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Does anyone have a good horror story about a facial/skin care class? Because Baroness von Facial-Penz was telling me a crazy story about one sick woman having diarrhea all over her bathroom at a facial, and I was so horrified! (She's got some good ones - maybe she'll share here?) And I was hoping we could keep this train wreck rolling by starting a thread about facials of terror! hee hee  |
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« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2006, 07:30:24 AM » |
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 I sure do!! I have a group of women who are technically very good customers. It's about 10 women who are friends and I never leave with less than $300 in sales. BUT they are idiots. Every time I am with them they are smoking weed and drinking cheap beer. They are usually drunk/high when I arrive. They are loud obnoxious and say ignorant things like: "this sh-ts godd but it aint cheap!" "I'll buy that but no sales tax!" They are always trying to barter with me cuz the one lady sells partylite candles. I have had to endure one woman throwing up (luckily not in my home), another peeing in the backyard right outside the window where everyone could see. They always want some obscure product (like mint foot lotion in january) and make my life miserable until all their orders are delivered. It's awful, every time they book with me I wish I could blow them off!  cocktail
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« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2006, 08:27:24 AM » |
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LOL sounds like a fun bunch!  But are you saying that you only sell $300 (retail) for a class of 10 women? That averages out to $30 per customer - so it doesn't sound like such awesome sales . Well, at least it doesn't sound like the "average" sales numbers that you hear when you are being recruited....  ha ha |
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« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2006, 10:16:35 AM » |
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No sorry I didn't explain well. There are 4 women that are best friends or something, they bring their mothers who are in their 70's-80's along every time. Sometimes They also invite one other woman and she is kind of nice, but doesn't usually come. So it's only 4 women actually buying, the mothers just eat and drink. I have to say it's mildly entertaining to watch 75 year old rednecks get drunk. They all live within walking distance of eachother. so when we are done I always know when to clear out, when their husbands stumble in the back door from drinking in the yard. Seriously it's bizarre. But they live in a town that is literally a street with some townie bars....it's a very backward area. They have terrible grammar and few teeth but strangely enough they like Mk. hmmmm  |
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« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2006, 10:20:31 AM » |
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The visual picture you are painting is....quaint? LOL
I'm trying to picture these 75 year old grannies getting stone drunk. Especially with the guys drinking out in the yard, too.... sheesh.
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« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2006, 12:39:36 PM » |
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I had two classes I would call horrors. The first one was where a woman came to the class immediately after being beat up by her boyfriend. He kept calling her on the cell phone during the class threatening to come over. I was so afraid this guy was going to show up with a gun.
I did another class where the family's SNAKE was loose in the house, and I am scared to death of snakes. I should have received an Oscar for my performance that night! I thought I would pee my pants!
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« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2006, 02:50:54 PM » |
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I'm still laughing over luckyone's redneck facials. I had a similar group. You know how you can NEVER get anyone to book off a party? Well... I did this party (still in suburbia) and this one gal, totally nice, is SO excited to host her own (I didn't even ask). I'm thinking "GREAT!" Nooooo.... She lives about an hour or so from me, but she's so excited and she's got 8 people coming. Great! To her trailer. With 6 or 7 dogs, and cats, and birds, and the requisite broken down cars in the yard. To which she explains that she's really not trailer trash (as if I would have said that, but she seems very concerned that I don't think that), that this is temporary. I just want to get the party done and get OUT. But, of course 2 of these women want to have a party. I have to come back to Deliverance land AGAIN. Did the next one - awful as the first, same type setting. Finally, I have the last one. Took me an hour and a half to get there. It was like that Gretchen Wilson song - complete with X-mas lights in summer, baby on the hip, chain smoking (through all 3 parties actually). Still, more dogs and dead cars. And, I got absolutely soaking wet in the rain trying to get their products out of my car. The diarrhea lady - her daughter brought her to my home for a double facial. She was huge and scary. She farted (very smelly) through the facial, and yelled at me repeatedly about she didn't like sales people and I better not try to push anything on her. Then, she just gets up and goes into my bathroom forever. I was so afraid to go in there after she left. It smelled awful and there was poop all over my toilet (and I don't mean just in the bowl). GAG! I've had lots of drunk parties, and lots of chain smokers. I had one woman who'd chain smoked her whole life - her face was a road map of wrinkles. She seriously wanted to know what products she could buy that would get rid of her wrinkles and not crease up in her face. Um. NONE. I had one where the woman brought her baby (which I didn't mind), but then whipped out a boob and started nursing while at the table cleansing her face. I had a hard time doing the class then. But that was before I had a baby and nursed, so after that, I whipped mine out in public all the time.  Just felt odd at the time. It was her 3rd child, so she was probably like I am now and didn't even think a thing about it. Motherhood cleanses you of all modesty! |
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« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2006, 05:50:15 PM » |
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hey - the boob-whipping would have freaked me out, too, before I had kids. Even now I don't just whip it out in public.  FightingFatigue's story about the lady who got beat up - now that's just awful. |
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« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2006, 07:45:53 PM » |
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I only had one skin care class my entire MK "career". But it was a still terrifying...the satin lips caused two of the ladies to have asthma attacks! They both started to wheeze and ran from the table to grab their rescue inhalers! The reaction was immediate and affected two of the four people in the class (both had a history of lots of allergies) - so I'm sure it really was something in the satin lips. I thankful I didn't kill them!
