10 years ago. I have had long term issues from this brand.
That is horrible
That's bloody awful, you poor thing. Sounds like you need to join one of those class action suits. I'm sorry your still having problems. That's shocking. 😞
I agree! You should sue over that 😳 I can’t believe I didn’t damage my eyeballs with the stuff I kept trying from them 🤦♀️🫣 especially the lash serum! It burned
Like others have said, sue.
That’s so bad! I’m really sorry that happened to you
My cousin is part of this MLM. She goes on all the trips the company has on her own dime. She hasn't made a profit in the 10+ years she's been in it!
Hoping your cousin sees the light. My sister in law has been roped into several including Mary Kay, Primerica, and something else I can't remember.
Because the only people making money in them are the ones scamming and exploiting thousands of unfortunate naive people in their downline. 97.8% of people lose money in MLMs. People who have become successful in them push recruitment through the roof purely because it profits them and brings more hamsters to the wheel.
Wow I sure hope she gets out my God !!! Im sure she isn't married ? Hopefully a man wouldn't allow this for 10 years !!! As a team you must put money together
@@tiffanychill8219: ahaaa? What do you mean with: her Man would/should not do allowe "this"?? 😲😳😓🫣.....where are you living, that Men have to "allowe" their Wifes anything?
I just fell from my Couch! 😂💪🏼 are you living in a backwarts Time-Machine - 😓😂🫣🖕🏼⁉️❓
OMG....YOU are still living 150 Years ago I think... Maybe I'm too European to you, bc I'm 70 Years old and I and my Mom and my Dad (both sadly died 1983 + 1986 😢) are never living like this.. they are both very "adult" still If they we're Born 1916 and 1918...
To "allowe" something is so "old Way patriarchle"... I never would allowe my Man to treat me like this 😔✌🏼🙏🙏🏿🙏🏾👍🏼‼️🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼
And of course Couple needs to hold together as a Team ..also with their Money for building a strong Relation- and Compagnonship....but nobody have to "allowe" the Partner anything and also nothing to forbidden!
Teamwork is' all we need and to be against something has not to Impact the Family in a bad Way. Of course not...I hope my fragile English is' understandable enough to explain it in the right Way....
😅🫣💞👋👋‼️
Not the Ed Gein makeup look to end racism 💀
Wow, the first woman’s grin while applying the product was CREEPY
03:54
Im sorry but i cannot watch her apply mascara with a MASSIVE horror movie style grin on her face. I just cant focus😂
Me neither 😂
She got inspo from the last shot of Pearl.🤣
I LOVE that you've been adding anti-MLM videos to your content!
I know the younique presenter in the training video was modeling using the product but the way she smiles so maniacally while using it was too much
She's just so happy 😂😂
It was creepy with that really crazy smile and the AI voice over it
Very Stepford Wives
I got sucked into this MLM a long time ago and I still cringe. Such a horrible horrible decision and I have personally apologized to anyone I sold to because I was so embarrassed. It did however get me interested in makeup and an example of what crappy makeup is.
I mean, on the bright side, as someone who grew up in the 90s when most affordable makeup was crap... Learning to use garbage makeup is like running with weights on. Using good makeup is so easy by comparison.
Just curious and you dont need to respond, but how did you get out?
@@LunarElevenWe didn’t know it was crap! And yeah, I am amazed at how great makeup is now.
Sometimes I get on my old Facebook memories and I want to die at the Younique stuff 💀
Hey, we've all done dumb things to try something new.
Forget trying it. I actually became a ‘rep’ for them. My best friend got into this and was like ‘hey I’m selling some makeup and you’re really good at it, I’ve told my makeup buddies about you and they really wanna see what you come up with’ so I purchased this bundle thing and tried some stuff, did some looks and next thing I know my weekly FaceTime with my friend (this was during covid) I was in a call with her ‘mentor’ I had a full time job, I was not up for selling and marketing my ‘own business’ (as they put it). The moment I declined I was slandered, my best friend was told I was horrible and abusive to them and I ended up losing her to the MLM. The irony of it all was they still used my makeup photos to advertise their products! Absolute cheek!
