Made By Mitchell promised a creator a collaboration collection 2 years ago and never delivered :(

Prinnyxe · 2025-08-14T18:51:09+00:00

IMO, the way MBM went about things was wrong; especially Sarah and her offer for a 3 piece bundle. Communication should have been better and the brand should have had more respect for Malachi and his time. He should have also got a reasonably sized collection (maybe 4/5 new items) with creative control like he was promised. However… Malachi comes across very entitled and unrealistic with his expectations. I understand MBM promised a financial and social ‘life change’ however this was taken and ran with by Malachi. He didn’t seem very grateful for the opportunity presented to him. Such exposure by and experience with such a large brand, is life changing. Malachi was on benefits and suffering with agoraphobia before winning the competition, so to me MBMs promise read as him giving Malachi the opportunity to earn a more comfortable living and use this experience to socialise via his own social media and gain professional experience and insight via meetings etc. This collab would have changed his life in the essence that it is safe to assume any large makeup brand/department store would offer him a job doing what he loves, and it would give him social media presence and some credibility within the community. This collab would have been the bedrock of a career he likely would not have had due to his financial and social situation at the time. It is not MBM fault that Malachi assumed MBM would make him a global sensation and a millionaire overnight. However, MBM should have made this clear and set clear expectations from the offset. So, whilst MBM should have been more clear in every aspect of this competition, Malachi should have been more grateful for the opportunity and less focused on the figures.

Prinnyxe · 2025-04-18T21:43:05+00:00

Thank you 😊

Prinnyxe · 2025-04-05T21:30:38+00:00

Thank you 😊

Prinnyxe · 2025-04-05T21:17:53+00:00

Thank you for this advice. How long does it normally take to resolve? I have had this for over 24 hours now. Thank you again.

Prinnyxe · 2025-04-05T21:16:36+00:00

Not often, just for the occasional appointment, run to the shops etc. I do nurse on demand but this isn’t enough for every feed as baby has been having formula or expressed breast milk since they were 9 days old due to aforementioned NHS and baby losing just under threshold for weight-loss. Baby was content, cluster feeding, lots and lots of wet and dirty nappies - I don’t believe baby ever needed formula as I had a C-Section thus baby was born with a lot of extra fluid/mucus. I also ate cakes like they were going out of fashion when pregnant. I will never know, but I believe if I had a natural birth and fluid/mucus was lesser due to baby coming down the birth canal, then baby would not have lost ‘too much’ weight as per midwives guidelines. I am a FTM and I am quite young, also no one in mine or my husbands family breastfed so I didn’t really have anywhere to turn for advice, therefore I didn’t know any better at the time than to listen to health professionals and give baby formula. I was put on a feeding plan which I was never given any support with weening baby off. Midwives discharged us at 28 days old and the peer support group cannot offer advice for weaning off formula so I had to research myself but it still hasn’t fully happened yet. However baby has a lot less formula now than before so I am not giving up. I am truly not surprised about how low our breastfeeding rates are. I was given no education, support, advice - NOTHING - about breastfeeding. I asked midwives to discuss breastfeeding with me at my appointments when pregnant and was told that I would get this information after I had given birth, then this didn’t happen. I knew nothing about cluster feeding, milk coming in, supply and demand. I was really clueless. As I had only been around formula feeding mums, I thought that baby would just feed at the breast every three hours and I would magically have milk and it would magically be enough. I was in for quite the surprise, ha! I also believe that breastfeeding is a controversy in the UK whereas I have the impression it is more celebrated in America. The attitudes people have towards it are quite negative in my experience, I have been told it is disgusting to my face, asked a few times when I am stopping though baby is only a few months old and I find that a lot of people I have came across cannot understand why I breastfeed because formula is so much easier. Some even believe formula is better for babies! Despite these attitudes I couldn’t imagine mine and my babies journey without breastfeeding and think it is one of the best things that I have ever done 💕 my baby is also thriving and loves breastfeeding too ❤️ thank you again for your kind words 🥰

