More Style Less Susie

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What happened to the latest thread? Why was it taken down? Wondering now if one of her crew are admin on here lol

@TudorChimney

I have joined the new Styled by Susie group and it is really rather good - discounts and lots of useful tips. You are missing out!

Dying at this

Had a look at the main school hustle insta page, it all looks very MLM; says she started a business and out earned her husband within 6 weeks, and that she will make a million by 2025.

It's just taken me less than 2 minutes to find the Daily Mail article in which Susie herself named her son. What a mess. I actually feel quite sorry for Susie as she's being very badly advised. She needs to be able to distinguish between business feedback and personal criticism.

What type of discounts are there? Can you give an example of brands and toys of offer.

I’m pretty dubious when discounts are offered because they are normally companies I haven’t heard of, for stuff you don’t want and you can often find similar/better deals on other platforms.

Am happy to be corrected.

Anyone else hoping Emily Innes is reading here and decides to come over to the “dark” side?!

@thenorthernluce yes! I like her very much and she seems like she's not one for BS so will be interesting to see how things progress. I wish her well whatever though.

So much negativity on here. I just want to make the point that a lot of people are happy with Styled by Susie, do appreciate the services given, do like the stylists, do not think they lie or any of the other accusations on here! I have met Susie, Sarah and Kim, used several of their services. Please remember they are just a small business trying to survive in these awful times.

@TudorChimney every is aware SBS has happy customers, no one has implied they don't.

Thanks for coming to point it out though...

*everyone

But they do lie @TudorChimney... susie clearly said yesterday that she had never used her sons name but she did in a daily mail article = a lie

How can you deny that?

This is so interesting to follow.

I had an analysis done about 18 months ago and found it useful. I couldn't understand why people in the FB group were gushing about how personal it was and how it made them cry etc, because it was clearly a generic thing. But that's what I expected and I felt the advice worked for me.

I got a hair analysis which was basically what I already had so was a bit meh about that.

I did an online shop which I was really disappointed in. I'm in Australia (a very cold part, think London weather) and I wanted an online shop for winter clothes. I talked about winter coats, warm things, I was keen to shop from UK shops as I felt they did winter clothes better etc. I am also an hourglass so wanted some lower neck jumpers which I was struggling to find. She sent back the online shop (which is just a list of web links, no photos or anything) which was cotton dresses, sleeveless or short sleeve tops, high neck jumpers ("just pop a necklace on" - I wanted her expertise to find ones that would suit without that), summer style shoes and all Australian shops and ones I would never shop in as the quality is really poor. I had said I wanted to spend money and get quality items. Not a single coat, no warm snuggly winter things. So I thought on it for awhile and eventually emailed and blamed it on myself, I didn't give enough info etc. I was so nervous emailing to complain and it took me ages to compose the email. Anyway, she replied and said sorry, she just thinks of Australia as really hot and would do it again. The next one was better, but she only redid some of it (only knits, dresses, bottoms when the original one also had tees, tops, shoes, jackets, accessories). I didn't buy a single thing. I was sooo disappointed as I had saved up for it (I think it is expensive for just a list of websites) and was really excited to have a fantastic winter wardrobe.

I had also been annoyed at the group admin, they closed comments on my posts when I hadn't got enough information and was enjoying the conversation. I got a post not approved because I said that I was told midi skirts would suit me in the analysis but I am short and had always felt they didn't, could other short girls share some photos so I can see (not approved - 'if Susie said it will suit you, it will' was the comment from admin), another asking what type of bathers suit an hourglass was denied (no bathers talk). I just found that so over the top.

I think this is a terrible business decision. I got on there because someone mentioned it here and I was curious. The group inspired me so after a few months I purchased. I would never have purchased without the group.

@Rbdh I felt exactly the same!!!

I had an analysis and whilst quite gushy and lots of “babe” going on, I felt it was good and yes it helped me with shape and colour

I then had an online shop, and like you really really unimpressed. It was really underwhelming and again just a load of links. Also from shops that I view to be really quite poor quality.

I had also said I was short and breastfeeding so needed to be conscious of that with tops so no dresses.