You legally own the copyright to those photos and they legally have no right to use your photos for anything.
It's probably more hassle than it's worth but just so you know, its likely totally illegal what they did with your photos.
(For context, I'm a photographer in Canada and have had to lookup all of these laws and learn my rights with my photos etc)
BUT WOBERT I WANT SPIDER LASHES AND GREEN FOUNDATION!!!! YOU CANT STOP ME!
Omg but why is EVERY foundation if there’s green or pure red!!??
As a Gen X lifelong drugstore cosmetic user, I bought the eye shadow and mascara back in the day and thought, "I guess I must not understand bougie makeup." Thank God my daughter schooled herself in cosmetics over the years [recommending this channel, in fact!], so I now know what to look for in proper good cosmetics and what is just straight-up gaslighting.
I remember the height of this madness. My mom was a licensed cosmetologist in the 80s, and when she saw people using this mascara, she was like, "lawsuit waiting to happen"😂😂😂
Nooooo. A ex friend made me sell that crap. The fiberglass mascara almost made me go blind while trying to convince me it was green tea fiber and I MUST be allergic
For a second I didn't realize "fiberglass" was a typo and was imagining people using mascara with fiberglass in it 🙀 The sad part is, it wasn't that surprising, just disappointing...
@@LunarEleven felt like fiberglass lol
@@Danisuzette I mean, asbestos is very similar fiberglass, and it's fibrous, AND it's natural... 🤔 You might be onto something! Sell the product idea to Younique!
Honest questions here if you don't mine me asking which are did you ever get some vision back or not at all?? Did you go sue the company? @@Danisuzette
FIBERGLASS?!
I was a younique seller myself, years and years ago. Was a waste of money and the makeup was 🚮 I could never get anything sold except to family.
I was a seller too when I was 18 (like 10 years ago) and couldn't even sell to my family bc my upline would sell to them instead of letting me. 🙃 the makeup wasn't even good.
Same here.
How did you find out that it was an mlm and decided to stop?
@@dollmob1206I didn’t know about mlms before I joined. I slowly found videos about it on UA-cam but it was mostly “why I quit” videos back then and not big expose videos like they have now.
I just wanted to hang out with some girlfriends, so I just sold to my mom enough to stay on. But then my friend who recruited me quit and ghosted us to sell something else. I quit after that.
Desperate times is all I can say.
My family would never even buy it lol
As a former contacts wearer, all I could think about is how those fibers would be getting stuck on the contacts and messing them up.
Or UNDER the contacts 🙈 omg can't even imagine...
Every time I would post a selfie with makeup on, I would get approached by a Younique or Arbonne representative... I told one of them, "Girl, people who actually know how to use makeup, don't use that crap... no, thank you!!"
Yass!!! Dont join an MLM 🚫 thank you for your voice in this space Robert 💕
I love that you are adding your voice to the anti-MLM conversation. So many people are taken advantage of … not just the customers from what I can see they rob their own employees the worst of all
"Natural" is just a marketing term. It has nothing to do with the actual reality of products, their effectiveness, their potential harm, etc
exactly. coconut skin fibers are all natural but dang if I'd want it near my eyes
These companies out here using "natural" like that automatically equals good for you when anybody with a lick of sense knows that's not true. Sand is natural but I don't want that in my eye. Arsenic is natural but we don't use that in makeup anymore for damn good reasons.
I always appreciate the awareness you and James bring to MLMs. My mom is in the LifeVantage mlm and it's terrible. I can't talk about my mental or physical health otherwise I become a sales quota. Then when I say no it's a "well don't talk about X issue bc obviously you're not willing to get better" etc. Sorry for venting. It's frustrating but I appreciate the anti-MLM genre being talked about.
