Why Younique Is A Joke | The laughing stock of the MLM beauty industry 

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The way the younique lady was forcefully smiling so hard whilst applying the mascara gave me "hide the pain Harold" vibes 💀

That corp trainer is being held hostage and her name is Jackie. You cant convince me otherwise.

I was a rep for 5 years. I'm so happy I saw the light and left this cult. It's seriously made me not want to wear makeup again and I cringe thinking about how I sold it to family and friends.

I got sucked into buying their mascara a couple years ago but then I was harassed so much by the girl I bought it from to join her team I had to change my phone number and block her on everything!

I lost a friend when she got sucked in by this brand. They basically love bombed her and told her that anyone who wasn’t willing to join wasn’t a real friend. I still miss her.

Had a childhood friend that sold this stuff for a while. I expressed interest in joining to make some extra money, and she contacted me outside of her social media to tell me "don't do it, I'm trying to get out!" Forever grateful for that heads up.

We love an anti-mlm king ❤

This brand is why I can no longer use glitter. I had an allergic reaction so bad that my eyelids began peeling and this was about 10 years ago. I have had long term issues from this brand.

My cousin is part of this MLM. She goes on all the trips the company has on her own dime. She hasn't made a profit in the 10+ years she's been in it!

Wow, the first woman’s grin while applying the product was CREEPY

Not the Ed Gein makeup look to end racism 💀

03:54 Im sorry but i cannot watch her apply mascara with a MASSIVE horror movie style grin on her face. I just cant focus😂

BUT WOBERT I WANT SPIDER LASHES AND GREEN FOUNDATION!!!! YOU CANT STOP ME!

I know the younique presenter in the training video was modeling using the product but the way she smiles so maniacally while using it was too much

As a Gen X lifelong drugstore cosmetic user, I bought the eye shadow and mascara back in the day and thought, "I guess I must not understand bougie makeup." Thank God my daughter schooled herself in cosmetics over the years [recommending this channel, in fact!], so I now know what to look for in proper good cosmetics and what is just straight-up gaslighting.

Nooooo. A ex friend made me sell that crap. The fiberglass mascara almost made me go blind while trying to convince me it was green tea fiber and I MUST be allergic

I got sucked into this MLM a long time ago and I still cringe. Such a horrible horrible decision and I have personally apologized to anyone I sold to because I was so embarrassed. It did however get me interested in makeup and an example of what crappy makeup is.

I was a younique seller myself, years and years ago. Was a waste of money and the makeup was 🚮 I could never get anything sold except to family.

I LOVE that you've been adding anti-MLM videos to your content!

Forget trying it. I actually became a ‘rep’ for them. My best friend got into this and was like ‘hey I’m selling some makeup and you’re really good at it, I’ve told my makeup buddies about you and they really wanna see what you come up with’ so I purchased this bundle thing and tried some stuff, did some looks and next thing I know my weekly FaceTime with my friend (this was during covid) I was in a call with her ‘mentor’ I had a full time job, I was not up for selling and marketing my ‘own business’ (as they put it). The moment I declined I was slandered, my best friend was told I was horrible and abusive to them and I ended up losing her to the MLM. The irony of it all was they still used my makeup photos to advertise their products! Absolute cheek!

I remember the height of this madness. My mom was a licensed cosmetologist in the 80s, and when she saw people using this mascara, she was like, "lawsuit waiting to happen"😂😂😂

Yass!!! Dont join an MLM 🚫 thank you for your voice in this space Robert 💕

My impression of Yoonique mascara was "🎵🎶spider-lash spider-lash" Even the lady from Yoonique showing the "correct" application technique was getting clumpy results. 😂

Every time I would post a selfie with makeup on, I would get approached by a Younique or Arbonne representative... I told one of them, "Girl, people who actually know how to use makeup, don't use that crap... no, thank you!!"

When I worked at my first job 11 years ago my manager was a Younique rep. I'd just started getting into fun colorful makeup and she INSISTED on buying me one of the brands eyeshadow palettes as a gift for my birthday. They had set up a table at our store during a big sale event we were having (retail store) and I insisted that I didn't want any of the makeup 😂 even starting out I could tell the quality was not there. And her makeup always looked like the bad makeup you showcased here.

