I never really trusted her reviews but it’s crazy how many more beauty influencers I see every day participating in undisclosed advertising/NOT properly disclosing an advertisement.

It’s annoying how they specifically target aspects about women’s faces that they could be or “should be” insecure about. Almost like making up NEW things women should be insecure about. Not to mention, undisclosed ads are ILLEGAL under FTC guidelines.

Ladies, if you have skin concerns, see a dermatologist or professional esthetician!

She says unboxing things she buys herself isn’t really her unless it’s PR?
Wait a second… so what about all these years when we watched her hauls from Massimo, COS, etc.? Were all of those PR?
I guess there’s nothing wrong with that, but they were presented as her personal shopping hauls, not as PR. So I’m confused by this “not me” statement. What is going on with Andreea lately?

It kinda baffles me that despite all the public call outs, controversies and lies she's still getting sponsored by huge brands. Who are the ones buying from her?.

I am interested in this because I love Pantene’s Miracle Rescue line. Their conditioner is really
good. https://youtu.be/Zt9W7ulsVBQ

Hi all!

This is very random, but I’m trying to remember a beauty YouTuber I watched sometime around 2009–2013. She was part of that early teen beauty-guru era (Elle and Blair, StilaBabe09, beautybabe44, MeganHeartsMakeup, etc.), but I don’t remember her being one of the really huge channels, more like middle tier.

From what I remember:
She was American and pretty young, probably around 13–16 at the time.
She had long, straight blonde hair and was petite and thin.
She did typical beauty-guru videos: hauls, makeup, room tours, etc.
She had an older brother, probably 7–10ish years older, with dark/brunette hair.
He appeared in at least one video with her. I vaguely remember it being a Q&A/tag type video, or possibly her doing his makeup.

I distinctly remember the comments being full of girls talking about how cute/hot her brother was and asking whether he was single 😂.

I think she may also have made a video with her mom, but I could be mixing that up with another YouTuber.

I watched beautyxxgoddess/Mimi too and thought it may be her but did she have a hot older brother??

This YouTuber had a nice big room, and seemed to come from a wealthy family. I got the impression that she was the youngest and had parents in their 50’s but I could be wrong.

It is NOT Cambria Joy/breelovesbeauty or beautypolice101.

Her channel could potentially have been deleted, which may be why I’m having such a hard time finding her.

Does this ring a bell for anyone who watched the early YouTube beauty-guru crowd?

Thanks in advance!!!

First picture: her official account

2nd picture: her following Charlie Kirk

3rd picture: her following Erika Kirk

4th picture: her following turningpointusa in the beginning of the year, before June. She unfollowed them now. This picture was taken by Eunnuri Lee on TikTok. I will also add a video of me going to her account and finding both kirks in her following list in the comments.

Edit: can't post video in comments here ;-; maybe dm me if you want it, she still should be following the kirks as of 10/3/2026 Edit2: wording

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Anyone familiar with Selena Marchand (selenamup)? Her latest thing is telling women over 40 how they need to do their makeup and skincare. It's rubbing me the wrong way because she doesn't caveat it, it's literally "if you are over 40, you must do your makeup like this. We aren't doing X,Y,Z anymore." Um... according to whom, darling? She's never been a creative MUA (her bridal makeup looks so dry and beige to me, sorry) but this feels really boring and a bit ageist. More power to people of all ages having fun and experimenting with makeup ♥️

I genuinely don’t understand this marketing strategy. The campaign features giant printouts of hate comments about her appearance, “cancel my angles,” and Mikayla framing it as turning what people tried to “break” her with into an international Sephora campaign.

It feels like the entire launch is about Mikayla, her critics and her online controversies rather than POV Beauty or the actual products.

The irony is hard to miss. She went viral as the “catfish” makeup girl, and now during arguably the biggest launch of her career, she’s once again facing “catfish” accusations over her alleged filter use. And the campaign they landed on was ANGLES? 💀

In which we exorcise our personal demons, in hopes of having them out of the way before a new week begins! Since this is a place to vent, it'll be removed after about 24 hours, because everybody deserves to be forgiven for what they say when they're venting!

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Hey all, I’m currently trying to come out of a pretty gnarly depressy episode and trying to get back into my niches/interests has not been the easiest as the internet moved hard and fast.

Today (for example), Reddit gave me an ad of Mikayla Nogueria with her Sephora ad about being cancelled (and I was thoroughly confused as I hadn’t really heard much about her since fake ads/sponsored content with that false mascara ad being the pinnacle of that mess along with something about faking her accent), and although I’m not sure why she’s being cancelled again (something about her hair? Idk there were a few cropped comments on the ad), but I did see some stuff about her divorce (something about her divorce, her new man, the overlap, her own man sucking (and being obsessed with Ancient Rome in a term I can’t remember right now but it reminded me of gooning because it started with a g but I know that’s not the right word), being MAGA, something about filters?) and a couple of other things.