@user-wc5yn7cv7n sure
ugh i’m so sorry. MLMs are so damn destructive.
That's really messed up 😔 I'm so sorry that's happening. Moms are supposed to be our number one point of support.
What makes me sad is that my friend joined this MLM and all of my interactions were here trying to sell me make up. Unfortunately it affected our relationship. I felt like she was using our friendship to sell me products. 😔
The thing I hate most about MLMs isn't their crappy products, it's the way they prey on people like stay at home mums who need an income and a job they can fit around the needs of their family. Rather than making any money they alienate friends and family by desperately pushing overpriced crap onto them and making them buy out of guilt and most of the time they end up out of pocket anyway. If we had a decent social set up where childcare was more affordable, bosses were more flexible with working hours and wfh was more accessable, these MLM companies would have less victims. Two single mums I know both tried Younique and both ended up with less money than when they started. I myself tried selling Avon decades ago when my firstborn was a baby, it took me 3 weeks of traipsing the streets with a baby strapped to my chest delivering and collecting catologues to earn £9.
Their "domestic violence" retreat that they used to push really hard to guilt people into buying is also pretty shady. I dont know if they still have it or not but i know it was a big part of their marketing back in the day.
I was just thinking about this after the video!
the founders are also mormon and based in utah, so it 100% wouldn't surprise me if it's not even actual counseling from a professional and some religious people coming in instead 😒
@@hannahelizabeth2883there are extremists in every religion
@hannahelizabeth2883 most MLMs are founded by Mormans in Utah, oddly
Yeah, I remember that you had to prove that you were abused, and it was only a two day retreat for the people , and they were more likely to choose you if you had tattoos or you looked “damaged” in their words
I once watched a video of a woman showing their pigments. She literally dipped her brush in a pot of water, dipped the sopping wet brush into the pigment then wiped it down her cheek 😂 she had muddy glitter tears just streaming down her cheek and dripping onto her top 😭 like why your cheek anyway? Just put it on your eye where it's supposed to go 🙈 the pigments looked rubbish aswell.
Omg 😂😂😂😂
If you ever see photos they post of their own palettes, they have that weird dry, skin-oil sediment crust. The kind you get when eyeshadow is so bad you have to dig your brush into the product, and scrape it just to use it. Though I can't imagine her solution was any better!
OMG- I have never seen someone smile like that while putting on mascara- totally scary!
I live in Utah, which is where their corporate office is.
I don’t exactly remember why, but I was gifted a TON of Younique makeup by a friend. Because I was a freshman in high school and didn’t have any money at that point, it’s the only makeup I used for a long time.
Looking back at pictures, I looked HORRIBLE! I genuinely feel like I’m pretty good at makeup, even back then, but it really didn’t matter because the quality was so bad 😂
Also, I will never forget the PAIN of getting one of those freaking fibers in my eye 😭
When I worked at my first job 11 years ago my manager was a Younique rep. I'd just started getting into fun colorful makeup and she INSISTED on buying me one of the brands eyeshadow palettes as a gift for my birthday. They had set up a table at our store during a big sale event we were having (retail store) and I insisted that I didn't want any of the makeup 😂 even starting out I could tell the quality was not there. And her makeup always looked like the bad makeup you showcased here.
I am old enough to remember my mother using cake mascara! Tube mascara was invented before I started using makeup in my mid teens. IIRC most of the makeup brands tried out fiber mascara in the mid to late 70s or maybe early 80s and discontinued them. Those fiber mascaras were very clumpy, the fiber did not align with the real lashes and the fiber flaked off onto your cheeks. There is a reason none of the quality makeup companies do fiber mascara these days as far as I know! It's just not a good idea
Fiber mascara has always disappointed me ("tubing" mascara is where it's at these days, I get one from Miss A for $1.55 that I love!) I do remember when all the brands released fiber mascara in the early aughts. I kept buying different ones because I thought, if they all are doing it, it must be an innovation and I'm just getting the wrong ones... But no, they are all chunky and gross. So it is surprising to hear that it was a trend in the 70s/80s, why bring it back if it's still bad?!
