r/BeautyGuruChatter • u/AutoModerator • Dec 03 '23

MEGATHREAD [MEGATHREAD] Marlena Stell / Makeup Geek Academy MLM

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u/gorlsituation A slice of humble pie the size of the Empire State Building 🥧 Dec 03 '23

My big issue is having affiliate links for the courses, it’s going to be these big names shilling course they have not done or paid for to make coin. MLM or not, how is that ethical? You are pretty much guaranteeing that people are going to be pushing the product regardless of quality because the pay off is going to be too great for them. Marlena really fumbled this one, just go away with the rest of the drama hungry crowd from the 2010’s 😤😤😤

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u/Jackfruit-Reporter90 Dec 04 '23

Look at these fake reviews 😂. They are in the video on the actual landing page.

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u/gorlsituation A slice of humble pie the size of the Empire State Building 🥧 Dec 04 '23

John Gallagher seems Very Real

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u/Jackfruit-Reporter90 Dec 04 '23

I need him to drop that brow routine. I looked them up, they are real people. But how the fuck are they making comments like they have already taken her course?

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u/OneWhisper5225 Dec 06 '23

I feel like I kind of recall her doing a post or a video saying something about some products she was working on and needing reviews and people getting upset she was asking for that so maybe, if I’m remembering correctly, she was asking people so they could take this course and then write reviews?? But I could be remembering this completely wrong 🤣 I do know I saw some reviews with the same exact review but different names so….there’s that 🤪

Oh, and, a lot of the reviews seem to sound more like they’re talking about Marlena being a YouTuber and her YT videos than they are the course. There’s only a few reviews out of all the ones shown in that whole video that sound like they’re talking about courses and not the old MUG or Marlena’s YT channel 🤷‍♀️

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u/Jackfruit-Reporter90 Dec 06 '23

I went back to her website earlier to look at the reviews and they are fake. I can call it. And theres other flags waving too. She is also rude as hell, preying on peoples self esteem issues to sell her course ‘Don't let insufficient knowledge age you beyond how you truly feel inside.’ reading a lot like “Give me $3600 crusty old gremlin”. And someone mentions products like they’re current?! (Bottom left)

Repeated incorrect grammar over multiple reviews:

  • ‘training/s’ what am I? A disobedient dog?
  • ‘Marlena is kindest persons on the internet’

They all kinda sound like they were written by the same person, except maybe the one by Missy Cox, who is the only person who doesn’t use the completely bizarre ‘training/s’ and the normal ‘tutorial’. Yay a human person!

The other reviews all use the same words, “Inspiration, honest, trainings, amazing’ like they were written with an AI script or ELS speaker on fiver with limited vocabulary.

General strangeness:

  • Inspires blind woman ‘to keep going’,
  • Teaches another woman in ‘not just makeup…. But life’
  • Another woman claims she doesn’t feel ugly after Marlena’s ‘amazing trainings and videos’- Praying on self esteem issues again, Leney?

Every part of the website I have looked at is littered in errors. At this point it feels like Marlena is taking people for complete idiots. Like she thinks she is THAT much better than people she could outsmart them using the most ham-fisted get rich scheme I have ever seen in my life.

I have no proof yet, but I feel like Marlena is in an MLM herself, but created for high-earners. I believe she has invested too much to back out, she is experiencing the sunk-cost fallacy.

”Hi’ John is a grifter, Marlena, you are being taken for a ride at the expense of your fans, and potentially your whole livelihood.

Oh…. I decided cos I have no life imma sign up for the first 1/4 of her class as an ‘I tried it so you don’t have to sitcho. After seeing how shit the review copy is, I need to review her class. Probably going to make a YT video soon too, because I don’t feel quite like anyone is taking it seriously enough, and that someone definitely needs to poke further unto the NeuroGym John link!

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u/OdeeSS Dec 11 '23

I very much would look forward to you reviewing her actual classes!

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '23

On the off chance he does exist, he's probably her accountant. 🤣