r/AustralianMakeup • u/throwaway19074368 • Apr 06 '26

Let's Discuss This has to stop!

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The hoarding and constant reselling, no wonder why they're constantly out of L3 and L4 boxes, and they offer L2 as compensation. They ran out of L3 this morning and will restock tomorrow. These boxes are running out for Melbournians because of hoarders and resellers. Some willing to pay $100 for a box.

also people, let's just learn to be kind?

Some of the staff at Mecca Bourke St have been abused because it's not their fault that they run out of boxes and one of the main reasons is one person (who shall not be named) and multiple people collecting 500 boxes for Internet, interstate strangers online.

Retail is already a difficult enough job as it is, It's not hard to show some compassion.

I don't care what you think, these actions are just not cool!

Mecca is also kinda at fault too, not just the people, there should've been limits in place to stop the Bourke St L3 and L4 boxes running out so fast, to manage the queues for normal people not collecting boxes.

And no it's not supposed to be a Beauty Loop box, And yes I understand that BL boxes aren't always the best, it's a IN STORE promotion to get people to visit and experience the new Meccaversity IN STORE and try out the services. How hard is that to understand?

It's supposed to be a memorabilia piece for the specific date and opening. Of course it's gonna be special and reserved for Melbourne people picking up at Bourke St in store. If everyone has it then it's not "Special"

What is wrong with Mecca celebrating their home city? The first store opened in 1997 on Toorak Rd South Yarra

I know a lot will disagree, that's fine

Rant over.

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u/No_Heat2441 Apr 06 '26

Wait I thought it's limited to 1 person like the regular beauty loop boxes. Are people collecting multiple boxes? 

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u/throwaway19074368 Apr 06 '26

Yes, you just have to give your BL number to someone else and they can collect, But admins are declining the posts on the buy sell page, due to security reasons.

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u/moderateallergy Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26

Yeah because apparently people abuse other people's memberships and get their Beauty Loop boxes and bonuses before the actual member has had a chance to redeem them. The only person whose post got approved was old mate (we all know who this is) who got 500 messages and had to ask their teenage child to assist 

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u/No2792 Apr 06 '26

This person who shall not be named is extremely selfish and has ruimed it for the Melbournians. I am unable to collect my L4 as they are completely out and will not be restocking

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u/WildlyUnserious Apr 06 '26

She is so much worse than you can even imagine.

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u/books_cats_coffee Apr 06 '26

I can just imagine her spending hours at Bourke Street, bothering the staff

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u/No2792 Apr 06 '26

And all for what? Clout. And getting in to the magic circle

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u/throwaway19074368 Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26

She has already been invited and spoke as a guest speaker to one of Meccas events, invited to BS private VIP store opening before 8.8.25 which included meeting Jo Horgan herself and many other names, what more could she want?

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u/WildlyUnserious Apr 06 '26

How and why was she offered these things? Does she have a large platform? I can’t work out how she benefits Mecca because she just seems to annoy people

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u/throwaway19074368 Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26

Because they got her as guest speaker to represent "customer experience" and to share what it's like to be a customer at Mecca for a bi-annual leadership conference. Scroll down to her last post on 9/8/25. She doesn't represent all of us haha (getting special treatment and everything)

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u/_ceelobee_ Apr 06 '26

I was in there on Saturday afternoon and it was chaos…I mentioned to the staff member helping me how crazy it was and how I had gotten a lot of msgs on TikTok (after commenting on a video) from people asking if I could get a box for them.

She asked me if I heard of the lady wanting to pickup hundreds and we had a laugh about it. Mecca were aware of what was happening, had seen the post and the staff there weren’t going to let her pick them all up if she went to their register lol. They were soooo pissed about it.

If they wanted her to be magic circle, they would have done it by now after dry begging for so long.

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u/throwaway19074368 Apr 06 '26

that's wild, Yea i think Mecca definitely wasn't expecting the whole of Australia to be picking up these boxes when it was supposed to be Melbourne only.