Their "domestic violence" retreat that they used to push really hard to guilt people into buying is also pretty shady. I dont know if they still have it or not but i know it was a big part of their marketing back in the day.

These companies out here using "natural" like that automatically equals good for you when anybody with a lick of sense knows that's not true. Sand is natural but I don't want that in my eye. Arsenic is natural but we don't use that in makeup anymore for damn good reasons.

"Natural" is just a marketing term. It has nothing to do with the actual reality of products, their effectiveness, their potential harm, etc

The thing I hate most about MLMs isn't their crappy products, it's the way they prey on people like stay at home mums who need an income and a job they can fit around the needs of their family. Rather than making any money they alienate friends and family by desperately pushing overpriced crap onto them and making them buy out of guilt and most of the time they end up out of pocket anyway. If we had a decent social set up where childcare was more affordable, bosses were more flexible with working hours and wfh was more accessable, these MLM companies would have less victims. Two single mums I know both tried Younique and both ended up with less money than when they started. I myself tried selling Avon decades ago when my firstborn was a baby, it took me 3 weeks of traipsing the streets with a baby strapped to my chest delivering and collecting catologues to earn £9.

I once watched a video of a woman showing their pigments. She literally dipped her brush in a pot of water, dipped the sopping wet brush into the pigment then wiped it down her cheek 😂 she had muddy glitter tears just streaming down her cheek and dripping onto her top 😭 like why your cheek anyway? Just put it on your eye where it's supposed to go 🙈 the pigments looked rubbish aswell.

That lady in the fiber mascara video is unhinged looking…. Who smiles like that while applying mascara…. 😳

As a former contacts wearer, all I could think about is how those fibers would be getting stuck on the contacts and messing them up.

I love that you are adding your voice to the anti-MLM conversation. So many people are taken advantage of … not just the customers from what I can see they rob their own employees the worst of all

I am old enough to remember my mother using cake mascara! Tube mascara was invented before I started using makeup in my mid teens. IIRC most of the makeup brands tried out fiber mascara in the mid to late 70s or maybe early 80s and discontinued them. Those fiber mascaras were very clumpy, the fiber did not align with the real lashes and the fiber flaked off onto your cheeks. There is a reason none of the quality makeup companies do fiber mascara these days as far as I know! It's just not a good idea

“It’s a stupid trend…I’m surprised it hasn’t been done on TikTok yet…” TikTok is a ceasepool of idiocy that needs to go 😂

Oh, I'm SO here for this. This was one of the two MLMs I ever participated in and it was so gross. I always hated the exploitation of CSA victims and their makeup sucked.

The late 2010s were a wild time for make up. In 2017 maybe I was in one of those virtual Facebook parties for Younique and the party was infiltrated by a LipSense rep or fangirl or something. It was like a weird battle of the MLMs in the comments and I think the LipSense girl got kicked out of the group and blocked. It was quite the experience.

I live in Utah, which is where their corporate office is. I don’t exactly remember why, but I was gifted a TON of Younique makeup by a friend. Because I was a freshman in high school and didn’t have any money at that point, it’s the only makeup I used for a long time. Looking back at pictures, I looked HORRIBLE! I genuinely feel like I’m pretty good at makeup, even back then, but it really didn’t matter because the quality was so bad 😂 Also, I will never forget the PAIN of getting one of those freaking fibers in my eye 😭

I always appreciate the awareness you and James bring to MLMs. My mom is in the LifeVantage mlm and it's terrible. I can't talk about my mental or physical health otherwise I become a sales quota. Then when I say no it's a "well don't talk about X issue bc obviously you're not willing to get better" etc. Sorry for venting. It's frustrating but I appreciate the anti-MLM genre being talked about.

Ugh. I remember that mascara. One of my friends announced she was ‘starting her own business’ and when I found out what it was, my heart sank. I bought the mascara from her because I wanted to support her but it was really terrible. Luckily my friend walked away from it pretty quickly, but I know she lost some money she really couldn’t afford. I didn’t know about the faux anti-racism thing though. What a revolting company

Excited about this one! I used to work with someone who sold Younique. She kept trying to sell me their mascara. It was so sketchy. Happy Wednesday 🖤

What makes me sad is that my friend joined this MLM and all of my interactions were here trying to sell me make up. Unfortunately it affected our relationship. I felt like she was using our friendship to sell me products. 😔

OMG- I have never seen someone smile like that while putting on mascara- totally scary!

