Deary, deary me!!
I am not qualified in any way to speak of mental illness, so I won't speculate.
What a shame for the whole Deciem team. They must be frightened and demoralised by the dark turn the brand is taking.
EL are either going to look for an exit strategy or try a hostile takeover to protect their investment. Firing a CFO, unless there are strong grounds for doing so based on performance, will be ringing alarm bells with all the company's investors, not just EL.
Sometimes the entrepreneur who started the venture is not the one to keep it going. Instead of nurturing the company, he appears to have started a fire. He seems hell-bent on pouring gasoline on that fire.
What a crying shame. Exciting and abnormal is one thing but this is beyond that. Far, far, far beyond that.
It will be interesting to see what the social media beauty community reaction will be. Brandon was interviewed a month or so back by Nadine Baggott and had to keep interrupting him to stay on track. Caroline Hirons commented somewhat on her last empties video... I probably won't bother much with the US beauty bloggers as there's normally too much drama there already.
If nothing else I would send Brandon on a good holiday somewhere restful and without internet access for a week or so to process things and gain some perspective.
Hi maymorganlondon
I agree with what you said about not being qualified to talk about MH,
neither am I (not a doctor) and I only have my own experiences and my own thoughts,
and it is kind of bad manners to share them really,
and in a lot of ways, that means that I can't really get involved talking about sheddign any light onto this,
as that would inevitably stary into bad manners or unqualified territory ....
the CFO wasn't fired, but resigned, but still, agree bad news ....
EL may have palced on of those bets were they win, whichever way it goes,
if Deciem goes under, the disruptor who started to undermine pricing in the beauty market, of wich EL own a big slice,
then they may win by having neutralised that disruption ...
it is not an unusual strategy to hedge your risk and back both sides of a power struggle .....
on theat Nadine Bagott interview, I saw that when it came out,
and I don't think it was a fair representation,
Nadine kept interrupting him, and it seemed like she was very excited to talk about herself,
and what she knew, and her expertise etc, and that she knew about science etc
and he was super polite and well behaved there
and Nadine's own followers kept saying in the comments 'wish you woudl have let him finish some sentences' etc
anyhoo, that is my take, but Nadine may have felt critised by her viewers, and being bezzies with Caroline,
they went a tad 'mean girls' there imho
agree with the a lot of your post though otherwise
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