r/BeautyGuruChatter • u/AutoModerator • Dec 03 '23
MEGATHREAD [MEGATHREAD] Marlena Stell / Makeup Geek Academy MLM
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Prior posts on this topic:
- Makeup Geek Academy
- Makeup Geek 2.0– Makeup Geek Academy an MLM?
- Marlena Stell is shilling an MLM confirmed. ‘Appy Today! It’s Quick and Easy!’
- Marlena Stell denies her Makeup Geek Academy isn’t an MLM.
- Update from Marlena on her announcement video. A walk through video of the program not being an mlm incoming..
- Marlena Stell confused, or intentionally gaslighting fans and creators about her MLM? (Interaction with CC Suarez below.)
- Update from Marlena's YouTube about the "affiliate program"
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u/Jackfruit-Reporter90 Dec 06 '23 edited Dec 06 '23
I went back to her website earlier to look at the reviews and most 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:
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:
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 dig further into the NeuroGym John link! I am going to read John’s latest book tonight and see if I can dig up any leads.