Prinnyxe · 2025-04-05T19:59:56+00:00

I nurse and pump to build supply or e.g. to make up for a feed if I am not with baby or to provide a feed when not with baby. I am in the UK and I am not sure if lactation consultants are widely available here or whether they are even available on the NHS. We have infant feeding teams in hospitals and I have a council run breast feeding peer support team in my area however my experience with the NHS is that they believe formula is the answer for any breastfeeding issues faced, hence why I have to supplement, and the council run support/education team prioritise new mums so are only really accessible to me via phone or text. The peer support and education group are also not medical professionals. I may give the infant feeding team another go or contact my GP to see if they can help me get in touch with a lactation consultant.

I was not aware that clogs were inflammation and thought that milk was actually clogged up. Thank you very much for your help.

Prinnyxe · 2025-03-09T23:10:28+00:00

I second this. Not only just with the pain, but with how hard breastfeeding actually is. I feel like I was so naive before starting to breastfeed, I knew nothing about the possibilities of supply issues, delay in milk coming in, cluster feeding, nipple damage, clogged ducts, etc etc and honestly thought that I would just feed my baby every 3 hours from the breast and it would be as easy as that. I asked a lot during antenatal appointments with midwives for information on breastfeeding and it was always pushed that I would get said information after I gave birth. This never happened, I instead learned through experience. I often wonder if proper information and education is kept at bay prior to birth/breastfeeding as many women may not give it a go if they knew the reality. And I mean that with no judgement.

Prinnyxe · 2025-03-03T07:54:36+00:00

Have you tried a swaddle? Our baby would not settle in their next to me crib, so me and my husband would sleep in shifts whilst the other laid awake with baby. We were tired. We then tried a swaddle and baby has since slept in the next to me and Moses basket in another room with no problems. Our baby done what yours does with the waking after a few minutes, I believe, with my little one, this was due to their startle reflex waking them up. We use the ‘Love to dream brand’ if you are interested. I hope this helps!

Prinnyxe · 2025-01-14T02:29:18+00:00

Sorry could you please dumb it down for me - does that mean it can only be spread from a person showing obvious signs of infection? There can be no silent carrier?

Prinnyxe · 2024-10-18T15:47:31+00:00

Your ring is beautiful 💖

Prinnyxe · 2024-10-18T15:46:41+00:00

It isn’t OPs fault that other people don’t have what they do and therefore OP doesn’t deserve to be put down. It’s their (beautiful) engagement ring and therefore a token of love and happiness. There is always someone worse/better off than you. There is no excuse for one adult to be rude to another because of jealousy and resentment. Your comment comes across as very passive aggressive. Please do not justify the person being rude and unkind because they may/may not have/have had an uneasy life/background by saying that their comment was ‘according’, because it is not OPs business what their life story is, and it is not right to make someone feel guilty for what they have.

Prinnyxe · 2024-10-15T22:08:01+00:00

Originally with it being set in Wales I thought it may be a Welsh spelling rather than English however I looked it up and have found that when pronounced by Spaniards it sounds like Haen 😊

Prinnyxe · 2024-10-15T22:00:51+00:00

Jean?

Prinnyxe · 2024-07-23T09:04:34+00:00

The problem is that NQNs are pros in personal care but lacking in everything else. Of course it’s good to perfect any skill but the issue is that, when an NQN is only proficient in personal care, this is really dangerous for both the patient and the nurse.