It's a stupid concept. Who cares if your lashes are longer and thicker if they are lumpy and flaking everywhere?
Besame sells a cake mascara. I haven’t tried it yet, interested to know if anyone has.
@@Sharmelle586 I really love Bésame. The cake mascara is easy to create my favorite natural 'my lashes but better' look. It stays for an afternoon but not all day on my extremely oily eyes. But more importantly, it doesn't create any eye irritation. I have issues with regular mascara irritating my eyes. The dry cake formula doesn't grow bacteria like wet formulas do.
My impression of Yoonique mascara was "🎵🎶spider-lash spider-lash"
Even the lady from Yoonique showing the "correct" application technique was getting clumpy results. 😂
Now I have that stuck in my head, lol! “Spider lash, spider lash 🕸️💃🏻🕺🏽”
That's because she wasn't using the hair dryer to apply it!! 😆🤦🏼♀️
I can't believe the BS the reps would come up with to gaslight you about why you were wrong and they were right!
I kept reading the rest of the paragraph as the song and I was like how do I, oh.. 😂
Spider lash, spider lash, put directly... in the trash!
@@MarjaMariachi 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Those are some beautiful lyrics!
That lady in the fiber mascara video is unhinged looking…. Who smiles like that while applying mascara…. 😳
😂
Ugh. I remember that mascara. One of my friends announced she was ‘starting her own business’ and when I found out what it was, my heart sank. I bought the mascara from her because I wanted to support her but it was really terrible. Luckily my friend walked away from it pretty quickly, but I know she lost some money she really couldn’t afford. I didn’t know about the faux anti-racism thing though. What a revolting company
“It’s a stupid trend…I’m surprised it hasn’t been done on TikTok yet…”
TikTok is a ceasepool of idiocy that needs to go 😂
😂😂😂agreed
Oh, I'm SO here for this. This was one of the two MLMs I ever participated in and it was so gross. I always hated the exploitation of CSA victims and their makeup sucked.
Wait WHAT? How did they exploit CSA victims? Legitimately asking
@@GlamGoreChaosQueen I’m cutting and pasting what their 501(c)3 states: “Saprea (formerly The Younique Foundation and Defend Innocence) is a nonprofit that provides resources to prevent and heal from sexual abuse.” It’s obviously just a tax haven but they have retreats too where CSA victims can attend for “healing”. It’s BS and the people have to pay for their travel there and meet all kinds of qualifications to attend. Their FB page will share stories all the time of victims they’ve “helped”. Their retreat is just love bombing, some yoga, a makeover and crap. It’s BS. Kiki Chanel did a video on it but it’s a few years old. It’ll still Apple though.
The late 2010s were a wild time for make up. In 2017 maybe I was in one of those virtual Facebook parties for Younique and the party was infiltrated by a LipSense rep or fangirl or something. It was like a weird battle of the MLMs in the comments and I think the LipSense girl got kicked out of the group and blocked. It was quite the experience.
Omg that lip sense was the driest crustiest liquid lip ever made !
Lololol that's spectacular 😂
I hate MLM’s. Keep this type of content coming! There will never be too many people speaking out about these garbage predatory companies.
Excited about this one! I used to work with someone who sold Younique. She kept trying to sell me their mascara. It was so sketchy. Happy Wednesday 🖤
I had a neighbor that sold it years ago. I know the mascara you're talking about because she wouldn't shut TF up until I bought some. I bought that, lipstick and some eyeshadow. It was all trash. Like, super crappy.
@@Kc-dq7zj mlm neighbors are the WORST, you just can't escape skating around the thin line of friend/acquaintance and they're so damn nice ☹️
I moved into a very ... unwelcoming neighborhood and the only person who is always friendly and helpful is this one lady who relentlessly pushes her catalog into my hands. It's a tragedy, really.
