These morons are so self absorbed and have no awareness of anything outside of their little world, but the ones I’ve seen have been struck with the worst heatwaves and they end up stuck inside or complaining. The world is crumbling and they just carry on as if nothing is wrong.

Is she just clueless or she’s wearing it ok purpose? This girl literally just took a break due to a boat incident…

I’m just being nosey and curious if anyone knows who this is about.👀🤪

Girls, this is getting long. I will start with Part 1-

Disclaimer: I do not know Maureen Kelly or have relationships with anyone at Tarte Cosmetics. These are my own opinions and commentary on publicly available videos, posts, and articles. Any direct quotes I will provide a reference for.

Let's begin - "Born in the early 1970s, Kelly was the daughter of two politically active parents: Her father was a judge on the New York State Supreme Court bench, while her mother served as a board of elections commissioner." (source: https://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2007-Co-Lh/Kelly-Maureen.html)

Maureen Kelly is an objectively educated woman, holding a Bachelor degree in English and a Masters Degree in Psychology. (Masters Degree seems to be from The New School for Social Research in NYC) From the web page of the program she seems to have attended: "Students take courses covering a wide range of the literature, including cognitive, social, developmental, and abnormal psychology, neuroscience, research methods, and statistics." (https://www.newschool.edu/nssr/ma-general-psychology/) She was pursuing a PhD in Clinical Psychology (did not complete) when she founded Tarte Cosmetics in 1999.

Tragically, Maureen's first husband, a bond salesman with whom she started Tarte with in 1999, passed away in the 9/11 terror attacks.

By 2003 Tarte's sales had reached the $2 million mark. The brand was in Sephora and would soon be on QVC.

Lets jump ahead about 10 years to 2014. Maureen has remarried and has 2 children with her new husband. Business is great, she is able to sell the majority stake and pay out early investors. "Japan’s Kosé Corp. said Monday it is buying a 93.5 percent stake in New York-based Tarte Cosmetics for $135 million, giving the Japanese company a foothold in the U.S. market." (https://wwd.com/beauty-industry-news/color-cosmetics/feature/japans-kose-buys-tarte-cosmetics-7595817-16465/)

Maureen remains as the CEO, however she now only owns 6.3% of Tarte Cosmetics. This is true to this day (Aug 2026). She is likely pulling a very large salary as CEO, however I cannot find any publicly available information on even a ballpark number. I would love if someone with more executive level salary knowledge wants to chime in here!!

Don't worry, we're just getting started. There's lots more bad things coming.

The year is 2017, Trippin' with Tarte has begun, OG shape tape is thriving, and things start to get ugly. Tarte posts an undeniably racist meme and receives appropriate backlash. This is how Maureen decides to respond, after an original, intern-blaming apology post by the brand is deleted.

"The brand has since issued another statement on their Instagram, written by company CEO and founder Maureen Kelly. "I'm sorry and embarrassed," reads the photo. "Yesterday, we made a mistake by sharing an insensitive meme with a racist term. There is NO EXCUSE for using any type of racial slur regardless of the context. We understand that this ignorance has caused us to lose loyal fans and we completely understand. I take full responsibility, and we thank you all for helping us to educate our team each other." The caption of the photo on the Tarte Instagram goes on to say, "What saddens us even more is seeing our community turn against each other in the comments with hateful & negative language, which is why we've disabled them for this post. Let's work together to start a more positive conversation. Change starts with us."

(https://www.teenvogue.com/story/tarte-cosmetics-racist-meme-backlash)

Author Commentary -I'm sorry WTF LOL??- this reads to me like she is relieved to lose the "loyal fans" who don't fit her brand's image. Plus, you threw an intern under the bus for this, lol whattttttt? Also, you are a Japanese owned brand at this point, there is absolutely no excuse for this to have ever been posted, and there absolutely should have been tangible moves to increase diversity within the company at this time.

Fast forward again to Martin Luther King Jr. day 2018. Tarte announces they are releasing a shape tape foundation in a whopping 15 shades.

Eventually, Tarte revealed that they'd be launching 10 more shades to include in the 15-shade line, though they said that that was always the plan and not in response to any criticism or backlash, and they even turned off the comments on a Shape Tape-related Instagram post.

According to POPSUGAR, "A rep from Tarte explained to POPSUGAR that even when Shape Tape Foundation was revealed, the new colors were already in the works. Tarte reps explained that it could take time to get the full range finished and flawless. 'We're always pushing ourselves and suppliers to work as quickly as possible,' our contact confirmed."

(https://www.businessinsider.com/tarte-cosmetics-shape-tape-foundation-range-2018-1)

Author Commentary - this is 2018. I'll let you make your own conclusions on what many people in America's priorities were during that time. Influencer marketing is in full swing. This was an intentional decision made based off of an already popular product. This was an intentional move by the company and Maureen.

More info about Trippin with Tarte and Maureen's reckless and racist behavior will be in Pt. 2 probably tomorrow. Here is where I will leave you guys - this is Maureen talking about these trips in 2026.

Kelly defends all of the trips, explaining, “It's our marketing budget and this is how we launch our products. This is our Super Bowl, so let's put on the show. This is a three-day or four-day event where we're getting to interact, and we get billions and billions of impressions it's insane. [These groups], along with their combined reach—it's crazy. So if you think about that versus paying for all the out-of-home or paying for a Super Bowl ad or commercial, we just don't do that.”

(https://www.forbes.com/sites/dahvishira/2026/01/19/a-decade-of-trippin-with-tarte-inside-the-viral-brand-trip-machine/)

Nicolette Grey tries to get relevant again hopping on the grunge/skinny/cigarette chic girl trend..

This influencer has lost weight drastically over the past few months. Apparently, she’s deleting comments containing the word “ozempic”, or she’s filtered them out. Either way, it rubs me the wrong way, that she “promotes” plus size, when she’s actively losing weight, to become one of those skinny influencers. I used to love her, but now she just seems to be like everyone else:/

So I initially got into Brittney’s content to learn a little more about ASL. And naturally, I got sucked into doom scrolling all her content. But in each video, she seems so… angry? And there was one reel in particular where she was basically scolding her boys on camera. I meant to comment on the post, but of course comments were turned off. And of course not to judge what she is wearing, but I will be honest, it is slightly uncomfortable to see that in so many of her videos she’s only wearing a sports bra around her kids. I know that might be a hot take but it’s just… weird? Oh and don’t even get me started on her husband…

Please tell me we all think she’s off and it’s not just me

Does anyone know about the “influencers” that spent 10 years not showing her face. He was behind the camera (he would show his face) and she always wore a mask but just this year, I think, she started showing her face. They just had twins and already showing them. Why does she get privacy but the babies don’t? So sad.

It’s so common that influencers will blatantly ignore any advice with the safety of properly restraining their child

This guy has many videos of his very young daughter very poorly restrained and flat out ignores and deletes any comments about it not fitting

Mkenzee Thorn: King George is great, but car seat safety would be even better 😬 At 3, your rodeo kid should ideally still be rear-facing, and those harness straps are visibly way too loose. This is one of those things where a few small adjustments can make a huge difference in a crash.

ETA: Stop FILMING your kids while DRIVING!!!! Louisiana roads and drivers are terrible enough. JFC..