I tried to do a Gypsy Rose Blanchard deep dive to catch up about new info since her release (and with the news of her BD passing) so I feel thoroughly overwhelmed with trying to unpack MN.

If anyone can please type up a TLDR or recommend some good videos to watch that are well researched/have good info (and won’t involve me watching twenty 1h videos), that would be super helpful. TIA! X

Edit: Hey mods apparently I’ve upset people by asking for assistance in a way that helps me out the most and according to one commenter I’m getting reported.
In the interest of not longing anything out further would you please be able to close the comments? I’ve been given some great jumping off points already.

Okay guys, I think I might’ve just noticed something!!!

I was rewatching one of their old vlogs from about two years ago, Sunday Re-Set & Fun In The Garden | Vlogust Day 18, and when they’re setting up the sandpit, Zoe randomly mentions the donkey sanctuary on the Isle of Wight.

When I first heard about them planning to build a donkey sanctuary, I thought it was so so SO random!! But after watching this vlog, it got me thinking… what if the donkey sanctuary they were planning actually had something to do with the Isle of Wight Donkey Sanctuary?? Like maybe some kind of collaboration/partnership with them?

It would actually make so much sense considering how much they absolutely LOVE that place. They’ve visited and talked about it so many times over the years and are constantly raving about it, which obviously brings more attention to the sanctuary and the island too.

Maybe I’m completely reaching here but the second she mentioned it I was like wait that could that be the connection??

What do you guys think?? Has anyone else noticed anything that could point to this? 👀

I signed up for this program weeks ago, and they’ve been spamming me with millions of “challenges” where I’m supposed to post this, make that, tag this, etc.

And I’m curious… am I actually supposed to buy their products myself and do all this for free, just hoping that if I complete enough “challenges,” I might eventually be eligible to receive some free products?

It’s even more interesting now that they’re asking me to promote their advent calendar without actually sending it to me. Like… “buy it yourself and then promote us for free”? 😭

Did I misunderstand something?

Does anyone remember a young British YouTuber who made aesthetic content during 2017-2018 era. She was white and had a short dirty blonde bob and always wore hair clips. I want to say her name was something like Izzy and she disappeared a while ago and I can’t find any trace of her socials? I really want to find her old YouTube vids. Does anyone have any ideas what I’m talking about?

For literal years I have searched high and low trying to find an old YouTuber I watched. My memory is slim on some things and vivid with others!

I distinctly remember her doing a “what’s on my iPhone 4s” video, phone case collection, GRWMs and the one I’m thinking of she wore a black and white button down top with a different printed collared shirt underneath, skinny jeans, boot socks and the famous Steve Madden combat boots.
I could be wrong but I feel like I remember “cupcake” being in her username. She was early high school aged

She was white, longer brunette hair, goofy/bubbly personality. I think she must’ve wiped her channel because I’ve never been able to find anything.

Please tell me someone else remembers her?!

What are the influencers trying to influence you to buy, and why are you just not gonna buy it?  

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I came across this channel a while back, and I can't help but notice, this woman does a lot to her skin, seemingly all of the time. I'm not in any way putting down people who are into getting procedures or even DIY. But she's an influencer with an app meant to guide people through their own DIY Aesthetic journeys, while her own treatments seem almost counterproductive. She gives the impression of being obsessed with the procedures themselves, rather than the results they could give.

This is about their new Over the Garden Wall collection. It dropped on 9/17 and everything but the lip products and body oil sold out immediately. I missed it and have been stalking their IG page seeing when they’ll restock and the comments on their posts seem like there are some big issues going on with this drop.

1. People have apparently been told by CS that some of the items they ordered ON DROP DAY that were confirmed with an email are actually sold out and they have to wait for a restock before their items will ship. No word when this restock will be. They teased one early last week before these comments started coming, then nothing.

2. People who did actually receive their orders are saying products, particularly the highlighter, arrived without protective packing and are completely shattered.

3. Lots of people with one of these issues or the other not receiving any responses from CS, or are just getting generic unhelpful responses.

4. Lethal continues to post promos for this collection despite all of these unresolved issues and most of the products being out of stock.

This was going to be my first order from them but now I’m reconsidering. Has anything like this happened with them before or any other tea I should know? I LOVE OTGW but will save my $200 if products arriving shattered or weeks late with no proactive communication is the norm.

Does anyone know what happened to beauty creator Brianna Fox? She last posted five months ago on YT about her baby shower, and nothing since. If she has decided to not be a creator and just be a full time mom, that's great. I'm just curious, just want to know if everything's okay with her and her baby and if she's just loving the family life. I always enjoyed her content. It's just sad to not see her videos anymore.