**DISCLAIMER** These are my OWN views and experiences, this may not apply to everyone**

From June 2015 to March 2016 I was a Younique presenter. By the time I left I was a pink status presenter (3rd promotion level) and had a team of 11 beautiful, dedicated women.

In the first few months after I signed up, I did nothing. Let’s face it, I was just being lazy. But from August I started selling properly and I hit it hard! By the end of September I had hit my second promotion.

During this time I completely and whole heartedly believed in the company, the products and the “Younique mission”. After all, how amazing it was to work for a company who’s mission was to ‘Uplift, Empower and Validate’ women! As a massive believer in women empowering women, I thought this was perfect for me!

However, pretty early on I found out that this was not the case. The Jealousy between some of my so called “team mates” was unreal! I was advancing faster than they were and earning more than they were, therefore they became jealous and vindictive. Regardless of their feelings towards me I helped them out as much as I could, after all, we’re supposed to be empowering each other right?

I did everything that was asked of me! Made the “inspiring quote pictures”, branded myself, made people believe that I was earning good money and loving life (even though that was not the case, you’re lucky to make £50 in one massive order!). In fact, my Green Elite Upline (the boss lady of our support group) drilled it into us often that we have to make people believe we are loving life. Her favourite phrase was “fake it till you make it”. If ever we were having a bad day we could never post this on our personal profiles as this could be damaging to our business! We were pretty much shaped into emotionless, obedient drones but still I did as I was told. I was a sheep, just a mindless worker following those leaders blindly.

Everything was going well for me, until I started questioning things and finding my own voice.

I had been a good example for my Upline but the second I started clocking on to the truth I was shunned almost immediately! If we had problems with any products we were basically told to shut up and not say anything about it. We had to adore literally everything but by this point, I was well and truly aware of the fact that 80% of the products I sold were absolutely shite! The ‘leaders’ started bitching about me, a lot of the team members had their opinions too! But let me tell you something.. That ‘Green Elite leader’. She was nothing but a fake.

She often shared pictures that were faked or edited, trying to pass them off as our product pictures. She definitely had her favourites in the group and if you weren’t one of them? Well, don’t try going to her for any support! If you weren’t making money for her you were worthless and expendable. She didn’t give a shit about any of us! The only reason she was ‘helping’ was for the pure fact that the more we sold, the more her pockets were lined! She even had a go at my friend because she didn’t get the orders that we were told to get and didn’t have the money to buy the products out of her own pocket! Remember, if you weren’t making money for her you were useless. There was even a time that I won a team challenge that she had set (most recruits in 3 months) and she wanted to hold it off so that I wouldn’t win! Totes fair right?

When the new products were launched we were not aloud to mention them until the day they came on sale, while our up lines were able to advertise them weeks in advance (so by the point they went on sale, a lot of people had already placed orders with the up lines. More money for them, no sales for us.)

The products themselves are overpriced as as previously mentioned 80% are completely horrid! But of course, as a presenter you are conditioned to love everything! (Please do extensive research before buying. Sample absolutely everything before committing).

Majority of the presenters who are doing well don’t even do so by traditional sales! They bulk buy so they can get the sales and promotions from it then sell them to other presenters on stock sites! Those who don’t do that make their sales by raffling products off in presenter only raffle groups!

I could go on for days but I’ll stop here now. I’m not the only one with completely shit experiences! Just ask around and you will find people!

The only good thing that came from this experience was meeting some truly amazing women. I wish those women the greatest of fortune and hope they have far better experiences than I did!

xo