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« Reply #9 on: August 22, 2006, 06:53:28 AM » |
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 Baroness you describe it perfectly, DELIVERANCE! Yeah they always rebook also. I think to these people this really is a fun way to spend a Friday night! ick I just dovetailed a party with these people to my director. HAAAAA I am unavailable as I have a black tie nonprofit fundraiser. I did warn her that they drink and swear and smoke weed....she seems to think she can handle them. I have a feeling they won't buy much from her because she is much more structured in her classes, and insists on whole sets (will not just sell a moisturizer) and is basically much more by the book than I. But either way, my night is not ruined! although I will have to listen to a lecture from my director afterward about all the ways I am not handling this group the way I should. oh well
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« Reply #10 on: August 22, 2006, 07:13:15 AM » |
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[quote author=. The diarrhea lady - her daughter brought her to my home for a double facial. She was huge and scary. She farted (very smelly) through the facial, and yelled at me repeatedly about she didn't like sales people and I better not try to push anything on her. Then, she just gets up and goes into my bathroom forever. I was so afraid to go in there after she left. It smelled awful and there was poop all over my toilet (and I don't mean just in the bowl). GAG! Oh Baroness, I am laughing and gagging at the same time. Eeeeewwwwh! This has got to be one of the worst facials ever. I would've gagged through the whole thing! ..... and would've had to have paid someone to clean up the mess. I'm giving you Karma for this experience... you deserve it.!!! |
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« Reply #11 on: August 22, 2006, 02:05:14 PM » |
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Thanks!
I started having most of my facials in my home after I got tired of lugging all the crap around in my car (complete with melted lipsticks) and either having the crap scared out of me or just selling nothing. Obviously, having scary people come to your home is not a good option either!
You know, they never even discuss safety in MK. And, seriously, that's a huge issue. If a customer comes in a store, there's security, and you (the retailer) feasibly have someone to call or somewhere to go. If it's just going to a neighbor's or friend's house for a party, fine. But, when you're trying to "work your business" and you're going to people's homes that you don't even know, that's not safe (witness the abusive boyfriend story above!). And it's not safe to have them come to your home either.
My husband and I don't have our number listed and never have, and we started getting this scary stalker guy who called and threatened me, and then would call forever all the time after that. Sometimes, just leaving a message of breathing on our machine for as long as the machine would tape. The phone company wouldn't do anything about it. I'm sure he got my number because of MK.
Also, I once had this way weird guy call me and tell me this sob story about how he was a cross dresser and wanted a facial and some "good" makeup. He got my number from my MK web site. He insisted that I meet him someplace neutral where no one would know him (for his privacy's sake) - like a hotel. Um - NO!!! I told him if he wanted something, I'd mail it. He never called back. I think he was NOT a cross dresser, and you can all guess what he wanted.
None of these kinds of safety issues are ever talked about, and I just don't think it's safe to be throwing your card about and having strangers know all these things about you.
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« Reply #12 on: August 22, 2006, 02:39:54 PM » |
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Oh my! The guy was claiming to be a cross-dresser, but he wanted you to meet him in a HOTEL? Cripes - that is some scary stuff. |
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« Reply #13 on: August 22, 2006, 02:47:40 PM » |
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It was just bizarre. He went on and on about how he had to be discreet, because no one could know he cross-dressed. He whispered the whole conversation, as if someone could hear him.
I was trying to be professional and not laugh, because I thought maybe this was some sort of practical joke, but I didn't recognize the name or number on caller ID, and he did say he got my number off my web site. Then, we he started up about meeting at a hotel, I was like - gotta get off the phone NOW! Serious psycho I think. I wondered if he just then moved down the line and was calling random MK ladies from the web sites. Geez, what a stalker's dream. Access to the personal info of thousands of local women.
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« Reply #14 on: August 22, 2006, 06:46:21 PM » |
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The poopy lady story is just wrong. I had a friend w/ a clothing store who had the same thing happen. Too bad poopy lady stood up and turned around and bumped her poopy ass into the sink and the door and the wall. Sick
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