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Demystifying the Community Rank System (Updated 3/10/2025)

TeamBIC — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 21:56:41 GMT

UPDATE 10/19: We're excited to announce that these rank updates here in the Beauty Insider Community are officially LIVE! 😊🎉 Please join us in the celebration by hitting "Reply" and sharing your rank. Whether you're rocking a brand new rank icon badge, or parading the same rank icon badge with pride, all are welcome to the rank party. 🥳

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In the coming months, we’ll be making some further tweaks to our Community, including expanding and evolving the Community rank system. With more changes on the horizon, now seemed like an excellent opportunity to answer some common questions we’ve seen in the Forum.

What is a Community rank?

A rank is a visual representation of your level in the Community, earned through your Community contributions. The more you’ve been involved in helping others and engaging in Community, the higher your rank is likely to be (more on this in a second).

Your rank is visible in two places – on your profile in the form of a rank badge and next to your nickname in the Community Forum and Gallery.

Is my Community rank the same as my Beauty Insider Loyalty status?

Community ranks are specific to your Community contributions. Your Loyalty status is not connected to your Community rank. For example, you may be a Boss III in the Beauty Insider Community and a VIB Loyalty member. Or a Rising Star I in the Community and a Rouge Loyalty member.

What changes can I expect?

When the Beauty Insider Community started, we could only guess at how we’d grow. With over a decade since our first launch as Beauty Talk, and more than five years since the Beauty Insider Community relaunch, now it’s time to rework and expand the available ranks to match the growth of our community.

In an effort to make sure that everyone is recognized for their contributions, the rank system will be expanded from 12 ranks across 4 categories to 40 ranks across 8 categories. We want the community as a whole – from the community newbies to our community leaders – to be included and rewarded.

How do I move up the ranks?

The short answer is by helping and inspiring other members of the community. Do what you would normally do – share, connect, and appreciate others – and the rank ups will follow. Naturally, we can’t share the secret sauce, but we can offer some guiding principles:

Post content with our BIC guidelines in mind. Reactions to your contributions are really important. So post the good stuff – threads and replies that are helpful, funny, fabulous, and inspire your fellow Community members to engage.

React to others’ great contributions. If you see a post you like, be sure to give it a heart and tell your fellow members how much you appreciate it. Everyone loves a little love. This helps to bubble up the best posts and makes Community a really welcoming place to be.

Show up in all your glory. Who are you? We’d all love to know who is behind all those awesome posts. Make sure you’ve completed your profile. This is an easy way to get started in Community and connect with fellow enthusiasts. It’s never too late to complete your profile for a little boost if you haven’t already.

Contribute good photos and reviews. Not everyone is born to be an author in the Forum – we love photos and reviews too. Show us what you’ve got! Thoughtful reviews and great photos (either as part of your review or on our Gallery) can be really helpful to other members. Photos don’t need to be of your face if you’re feeling camera shy. We love seeing swatches, hauls, shelfies, and routines as well.

Ask for advice and dole some out. This community is the best place to ask your burning questions, get recommendations and opinions, and share your own. You can feel secure knowing you’re surrounded by fellow beauty enthusiasts. Ask for advice or opinions in both the Forum and on the Questions & Answers area on product pages.

Operate with integrity. The backbone of our community is trust – without trust, it doesn’t work. Trying to game the system and move up the ranks will be noticed by the community admins and moderators. If you have questions, our community guidelines (linked here) are clear about what is and isn’t acceptable behavior.

What about the Community Ambassadors? Is that a rank?

Update: As of 3/10/2025, the Community Ambassador program has concluded. Thank you to our former Ambassadors! 💖

In short, “Community Ambassador” is a designation as part of an official recognition program. It’s not specifically tied to rank but those individuals with a higher rank are more likely to be considered.

Sephora Beauty Insider Community Ambassadors (or Sephora Community Ambassadors) are highly engaged Community members across all areas of Community (Forum, Gallery, Reviews, and Questions & Answers). These members regularly help other members by sharing their favorite products and beauty routines, posting honest reviews, and uploading looks or “shelfies.” To recognize them, we created the annual Sephora Beauty Insider Community Ambassador program and invited them to participate. All opinions expressed by the Community Ambassadors are theirs alone.

Community Ambassadors help curate the content that you see within the main feed on the Community Forum and they can be identified by their “Community Ambassador” badge.

