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| Makeup Geek CEO Calls Out Beauty Influencers Again in New Video - Patheos Posted: 26 Jun 2019 07:35 AM PDT Make-up Geek CEO Marlena Stell called out the beauty influencer community and accused them of being entitled. In the video uploaded on YouTube titled "Dear Influencers," Marlena called out multiple influencers that have spoken out against Makeup Geek and her involvement in beauty drama. During the video, Marlena said she wanted to clear the air and defend herself against allegations made by multiple influencers online. She told viewers that her goal was to share her side of the story and move on. Marlena's first target of the video was beauty influencer Jaclyn Hill. The Makeup Geek CEO discussed Hill's failed lipstick launch, quality control issues, and the product launch that Hill backed out on with Makeup Geek. According to Stell, she and Hill planned a collaborative launch of an eye shadow palette through Makeup Geek. However, Hill had already committed to two other cosmetic companies at the same time. Due to Hill's packed schedule, the two women were never able to come to a formal business agreement. Stell showed emails and communication with Hill that highlighted her attempts to launch the product. She shared that her company spent millions of dollars in preparation for the launch. However, Hill never signed a contract over the year they worked together. When Hill pulled out of the launch, Makeup Geek was left with thousands of eyeshadows, palette cases, and products that they could not sell. During the video, Stell insisted she was not angry with Hill. She admitted her error in not having Hill sign a contract, and her fault in spending money before an official agreement was made. Then Stell shared her belief that Hill rushed her production of the lipsticks. For the past month, Stell has inserted herself into Jaclyn Cosmetic's lipstick snafu. On Twitter, Stell has publically called out Hill for not recalling her products. In the video, Stell told her viewers that she only spoke up because she wanted to protect customers from using contaminated products. Additionally, she said Hill's lack of response to recalling the products reflected poorly on the entire cosmetic industry. Makeup Geek's sales over the past few years have been lagging. The once blossoming company seems to have stalled. Influencers on YouTube and Instagram no longer promote the products by the cosmetic company. As a result, Stell's insertion into lipstickgate had many people feeling her motives were disingenuous. After sharing her feelings about Hill, Stell then aimed several other influencers. She brought up a tweet sent by James Charles in September 2018. The tweet related to Charles' learning that Netflix was doing a documentary with Stell about the beauty industry.
Stell seemed irritated that Charles would attempt to insert himself into the documentary and change the direction. She took specific anger with him when Charles referred to her as "This woman" in response to Netflix about her relevance in the beauty community.
James tweets in September 2018 followed a video uploaded by Marlena Stell that accused influencers of charging brands money for negative reviews. Many influencers, including Charles, took issue with the way Stell presented her evidence. The influencers insisted other cosmetic companies and industry standard offered the rates they charged. After airing the tweets by Charles, Stell told viewers the two of them aired out their issues privately. However, she still found ways to shade Charles by insisting that he blew her off after the dust settled between them. Perhaps most problematic in Stell's video was her lashing out at two small influencers. According to Stell, an influencer named Tina who runs the YouTube channel "Fancy Face" uploaded a video calling out Makeup Geek's poor quality and bad business practices. Stell took issue with Tina calling her a "social climber" in a video. To defend herself against the "social climber" accusation, Stell told viewers that she helps out influencers no matter their channel size. She provided evidence that she supported and helped mentor several influencers without knowing if they would "blow up."In the video by Fancy Face, Tina called out Makeup Geek for producing poor quality makeup. Additionally, Tina described her long relationship with Marlena and how she believed the CEO dropped her for bigger names. Tina also blamed Stell for not keeping up with trends and putting out low-quality products. Finally, Stell discussed a makeup influencer that she would not call out by name. However, she accused the influencer of extorting her for $60,000.00. Stell said that Makeup Geek used a photo of the influencer on their website for two years. After Stell released her video "My truth about the Beauty Community," she said the influencer sent her a letter to remove the image and attempted to sue her. While Stell refused to disclose the influencer's name, WOACB found a video by a channel "Lashes, Love & Leather" that matched Stell's account. In the