shoegalxo

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Our Laur starting the sly autumn transition already. I know the weather today actually is autumnal but it suits her narrative perfectly; here beginneth the crackling log fire, cosy nights in, comfort food, cashmere socks and blankets, candles galore. It’s all so boring & predictable. Dollar signs in her eyes
It's the romanticising EVERYTHING!! Does my head in. Bloody "blustery walk on the hills then her freshly bathed babes and her bubbling Mac n cheese" like she's in a bastard novel.
Lauren hun- you went for a walk. Got piss wet through. Your tea is in the oven. The end. Like everyone else today who went for a fucking walk.
 
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Gemgemgemgem

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Haha so pleased to come across this thread!

Lauren is a very peculiar person who really intrigues me....a bit like passing a car crash scene, you don't want to look but we are a curious species. Just can't help it 😅
I'm addicted to watching her. She used to be so normal and wholesome and I rediscovered her recently after a social media break and I can't believe what she has become. Her face looks like a balloon with big red lips, skin so tight. Her clothes are so frumpy. She does really weird and random things "for the boys" like put leaves on their beds and make them look like they're constantly attending weddings. Anyway, monthly bingo card here...

💘 Pub lunch after a countryside walk.
💘 Sunday roast dinner with the slowed down pouring gravy shot accompanied with the "save the best til last" song.
💘 Halloween themed cupcakes the 'boys made' which resemble something from a bake off final.
💘 Hunkering down with a gifted jo Malone / white Co gifted candle with glass of red wine and wool socks. Bonus point for a fire shot in the background.
💘 Forty five gifted white or cream coats from Wallis and Next.
💘 A gifted beige cashmere cardigan.
💘 Some joules wellies while having an autumn walk while foraging for nature's craft supplies. Bonus points if this occurs on route to the pub for previously mentioned pub lunch.
💘 A Bobbi Brown makeup tutorial.
💘 Aveno cream for rorwieeee's sensitive skin.
💘An autumn wreath.
💘Five dinners made by her man, Col, the chef of the house.
💘One random kitchen gadget which takes up more bench space than a small vehicle but will deliciously slip into a cupboard for easy storage.
💘 Some over exaggerated over smiley talking while sat in the car.
💘 A precious date night where she'll be responding personally to pretty much every comment on instagram.
💘 Boys dressed all twee while staring at camera with vacant look behind eyes. Bonus points if they're manically smiling while partaking in some Enid Blyton activity such as leaf hunting, stick throwing, conker collecting.
💘 Wine. Point for each glass.
💘 Comments left on RosieLondoner posts. Point for each.
💘 Doorway pose photograph.
💘 "Impromptu" field pose pic.
💘 Archie gushing post.
💘 Ad Ad Ad - one point each.

💘 Breakfast. Extra point for avocado. Extra point for a runny poached egg scene. Extra points if accompanied with "easy like Sunday morning" song.
 
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Comfysofa

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A gifted half term week in Cornwall, swiftly followed by a press stay 😂 at a hotel in London for a press launch of high end brand Bamford candle followed by ‘back to back’ meetings in London - which actually consisted of a breakfast at gifted hotel, followed by lunch hosted by Leobe (her favourite wine apparently- because its free 😂) also a Bamford brand, to then get the train to Scotland for a weekend celebrating Cols birthday. Wow! You work so hard Lauren, leaving your children behind for such worthwhile stuff, I am sure they will be so proud! How utterly tone deaf is she?! Posting this crap whilst we are all in shock with current world events! No one cares you forgot to pack flat shoes and had to walk round London in heels and that the tube closures made it more difficult. No one cares that you have felt deprived of such press events because of Covid and how much you have missed the shallowness of what clearly makes you happiest. Your spoilt, over indulgence meaning you have already forgotten your Chelsea flower show extravaganza in the autumn already! Stick the news on Lauren, sober up, don’t just link aid pages and think thats you doing your bit, show some humanity even better show some humility, but for goodness sake read the room and have some dignity. If all you have to offer right now is press stays, overpriced pretentious candle launches and pictures of plate after plate of food, then stop and think, take some time out to re evaluate, reflect and realise what is really important and you can rest assured it isn’t the free clothes you are wearing or where your next gifted stay or piece of furniture is coming from!
 
