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Younique

112 replies

Crowdblundering · 13/03/2017 19:40

Is it a cult?

What the hell is it?

Someone "normal" on my FB is evangelical about it like they have been totally brainwashed.

Is it really this amazing "opportunity" and "dream" or is it a load of old bollocks - it's just overpriced mascara isn't it?

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TheWitTank · 13/03/2017 20:43

I know Gloss -bloody WIFEY MATERIAL. Fgs ShockHmm

DJBaggySmalls · 13/03/2017 20:44

TheWitTank That also doubles up as an advert for bog roll.

Kittylongpopping · 13/03/2017 20:45

"Last chance ladies, bulk order going in tonight". Bulk order? Do you mean the one lip liner your mum's probably ordered out of pity?

I saw a fb post tonight with someone espousing the brilliance of a whitening toothpaste. I studied the before and after photographs and it is not even the same pair of teeth.

If the products are that great, why don't they just have a website you can order from ?!

TheWitTank · 13/03/2017 20:47
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Crowdblundering · 13/03/2017 20:48

"Last chance ladies, bulk order going in tonight". Bulk order? Do you mean the one lip liner your mum's probably ordered out of pity?

Grin

They must be given spiel as this is exactly what my FB "friend" posts ...

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Gileswithachainsaw · 13/03/2017 20:48

Bulk order? Do you mean the one lip liner your mum's probably ordered out of pity

That's more like it Grin

myusernamewastaken · 13/03/2017 20:51

Anyone dare post this.....

Younique
Crowdblundering · 13/03/2017 20:52

😂

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BrightonBelleCat · 13/03/2017 20:54

I know someone else that does nu skin? I think it's called she put a pic up of herself wearing her lip plumping lipstick/gloss. She had drawn around the outside of her mouth. Looked like the fucking joker.

MaisyPops · 13/03/2017 21:01

Inspirational posts
Hashtags
Momtrepreneur
So blesses to such an amazing business of my own
Work life balance
Younique offer theae cruises
Selfies of me
Videos of me doing makeup
STOCK RUNNING LOW
LAST CHANCE
Want to change your life?
Raffles, prizes and parties
Lots of 'huns'
Its a lifestyle choice

Bleh. Bots. Bots everywhere.

Kittylongpopping · 13/03/2017 21:04

I have a few on my fb friend lists who basically pimp out their kids to market these products too. Children wearing make up with the mum with posts such as 'having fun trying out the new shades' (child must about 3/4) and another where the toddlers are all posed with shots of that aloe vera muck from Forever Living with captions like 'even my tribe love their aloe in the morning'

I just don't understand how people get so sucked into it!

BaggyCheeks · 13/03/2017 21:04

Don't get too close to a Bot - I went to my one's launch party out of sympathy/wanting to appear supportive/not having a backbone and she sent a message to my DP saying that he should buy me roughly £80 of make up that I loved for Mothers' Day. Luckily, he knew she was at it because he picked me up from the party and asked me about it then and there. There was a woman who posted on here in January who had pretty much the exact same thing happen to her, but with Christmas, and her DH fell for it against his better judgement.

ollieplimsoles · 13/03/2017 21:06

Yep! I recently lost a good friend to younique.. I started a thread about it.

May her integrity, sense of humour and ready wit, all rest in peace...

PageNowFoundFileUnderSpartacus · 13/03/2017 21:08

I have a Forever Living bot on my FB. I can't bring myself to unfriend her for the entertainment value.

I got unfriended by the previous one - it might have been Younique actually, but they all blur into each other TBH. She'd posted her usual photo of herself with her laptop and obligatory glass of wine and some comment about having "so much time with the kids now" #priorities #worklifebalance. She unfriended me when I commented "Weren't you already a SAHM?"

Gileswithachainsaw · 13/03/2017 21:09

maisy

You forgot

"Not the most conventional office*

As they post photos of the beach/sofa/costa

GerdaLovesLili · 13/03/2017 21:11

I have a friend whose middle name is Younique....

NeedsAsockamnesty · 13/03/2017 21:12

What the fuck is with those pearl opening videos? What is the point? How are you supposed to make any money out of that

Bod 1 buys like a billion dead oysters from bod 2.

Bod 1 shoves a pearl worth about £1.07 in it and dumps it in a bucket of chemicals that reek and make it snap shut. Shell is then vacuum packed.

Forever trusted genuine billionaire making luffly peal company (or what ever the fuck they are called) buys all of these at about £1.50 each.

These are then sold on getting rapidly more expensive until they meet a rep who sells them for about £30 each on her live FB feed to some other gullible sod whilst going ooooo and arrrrrr and OMG that's worth like a billionity quid hun look it's purple with orange dots that's well rare thst is,your so lucky would you like to pay £20 for one of these cheap shit cages I buy from aforementioned pearl company who buys them off eBay for 30p each?

Job done

NerrSnerr · 13/03/2017 21:12

Awww hun, you can become a #bossbabe.

My Younique bot looks much better without the makeup ok. She does the whole 'I have had loads of messages asking what make up I was wearing yesterday so I'll tell you'. No you didn't- no one is messaging you.

BaggyCheeks · 13/03/2017 21:17

NeedsAsockamnesty I am still none the wiser on how the pearl ones work Confused

NeedsAsockamnesty · 13/03/2017 21:19

I have one on my friends list, she's brilliant I'm not sure what it is she's selling but she's always posting lots about other companies trying to poach her,

And a pearl one whose always calling other peal sellers "fakers" and "cunts"

PolkadotPony · 13/03/2017 21:22

Mine posts about #workingfrommybed & other such bollox. And there's pictures from Younique of the make up, and she's attempted it herself and she looks like it's drawn on with a fucking crayon, quite often with wet hair.

Drives me mad.

NeedsAsockamnesty · 13/03/2017 21:26
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Ok try this. Member of public possibly on a pension and naff all else is buying a pearl for £30 being told it's worth hundreds and it's a totally genuine rare Akoya pearl. She possibly purchased this from someone who equally can't afford it.

The person at the top purchased this pearl for 30p from a tortured and oppressed 4yo who shoved the fake pearl in the shell and dunked it in yucky stuff to make it look like shell was being opened for the first time (and possibly lost their skin in the process or eyesight)

stiffstink · 13/03/2017 21:28

I love it when they post about the benefits of Younique - holidays, cars, new shit for the house.

All the stuff I pay for with an actual job, without having to sell 1,147 mascaras a day.

Crowdblundering · 13/03/2017 21:30

Luckily I have no pearl sellers 😂

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Crowdblundering · 13/03/2017 21:31

I had a volunteer at work who kept trying to sell everyone Earls Yard - it was really cringe

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