I need a deep dive on senegence. That lipsense lip colour is the absolute worst thing I’ve ever put on my lips. It burnt so much and people were telling me this was ok?!?! It soooo wasn’t
I had a friend who tried to rope me into being a rep. I tried several of their products, and the foundation "match" they told me would be for my Caucasian skin tone made me look like I had just gone to a really dodgy place for a spray tan! Yikes! I also tried their eyeshadow and they had no color payoff. Their mascara smeared throughout the day. Needless to say, I did not become a rep. I didn't even realize they were an MLM at that time, so thank goodness I didn't do it! Thanks for putting great info out there Robert! Your videos simply make my day!!
I remember trying the mascara from them, my cousin kept INSISTING I would love it and buy it forever, so I tried hers, it was SO clumpy and made my eyes itch and water! It looked ok but when she told me the price, I was like OH HELL NAW! And I said I'll stick to my loreal double extend lmao
I’m not a makeup artist and a no makeup girl, but I can tell just by seeing their makeup on people is just looks bad. Also in my opinion, a good sign that makeup is done right is when it does look realistic for every day use. Theirs doesn’t , I can tell it looks like something you would wear as part of a complete Halloween costume look, but not for everyday use.
When I was in High School, my mom had a friend who was working for this brand and arranged a little party between me and my friends to try this brand out. Me being 16 at the time, I was excited to learn more about makeup because I was still new to it, my moms friend did everything to convince me to get the fiber mascara which I did, but as I used it I realized how extremely horrible it was and I thought I was the SHIT wearing a whole ass spider on my eyes 😭😭😭
Honestly it’s relieving to see such a big beauty influencer trashing on MLM’s, especially on a beauty thing like Younique, it just legitimately gives me joy. :)
"Beauty has no skin tone" "They wanted to show off their amazing makeup skill with a new trend" nooo, please don't tell me this is going where I think it's going. NOOOOOOO IT ISSSSSS BBBRRRRUUUUH
Ugh so embarrassed to have sold this years ago. I didn't even know what an mlm was but once I found out and realized my mistake I ran. It was such a toxic environment the actual quality of the makeup wasn't even the worst of it. Those women are horrible people. So catty, jealous and total liars. I hate to see they are still going, not only them all mlms. It was definitely interesting seeing things from the "inside" however. Like a train wreck you keep watching 😂
How did you figure out you had joined a makeup cult?
Good for you! ❤
@@dollmob1206catty, petty & (pathological) liars don't just talk - they bully others, demanding weaker members' blind loyalty. Contradictions of what they say & do occurs consistently. So when members question the flaws, catty liars usually shamed them for questioning the "great leadership" decisions + threatened them in some way, usually expulsion from the company, stripping benefits off, repossession of your gifts awarded to you from top directors before, or rank demotion. Cultish leaders make you feel guilty + try brainwashing you to think you owe them complete submission, after they have showered all their (conditional) "love" unto you.
@@dollmob1206 well I found reddit to start with lol the anti-mlm sub and one making fun of younique specifically. Then there were some really hateful comments from people who were against mlms. Which didn't say a lot for the anti-mlm cause, if you want to educate people on something usually attacking them and being cruel isn't the best way to go about it but I'm smart enough to realize there had to be a reason strangers were so against a makeup company that they would basically bully people online over it. It's wild. I hate mlms as well but I would not go about telling others the way I was told.
About a decade ago, my best friend tried to talk me into selling Younique due to her Mom pushing it onto her and then onto me as I’m a makeup artist. Luckily, I already knew better and firmly declined, but I decided to try their 3D mascara. I fully admit I LOVED it at the time! Had no issue with the fibers and my lashes looked full and great, no dry clumpy spider lashes and it was easy to remove. When I purchased it again months later, they had changed the formula, claiming “new and improved” and it was the opposite of that. It was terrible and I was so bummed out! It was the only mlm product I had ever tried that I originally loved so much that I bought it again and they went and made it horrible. I used the new formula 2-3 times before trashing it. I told my best friend I was done with using any Younique products and she quickly stopping trying to sell it herself not long after that.
