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What happened to Younique?

123 replies

siriusblackcat · 02/01/2024 18:26

It used to be everywhere, women trying to flog it all over Facebook with badly applied make up videos.
Now I never see it.
Has it been overtaken by Scentsy?

OP posts:
bobbles4091 · 02/01/2024 19:49

I have no idea how I came about this but I got really hooked on it at the time! It's a whistle blower blog about YouNique and other MLMs, written absolutely ages ago, but still good Grin
https://ellebeaublog.com/poonique/

Woahtherehoney · 02/01/2024 19:49

No everyone is setting up health clubs and are calling themselves wellness consultants on my socials now due to the wonder that is Herbalife 🤢

Saschka · 02/01/2024 19:52

captaincalamari12 · 02/01/2024 19:12

Usbourne books and body shop here

Oh, the Usbourne book sellers are an MLM? That explains the increasingly aggressive notes stuck up in our staff room berating us because they’ve left them out cluttering up the tables and nobody is buying any. Most recent one threatened to take them all away if nobody bought one. Which would clearly be a positive move for most of us, so not much of a threat.

powershowerforanhour · 02/01/2024 19:57

"just grateful the aloe shite has fucked off"

Forever Living didn't live forever then?

BigHoops · 02/01/2024 19:58

Good point OP - I've seen a lot less MLM content on all my socials so maybe people are catching on? That would be good!

Arbonne was one that kept cropping up on Instagram. Checked out the account of one Arbonne flogger (who happens to be nearer the top of the pyramid - sorry but I say it as I see it) and even she's toned it down, whereas before she was hugely Team MLM?

But I'm not daft, sounds like they've evolved into something else because, human nature 🙄

Greenshake · 02/01/2024 20:01

I was going to say, what about the awful Arbonne?

Toottooot · 02/01/2024 20:02

NuSkin’s Lumi spa and their shite looking collagen are what I’m seeing all the insta hun boss babes flogging.

Hardtodothis · 02/01/2024 20:02

For a while all the MLM type huns round here were making wax melts

CantFindTheBeat · 02/01/2024 20:03

Is FM scents one?

CurlsandCurves · 02/01/2024 20:06

CantFindTheBeat · 02/01/2024 20:03

Is FM scents one?

Oh yes, it’s MLM.

That was rife where I live a couple of years ago. Couldn’t move for people wanting to sell you perfume. seems to have calmed down a bit now though.

Toottooot · 02/01/2024 20:07

CantFindTheBeat · 02/01/2024 20:03

Is FM scents one?

Generally if it’s sold by boss babes on Instagram or Facebook pm me huns then aye, it’s MLM

doingmaheadin · 02/01/2024 20:08

The MLM sellers here have gone from younique, to body shop and now onto oriflame.

cocktailanddreams · 02/01/2024 20:08

Not as many pyramid schemes now as the realisation has set in that they can make more money on only fans than selling aloe toothpaste

CantFindTheBeat · 02/01/2024 20:09

Ah, did wonder.

It's amazing how many unbeatable deals their 'CEO' drops on them at short notice!!

OakleyStreetisnotinChelsea · 02/01/2024 20:13

Spanish cleaning here too and the perfume dupes.

What is it with Spanish cleaning? I really don't understand why kitchen spray from Spain is better than kitchen spray from Aldi. At least the shit mascara and aloe or synthetic perfume crap kind of gives your a product you can...... Oh fuck it no no they are all shit. Can't justify any of them.

cocktailanddreams · 02/01/2024 20:14

One of the 'life coaches' on my sm feed rants constantly about narcissistic ex husbands, how to deal with yours etc.

She's clearly got issues she needs to resolve but still banging on about it and getting people to pay for her advice,

Crikeyalmighty · 02/01/2024 20:15

The travel agents ones I don't think are MLM- there's a few quite good ones as franchises - with not that high a level an entry- I suspect that's what they are.

twistandfart · 02/01/2024 20:16

xyz111 · 02/01/2024 19:22

Or Herbalife!!! That's gone as well fortunately

Herbalife is still a thing. They sponsor one of our local kids football teams Hmm

siriusblackcat · 02/01/2024 20:16

I have a couple selling Scentsy on my Facebook.
I know one of them and the life she portrays is nothing like the "wonderful scentsy life she's living"

OP posts:
Rattenbury · 02/01/2024 20:22

bobbles4091 · 02/01/2024 19:49

I have no idea how I came about this but I got really hooked on it at the time! It's a whistle blower blog about YouNique and other MLMs, written absolutely ages ago, but still good Grin
https://ellebeaublog.com/poonique/

I read this from start to finish a couple of weeks ago, it's really interesting!

DrFoxtrot · 02/01/2024 20:25

I've still got a Younique seller on my FB!

Posting things like 'comment if you want to hear about this amazing new product' and nobody likes or comments because they don't want to engage at all 😬.

I've also got Tropic and wax melts but no Spanish cleaning. Maybe I could corner the market for that in the area 🤔😂

Whowhatwherewhenwhy1 · 02/01/2024 20:37

Cant believe people are falling for the Spanish cleaning products. I lived in Spain and most of the stuff being flogged in the UK is cheap as chips/shite in Spain. However if you are the type to fall for all these mlms and crap then why shouldn’t they make money from stupid fad followers.

MrsWombat · 02/01/2024 20:47

What MLM is the Spanish cleaning one? I assumed it was just resellers bringing it over in a van and selling it for quadruple the price rather than a pyramid scheme.

baubl · 02/01/2024 20:51

Why would Spanish cleaning products be a thing? Are they meant to be superior to other nationalities of cif?

Gnomegnomegnome · 02/01/2024 20:52

I had a friend who became part of a diet or supplement cult. I unfriended her on social media and she kept sending requests so I blocked her. She then came to my door! I don’t need to lose weight so her cries of ‘but you too could lose a million stone’ made me laugh.

I think all of the huns now either make ‘crystal art’ or flash their bums on only fans.

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