Caroline Hirons #29 Not an influencer? What a load of (overpriced) flannel!

[mindlessness]

Whenever Hirons criticises a brand for being expensive all I can think is May Lindstrom

 

[P48601]

Talking of flannel(s) May of Blue Coccoon fame has launched a set of 2 organic oversized hand knit from Lithuania flannels. $82. Makes SR look bargain basement to me!

 

[FINIFUS]

I don’t think there’s been any mention at all of a donation this time. It was always £10,000 wasn’t it?.

Yes it used to be £10K donation. But keeping two homes going and financially supporting 5 other adults (6 including daughter in law) plus 2 grandkids doesn't come cheap, eh Nellie?

It doesn't matter how hard she tries to emulate Trinny, she will never succeed. Trinny's style is sometimes crazy but despite her being genuinely posh, she is relatable. This is because, imo, she is authentic. Nana Gobshite is a wannabe. She comes across as having an ego the size of her head, but I actually think she has an inferiority complex. She is hypersensitive to any challenge or criticism - real or perceived. She could never fill Trinny's boots in a million years.

Oh and look at the differences in their daughters. Trinny parents Lyla. Gobshite, well, she's gone from never having a good word to say about her awful only female child, to virually worshipping her. I would die of shame if my daughter had turned out like hers.

 

[Nottonightbabe]

I have done micro needling at home many times but it took a lot of reading and prep. I got scarring from acne when I was 25 so the desperation to be my former self was very overwhelming. It’s like one day I was normal skin and the next I wasn’t. I don’t think it is wrong to sell a microneedle kit as some people will like using it.
Miss shit head hirons has never dealt with real acne so I do not think she is specialized in helping people with that. She couldn’t fix Ava’s acne so who’s can she fix? She’s disgusting and her jealousy is coming out of her pores. Trinnys skincare is so much better than skin rocks. Trinny does not need hirons permission
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The comments under the live are bad! She calls a woman a Karen because she called out exactly what we all are thinking

Yeah she really doesn't deal with criticism in a good way!

Touchy, much?!

 

[barmj]

That reddit thread sucks because most posters are crying about CH being a terf or some bullshit. Reddit is full of incels and troons, so I shouldn’t be surprised. Caz isn’t a terf at all but if she doesn’t want blokes in our toilets, then good! Very based of her. TRAs need to stfu and stop calling everyone terfs. Tell me exactly what is second wave feminist about her

 

[50sGirl]

She was slating the Beauty Pie business model last week. How does she get away with saying points will be backdated (she did say it) then deleting the live and saying they won’t be backdated?? Why aren’t people calling her out?

The Freakoids won’t dare to call her out because they’ll get kicked out of the group.

I love that the “secret tier” is so secret that Grotbags had to tell everyone about it on day one!

Points won’t be backdated because she wants them all to spend again and again to get to the VIP tier.

Funny how the rewards scheme started AFTER the flannels (which are made by celestial beings with virgin’s hair, not Primark shit dontcha know?!) and her Book Ends were launched. She needs repurchases and hopes this scheme will do that.
She knows the Freakoids will have FOMO on the “exclusive” offerings of the VIP tier so will spend the £333 pounds to get there quickly. She then dangled the “secret NOT SO FUCKING SECRET“ carrot tier under their noses so that they don’t stop at £333 and keep spending in the hope of being invited to the Mean Girl’s club.

We will then have several Freakoids posting in the group squealing with excitement that they made it to the NOT secret tier and their life is complete, follow by hundreds of brainwashed Freakoids asking how much did they have to spend in order to receive such an accolade! I’m guessing £666 to enter the club!

But Skincare is NOT Merch people, remember?

I wish they’d wake up and see she is an outspoken saleswoman just like the rest of the influencers but with a bit more knowledge on her chosen specialised subject.

 

[bottlewrapper]

Just coming here to say wtf after watching a chunk of the live...

I'm sorry but these "skincare experts" are trolling us, right? Like who the actual f is looking at either of these people on the live, and seeing them as skincare goals? I don't get it. Is their audience stupid?

One of them is in his 30s but is so taut and sliced he looks like Rob Lowe's character in Liberace, which makes him look about 50. He may as well wear a t-shirt which says I DON'T BELIEVE SKINCARE DOES ANYTHING, because it's clear his face is all about surgery.

The other is in her fifties, but looks no better than any other 50 something out there who has never smoked. And this is a woman who has had a lifetime - a lifetime - of using all these expensive products. She is living proof this stuff does NOTHING. Hence her increasing reliance on fillers, lasers, surgical and non-surgical treatments. Her sales patter is nothing more than 'ooh, smells/feels lovely!', interspersed with shouting about how she's a skincare expert.

Please explain to me why either of these people are selling skincare before my brain explodes.

