 Marlena Stell aka Makeup Geek just released her video for Truth in Makeup talking about her pledges to the beauty community and I just it just doesn't sit well with me and I just I don't trust her and I'm gonna explain why. What is up everybody this is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel my channel is not a drama channel I am a channel that is all about helping you improve your mental health but what I try to do is take things from the community and teach you how you can improve your mental health by recognizing that you might be going through the same stuff that's going on so if you're into that kind of stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell so real quick before I jump into this video like it's there's always this internal conflict like I just want to let you all know like I am leaps and bounds above where I used to be before I started working on my mental health but like I'm still a wacky guy up here right and there's these things that I have these internal conflicts about but you know that's part of being human and one of the things that I get conflicted about is talking about these types of stories and there's this thing called negative bias right we are we are more prone to focus on the negativity rather than the positivity okay and and as many of you who enjoy these videos I can hone in on the few comments that are that are like I don't like this Chris I don't like this your mental health channel what are you doing while you're making videos about this and and there's maybe there's maybe like two or three of them that I've come across but then there's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of like positive comments and and like that's that's something that a lot of us struggle with and leave comments down below like let me know like are you one of those people where if in a sea of positivity you can hone in on the one or two negative things right like that's something I struggle with so I always struggle with like making these videos and like right before recording this and after watching Marlena's video I'm like should I make this like I don't want to be a drama channel and and I'm not I'm not and you know I want to give another shout out to my girlfriend's best friend Shelby because you know we're in a little group text and we talk about stuff and you know I show them like you know some of the comments that I get and things like that and you know whatever and and Shelby Shelby if you're watching this I think you will I don't think Shelby watched many of my videos okay I have over 400 videos on my channel I don't think she watched many of them she's been watching a lot of my videos lately because I'm pulling in these situations from the beauty community something that she's interested in but Shelby said something in our group text the other day and she said like I really enjoy what you're doing because you can take something that I can relate to and then I can reflect on myself and say okay where do I need to improve what am I doing and I'm like yes yes yes yes so you know like I know I made a video an entire video about this when I talked about the blind girl Molly Burke like sometimes you gotta wrap something up in a different package just to give people the help that they need you know so as much as I might have these like little internal conflicts about this like I don't know it helps a lot of people it brings people in so they can improve their life but anyways like that's the first couple minutes of the video I've talked too long about that but I do like to keep you guys in the know of what goes on with my own mental health and the things I struggle with and things like that and that way I can kind of show you what I do to overcome them and and do different things to like keep my sanity and keep my happiness and serenity and peace and all these other things but anyways my Linus Dell just released her video for truth and makeup and she wanted to clarify a bunch of things and you know she wanted to make her pledges to the beauty community and the overlying tone of this video is I want to talk about my black and white thinking okay black and white thinking for those of you who do not know it's it's a it's a thought process that people struggle with okay where somebody is in an all good category or an all bad category okay and I'm struggling right now because I put Marlena in an all good category but when I saw the video from Melray Segal and her follow-up video Marlena has gone into the all bad category and what happens for those of us with black and white thinking is the person has to do like this grand act in order to go back to the other category of being all good but the problem is is that we've set up guidelines in our brain that oftentimes the other person's not even aware of in order for them to get back into that good category and I hope that makes sense and anybody out there who struggles with black and white thinking it probably makes perfect sense to you all right so that's what I'm struggling with with Marlena I it's hard it's hard for me to believe her and trust her with what she's saying until what is what happened with Melray Segal until that's addressed it's hard for me to see Marlena in a good light which is crazy to me it's crazy because I'm very over analytical okay not only am I over analytical but I analyze people all right and I don't trust people I have a lot of trust issues I need to make videos on that and when you have somebody like Marlena who is making a ton of money who is a business owner and like her pledges are to support small influencers she made a hashtag for truth and beauty she says you go post that with your makeup look they will send you free makeup and things like that and I'm always questioning people's motives and I know all of you are too like this is a human issue this is this is something people do all the time like we're constantly questioning people's motives why are you doing that right so my brain since Marlena is in this all bad category right it's saying like she's only doing