Well most of the tops came from the petite section of Dorothy Perkins (a shop I hate!) and also I said I was short. I’m a size 14, therefore not petite in build, plus massive boobs from breastfeeding. So I need trousers for a short person. Not tops for a tiny frame when I’m a 14 with big boobs from feeding.
Plus there were dresses when I’d specifically said no dresses again due to feeding

To be fair, I did buy one top from M&S and do I really like it, but that was it and the whole thing was a massive let down.

And as for the way everything has been handled. I honestly wouldn’t recommend SBS to a single person now. The way they’ve acted, with their aggressive toxic approach, absolutely not. Susie NEVER used to be like this. And Emily, lovely fabulous Emily certainly isn’t. I love Emily’s posts, I think she’s great and whilst I’ve never met her, how she comes across is really warm and engaging.
Emily, if you are reading this, and I’m sure you are... please don’t change.

@TudorChimney yes I absolutely appreciate SBS is a small company, and I say this as a customer. But the way it’s run now is utterly toxic. Kicking customers out of that Facebook group? What kind of business does that??? Great way to engage with people

Susie getting angry and accusing people of naming her son on tattle, but actually she is the one who named her own son in a Daily Mail article of all things!!!

Susie emailing and threatening people with legal action because she dared to name a lipstick shade and Susie accused her of “trying to build her own following” what the actual fuck?! Threatening customers with legal action for mentioning a lipstick shade??? The whole group was totally run on censorship and control and I want no part of it. I’m not interested in a company that bangs on about anti bullying but then bullies and threatens customers privately, but oh “part of the £6 fee will go to charity for anti bullying, so hey it’s the same of a round of drinks at the bar”

Especially as businesses get a tax break for charity donations...

I wonder what insta will bring next?

Reading all of these posts makes me really glad I didn't part with anymore of my cash! Although I wasn't that impressed with my analysis, I was thinking of ordering more of the services in case there was something I was missing/not getting. Really glad I didn't!

I've read a lot about people thinking they've been misanalysed. It makes me wonder whether I have been too, particularly the season. The one I was analysed as has never really felt like the right one but I'm reluctant to spend any more money and will just wear what makes me happy I think!

@autumnhare I did, I felt my analysis had lots of gaps so I bought more and was not much better off for it, that's why I used the tribe group so much.

@WawLaDot that's good to know! I don't think I will bother.

That's why it's so hard when on the SBS Facebook everyone is absolutely thrilled with their analyses and it feels as though you're the only one who's thinking 'am I missing something here?' but from all the people who have spoke out recently it seems there are lots of us!

@autumnhare absolutely, I felt the same. Everybody seemed thrilled and cried tears of joy and i was just underwhelmed and a bit disappointed if I'm honest because I thought it would be tailored to me and address the things I mentioned in my questionnaire. I convinced myself it must just be me and to give it time, buy more guides and get involved with the group. It took me months to buy anything new from the shops, I found it so paralysing. I found the colours especially difficult because the picture wasn't very good quality and it didn't really help me understand the colours I was looking at and how they are different to other shades. If it wasn't for that group and being able to follow posts that related to my season and shape then I would still be at square one.

I thought about emailing or sending a PM on the page with questions I felt my analysis hadn't addressed but I was always put off because it was obvious when someone had done just that - there would be a haughty facebook post to address a query they had obviously received but it actually felt like it was turning it around to the clients, e.g. be honest if you've already had your colours done with another stylist as we will already know if you have anyway, don't lie and then question us if ours don't match with theirs (not word for word but that's an example from may be 18-24 months ago). There were other posts made to the group like this over my 2 years in the group that were clearly to address queries they had received from customers, but they just seemed very blunt or defensive, so it put me off ever contacting them.

Wow so many negative reviews on Trustpilot now! All pretty much saying the same thing as here.

Well, she's the one who pushed Trust Pilot, that works both ways.

Go solo Emily! I would definitely book with you.

One thing about my analysis that really annoyed me was that the questionnaire asked for shops I like. The analysis just listed the same shops With the addition of Dorothy Perkins! Completely pointless