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New thread suggestion:

Hunters and Heels #3: white floaty dresses and (empty) baguettes tied up with string, these are a few of the most gram worthy things
 
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JodieGreen123

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It’s no wonder she’s so tired at the end of the week. Constantly trying to portray a perfect existence and pretending to be something you’re not, sounds absolutely exhausting to me. Just be with your children and stop setting up sickly sweet “perfect scenes” and stop dressing them like old men! Let them be children!
I hope that in 10 years time there is some sort of documentary, perhaps Louis Theroux, focussing on influencers kids and how they turned out. I would love to hear Lauren’s boys stories of ‘perfect snow days’ and weekends ‘hunkering down with candles while mummy gets smashed on Rose’ 🤣🤣
 
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Comfysofa

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Maybe if Joules hadn’t spent so much on ‘Press Trips’ to Watergate Bay and Daylesford Cottages for all the Instahuns to enjoy and shove in people’s faces then they would have actually kept their core customers and wouldn’t be about to go into administration and put hundreds of people out of jobs. Take note others - if you continue you use cheap influencer marketing - your real customers will walk away - it is a short term, quick sale on an item strategy, not a long term one!
 
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Aunt Lydia

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Imagine poor Col getting home from a long day in the showroom, looking forward to relaxing, and then getting home and seeing Lauren stood there in a long floaty dress with the tripod in hand…

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He suddenly realises he’s got a long night ahead of him... Off he pops to drag a table and chairs into a nearby field while Lauren sets the cameras up.

He then spends an hour in the kitchen cooking a meal that Lauren has read about on Rosie Londoners blog. He then stumbles back and forth through the hedgerows and over the stiles with the crockery and food.

He finally gets in bed at nearing midnight after dragging everything out of the field, clearing up and sorting the boys out, all the while Lauren is sat on Instagram uploading the pictures.

Then the sinking feeling of the nearby weekend creeps in… he’s wondering what’s in store for him this time... Is it too late to volunteer for overtime in the showroom?



Poor guy probably just wants to lay on the sofa and play Candy Crush.
 
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Gemgemgemgem

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No one needs a planner for 2021, we'll still be doing fk all!! 🙄
Would love to see hers.

Monday: I must post stories about BB, back to work as a working parent, this BB lipstick you will all be asking about. Monday night glass of white wine and a dish from Col.

Tuesday: post about coat. Post for candle burning away while I work from home, increases productivity while promoting weight loss. Post about a bag and another coat. Post about boots. Post about some hair styling device as it is date night. Impromptu date night. Quick post about date night eyeshadow. Wedding pic post.

Wednesday: midweek makeup chat. Gush about Archie post. Quickly add in pic of other kids so they don't forget I am a working mum. Talk about how hard life is to remain relatable. Another coat.

Thursday: breakfast post as it is a lazy hazy morning so look at my avocado. Trip to London post. Outfit post. And another coat post. Pic of boys to get work life balance. Few pics of London and makeup.

Friday: walk in a field post to counteract the city post yesterday. Outfit for field wear. Coat post (WTF will I post about in summer? I dresses?). Date night post. Pyjama post with red wine and fire. Colin cooked. Craft with boys post as forgot about them for a while. Talk about upcoming season post.

Saturday: breakfast posts galore. Maybe with wine. Walk in fields with kids. Make them play with some twigs and collect acorns. Make it look fun. Wedding pic post and family post

Sunday: lipsticks, gravy in slow motion. Boys outfit posts - they must match. Stand by front door for a pic. Wine.
 
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Clare

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“Archie’s choice for dinner and I’m down with it!”

What really went down:

Lozza: Bestest biggest boy, what would you like to dine on for your birthday din dins darling. I can do a sausage, mash & freshly homemade by me and decanted by me rose hip syrup? It even has a bow on the bottle, tied by meee! I have a new set of plates I really need to photograph for an advert so a cosy family meal would be perfect.

