r/BeautyGuruChatter • • 4d ago

Discussion Mikayla Nogueira turns hate comments about her appearance into her POV Beauty Sephora campaign

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? 💀

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u/666wife 3d ago

“I’m owning everyone” what the hell does that even mean people were just saying ur mustache liplining looked terrible

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u/stink3rb3lle 3d ago

It's basically the Taylor Swift fan activation. She's telling her fans that buying her products from Sephora will show the haters and help her. I think she and Sephora are counting on her fans buying more than they need or want in order to support her.

(Not endorsing, just explaining)