I hate MLM’s. Keep this type of content coming! There will never be too many people speaking out about these garbage predatory companies.

The moment Robert said this first line of this quote, I auto finished it for him. "Turns out there's shit in their eyes, but it ok! It's just natural shit in their eyes" 😂

I’m not a makeup artist and a no makeup girl, but I can tell just by seeing their makeup on people is just looks bad. Also in my opinion, a good sign that makeup is done right is when it does look realistic for every day use. Theirs doesn’t , I can tell it looks like something you would wear as part of a complete Halloween costume look, but not for everyday use.

Ugh so embarrassed to have sold this years ago. I didn't even know what an mlm was but once I found out and realized my mistake I ran. It was such a toxic environment the actual quality of the makeup wasn't even the worst of it. Those women are horrible people. So catty, jealous and total liars. I hate to see they are still going, not only them all mlms. It was definitely interesting seeing things from the "inside" however. Like a train wreck you keep watching 😂

"Beauty has no skin tone" "They wanted to show off their amazing makeup skill with a new trend" nooo, please don't tell me this is going where I think it's going. NOOOOOOO IT ISSSSSS BBBRRRRUUUUH

I remember trying the mascara from them, my cousin kept INSISTING I would love it and buy it forever, so I tried hers, it was SO clumpy and made my eyes itch and water! It looked ok but when she told me the price, I was like OH HELL NAW! And I said I'll stick to my loreal double extend lmao

I had a friend who tried to rope me into being a rep. I tried several of their products, and the foundation "match" they told me would be for my Caucasian skin tone made me look like I had just gone to a really dodgy place for a spray tan! Yikes! I also tried their eyeshadow and they had no color payoff. Their mascara smeared throughout the day. Needless to say, I did not become a rep. I didn't even realize they were an MLM at that time, so thank goodness I didn't do it! Thanks for putting great info out there Robert! Your videos simply make my day!!

When I was in High School, my mom had a friend who was working for this brand and arranged a little party between me and my friends to try this brand out. Me being 16 at the time, I was excited to learn more about makeup because I was still new to it, my moms friend did everything to convince me to get the fiber mascara which I did, but as I used it I realized how extremely horrible it was and I thought I was the SHIT wearing a whole ass spider on my eyes 😭😭😭

Her face while applying the gel is like🤩 Seriously I wish I was that enthusiastic about literally anything.

I need a deep dive on senegence. That lipsense lip colour is the absolute worst thing I’ve ever put on my lips. It burnt so much and people were telling me this was ok?!?! It soooo wasn’t

Watching her smile while applying the mascara was so insane. We all have mascara face what are you doinggg

Us millennials have been through some shit. Live laugh love to anyone triggered by the mascara in this video

Oh my god, that 3D fiber lash tried to blind me! It was the absolute worst. Just trying to apply the fibers I was instantly in tears and my eye FULL of tiny little flecks of this spiky crap

I love that you're branching out your content lately. I am a beauty lover and an antiMLM girl so I absolutely love seeing the intersection. I couldn't get away from the 3D fiber lash back then. I thought it was a gimmick then, I absolutely wouldn't try it now lol..

I remember watching a video years back and thinking "If this woman says transplanting gel one more freakin' time I'm gonna scream."

No one at all: I want to look like a badly drawn lady on a cheap mug!! Younique: Gotcha! Here ya go!

About a decade ago, my best friend tried to talk me into selling Younique due to her Mom pushing it onto her and then onto me as I’m a makeup artist. Luckily, I already knew better and firmly declined, but I decided to try their 3D mascara. I fully admit I LOVED it at the time! Had no issue with the fibers and my lashes looked full and great, no dry clumpy spider lashes and it was easy to remove. When I purchased it again months later, they had changed the formula, claiming “new and improved” and it was the opposite of that. It was terrible and I was so bummed out! It was the only mlm product I had ever tried that I originally loved so much that I bought it again and they went and made it horrible. I used the new formula 2-3 times before trashing it. I told my best friend I was done with using any Younique products and she quickly stopping trying to sell it herself not long after that.