Edited 7/28/2022

Will my rank reset once the changes are made?

No! 😊 Your rank will not reset, and no one is starting over. All the contributions you’ve made since the 2017 relaunch of the Beauty Insider Community will contribute to your new rank.

We hope this helps to answer any questions you have had about the Beauty Insider Community rank system. Stay tuned for when the changes are planned to go into effect! 🤩💖🙏🏻✨🦙

Re: Demystifying the Community Rank System

greeneyedgirl107 — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 23:29:30 GMT

@TeamBIC Thanks for the info! ❤️

Re: Demystifying the Community Rank System

SportyGirly125 — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:05:01 GMT

@TeamBIC @Wow….thank you for the info. I know this will be helpful for members that ask about ranks.

Re: Demystifying the Community Rank System

missjeanie — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:09:12 GMT

Oh fun @TeamBIC ! Do we know when new ranks will be taking effect?

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Kim888 — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:14:57 GMT

Thank you for sharing @TeamBIC !!! The new system sounds very exciting !

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heartsmyface — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:33:15 GMT

@TeamBIC Ouhhhhhh new rankings!!! How fun! I suddenly feel so undeserving of the Hall Of Famer pin! 😆

Re: Demystifying the Community Rank System

Saradestin — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:37:02 GMT

Wow @TeamBIC ! This is so exciting!! The ranking is growing as so is our community! 🥰

Re: Demystifying the Community Rank System

CookieGirl1 — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:46:04 GMT

Thanks for the detailed explanation, @TeamBIC.

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Guessgal — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 01:21:53 GMT

@TeamBIC Ooo love seeing the Hall of Famer rank making a comeback 🙌🏻

With more levels added within each rank, would that mean some ranks would need to be calculated down or would it only move in an upward direction with current rank as a starting point?

Re: Demystifying the Community Rank System

missjeanie — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 01:29:41 GMT

I feel like in honour of Hall of Famer coming back, and National Lipstick day right around the corner.... I'mma have to break out the Bite Hall of Famer lipstick again.

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Tamara76 — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 01:54:28 GMT

Omg! I need to find mine @missjeanie 💗😭

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Tamara76 — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 01:59:26 GMT

Thank you so much for the transparency and for bringing back HoF!!!

Do we have to start all over again? I already worked my way up to HoF on Beauty Talk (RIP) and then up to Boss III when we switched to BIC.

Will we be grandfathered (at least to some degree) when the new rankings take effect?

Thank you so much!!! XOXOXO

Re: Demystifying the Community Rank System

Tamara76 — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 02:01:38 GMT

Ohhhh good question!!!I came on to ask the same thing. Great minds think alike💋💋💋

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quspork — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 02:24:39 GMT

Thanks for the information about this upcoming update, @TeamBIC!

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eshoe — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 02:28:11 GMT

I appreciate all of the thought and planning that went into this, @TeamBIC. Returning full circle to designating HoF as top status is a very thoughtful touch. I was just starting to get more involved when this was still BT, and this seems like a wonderful nod to all of those who were already ‘in the know’ 😄

Thank you for the explanation and details on the new ranking system. Hopefully this will help open up more discussions and generate more involvement overall 🙌🏼💖

Re: Demystifying the Community Rank System

Samtian — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 03:08:57 GMT

@TeamBIC This is exciting, I cannot wait! I remember when we went from BT to BIC and got that amazing Hall of Famer lipstick, which I still have!

Re: Demystifying the Community Rank System

danielledanielle — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 03:33:52 GMT

@TeamBIC , oh cool! This does help, and the intro name (Window Shopper), funny!

I'm oddly sad at the demystifying. I was always like, "how does this work?" No one collectively knew, it was kind of funny thing to not know. 🤣

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heartsmyface — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 06:53:37 GMT

@danielledanielle Hahaha, we have been trying to sort it for a very long time. We really tried hard too😅 well we still technically ‘don’t know’ but it’s good to have some pointers to help us along.

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heartsmyface — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 06:59:01 GMT

@missjeanie ahhhhhh!!! Mine’s still in the box and I pull it out to admire it every once in a while like a little trophy. It took me almost 11000 hearts to get to HOF. They made me work for it! 😆

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tsavorite — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 08:34:34 GMT

@TeamBIC , Wow! This takes my breath away!!!