this so she can get more exposure she's only giving people free makeup so she can get more exposure she's giving free makeup on the off chance that these these smaller influencers are going to start to spread the word about makeup geek even though she said and her words said we're not doing this to make money when I do we're giving out free makeup we want to support small influencers stuff I'm like but what is your motive right but when it comes to black and white thinking before I saw no race seagulls video I would have just looked at this video from Marlena and said oh my god this is amazing she's supporting small influencers this is amazing this is incredible you see what I mean like this is something that we struggle with with people in our lives right like when they switch over to that other side it's hard for us to trust anything that they say and one of the ways I combat my black and white thinking with people in everyday life because I don't know Marlena like I don't buy makeup like it doesn't matter for me but like I take these situations and I'm like sitting here I'm like oh man like who else am I doing with it this within my life right and I talked about my black and white thinking in a video not too long ago like I'm involved in the YouTube community and there's a lot of people in the YouTube community who have switched from one side to the other in my brain because I'm still kind of a crazy person now some of you might be like what are you talking about with no race seagull well I am really surprised that no way seagull's videos have not exploded more than they already have basically what happened was no race seagull was paid $100 to use some of their makeup and model for it or whatever and they told her we're gonna promote you and stuff like that no way just you know she wanted the promotion for it and they have been using her image and all these other things but not crediting her at all and this upset her so she made a video about it she also sent them a cease and desist okay so they took her images down all right so like it would be crazy for anybody to think that Marlena is not aware of this situation that happened with malray seagull so in Marlena's video she said if you have ideas of what I can do or how I can help you know make the beauty community better and like I left a comment I'm like I really think that you need to set things right with malray seagull so I'm gonna lump this into my playlist of how to apologize like no race seagull was hurt okay her view her opinion of makeup geek has vastly changed my opinion of Marlena as the person has vastly changed because of that situation Marlena talks so much about supporting smaller influencers and all these other things in her video and and it's like since we like it is pretty safe to say that Marlena is aware she is aware of this cease and desist she needs to reach out to malray seagull directly because I do feel that Marlena is a good person I assume that whatever happened with malray seagull and the image and everything like that it was not like Marlena sitting in like a mansion going haha I'm gonna screw this little beauty influencer over I don't think that's what happened but I feel that Marlena should reach out to malray and say yo I'm sorry about that what can I do to help you I'm on this whole kick about supporting smaller influencers I want to get you more attention you do such an amazing job that we used your image how can I help you what can I do for you right now that's all Marlena can do that's it no way seagull might still be hurt she might still be hurt about it and she might tell Marlena no kick rocks and that's cool but that act that Marlena would do would would get me back on Marlena's side and and like I said I don't mean like this is nowhere this is not intended to be any type of drama video or anything but like let's say this let's say you know somebody in your life who struggles with black and white thinking I hope this video kind of gets you into the mind of somebody who has black and white thinking and have a better understanding I also want you to realize like when it comes to apologizing and trying to repair our image or who we are and set things right like I used to be a very terrible person I'm not saying Marlena is a terrible person but I used to be a very terrible person and I would just constantly sweep things under the rug just under the rug here it goes maybe nobody noticed this maybe not that many people realize this right but like we remember people remember right but I was making my image even worse way back in the day when I used to be a terrible person just by trying to ignore things and skirt around things and and stuff like that you know what I'm saying and that's not that's not a good way to live like I gotta be open honest about all sorts of things and like those of you who are my loyal subscribers like and have been around for a while or those of you who are my new loyal subscribers a lot of you know my true intentions you know you know my true motives I made an apology video yesterday and it meant a lot to me when people were like Chris I know that you didn't mean that you know what I mean and again like I don't know maybe someday I'll make a video about it but the comments in my apology video they're screwing me up again going back to that negative bias there was so much positivity in those comments and I'm honing in on the negative ones you know but anyways anyways I'm gonna quit babbling because I'm in this whole like just wacky kind of mindset where I'm in the mood to talk and so I'm gonna end this video but I want to hear your comments down below if you struggle with black and white thinking your thoughts your opinions whatever you got let's have a conversation down below all right but if you like this video please be sure to give it a thumbs up and again if you're new here my channel's all about helping you improve your mental and emotional well-being make sure you subscribe ring that notification bell and I want to send a 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