Watching her smile while applying the mascara was so insane. We all have mascara face what are you doinggg
Her face while applying the gel is like🤩 Seriously I wish I was that enthusiastic about literally anything.
This made me miss grav3yard girl so much! I loved her product reviews…”does this thing really WORK?!?” IYKYK 😂 🐊
What happened to her?
@@Tassie85 she still does videos, her viewership and popularity just fell off is all
Lol Melanie my girl why are you orange...
Oh my god, that 3D fiber lash tried to blind me! It was the absolute worst. Just trying to apply the fibers I was instantly in tears and my eye FULL of tiny little flecks of this spiky crap
I love that you're branching out your content lately. I am a beauty lover and an antiMLM girl so I absolutely love seeing the intersection. I couldn't get away from the 3D fiber lash back then. I thought it was a gimmick then, I absolutely wouldn't try it now lol..
I feel like Coty probably bought in not because of good product but probably because their books looked good for a business investment because this brand drew so many people into buying so bad. I felt so bad for all the people getting fooled and spending money on this when color pop and L’Oréal do so much better for less
I fortunately never fell for the younique mess, but an MLM still managed to get me. I was gifted whatever that color stay lipstick was that smelled like turpentine and felt like it turned your lips into plastic. (Lipsense I think?)
I used it exactly once and the smell NEVER WENT AWAY. Then, when k tried to get it off my lips I couldn’t. I ended up having to scrape my lips raw to get it off. Even oil wouldn’t budge it 😭
My social circle includes a few unrepentant huns,I remember the Younique craze. I was still into high end stuff from sephora (these days im *almost* exclusively drugstore & boxycharm lol), and I'm not usually proud of my own past snobbery, but in this case I feel ok... that was embarrassingly bad makeup. It did shake up the weird Mary Kay trend here, tho, I still know women who think MK is high end, ufda 🙄
I was gifted a makeup kit when they first came out. Being who i am i didnt want to waste it. I ended up liking 1 shade of eye shadow that wasnt too bad pigment wise. Tried to call to get more and was told they didnt sell single pans of their shadows. Knew right then this company was... different and never got anymore.
the way shes smiling so aggressively while applying the mascara is honest to god terrifying. like HOW did anyone watch this and think "yes this makes me feel optimistic about this product!" i feel like shes gonna climb through my window at 3AM💀
I remember when the brand was setting up and they went on a recruitment drive. I'd never really heard of MLM's at the time and was interested when they described this 'new brand' and joined a group. I quickly realised it was some sort of cult and left before they launched 😂 I had a few friends offering me free products to try because I was into makeup and it was all a big pile of shit 😬 don't even get me started on the terrible videos people who had no business selling makeup were making 😂
I remember watching a video years back and thinking "If this woman says transplanting gel one more freakin' time I'm gonna scream."
I had “friends “ who pressured everyone into buying these products so I purchased quite a few and none really impressed me . The foundation broke me out and separated pretty quickly in the bottle and the “friend “ who shade matched me did a horrible job so what a waste of money .. mascara fibers were every where on my face and the “friends “ never spoke to me again when I didn’t give a glowing review of their makeup .. so yeah I agree with this , my experience was not a great one and costly at that !