 

[50sGirl]

It's utterly daft for her to dislike a brand because she considers them overpriced. How many exortionately expensive things has she shilled over the years? When she dislikes someone I often think it's for the most piddling of reasons. Look at how she turned on Indeed Labs. She turned on Sunday Riley with no explanation and then recommended them again. She's as fickle as anything

So according to Gobshite, Sturm is overpriced but if anyone says the same about her own products she and her “Yes Minions“ churn out “it’s not overpriced/expensive, it’s just out of your budget!”

Why don‘t people see her for the hypocrite that she is?

 

[PineappleQueen19]

Had to check out the Teresa Tarmey video for myself and my goodness it very much exposes Caroline on all fronts. I clipped the section in case it is taken down. It’s 5 minutes / 800mb, can anyone suggest an easy way of sharing it here for our records in case the YouTube video is deleted?

There is an incredible moment up front when Caroline brags she could make one phone call to China and bulk buy dermarollers for 3-5 pence each and Teresa gently calls her out 🫣
Caroline just can’t help herself. But I can kind of see why she does it. Narcs love the thrill of getting away with it while operating in plain sight - she’s able to directly tell the freaks what kind of huge margins she’s playing with and still they bought everything she was shilling, enough to buy a Georgian mansion. (No wonder she wants to keep that quiet.) Pride comes before a fall.

 

[P48601]

Am I just jaded or have I been hoodwinked all these years with skincare? Other than basic keeping it clean, protected from sun burn and moisturised, is all this product really necessary? I have almost spent £100s online with different BF offers and then think to myself how can a face cream really be worth paying £75 for. All of the influencers of an age look their age and any improvements are made by nice hair and appropriate make-up. Perhaps I’m just miserable today.

the market is over saturated, over priced and over promises. And delivers very little other than empty bank balances!

 

[Wobblehead]

FFS - Yawn

 

[OnlyPassingThrough]

OMG it's like QVC. I was sorely tempted to type in the chat that the password is SHITMAS. Also, she always blames the tech, but I bet it's that things aren't set up properly. And does she not donate to charity any more? I really hope people start to see the light soon.

 

[PineappleQueen19]

This side-by-side graphic in the MoS made me chuckle -
Lisa Eldridge: I buy good quality make up brushes and look after them so they last a long time
Hirons: I like to shove hand cream up my honker

 

[Whatisgoingoninworld]

I started watching it… and I also need to add that when I got my terrible acne I found hirons blog and at that time she was using acids once to 2x a day.! If she wants to talk about inflammation that was it for me! Her advice completely put me in a spiral and now she is on the live saying she is worried for the people who get inflammation and ruin their skin. Hirons ruined my skin with her bad advice. So she should not be pretending to be concerned for these people who use it and get ruined barriers.

She is a BITCH. End of

 

[Rowling]

Ava’s Tik Tok is mortifying. I get second hand embarrassment watching her videos

 

[Jelly Bean]

The last time I saw Trinny she was talking about fashion. How funny for a so called expert to admit she has been out of the loop for a few decades

She probably thinks V Beckham is still in the Spice Girls and should stay there.

 

[SqualorVictoria]

@FINIFUS so happy to see you around these parts again. PM me your address there hun and I'll send you some goodies and I've also just set up a GoFundMe for some blue cocoon and flannels xxxx

 

[Also_smoke_and_mirrors]

When you look back at how frenzied the kit launches were. 6k viewers for the live reveal. The kit that lends itself to drier or older skins always sold out in minutes whilst the live was still on. The discounts leading to brand's websites crashing. Where's any of that now? She over saturated the market releasing kits nearly monthly instead of twice a year. People have moved away from ultra high end for everything. People no longer hold on to her every word, taking on board all her advice and now trends are all about skin barrier protection which she has never cared about. No one uses 10% glycolic twice daily any more.

It might be me being bitchy (in my defence I am only 2 years younger than the oaf) but I suspect some of that fall from grace has been down to how her face is now. Deep marionette lines and jowls being held up by too much cheek filler. Ageing comes to us all, but when your face is what people are going to judge your advice and products by, then she's screwed.

Apologies for essay!

 

[Opinionated]

So someone’s asked what the welcome gift is with their order and someone’s replied skin rocks stickers nooooo surely not that’s hilarious

 

[yessenia_d]

I don’t get how she doesn’t see the hypocrisy. From saying to not to buy expensive cleansers and moisturisers to selling expensive cleansers and moisturisers. Then saying you don’t need an expensive flannel to selling expensive flannels then getting shouty and aggressive when people comment on the price and being like that Paris Hilton meme “stop being poor”.

2000s zeitgeist: "stop being poor!"
2020s zeitgeist: "it's not expensive, it's just out of your budget!"

The #BeKind #GirlBoss #KimKWGetOffYourAssAndWork edit