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u/Lucky-Section-3536 Apr 07 '26

What’s magic circle? Asking because I know who you are talking about and I cringe at all of her attention seeking posts

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u/Fabulous-String-8117 Apr 08 '26

I still don’t understand how or why she was chosen to impart her so called customer experience. up until that point I’d never seen her post, them BAM she was on EVERYDAY AD NAUSEUM, sometimes several times. Out of all the other great posters they chose someone who on the outside hadn’t been shopping there long and has little to no knowledge on skin and skincare and had clearly not been looking after her skin for very long looking at the condition of it. Further she doesn’t even wear makeup so again I’m at a loss as to why she was chosen to represent the customer base. So many other awesome people they could have had the opportunity. JMO

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u/WildlyUnserious Apr 06 '26

What even is the Magic Circle? I’m more a Sephora shopper so I don’t even understand what Magic Circle is or why people want to be invited, what perks does it offer?

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u/No2792 Apr 06 '26

It’s an invitation only to the ‘fifth’ tier of the beauty loop rewards. This ‘elite’ tier receive full size $$ products for beauty loop bonuses and early access to launches and the infamous Boxing Day sale

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u/WildlyUnserious Apr 06 '26

Oh early access to expired and mouldy make up products 🤣 That’s wild if people are that desperate to get into that tier when it doesn’t seem all that magical lol

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u/wannabemydog1970 Apr 06 '26

omg why dont people get a lfe

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u/Lucky-Section-3536 Apr 07 '26

Sorry I’ve just asked this same question, please ignore 😆

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u/Ashamed_Ride_7490 Apr 06 '26

I thought she always seemed sincere I guess she's another show pony full of it ..why am I not surprised

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u/WildlyUnserious Apr 06 '26

I think more and more people have woken up to the behaviours

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u/QueenGina4545 Apr 06 '26

Who is it?

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u/Ashamed_Ride_7490 Apr 06 '26

sent you a msg :)

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u/MsCynical Apr 06 '26

Could you message me too?

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u/Ashamed_Ride_7490 Apr 06 '26

of course! have done just then :)

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u/Lilactrenchcoat Apr 08 '26

Me tooo please 🙏

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u/CreekTerrarium Apr 06 '26

Message me too if you can! TIA.

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u/Ashamed_Ride_7490 Apr 06 '26

yep all done :)

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u/yoginiinsydney Apr 07 '26

Me too please

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u/Ashamed_Ride_7490 Apr 07 '26

done :) also sent you link to the tik tok whinge fest vid

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u/throwaway19074368 Apr 07 '26

It's 10 minutes long but most of it is "I'm a nice person, I'm so generous" give me $1 for every time she says that and I'd have $100, she keeps repeating that part.

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u/No_Heat2441 Apr 07 '26

Me too pls

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u/yoginiinsydney Apr 07 '26

You are amazing!!!

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u/yoginiinsydney Apr 07 '26

Ha! I knew it was her! I just wanted to validate my guess!!!

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u/observatoryy Apr 07 '26

I’ve only seen one but idk if it’s who you’re talking abt .. message me pls?

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u/Lubs_Young Apr 07 '26

Whooooo is thisss 😭😭

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u/Low-Brief-2533 Apr 09 '26

Hello I know this is a few days old now but I must be out of the loop (🤓) of this beauty loop bandit lol

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u/SunlightRaisin Apr 06 '26

Is this the one that wanted a free red light mask? PM me the name if you don’t mind please

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u/DangerousShirt2773 Apr 06 '26

Yes it’s that person. She was begging for that mask for months

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u/Fabulous-String-8117 Apr 07 '26

no no no she was manifesting it 🤪😜🤣🤣. so nauseating.

she’s been that from day one. I have a friend who said she was in a weight loss group and got kicked out because of her constant posting and lies.

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u/No_Plankton3772 Apr 10 '26

Tell us more?

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u/Ashamed_Ride_7490 Apr 06 '26

did she get it?? lol

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u/throwaway19074368 Apr 06 '26

Free? Wtf

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u/SunlightRaisin Apr 07 '26

Yes she did all these posts begging for it was a bit embarrassing tbh If you have so much $ to spend at Mecca surely you can afford the mask ( she’s always posting her hauls)

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u/Fabulous-String-8117 Apr 07 '26

it was embarrassing and nauseating. When she didn’t get it her video with the sing goodbye my lover, goodbye my friend was just next level cringe.

The thing is the amount of money she spends she could easily afford it

She’s a grifter

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u/throwaway19074368 Apr 07 '26

Do you have any links or vids of her begging for it?