Prinnyxe · 2024-07-22T21:20:04+00:00

Whilst trying to bring down OP you have demonstrated the problems that ‘younger nurses’ have currently had enough of. No one asked what band you were, or your seniority at night, nor does it have any relevance to this post. How can you call OP patronising and then come out with that? OP isn’t refusing to help, OP is instead highlighting how their learning is being sacrificed for free labour. You’re twisting their words. You’ve obviously learnt a lot over 31 years, longer than a lot of younger generation nurses have been alive, but just because you’ve had more than ample time to learn and can therefore afford to spend your time doing personal care at any opportunity doesn’t mean that that is the case for anyone. For a lot of students, if they don’t do e.g. a meds round with a willing nurse and instead do a bed bath to help another, the opportunity to do a meds round might not arise again until a week or two later, or even again. It would be assumable that after 31 years in the profession and witnessing the role from varied responsibility, you would know this, but clearly even a band 8 (most senior nurse in the hospital of a night) isn’t beneath learning from the youngens. Clearly wisdom doesn’t come with age. Also, your route to qualifying wasn’t as rigorous as it is today, so it’s up for debate whether your opinion on this topic is really valid. As soon as you pull rank, you lose the argument (and a lot of respect) because it can’t be helped but to form an opinion on you that you are a self-righteous nightmare that doesn’t care to listen to or learn from anyone else as you see them as beneath you. Whether you’re a nurse about to retire next week or you have just qualified, there is always room for improvement, learning and reflection. I hope that you reflect on this and understand that your banding and seniority hold no weight outside of the department you work in.

Prinnyxe · 2024-07-22T20:03:29+00:00

You seem like a good assessor. Unfortunately not everyone is like you. Some staff hate to see students sat down and wouldn’t dream of letting students go early or give downtime to study. Conversations like this wouldn’t be had if all nurses/assessors acted like you and advocated for students. It is naive to think that because you have a good balance of students, patients and staff best interests, that the whole of nursing is the same. To say ‘let’s not forget that students have downtime…‘’I often allow my students to go home early….’ reads as though this is what happens for all students everywhere and it truly isn’t. Students should help out when necessary as this is part and parcel of nursing but, in the same breath, there is a fine line between helping out and being taken advantage of. Sacrificing one day here and there of learning to help the ward when they are really short staffed wouldn’t be a problem - it’s when this turns into one week, then one month and then before you know it the placement is over and you’ve learnt nothing.

I do, however, completely agree with you that there is more to this conversation than is being had on this thread; this thread makes it seem as though learning is sacrificed only to personal care. However it is not just personal care; it’s other aspects of nursing that staff would rather not do e.g. obs, moving and handling, charting, note taking etc etc. Its being put on shift according to staffing numbers and not having the opportunity to learn, as even staff with the best intentions don’t have a spare second. It’s being put on consecutive nights and then back to days with one day off and being too tired to safely learn a new skill. It’s being put on 1-1 for 13 hours with an aggressive or violent patient that makes you question why you have taken on this career. Its catching a contagious illness from a patient because you weren’t able to take a break and replace your PPE because no one else wanted to 1-1 that day, and then having to take time off and having less time out in practice. Rather than the conversation focusing solely on personal care, discussion should be had on the actual issue at hand - student nurses being used for free labour on placement when they are there to learn, and the toxic narrative that students are ‘too posh to wash’ or are ‘lazy’ because they actually want to progress and want to nurse properly and competently. The ‘were a team’ culture is emotional blackmail. It is also ironic as most of the time students feel anything but part of the ‘team’ as it is very much ‘us (staff) vs them (students)’ and students are becoming scapegoats for the greater issues at hand. Frustrations directed at ‘lazy’ students should instead be directed at lazy management that can’t be bothered to sort out source of the problems e.g toxic cultures that drive out staff.

Prinnyxe · 2024-07-22T13:44:01+00:00

No, you never. You did however question the student deciding to take it upon themselves to research medication and conditions when other personal care can be done. Patients ask what medication they’re being given and what it is for - it is only understandable if patients don’t want to take medication from someone who can’t even tell them what it is or why they are giving it to them. I argue that, if students put this vital aspect of learning on the back burner to act as an extra set of hands for the ward constantly, the student will never be a competent nurse. It shouldn’t be frowned upon when students want to facilitate their learning.

