Caroline Hirons #8 Despite what the T&Cs say, the kits have ended up on eBay

[Eat My Shorts]

Late to the party, but here’s some SPF advice for you all:

‘Foundation with SPF: Using a foundation with an SPF is all the sun protection most of us need. “Ireland isn’t Australia,” Hirons points out.’

Beauty Call: No nonsense, no wipes – the Caroline Hirons school of skin regimes

The skincare guru knows what she’s talking about. That she is also hilariously frank is a bonus

www.irishtimes.com

How much better does she look without yellow straw for hair?

Sam Bunting has no dermatology qualifications. You can look her up on the medical register. She is not a skin specialist like say, Dr. Andrew Birnie who runs the Altruist sunscreen company while being a fully qualified and working NHS dermatology consultant who does MOHS surgeries amongst other things. She shills on the back of of her basic medical training and her own looks. She also is one of those doctors interested in media work rather than medicine. I have no idea why women are so drawn to people like her who do basic medical training then decamp immediately to private sector where they administer to the needs to the wealthy and vain and not the sick. If people want dermatology, they need to get a referral to a real dermatologist, not go trotting off to people like Sam Bunting whose goal is to divest you of a lot of money for no better advice than a GP can give you (and that's duck all usually) while trying to shill her own cleanser etc.

Can’t stand her either!

 

[Platformcrocs]

Ooh, almost time for a new thread. Anyone got any good title ideas?!

How much better does she look without yellow straw for hair?

Sooo much better!

 

[DizzyLizzie]

Oh my goodness, even 6 years ago, smart women were calling her out for schilling product and bs about the spf. Worth going to the article and reading the comments.

Late to the party, but here’s some SPF advice for you all:

‘Foundation with SPF: Using a foundation with an SPF is all the sun protection most of us need. “Ireland isn’t Australia,” Hirons points out.’

Beauty Call: No nonsense, no wipes – the Caroline Hirons school of skin regimes

The skincare guru knows what she’s talking about. That she is also hilariously frank is a bonus

www.irishtimes.com

 

[BigMavis]

Oh my goodness, even 6 years ago, smart women were calling her out for schilling product and bs about the spf. Worth going to the article and reading the comments.

Those comments are amazing. I notice Caroline wasn't as mouthy in her response either, she was...................... polite.

 

[Artheusa]

Those comments are amazing. I notice Caroline wasn't as mouthy in her response either, she was...................... polite.

Omg yeah, she didn't tell them to bugger off straight away. Remarkable!!

 

[BigMavis]

Omg yeah, she didn't tell them to bugger off straight away. Remarkable!!

Maybe she bought her attitude the same time as her new face snort!

 

[WadieHaddadsChocolates]

I kind of get CH’s rage about the Vogue article. We might all be old enough to know that GP is full of it but I still remember taking advice from celebrities and magazines as gospel when I was a teen (toothpaste to cure spots? Lemon juice for highlights?). I wouldn’t be surprised if half their readership was made up of teens trying to feel cool and wishing they were more grown up. I haven’t bought an issue of vogue since I was about 20 and realised it was irrelevant to people with normal bank accounts whereas I lapped up the fantasy lifestyle as a teen.

GOOP's demographic is really wealthy 30+ white women who should know better, rather than teens. It's that upper middle class 'wellness' fad for people who aren't actually ill, but have the time and finances to indulge in what I call luxury hypochondria and competitive aesthetics. Anyone recall the 40-something Paltrow crowing about her '22 year-olds stripper's ass' a few years ago, when she was palled up with that awful Tracy Anderson character whose training 'secret' was jiggling around and lifting teeny pink 1lb weights interminably, combined with bulimia? This is the mindset we're dealing with, some pick and mix spirituality and exoticising of foreign cultures' dodgy old woo-woo bullshit remedies (vagina steaming anyone?) thrown in. I think teens these days are more influenced by YT and Instagram influencers in their age bracket or in their twenties, max, who shill product daily and pretend to be their pal. I've noticed they don't shill sunscreen much either, because the companies won't pay them to do it.