I feel like Coty probably bought in not because of good product but probably because their books looked good for a business investment because this brand drew so many people into buying so bad. I felt so bad for all the people getting fooled and spending money on this when color pop and L’Oréal do so much better for less

the way shes smiling so aggressively while applying the mascara is honest to god terrifying. like HOW did anyone watch this and think "yes this makes me feel optimistic about this product!" i feel like shes gonna climb through my window at 3AM💀

I fortunately never fell for the younique mess, but an MLM still managed to get me. I was gifted whatever that color stay lipstick was that smelled like turpentine and felt like it turned your lips into plastic. (Lipsense I think?) I used it exactly once and the smell NEVER WENT AWAY. Then, when k tried to get it off my lips I couldn’t. I ended up having to scrape my lips raw to get it off. Even oil wouldn’t budge it 😭

Honestly it’s relieving to see such a big beauty influencer trashing on MLM’s, especially on a beauty thing like Younique, it just legitimately gives me joy. :)

I remember when the brand was setting up and they went on a recruitment drive. I'd never really heard of MLM's at the time and was interested when they described this 'new brand' and joined a group. I quickly realised it was some sort of cult and left before they launched 😂 I had a few friends offering me free products to try because I was into makeup and it was all a big pile of shit 😬 don't even get me started on the terrible videos people who had no business selling makeup were making 😂

I was gifted a makeup kit when they first came out. Being who i am i didnt want to waste it. I ended up liking 1 shade of eye shadow that wasnt too bad pigment wise. Tried to call to get more and was told they didnt sell single pans of their shadows. Knew right then this company was... different and never got anymore.

I had “friends “ who pressured everyone into buying these products so I purchased quite a few and none really impressed me . The foundation broke me out and separated pretty quickly in the bottle and the “friend “ who shade matched me did a horrible job so what a waste of money .. mascara fibers were every where on my face and the “friends “ never spoke to me again when I didn’t give a glowing review of their makeup .. so yeah I agree with this , my experience was not a great one and costly at that !

My bff's mom back in 2016-17 sold Younique. The prices for their products were INSANE. My bff never pushed anything on me hard, but she did try to get me to try this mascara. Girl, no. My eyes are super sensitive anyway and I HATED that entire "fiber lash" trend. She stopped using the mascara soon after anyway because the fibers always got in her eyes and it just took so long to do.

My social circle includes a few unrepentant huns,I remember the Younique craze. I was still into high end stuff from sephora (these days im *almost* exclusively drugstore & boxycharm lol), and I'm not usually proud of my own past snobbery, but in this case I feel ok... that was embarrassingly bad makeup. It did shake up the weird Mary Kay trend here, tho, I still know women who think MK is high end, ufda 🙄

This made me miss grav3yard girl so much! I loved her product reviews…”does this thing really WORK?!?” IYKYK 😂 🐊

I had multiple family members selling Younique, having parties, and the 3D mascara was all over Facebook. But it was so damn expensive, and I wasn't going to buy from everyone. I spent around 200, foundation, 3D mascara/gel, eyeshadow, makeup bag. The eyeshadow was ok, the fibers were flaking off, foundation wasn't good for my conbo kit. I just felt bad for my cousin so I bought it. Last mlm I bought from. Never again lol.

I remember one girl at a club having the most STUNNING and BLINDING highlighter, and she said it was from Younique (thankfully my sister-in-law told me it was an MLM so just walk away lol). I had a couple friends ALWAYS post about the new 4D mascara, and I ALWAYS knew what it was before reading it all, because the whole post was filled with a million emojis lol

But why the creepy, my mouth is super dry, I'm parched smile while applying the mascara?!? 😬🤔

Mascara lady's smile and eyes are insanely wide, like they're being pulled by strings or something - soooo MLM 😂

The maniacal smile while she's applying the mascara.... I just can't...

I had a “friend” contact me days after my best friend died suddenly. She brushed that off and managed to sell me a mascara. I wasn’t in my right mind at the time and she knew it.

I had been a sucker and purchased the kit with intent to sell when it first started getting popular, when I received my make up , it was garbage . I never sold a thing, I tried to get a refund and they kept giving excuses until I gave up lol

I sold Younique for a year or so. The makeup was expensive and not great. And I hate how cringy I was “building my business” at that time in my life.