video, micro-influencer Melrae Segal says that Makeup Geek used her image without her permission for two years. According to Segal, Makeup Geek offered her $100 for a photo and review on their Contour products. In the agreement, Seagal said that Makeup Geek would use the image for a blog launch announcement and give her credit for the photo. However, Segal insists she never consented to the brand using her image in their shop. Segal showed users the page on Makeup Geek that contained her image. After uploading the video, Segal sent the company a cease and desist letter to remove the photo. Additionally, Segal said she planned to sue the company for using her image for two years without her consent. While Stell may have felt the need to defend herself, the videos by Segal and Tina were uploaded almost a year ago. By waiting ten months to respond, Stell's motives seem to be suspect given the current status of her company. At the end of the video, Stell admitted that her company has struggled over the past two years. She shared multiple reasons for why the company has not launched new products. Additionally, she discussed her plans to expand her business into other areas beyond Makeup Geek. Finally, Stell told viewers that she would no longer be inserting herself into any more drama. She promised to distance herself from the influencer world and would focus solely on her job as the CEO of Makeup Geek. Tell us your thoughts. Do you think Marlena's intentions were honorable? Or did she upload the video to help drum up sales for her company? Want a deeper dive, watch our reaction to the video: *Katie Joy is a columnist and hosts Without A Crystal Ball on Patheos Non-Religious Channel. She writes articles on parenting, disability advocacy, debunking pseudoscience, atheism, and crimes against women and children. She co-hosts the YouTube show, "The Smoking Nun," with Kyle Curtis on The Non-Sequitur Channel. The show airs weekly and tackles pseudoscience, current events, and crime stories. Communicate with Katie on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest.Merchandise available at Teespring. Buy Katie Joy a cup of Coffee.
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| Posted: 01 Jul 2019 06:05 AM PDT A transgender woman who got through to the finals of a beauty competition without the organisers realising she'd been born a boy has had a full sex change. Pammy Rose, 26, from Seaham, County Durham, was born Paul Witten, and first expressed she did not want to be in her male body aged four. The 26-year-old dancer made headlines around the world in 2013 when she reached the final of a local beauty contest, without the judges realising there was anything different about her. But it's only now that she feels like a true woman, after it took her a decade to prove to psychiatrists she was serious about changing sex.  Dancer Pammy Rose, 26, from County Durham, says she feels 'complete' after undergoing gender reassignment surgery   She was born Paul Witten and began questioning her gender aged four. She was bullied throughout school as children deemed her 'a freak' Pammy said: 'I'm in a happy place. I'm now in the place I should have been all my life. 'I finally feel complete after all this time. This is what I have wanted all my life, it's what I needed.' She added: 'There's no words to describe how correct it feels. It is just a liberating feeling. 'It is everything I expected it to be and more.'  The stunning dancer won Miss Transgender England in 2016, and came second in the UK-wide competition  The beauty queen says she has been liberated by the surgery, having spent a decade dressing as a woman and taking hormones Pammy went on: 'This is what I have wanted since I was a very small child. For the first time in my life I feel like my true self.' Pammy told her mum Julie, 54, at the age of four that she did not want to be in her male body. As a young boy, Pammy would dance and play with Barbies and hated the idea of mud or football. During secondary school, she was singled out and targeted by bullies for being a 'puff', a 'tranny' and a 'freak'.  Pammy told her mother at the age of four that she did not want to be in her male body, and struggled throughout childhood with bullying She was threatened and humiliated so much that she was scared to leave the house. At the age of 14, Pammy decided to embrace who she really was. She started growing and bleaching her hair, wearing make-up full time and wearing the girls' uniform instead of the boys. Over the next three years Pammy travelled with her mother and stepfather Ray to London and later Leeds for monthly meetings with psychologists and doctors. A joke about her looking like Pamela Anderson soon led to her officially changing her name and at the age of 18 she became Pammy Rose.  At one stage the youngster was bullied so badly during school that she did not want to leave the house The following year, at the age of 19, she started taking hormones. In 2013, when she was 20-years-old, she was entered into a local beauty contest - The Face of Sunderland - by a friend. Pammy made it to the final without the organisers realising she was transgender. Three years later, in 2016, Pammy finished second place in Miss Transgender UK and bagged the title of Miss Transgender England.  