3:47 omg it’s giving such uncanny valley.. WHO ON EARTH SMILES THAT MENACINGLY WHEN APPLYING MASCARA😭😭😭😭 horror-
The moment Robert said this first line of this quote, I auto finished it for him. "Turns out there's shit in their eyes, but it ok! It's just natural shit in their eyes" 😂
I need to know what the sparkle is on your eyes!! Stunning!!
so glad you have done a video on this, I was on long term sick, unwell and vulnerable and ended up signing up as a younique rep to keep my mind busy and I loved makeup, looking back it makes me cringe, it's so pushy very cult like and so glad I saw the light, I ended up buying so much of the makeup to showcase on my social media, I ended up owing money on credit card not making money its awful MLM x
My bff's mom back in 2016-17 sold Younique. The prices for their products were INSANE. My bff never pushed anything on me hard, but she did try to get me to try this mascara. Girl, no. My eyes are super sensitive anyway and I HATED that entire "fiber lash" trend. She stopped using the mascara soon after anyway because the fibers always got in her eyes and it just took so long to do.
I remember one girl at a club having the most STUNNING and BLINDING highlighter, and she said it was from Younique (thankfully my sister-in-law told me it was an MLM so just walk away lol). I had a couple friends ALWAYS post about the new 4D mascara, and I ALWAYS knew what it was before reading it all, because the whole post was filled with a million emojis lol
I’m so here for this video- I was a ‘green status’ rep for 3 years. I was in DEEP too.
While my time with them really allowed me to grow my skills with makeup- the quality wasn’t there at all.
The spray foundation was awesome- the eyeshadow was hit and miss.
The fiber mascara was not it but the epic mascara was.
Bottom line the company is crap, and the majority of the products were crap.
But why the creepy, my mouth is super dry, I'm parched smile while applying the mascara?!? 😬🤔
"Even though there's shiite in your eye" lol!!! Just thinking about fibers falling into my often dry eyes made me wince!
I soooooooo nearly joined but stopped after having to post on behalf of a friend who was a "boss lady" and like wtf. So pleased I dodged that bullet ... Keep up the great vids Robert x
I had multiple family members selling Younique, having parties, and the 3D mascara was all over Facebook. But it was so damn expensive, and I wasn't going to buy from everyone. I spent around 200, foundation, 3D mascara/gel, eyeshadow, makeup bag. The eyeshadow was ok, the fibers were flaking off, foundation wasn't good for my conbo kit. I just felt bad for my cousin so I bought it. Last mlm I bought from. Never again lol.
Every foundation color is so yellow! And it’s the most dry cakey stuff ever!
I was actually a Younique rep for a few years in college. I made like $100/year, maybe. I didn’t ever ask anyone to “join my team”. I just posted videos of me using it in a private fb group and sold enough to support my own habit. I honestly loved their liquid foundation from the early days and the cream eyeshadows and a couple other things I liked. The products I didn’t like, I just didn’t promote, including the 2 step fiber mascara, the regular one wasn’t bad. But they discontinued all the stuff I liked and I left. Then I heard about all the behind the scenes drama that happened shortly after I left and I’m glad I got out when I did.
i’m going through a breakup right now and your videos are helping me through it. your voice is so calming and i’m loving your recent content ❤
I'm crying, I keep seeing comments like "hooray for anti-MLM" and I was like "???? * Fear* on This channel?!?"
Because I only knew MLM can stand for "men loving men" but I didn't know it's also "multi level marketing" XD
I had been a sucker and purchased the kit with intent to sell when it first started getting popular, when I received my make up , it was garbage . I never sold a thing, I tried to get a refund and they kept giving excuses until I gave up lol
Your video was recommended to me by CC Suarez! Unfortunately, I have had experience using Younique products. In 2017, I was looking for a new foundation to use, and a Facebook friend recommended Younique. She told me that she could “match” me for foundation “with just a selfie!” It seemed sus since this girl was white and I’m black, but I thought I’d try it. I had no idea what mlms were and I thought I was supporting a nice girl in her small business. I send her my selfie, she tells me my shade (which seemed close enough to me), and I pay the $99 for the foundation, concealer, and makeup brush. That foundation was WAY too light for my dark skin!!! When I told her she was way off on color matching me for my foundation, she suggested that I get a darker shade and mix the two. I laughed out loud when I read that message, sent her a “no thank you”, and bought Fenty foundation instead! When I heard about their performative BLM hashtag, I laughed and said “The irony is that their foundation has the least amount of shades for black and brown people”. AND, it’s essentially blackface.
