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On 07 Aug 2023, Transexual DeSanctimonious <nowomr@protonmail.com>
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Nobody with any intelligence is going to call this fat sow a beauty influencer.

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Just weeks after landing herself in yet another social media scandal,
beauty influencer Jaclyn Hill issued a surprising announcement on
YouTube: She’s shutting down several of her brands.

“It’s taken me a while to get to the place to have the confidence and
the vulnerability to sit down and have this conversation with you guys,”
Hill said in the teary-eyed video. “But I want to talk to you about
what’s been going on in my personal life and behind the scenes of the
camera that has led to me making the decision — on my own — to shut down
both Jaclyn Roxanne Jewelry and my Koze comfort line.”

Hill, whose real name is Jaclyn Torrey, first became known in 2011 after launching a beauty channel on YouTube. Her videos quickly became so
popular that, over the next 12 years, Hill grew her audience to more
than 5.5 million subscribers, plus nearly 10 million followers on
Instagram and TikTok. Along the way, she launched multiple beauty and lifestyle-related brands; but her rise to fame didn’t come without some
drama.

Hill has been mired in multiple controversies over the years — including
her most infamous one in 2019 when customers claimed that a lipstick
from her newly launched makeup brand, Jaclyn Cosmetics, arrived broken,
lumpy and even dirty.

At the time, Hill apologized to anyone dissatisfied with the product but insisted there was nothing wrong with her lipsticks.

“My lipsticks are not moldy. They are not hazardous. They are not
contaminated. They are not unsafe for you in any way, shape or form,”
said Hill. “Every single ingredient in my lipstick is new and is
FDA-approved.”

Still, not everyone was happy with how she handled things.

According to WWD, Hill momentarily deleted her social media accounts,
and the Jaclyn Cosmetics website was even briefly taken down after the
brand initially promised full refunds to any customer who wanted one.

Hill referenced the scandal last month in an Instagram post that was
apparently meant to be lighthearted. But instead, she was immediately
slammed.

“POV: You’re still using Jaclyn Hills ‘contaminated’ lipsticks four
years later,” the influencer says in the July 19 video, during which she applies the lipstick while out at a restaurant.

One commenter on Instagram called it the most “vile” thing she’d ever
seen.

“You’re mocking a situation that put a lot of people in an uncomfortable manner, including myself,” wrote @iamskullsandbones. “This is so
disgraceful, distasteful and horrid.”

In her YouTube announcement over the weekend, Hill insisted that she’s
always taken the lipstick debacle seriously and that the entire
situation still “haunts” her. She also claimed that she’d made jokes
about it over the years as a way to cope with the “trauma” that it’s
caused her.

That said, she says she knows the initial situation was no joke.

“There’s actually nothing funny about it whatsoever,” Hill admitted in
the 17-minute video. “There’s nothing funny about the way I handled it.
There’s nothing funny about what came of it.”

Hill said that building a makeup brand had always been her dream, but
after the lipstick debacle, she became “zombie-like,” doing the
“absolute bare minimum” as a founder and CEO.

“I fell into a depression, and when I say that, I don’t say that
lightly,” the influencer confessed, adding that she turned to alcohol to
cope and gained well over 40 pounds as a result.

“The way I handled the lipsticks is the biggest regret of my entire
life,” Hill continued. “It’s not just like I gave up on cosmetics — I
gave up on myself.”

Instead of focusing more on her cosmetics brand, Hill said that she let
her team “float” her instead and quickly launched several other brands
as a way of “proving” herself to her followers. But in recent years,
she’s come to realize that those additional brands aren’t actually
bringing her any happiness.

“I just want to get back to creating content and having a friendship
here and having fun with you guys,” Hill continued. “Something that has
nothing to do with pushing my brands!”

The confessional-style video has gone super viral in the last four days, getting more than 548,000 views. But the vast majority of comments
haven’t been positive.

Many followers said they no longer have sympathy for Hill — and not just because of her lipstick drama.

In the past year, she’s also been accused of “stealing” the branding of
another smaller business known as “All Things Koze” in order to create
her Koze line.

“Man imagine not taking accountability and making someone else shut down
their business just to shut down yours less than a year later…,” one
YouTube commenter wrote.

“That lipstick launch was in fact her legacy,” another YouTube commenter
added. “When you don’t know what you’re doing, it shows and when you
treat other brands so cruel, that shows your character.”

One commenter said Hill is “what happens when the mean girl becomes an influencer.” Another said that “these brands are not bringing me
anything” is code for “they’re not making me any money.”


Many people also took issue with the way Hill ended the video — by
plugging “one last” product launch before she shut things down.

“Such a good salesman,” one person commented on the video. “Says she
hates having to make content about selling products. Says she’s closing
her brands, tries to apologize, then SELLS MORE PRODUCTS.”

Though fans remain skeptical of Hill’s true intentions here, the
influencer seems adamant that she’s turned a new leaf.

“I definitely feel ashamed and like I blew it, and that might be the
case,” Hill admitted toward the end of the clip. “But I’m going to own
up to it and own my s***, and, at this point, it’s like, ‘Let’s just see
what the future holds.'”

https://news.yahoo.com/multiple-scandals-beauty-influencer-jaclyn-2130172 09.html

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