The stunning beauty queen has revealed waiting a decade for gender reassignment surgery 'chipped away at her hopes' Now, after a decade of living as a woman, Pammy has had gender reassignment surgery and says she is happier than ever. But she says the decade-long wait to have the surgery had been difficult for her, and that she had struggled to cope. She said: 'Ten years is such a long time to wait for surgery. The longer you wait the more it chips away at your hope of finally becoming yourself.' But the dancer revealed it was all worth it, saying: 'When I woke up from the operation I cried.  Pammy made headlines when she made it to the final of a beauty pageant without the organisers knowing she was transgender. She went on to win Miss Transgender England in 2016  The stunning beauty queen continues to face abuse in the street, and says she is sometimes shouted at and spat at by men 'I remember looking at my mam and and saying 'I've done it, it's all over'.' Over the last few years, Pammy has spoken publicly about her struggle to find work after being sacked from her job in a factory for wearing too much make-up and rejected by the boss of a cosmetic shop. She has also told how she feared she would never find love after being shouted at and spat at by men. Pammy said she has been has been called a 'freak' and 'disgusting' by men in bars who have shown an interest in her but turned nasty after discovering she was actually born a boy.  Pammy revealed that she woke up feeling emotional after her operation, but now feels 'complete' and happier than ever  Pammy says she felt disheartened by the decade-long wait she had for her surgery, saying it had 'chipped away' at her hopes Two years ago, Pammy found love with a man who she remains in a happy relationship with. And now, after undergoing gender reassignment surgery in Leeds, Pammy said she is the happiest she has ever been. She said: 'I have got the best people around me and I feel great. It just feels right. 'My partner has brought out the best in me and made me see life in a whole different way. 'Now that this chapter is over I can't wait for the next chapter to begin. I'm not going to let anything get in the way.'  |
| Goodbye to Nordstrom, goodbye to the pipeline era | Arts & Entertainment - Anchorage Press Posted: 02 Jul 2019 11:18 AM PDT With all the urban problems we have in Anchorage, the September closing of the downtown Nordstrom — an emporium for Alaskans with superfluous money — took center stage when it was announced last week. Over the years, Nordstrom became more of a psychological phenomenon than an actual place to shop. Maybe that is why Nordstrom's head-shed decided to close the store. Immediately, I began to think of my past decades in Anchorage. Silly to put all this emotion onto a Capitalist institution, I thought… maybe not? Reminiscing: Nordstrom is kinda like acquiring a cabin. You may never use it much, but it makes you feel you have taken root in the 49th state. Husband Dave and I built a cabin in the mid-seventies on Beaver Lake. We read 'Sunset Magazine', back when the rag was all homemade projects (woodworking, gardening, baking). We devoured how-to books on everything from joinery to roof rafters. After pre-cutting lumber at our Hillside bungalow, we hauled the pieces in our yellow Travelall. We made our two elementary school-age children read aloud on what they thought were all-too-long 90-minute back and forth car rides, taken over a bunch of seventies summer vacations. The cabin morphed into a 24x36 box, on Sonotubes, with a covered porch and rough-cut cedar siding. Over the first winter our cottage shifted because we hadn't used enough diagonals in the roof trusses. With the help of the tool called a 'Come Along', and some friends, we pulled the cabin into vertical. Designing/building was fun but going there required arduous Friday car-packing sessions, followed by Monday uber-laundry washing. Hauling drinking water and using a 'Porta-Potty' grew old. Excess partying in oversized speed boats made canoeing dangerous on the lake. And pick-ups that would stop abruptly, on a very dusty road, to shoot road signs, grew irritating. So after twenty years we sold our cabin (Miller's Reach Fire, 1996, destroyed it) and found other ways to acquire rooting in Alaska. It is important to feel you belong, which brings me back to Nordstrom. Back in the seventies the store was fondly named, 'Bloomies of the North' (short for Bloomingdales). It reassured some of us who had come from American cities down-below we hadn't lost our make-believe sophistication, moving to Alaska. Christmas was especially hard on those who were used to Main Street USA, with urban department store window pageantry.  