40plusnotgivingupyet

[Basicbasic]

Contractually she can't say anything bad about the clothing she's paid to sell. But hey, put the dress with some pointy cowboy boots and it's sooooo cooooool huh?

Also the blue dress she tried on! Looked seriously awful and cheap and the print! Awful.

 

[Affiliatedlink]

There's no separate thread for Stealmystyle40 - Abi - but she has been mentioned on here before. She's sulking now as she was called out on a stealth brag about the designer handbag she bought on their little outing today. 'We work hard for it' blah blah blah. Yup, sure you do Abi <rolls eyes> Really really really hard, all that trying on clothes, shoving on swipe ups, drinking wine and complaining. Really hard. Honest.

It did seem like quite a brag and she felt she had to justify it. I’m sure all those bored stay at home non working (yes that inc you Abi) wealthy mums that met for lunch yesterday after their “press event” felt the need to splurge and show off to each other in Selfridges! When will they ever get that Advertising on insta is NOT working! It wasn’t that long ago that all of these Instagrammers didn’t do it for the money, it was just to show what you wore or may have bought or liked etc, it seemed more genuine back then. Now I don’t believe any of them!

 

[Ruby1]

I personally think she looks better that the little one, who has the body of a 10 year old boy. I like Helan, she has a normal shape for a woman of her age. Yes the repetitive swipe ups are annoying (hammock, neck massager) but as a person she seems nicer than lots.

 

[petitspois]

Her stories remind me of the stuff my 11 year old does with her friends

 

[Saps]

I followed for fashion etc and now it isn’t even fashion!
She has had an awful few years but the constant reference to it is far too full on for me. And if Instagram is an outlet for her then maybe she doesn’t need to mention it quite so much!!
Obviously not working with Matalan anymore so the black boots (the ones she said looked like DM’s) are no where to be seen!!!

 

[Basicbasic]

Unfollowed ages ago but popped to see stories after they appeared in my explore page. No change at all, same links again and again and again. Ad infinitum. And the shouting, gurning, teeth, bulging eyes whilst sharing link after link. Gave me a headache.

 

[mysecretself]

I think she’s alluded to drink issues in the past. I stopped following her ages ago, it was all swipe ups for dresses and blazers and camis and frankly I don’t need any!!! I think the fact that she does try ons and just returns then doesn’t sit right with me. If that rumour going round is true that they don’t the sell those items then she is single handely causing massive amounts of clothes to go to waste or landfill. She has no care for the environment. Plus the shouting. I can’t deal.

 

[Cherrypie32]

The grid photo! I mean, I get that she has a few rolls when she sits down, but she knows she's actually got a fab figure so sitting there with her very tall, slim body saying let's normalise tummies is a bit tone deaf and disingenuous. If you have to position yourself in a certain way in your underwear to get the rolls, then id say the body pos messages are probably not for you. It's not brave at all, just looks desperate.

Much as I mostly like watching Helen the ‘my tummy is massive, look at my rolls, I need control underwear’ content is completely unrelatable and just feels like fishing for compliments. My 13 year old had a washboard tummy but can take a shot like this if she leans forward. And Helen reckons this is fat. Not helpful.

 

[Basicbasic]

Abi with 'today's details for all you asking...' used to do my nut in. Also the constant showing off about being skinny and eating so much is weird. She's the biggest stealth boaster on planet earth. Both of them are insufferable around Xmas and sales. Helen is actually super manic, so many swipe ups but not a single one for any small business. Not even all those businesses that have given her freebies all bloody year!

 

[Basicbasic]

Yoga pants and snake skin heels, hilarious! She has zero style, I cringe at half the stuff she puts together. Here's an idea, how about her and abi DO SOME ACTUAL YOGA in their numerous gifted, very expensive, sports wear items. Or is that too much effort? Surely anyone interested would want to see how the clothes fare during actual workouts? Feel like I'm living in a bizarre parallel universe.

 

[Fauxfurgilet]

Gosh anyone seen her stories today harping on about George/her parents/sister again? It is a sad story but there’s no need to constantly regurgitate it. It’s so clear she’s using it as a marketing tool to gain sympathy and make herself relatable to anyone else who has also lost a parent

 

[AdAdAdGiftGiftGiftBoring]

I wish this sw

I bloody hate that she does this. All for shit she never ever shows except for at times like this. That fucking massage device and the diffuser are amazon so that’s basically all Christmas gifts if people don’t delete their cookies. Eugh.

I hope this gets some kind of regulation soon...so many people completely unaware of what happens when swiping up.

 

[Affiliatedlink]

40notfrumpys photos against that grotty brick wall are just awful. If I were a brand I would never send any of my clothing to that lot that think they’re 40/50+ supermodels doing ridiculous crouched down poses and stuffed in ill fitting clothes. And why is it, that wearing a bikini or bra and knicks gets thousands of likes when they look hideous?

 

[Cerase]

I notice the Topshop swipe ups have stopped. They are conspicuous by their absence, you'd think she's at least acknowledge what's happening to Topshop and their like. Or has she and I have missed it?

Helen and the rest of the bunch have been pimping all of the Arcadia Group in fact, for ages. They must pay the most for their links as so much of it is shit, I can't see any other reason for the swipe ups.

 

[Tallgirl]

Exactly!! Who has any interest in buying the latest new in dress from Topshop or any of the other tat she is peddling at the moment? Certainly not me! The most irritating thing is they are trying to make us think they’re doing us a favour to take our mind off things as opposed to lining their own pockets. And although the death of a parent is an awful time for anyone she can hardly compare it to a global crisis of this scale, it’s just not the same.

Exactly

 

[Libbub]

I think she has really changed. She has posted a couple of dresses that looks terrible on their own, but has disguised that with the leather jacket or denim shirt. She is then selling them to her punters.
What a great buy a dress that means you can’t take your jacket off? Previously she would have said that the fit isn’t good.
Now she is all sell, sell, sell!

Also I can’t understand how anyone has to ask about any element of jewellery because it is all constantly linked...the ‘everyone asks’ is utter bull, it’s just a softer sell.

I thought for quite some time some of those dresses she loves look horrendous and as for the piece of advice to put a vest top under a cut out back dress...... Jesus get a grip! She's chaotic and her sense of style reflects that.

 

[Affiliatedlink]

100% agree! Much more authentic when instagrammers didn’t show things just for the money. Even 40notfrumpy who was at the lunch with Helen & Co has changed to swipe ups, gifts galore, Campaigns, ads etc....she’s even done the fantasie lingerie advert that’s doing the rounds with other ‘influencers’, sitting in her underwear being paid to do so....shame

Oh don’t get me started on the photos in underwear! Really there’s just no need!

 

[Emmadale]

Could she hint any harder for a free peleton?!

 

[MrsHater]

Oh and Nike. It’s just relentless. Surely her followers are getting bored too?!

 

[Boutros-Boutros Ghali]

No Helen, baseball cap and blazer doesn’t work!

I’m cringing for her in that cap....it’s all so try hard....