Younique headquarters is located 15-20 minutes from where I live. So are doTERRA and Young living, and Seint is also in Utah. These MLMs REALLY prey on Stay at home moms who feel obligated to not work outside of the home thanks to Utah's predominant religion, but are struggling financially. It's disgusting.

Hair is natural but it fucks you up when it gets in your eye 🙄

Lol Melanie my girl why are you orange...

so glad you have done a video on this, I was on long term sick, unwell and vulnerable and ended up signing up as a younique rep to keep my mind busy and I loved makeup, looking back it makes me cringe, it's so pushy very cult like and so glad I saw the light, I ended up buying so much of the makeup to showcase on my social media, I ended up owing money on credit card not making money its awful MLM x

The unhinged smile whilst applying the mascara is some uncanny valley sh*t, actually unnerved me a bit 😅

The smiling whilst she's putting on mascara is very very creepy

i stole a Younique lip gloss from my mom and then after using it i knew it wasnt worth stealing

My mom joined some MLMs but not for long. She has a tendency to drop things quickly, but my goodness, im so glad she didnt get into makeup.

Ohhhh boy don’t even get me started lol. I was a Younique girly back in the day.. embarrassing 💀

I’m so here for this video- I was a ‘green status’ rep for 3 years. I was in DEEP too. While my time with them really allowed me to grow my skills with makeup- the quality wasn’t there at all. The spray foundation was awesome- the eyeshadow was hit and miss. The fiber mascara was not it but the epic mascara was. Bottom line the company is crap, and the majority of the products were crap.

I wanted fiber mascara to work so much! The length was outrageous, but couldn't get past the flakey horrible mess that came with it. I think Physicians Formula has one, too.❤

The women’s social media posts you showed are horrifying. Why on earth would they think it would compel people to purchase from them? I have second hand embarrassed for all of them.

Why on earth is that second girl shouting? It made me jump. She has a good point about putting fibres near her eye. No thank you

I fell for the mascara years ago when my cousin was selling it. It was awful!! The fibers kept getting in my eyes and irritating them. I never bought another thing from them after that.

I was a rep for this brand for 2 years. I felt like you do, that if I'm selling makeup, I should actually know about makeup and be open to criticism or critique. It was weird to me that there were no trainings from "uplines" about application, so I started researching and learning on my own. What bothered me the most, and why I got it pretty fast after being roped in, was that their production couldn't keep up with how frequently they introduced products. So you'd get these products that people actually liked, but then by the time your customers would want to reorder, the product was discontinued. I was like this is not sustainable and i wonder how they're still in business. This was back when they were pretty new.

I need to know what the sparkle is on your eyes!! Stunning!!

Ugh....my mom buys from her friend. She says she really likes the mascara. This is since way before I even knew how evil MLMs are. I cant get her to stop.

My friend used to sell younique I thought I was being a good friend by buying from her (this was before I discovered Chelsea, Savannah, Erin, JJ and friends). I brought their splurge pots (cream eyeshadow)and they were so expensive for mediocre products they dried up in a month then my friend then convinced me to buy a younique rose water to freshen up the eye shadow that was really expensive as well when rose water is £2 in boots. I'm glad people are covering yonique because it's big in UK and I don't think it gets as much coverage as the likes of monat etc.

In the 2010s I was in Japan and I remember a couple other foreign ladies getting obsessed with the mascara and trying to sell it but I was all about the careprost/latisse at that time so I didn’t need it because my lashes were CRAZY without mascara… And this was absolutely before 2015… probably around 2013 if I had to guess.

I was actually a Younique rep for a few years in college. I made like $100/year, maybe. I didn’t ever ask anyone to “join my team”. I just posted videos of me using it in a private fb group and sold enough to support my own habit. I honestly loved their liquid foundation from the early days and the cream eyeshadows and a couple other things I liked. The products I didn’t like, I just didn’t promote, including the 2 step fiber mascara, the regular one wasn’t bad. But they discontinued all the stuff I liked and I left. Then I heard about all the behind the scenes drama that happened shortly after I left and I’m glad I got out when I did.

When I think about Younique I laugh... more of a "OMG what NOW?" kinda nervous laugh. WHAT was the deal with the fiber lash lady? Like was someone holding her dog or boyfriend hostage saying she HAD to make that video or else?!? It was SSSSOOOOO forced