I fell for the mascara years ago when my cousin was selling it. It was awful!! The fibers kept getting in my eyes and irritating them. I never bought another thing from them after that.
Omgggg I'm LIVING for the glitter lid ✨️😍 Thanks for once again bringing some chisme for me to listen to while I get ready for bed ❤
No one at all: I want to look like a badly drawn lady on a cheap mug!!
Younique: Gotcha! Here ya go!
Younique headquarters is located 15-20 minutes from where I live. So are doTERRA and Young living, and Seint is also in Utah. These MLMs REALLY prey on Stay at home moms who feel obligated to not work outside of the home thanks to Utah's predominant religion, but are struggling financially. It's disgusting.
A very close childhood friend of mine along with also a beloved cousin tried this make-up brand and both had severe reactions to it. I learnt from their mistake and never gave it a go. They both healed but did go on to "bad mouth" the brand to everyone they could.❤
I sold Younique for a year or so. The makeup was expensive and not great. And I hate how cringy I was “building my business” at that time in my life.
I was a rep for this brand for 2 years. I felt like you do, that if I'm selling makeup, I should actually know about makeup and be open to criticism or critique. It was weird to me that there were no trainings from "uplines" about application, so I started researching and learning on my own. What bothered me the most, and why I got it pretty fast after being roped in, was that their production couldn't keep up with how frequently they introduced products. So you'd get these products that people actually liked, but then by the time your customers would want to reorder, the product was discontinued. I was like this is not sustainable and i wonder how they're still in business. This was back when they were pretty new.
I had a “friend” contact me days after my best friend died suddenly. She brushed that off and managed to sell me a mascara. I wasn’t in my right mind at the time and she knew it.
I wanted fiber mascara to work so much! The length was outrageous, but couldn't get past the flakey horrible mess that came with it. I think Physicians Formula has one, too.❤
try Thrive. i got their mascara once and it was pretty great
Are those chroma flakes on your eyes? I’m obsessed with not only the sparkle but the texture it’s giving off as well, ughh so good. 💕😍
My friend used to sell younique I thought I was being a good friend by buying from her (this was before I discovered Chelsea, Savannah, Erin, JJ and friends). I brought their splurge pots (cream eyeshadow)and they were so expensive for mediocre products they dried up in a month then my friend then convinced me to buy a younique rose water to freshen up the eye shadow that was really expensive as well when rose water is £2 in boots. I'm glad people are covering yonique because it's big in UK and I don't think it gets as much coverage as the likes of monat etc.
I'm obsessed with this eye look
Thank you so much for bring the problems to light with MLM's!
Ugh....my mom buys from her friend. She says she really likes the mascara. This is since way before I even knew how evil MLMs are. I cant get her to stop.
And Coty is owned by Unilever (formerly Cheseborough-Ponds) which also owns Elizabeth Arden, Elizabeth Taylor, Clinique, Ragu & Preggo, Old El Paso, Lipton-Knorr, Aveeno, Jergens, Vaseline, Mentadent, Colgate, Sensodyne, Aim, Dial, Irish Spring & about 500 other brands
OT/I love you, Robert! Not only have i learned a lot from you, but i could listen to you read the phone book and feel relaxed. After a hectic, loud day, your voice is very soothing. So thank you for being there. And when you and James are together, i just giggle along with you 2! ❤
Back on topic/ I remember everybody and their brother pushing younique back awhile ago. I didn't try that one, but i fell for a similar one that cost $50 (yeah i know 😩) that did absolutely nothing. Well, except fibers getting all over my face (with a top coat on) and in my contacts (OUCH!).