Nordstrom delivered a 'Norman Rockwell' holiday feel especially on December 24. Excitedly, as we hardly got any time to ourselves,Dave and I would leave the kids at home (bribing them with fast food and expectations of 'dancing sugarplums') and spend a rare shopping day together. Our first stop was Nordstrom where we would see everyone we knew riding the escalators. In the seventies Nordstrom had something for everyone and didn't care whether you were a Providence Hospital surgeon or a welder on the Slope, as long as you had money. The fine jewelry counter looked out at the heavy insulated snow clothes. My now worn blankets came from their linen department adjacent to the fur boutique. Nordstrom had acquired the store from Northern Commercial, 1975. They dropped tires, and red wagons, but we've kept their metal tricycle, a souvenir of bygone days. Nordstrom buyers were local and often wives whose husbands were on the Slope or women supplementing incomes because their freshly out of grad school husband-professionals weren't getting paid enough. I recall an Italian sales woman with a long black braid who ran around Nordstrom frantically, making sure packages got properly wrapped at the rear of the third floor, which she would then personally hand out—everyone knew her. Long before Anchorage had a variety of organic eateries, Nordstrom featured a unique café to lunch, a break while shopping. They had a 'Blue Plate Special'—soup, salad, half sandwich. Even though my toddlers loved hotdogs at JCPenney, Nordstrom had better ambiance --their clam chowder was very clammy.  Whether you were heading to a wedding, baby shower, or an office retirement, you went shopping at Nordstrom. Their steel gray paper bags were iconic. The Pipeline era saw the emergence of more formal soirées. Nordstrom knew women were wearing a ball gown once and then returning it; I'm sure they built the cost into the initial price. Store policy rose above rudeness, acquiring a reputation of not being a 'gun-point' shop that argued over returns. The eighties saw more women heading into high end jobs. Women judges and bank executives were seen lining up at the Clinique cosmetic counter for the latest lipstick or blush shades. Nordstrom had children's clothing from infants to Brass Plum teens. The children's shoe department was a battleground of screaming toddlers and harried moms. Those salespeople deserved 'medals of honor' as they patiently brought out towers of 'Stride Rite' shoe boxes. The sound of crinkling tissue paper and closing cardboard lids could be heard across the entire top floor. When the 5th Avenue Mall was built and Nordstrom became attached via a skybridge, they set up an afternoon tea/cookie area along with gourmet chocolates to entice those heading for the smaller boutique competition—smart retail. In spring 1988, my older daughter, Jennifer, was looking forward to her senior West High prom. I designed/sewed the gown from a blue cotton print with lamb chop sleeves, and a removable train-- my rite of passage as a mom. Needing accessories, we headed to Nordstrom to buy red high heels and chunky red beads. But, there were signs of Alaska's trendy lifestyles slowly evaporating. In 1989, Nordstrom closed their Fairbanks store which caused street demonstrations; some couples divorced with one of the former spouses leaving the state. In the late '90s, the summer Pipeline VECO-lawn-parties began to thin. Appearances by Uncle Ted would soon be ending along with red/white accessorized Marx Brothers pig roast barbecues. Cowboy boots, and ten gallon hats went South with North Slope oil slowing. Life in the forty-ninth state would need reworking, as reflected in shopping trends too. Twenty-first century shopping increasingly was transacted online with improved speed of returns followed by credit card refunds. Business suits, only needed for court appearances, got replaced by 'Business Casual' and now 'Athleisure' which could be bought cheaper at Costco and Target. With more frequent air travel at reduced prices, clothing and household goods could be ordered/purchased on a Los Angeles business trip or Palm Springs snow birding winter, and arrive back in Anchorage as personal baggage or a speedy freight delivery. Nordstrom buyers were no longer your neighbors but unknowns, located somewhere outside the state. With local sales people rapidly turning over, the store no longer knew its customers and quickly forgot that in Anchorage, blue collar workers often had more extra cash than those dripping in Gucci-Prada. Repairs made in the Anchorage Nordstrom also got outsourced, but not without hassles. Back story: Dave needed a suit mended. It was supposed to be sent to Nordstrom's Seattle in-house tailoring, but was mysteriously diverted to a woman in suburban Washington who went on vacation indefinitely. After much complaining we were able to phone a cab which picked up the suit (a relative with a door key had been located) and deliver it to Nordstrom repairs, at their downtown flag-ship. I stopped shopping at Anchorage Nordstrom about fifteen years ago, except for the occasional baby gift, after I had run into the men's department wearing a sweat shirt, and was ignored in favor of a guy in a double breasted jacket looking like he was about to board a yacht. Warm-Fuzzies everyone gets when driving by Nordstrom aren't enough to keep it in business, even if the store had joined in with the November 30 Earthquake fun-- breaking bottles of expensive perfume and losing bricks off its façade. It will really be sad to see another empty building, and a sign Anchorage needs to reshape its post-Pipeline psychological security blankets. Jean Bundy is a writer/painter in Anchorage  |