BBB: can we have a domino’s stepmama?

Lauren feigns a faint and the two youngest boys look up from their quilling and flower pressing session, aghast.

Lozza: Blasphemy, you ungrateful little sh*t!! No son of mine would even contemplate such depravity! If it must be a pizza, it can only be an authentic wood fired rústica experience. I know just the place I can tag for a discount. I’ve put your favourite knitted pullover ready on your bed.
 
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shoegalxo

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COL!!! IT’S SNOWING!! GRAB THE RING LIGHT AND GET THE FAUNTLEROY KIDS RED COATS AND MATCHING SCARVES NOWWWWW
 
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“We” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Emily: “Margot, what colour would you like?”
Margot: “beige, faux leather, because it is lush and matches my beige, faux leather make up bag as part of my BB Partnership ( Ad/PR I work for them)”
Emily: “Margot, what name am I putting on the front this time, in gold lettering, obvs??”
Margot: “buymylushnameditemsbyLaurenMcDermott”
Emily: “Ok Margot, I’ll head home and do all the work then”
 
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I really wonder how those kids will make friends and what those friends will think when they come over to play with their 1950s toys!!
Yes! 😂
Mate: Hey Ror can I come over to your house? What console you got xbox one or Nintendo switch?
Rory: Um I can let you have a go on my wooden connect four? They’ll be lashings of ginger beer and Mummy might let us use the #English stamp company Landy stamp.
Mate: Nah sounds shite.
 
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Lauren McDermott, the woman who inspired me to leave Instagram and never purchase from The White Company, Joules and various other brands again. Her online catalogue is so unhealthy and not what Instagram was designed for. The staging, DSLR snaps, branding, constant selling, using her children to sell… this will all implode at some point and she’ll look back with a lot of regret. This whole cottagecore aesthetic, too… seems like she’s trying very hard. The whole point is NOT to try hard and to live simply.
 
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Clare

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Completely agree with you. You have summed it up nicely, she has completely lost her way with her style recently. Those huge floral and checked dresses does nothing for her but she may get back to her normal style for the sickly sweet upcoming autumn posts
Brace for the Beige! Camel chaos! Cashmere calamity! Think we need to do an Autumn bingo.

✅ rip off poem about Autumn things
✅ soft focus candles and log fires
✅ white company cashmere socks with lacy lingerie fireside photoshoot
✅ Col slow-pouring the gravy on the roast
✅ fruit crumble reel with saccharine voiceover
✅ gifted brown boots with camel dress
✅ gifted brown leather bag with everything
✅ over the shoulder lingering shots in crunchy leaf country lane
✅ pumpkin craft by Van Gogh Ollie/Worwee
✅ cosy overnight gifted stay in a shepherd hut/The Fish Hotel
✅ transition from Léoube rosé to the red wine
 
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JodieGreen123

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At least one comment on there says 'I loved your previous user name but this one really suits you' no shit it suits her, it's her fucking name!
 
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I have to start off by saying I completely lost the plot for a while, spending money on unnecessary planners, lamps, blankets, etc. that Lauren posted - I was completely sucked in. Then I started to see through her friendly bullshit and realised what a steely saleswoman she actually is. This evening I unfollowed her and found this feed. What kind of person brags (‘shares’) a trip to The Ivy when millions of people are locked down and miserable this Christmas? The fact that she posted a warning beforehand means she KNOWS it’s insensitive. Why couldn’t she just enjoy it with her family, quietly? Because she’s just flashy and it’s gross. I feel so stupid for following her and falling for it.
 
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I refuse to believe this is her bare face giving advice to real normal people about undereyes.

I can see her now.. "well I don't personally have this problem, I get 13 hours of sleep a night as the boys and Col tuck me in with down pillows and silk slippers, bless them, they love me so much, so my skin is flawles and fekkin birds and deer help me get dressed in the morning as I wash my face with morning dew and unicorn tears or as the boys call them, wet little tiny fairy footprints on mummy's face".
 
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