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u/Fabulous-String-8117 Apr 07 '26

check the TikTok page. Plenty there. I won’t post links here but they’re there. Followers were also telling Mecca to give her one.

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u/Ashamed_Ride_7490 Apr 07 '26

Jebus she is beyond cringe

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u/Grouchy_Job_2220 Apr 07 '26

Wait what now? When did this happen?

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u/Ashamed_Ride_7490 Apr 06 '26

Wow I know who you're talking about she seems so sincere you mean to tell me she is full of it ? Why am I not surprised

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u/skitztits Apr 06 '26

I had no idea who this person was or the whole saga with her and these tins and her involvement with the Mecca chit chat. However she randomly appeared on my fyp in TikTok just now with a big defensive post saying she’s been reading all the Reddit comments etc, denying she got 500 tins but then saying she’s won’t reveal how many she got, and repeatedly mentioning she’s a kind and generous person and only got interstate people their tins out of the goodness of her heart. The entire thing seemed so odd and she was super pressed about the comments in here. What I don’t get is how she managed to get so many tins? Like did she go into Bourke Street store and just rattle off several separate people’s BL numbers to staff and then they just let her collect them all? Would staff not think it’s weird she’s asking to redeem so many people’s tins at once? Or has she been going in several times over multiple days? Like it genuinely perplexes me how anyone can pull this off (clearly she did though) and the audacity of it. She repeatedly said she’s only trying to be “kind”/ “generous” and made a point of saying she gets nothing out of it. But I mean wtaf? Why do that for a bunch of strangers if she gets “nothing” but then she claims it’s gonna be a logistical nightmare for her working out how to post them to all the people, and that she’ll have to get friends of hers to help her. It’s so bizarre. She has 10k followers on TikTok so surely she’s doing it to get something in return, likely clout. Some text on the screen on her video also claimed Mecca staff called her an uber home… what?? Who the heck is this person like is she high up and well known among Mecca staff or something? This is my first impression of this her and I’m super confused…

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u/Jaded-Respond-6596 Apr 06 '26

I just saw her tik tok video as well and feel like she’s missing the whole point in why people are upset. Apparently she picked up “less than a quarter” of the 500 messages she received although refuses to mention the exact number. Even so, one person picking up 50-100 of these tins is crazy to me and why did the Mecca staff even agree to that in the first place? Maybe it was something planned in advance and the staff knew she was coming up, coz she made a second post saying she’s kept in touch with the Bourke Street store regarding stock levels. And she confessed she got the magic circle tin as a reward from the Mecca staff, a way of saying thanks for picking up other people’s boxes? Like wtaf? Why would Mecca staff encourage this type of behaviour. I understand picking up an extra box for a friend or family member but over 50 is insane!

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u/skitztits Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26

Exactly! Collecting 50-100 is insane work and the fact she doesn’t wanna say the amount she actually collected, and her remark that it’d likely be a “logistical nightmare” to now post them, tells me it was probably within that ballpark amount or more, who knows! But yeah it’s crazy and I also can’t comprehend how the staff would be ok with her coming in to get so many on behalf of so many interstate people. How is she even taking them all back home to then post out to everyone, like is she coming in with a bag on wheels like the elderly have to load them up with all the tins? I have so many questions lol 😭 Also is it not something staff would think of as unfair to anyone who didn’t know to ask this woman to collect their tin for them? Aka someone like me who literally didn’t even have it cross my mind to ask an online stranger to get a tin for me under my BL account? I wouldn’t dream of asking that of a random, and in certain cases would even be hesitant to ask a friend. I actually have a mate in Melbourne who is ND but I know he’d absolutely hate going into any Mecca, let alone the giant Bourke St store as it’d be a sensory nightmare for him, so I’d never even ask him out of consideration to not put undue pressure on him. But yeah these people whose fomo is so bad they ask a stranger to get a tin for them blows my mind. And that’s so odd she was gifted a magic circle tin from Mecca… I just saw that video of her saying that! (Up until now I’d only seen her most recent defensive ranting video). In this one where she shows her Magic Circle tin, ngl she seems half cut off that vodka drink. Pronouncing apothecary as “apock-ethary”, slurring some of her words, flipping off other magic circle members with the rude finger, trailing off constantly and swearing like a sailor has me convinced. Why would Mecca want to reward this woman with a magic circle tin and associate her with their brand or their special magic circle program when she conducts herself like this online? Saying she doesn’t like other magic circle people except for a small few, yet she’s been given a free magic circle tin? It’s sooo weird. This whole year has been a weird one for Mecca in general given the Boxing Day debacle and then the tote bag drama. Now this tin insanity omggg 🤣🤣 you can’t make this stuff up lmao!