 

[DizzyLizzie]

I like Eat My Shorts question as a new title.
“How much better does she look without yellow straw for hair?”

 

[blondegob37]

The recent this morning slot about teenage skin featured the two goop sunscreens at the end... I bet she wished she never featured them now

 

[enelram]

The recent this morning slot about teenage skin featured the two goop sunscreens at the end... I bet she wished she never featured them now

Nah! The brand is supergoop and they are not connected to GP or goop in any way. Their sunscreens are amazing!

 

[blondegob37]

Nah! The brand is supergoop and they are not connected to GP or goop in any way. Their sunscreens are amazing!

Thanks for the info, I will have to check out those as I'm on the hunt for a new sunscreen.

 

[Influenzapandemic]

Has anyone seen Ruth's instagram post in relation to the sunscreen nonsense. THAT's how you do it. You don't scream at your audience to get your point across.

 

[BigMavis]

Has anyone seen Ruth's instagram post in relation to the sunscreen nonsense. THAT's how you do it. You don't scream at your audience to get your point across.

Very well done. Ruth puts time, thought and energy into her content these days.

 

[Mysay]

Exactly, it's all performative nonsense. Caroline's brand as a skincare activist is to get furious over anything to do with skincare

That too selectively... where she knows she's not gonna ever collaborate a la Gwynnie... or when she needs to create hype n buzz..just before a launch... ala Susan Yara ep...

Exactly, it's all performative nonsense. Caroline's brand as a skincare activist is to get furious over anything to do with skincare

That too selectively... where she knows she's not gonna ever collaborate a la Gwynnie... or when she needs to create hype n buzz..just before a launch... Ala Susan Yara ep...

Very well done. Ruth puts time, thought and energy into her content these days.

Also the April fool post... bloody brilliant!!

 

[BigMavis]

@Mysay I hated the April fools post I'm afraid, but thats because I thought it could have been a 30 second story she does go on.

 

[EmilyChambers]

Kicking off on the freaks Facebook page.

Someone has posted about wanting fillers or botox for her mouth lines (the ones that appear when you smile) and a few people commented that she doesn't need them or commented about how weird people look after botox and fillers.

Some freaks have replied to these telling people to pretty much not give those replies. Comments were then turned off

This morning, Caroline has removed the comments telling her she looks lovely and doesn't need the botox and told her to go ahead and do it and given her advice

 

[Kinvarra]

“my face is so massive”

Fairplay for stepping in, I’d say.

 

[EmilyChambers]

“my face is so massive”

Fairplay for stepping in, I’d say.

Weirdly, none of the comments were nasty. They all said she looked beautiful, that she definitely didn't need it doing. Someone said I wish you could see what we see and they were all removed.

The recommendations for full on face lifts, botox, fillers etc were allowed to stay as were the aggressive ones telling people to mind their own and that no skincare beats botox.

There was also a separate post where another freak was stressing about her hooded eyes and wanted to know what surgery she could have and Caroline commented that she was too pretty for surgery

 

[BigMavis]

Caroline's getting more fillers in her cheeks?
She knows that's not going to fix the sagging, she needs a cheek lift and lower face lift. Shes already had at least one of these procedures but the results didn't last long. Why normalise fillers and botox but shy away from surgery and say she has only had it for medical purposes. I'm not saying she "needs" any more cosmetic work, my point is fillers are not it.

 

[Kinvarra]

Weirdly, none of the comments were nasty. They all said she looked beautiful, that she definitely didn't need it doing. Someone said I wish you could see what we see and they were all removed.

The recommendations for full on face lifts, botox, fillers etc were allowed to stay as were the aggressive ones telling people to mind their own and that no skincare beats botox.

There was also a separate post where another freak was stressing about her hooded eyes and wanted to know what surgery she could have and Caroline commented that she was too pretty for surgery

I believe this is now called toxic positivity and it’s Not Allowed Inconsistency isn’t helpful, true enough.