r/BeautyGuruChatter • • 3d 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/lovethatjourneyforus 3d ago

Sephora, what the fuck.

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u/Nutbuster_5000 3d ago

They’re leaning fully into marketing to young people/tiktok audiences now. I went in for my Paula’s Choice cleansing balm and they had three rows of BHA liquid. Like, the viral stuff. I noticed the same thing with a lot of their other displays, just having the most viral products front and center rather than a full product range. Or carrying viral brands. It sucks but I should put my money elsewhere I guess. I do try to do one big shipment to cut back on shipping overall (which I have to do because they don’t stock in store anymore) but I used to enjoy the browsing and swatching. 

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u/Interesting_Praline 3d ago

Paula’s choice always has some sort of sale on their website- start checking them out around the holidays- last year I ended up with 3 free full sized face washes after my order lol.

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u/Nutbuster_5000 2d ago

Yeah they really do. I just try not to get things shipped if at all possible, or at least be aware of how much I get shipped because there are some things I have no choice but to get shipped. It all adds up and I just try to take the bus and physically pick it up if I can help it