| Immortelle Beauty's vision comes to life - TT Newsday Posted: 29 Jun 2019 09:40 PM PDT  MICHELLE A ENG LEANG When did I first encounter Immortelle Beauty? Hard question to answer as it's one of the local beauty brands that has truly spread its wings. Was it one of the local markets? Or maybe a subscription box that showcased local brands. Fact is, this brand has been seen at local markets and on shelves around the country, including SuperPharm, since 2010 and its latest milestone is opening its own space at the Hotel Normandie in St. Anns. As soon as I walked in, the familiar indulgence that I have always associated with Immortelle Beauty greeted me, along with owner Kathryn Nurse. Nurse, a cosmetic chemist, founded the local brand with the aim of creating "little local luxuries" and as I looked around her new shop, the evidence that she achieved exactly that was all around us. Immortelle Beauty develops, manufactures three line of beauty and lifestyle products including Esscentials, which includes lotions, shower gels, spray oils, body butters, body polishes and more; Home Fragrances, which includes candles and diffusers and Foot Rehab which includes soaks, scrubs and creams all for the feet.
Prior to opening her space, Nurse sold her products through the local market circuit and many retailers around the country but admits that having her own space was always a part of her vision. "For Trinidadian customers, having a place to go is still very important. A lot of us entrepreneurs, have a very millennial mindset when it comes to selling online and not having a physical space. But many of the customers still really like having somewhere to go," said Nurse. She believes that not everyone is into social media and websites, so to stay completely digital as a brand may not be wise. "Having a space where we could brand completely was a huge benefit for us. From the minute you walk into the space, it starts communicating things about who we are as a business and as a brand, and the type of products that we sell and the type of people who we want to sell to. So because of that I always saw a store in my future." Nurse believes that physical shops still have their merit in the midst of all the digital and e-commerce innovation in today's world. "I don't really think bricks and mortar are necessarily on their way out. It's the kind of branded experiential bricks and mortar that are going to survive, and when I started to see the global retail industry and how it was moving, I knew that the space that I wanted to have, always needed to have some sort of experiential element."
For Nurse, the Immortelle Beauty vision has always been to show people the potential of local. "The vision of the business and my personal vision is to show people that just because it is Trinidadian, it doesn't mean that it can't be done in a sophisticated manner and to a specific standard or an international standard. So many people still think because it's local that it's trashy and basic and not complete. There are so many brands that are out there and people are not taking the initiative to find out about. I wanted to make sure to highlight some of those brands that are operating on our level in the store as well, so literally everything in the store and on the shelves are for sale. Including mine we have six local brands in the store but also we used a lot of local carpenters and sign makers. Everything in the store is made in Trinidad." With Immortelle Beauty achieving this milestone, I can only imagine how many other local brands may be looking on in awe. So I sought some words of wisdom from Nurse. "To people now starting out who have a vision to get their own space need to focus on building their clientele first. It doesn't make sense to get a space, to pay a rent and having no one coming into it. Social media is the best way for that right now. Build up your following on social media so that when you do in fact get your space, you have a captive market already there." As for any advice on building that social media presence as a young local brand? "To build up your social media following, just keep posting as much as possible. Even when you think things aren't of a great standard, put aside perfectionism and post it anyway. People aren't going to remember that the picture wasn't lit as well as you wanted it to be. They are going to remember that this brand continuously shows up and it's going to become a top of mind for them and they are going to remember your brand." The Immortelle Beauty shop features local brands such as Very Verde, Classy Gents, Kyle Naturals and The Inside Jungle.  |
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