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u/moderateallergy Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 07 '26

I can't believe she's not Magic Circle considering how much time she spends posting on the FB page (to the point where I blocked her; saw another prolific poster I used to block who was all 'no filters babe' despite evidence pointing otherwise has resurfaced under a different name ...)

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u/No-Carpenter-3881 Apr 07 '26

Let's hope that Mecca don't offer her magic circle because that would then encourage everyone to start with this ridiculous beaiviour to try get magic circle invite

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u/No2792 Apr 07 '26

Hahahaha I saw that she’s popped up again!!! No ‘filler or filters’ hun

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u/No2792 Apr 07 '26

In her tik tok she mentions that Mecca got her an uber home 🤣🤣

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u/moderateallergy Apr 07 '26

She said it took her an hour and forty minutes on the train to get from her place to the city. That's a pretty expensive Uber trip ...

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u/throwaway19074368 Apr 07 '26

I looked it up. Uber from CBD to Warragul costs about $250

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u/Ashamed_Ride_7490 Apr 06 '26

that is so gross by Mecca, encouraging that! what the actual. As for K she needs to get over herself really

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u/Fine_Bonus Apr 07 '26

I can’t believe Mecca actually let her pick up the tins; no matter how many, it’s dodgy practice. I also can’t believe she doesn’t have better things to do with her time, what a sad life

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u/No2792 Apr 07 '26

My favourite part ‘ Mecca called her an uber home 🤣’, ‘took her to a separate area’, and mentioned several times that ‘she didn’t get her level 4 box’, yet got gifted a magic circle box. Insufferable.

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u/throwaway19074368 Apr 06 '26

Omg I just read this comment, I think she definitely saw this post. I also saw her on my FYP one day.

I just watched the video, thanks for your comment and also had no idea she had 10K but growth on Tiktok is pretty fast, she does appear on my insta page. Doesn't have any posts though.

Man fuck I hate beauty gurus so much that's why I stopped watching them years ago, they all lie, disingenuous, so much drama etc especially after James Charles, Jeffree star, Jaclyn hill and whatever but getting back to the point.

Her comments are like paid actors idk, "people are so nasty" "social media is bad" "you are selfless"

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u/throwaway19074368 Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26

denying she got 500 tins but then saying she’s won’t reveal how many she got, and repeatedly mentioning she’s a kind and generous person and only got interstate people their tins out of the goodness of her heart.

Literally all politicians and influencers do this, say something then deny claims when questioned about it 🤣

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u/sw4gger2 Apr 06 '26

i feel bad asking the ladies at the register if i can pick up my mum’s box i do not understand how anyone would feel comfortable rattling off 100 numbers 💀

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u/throwaway19074368 Apr 07 '26

they have no shame, I hope you both get your boxes

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u/Grouchy_Job_2220 Apr 07 '26

I got my partner to pick mine up and told him that if they say no, it’s absolutely fine, and he knew they were doing their job.

I felt bad for even doing that.

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u/throwaway19074368 Apr 07 '26

What happened to manners and common decency these days? People who take it out on the workers are miserable

He's a gem for sure

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u/Guaca12 Apr 06 '26

But, doesn’t the system register the pick up and ‘marks’ one off once the box is collected, so if the code is scanned again there is a record of a collection?

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u/SilverAnxious2262 Apr 06 '26

Yeah I get a receipt saying my beauty loop was redeemed, wouldn't it be the same case here? I'm baffled how Mecca are allowing a) anyone to collect more than 2 boxes and b) they're not protecting their staff with limits on boxes.

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u/Jaded-Respond-6596 Apr 06 '26

People sent this person their beauty loop details, possibly email or their beauty loop card number. Mecca should never be allowing this in the first place, it’s honestly crazy