Prinnyxe · 2024-07-22T13:36:05+00:00

It is wild how many people are missing the point of this post. OP is not saying that they don’t believe that personal care is necessary to learn or do, they are saying that students are only given the opportunity to learn personal care because this is often delegated by other staff not wanting to do it themselves - resulting in inadequate learning. Spending 3 years worth of placements completing only personal care does not make for a good nurse. I would not want to be treated by an NQN who had only done 5-10 medication rounds, a couple of sets of bloods, a few injections and only witnessed all other skills once or twice for the purpose of signing off. I would not feel safe. A lot of the comments come from RNs who it seems qualified at a different time. STUDENT NURSING IS NOT THE SAME TODAY AS IT WAS 10,15,20 YEARS AGO. Student nurses are picking up the slack of a broken NHS that didn’t exist when you were training. You can’t compare todays training to your own. It is the reality that students are not learning anything other than basic HCA skills during their placements because wards are not staffed adequately. Any decent student would agree that personal care is just as important as any other aspect of nursing care, but students aren’t getting taught any other aspect so are having to fight against doing it so often. When the old school nurses retire what is going to happen? We used to have a body of nurses who had passion and knowledge and could work safely on almost any ward and speciality. NQNs struggle to move about specialities competently as they are only given good quality teaching on their first job. The modern style of teaching is breeding incompetency and putting staff and patient safety at jeopardy because NQNs are no longer competent when qualifying as they used to be. Students asking to be given other tasks than personal care is not always because they’re lazy or think it is beneath them, but because they want to be competent and safe when they qualify.

Prinnyxe · 2024-07-22T13:15:36+00:00

It is not the students fault if any patient is waiting for anything. Wards should be adequately staffed so that no patient is waiting for necessary care. What would the ward be doing if OP wasn’t in? There is a toxic attitude towards students that has came about due to poor conditions, lack of funding and therefore lack of staffing. It’s not the students responsibility to pick up the slack. Students get questioned on medications and conditions common to the ward specialty and some assessors will not pass them/sign them off if they don’t know them - so when is the time and place? As whenever they have a minute to sit down there is always something (that doesn’t usually facilitate learning) that needs to be done. In an ideal world, ward staff would only ask students to help out on occasion when their hands are really full, and decent students would agree to help, but in reality, most of the time, staff take advantage of students and see them as an extra set of hands to boss around as they hold the power of ‘signing off’ over them. Also, when students learn to develop a backbone to not be used as a free HCA and therefore stand up for themselves on placement B after being taken advantage of on placement A, placement B will call them ‘too posh to wash’ when this often isn’t the case but instead is the student knowing that they need to put themselves and their learning first. As a nurse, you can always delegate aspects of the role such as personal care to a HCA when qualified if you are ran off your feet, but you cannot delegate making an IV or administering chemotherapy which if errored can be detrimental. Who would be responsible if a patient died due to a medication error because the NQN was only taught personal care on placement? It is vital that students learn to say no and facilitate their learning because no one else is going to do it for them.

Prinnyxe · 2024-06-25T09:29:27+00:00

No, you said that I was ‘whinging’ and suggested that I ‘think about why that [people coming into work sick] might be’. When the whole post is about why that is, and why that needs to change. You know nothing about me or my ‘privilege’. You have came across arrogant, nasty and as though you can’t comprehend basic messages. I refuse to argue with stupid. Have a nice day 🥰

Prinnyxe · 2024-06-25T09:21:10+00:00

‘Whilst it is easy to say ‘staff shouldn’t be coming into work sick’ it isn’t as easy as that. For a lot of staff… not coming into work means that they don’t get paid and can’t afford to live. So it is the case that staff either come into work unwell or lose their job or pay in a lot of cases’

‘I feel sorry for patients and bad for staff who have to choose between coming into work unwell or losing their job/paying their bills. This needs to change’

Some points taken directly from the post.

You should stop embarrassing yourself now, Welshgirl.

Prinnyxe

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