Lily Pebbles #5 Baby Greige turns one in age; but don't be silly, it's all about Lily!

[Mjaumjau]

Sorry to derail the couch to 5k, do they talk you through what you need to do while on the run? If so, I’ll need to look for some wireless headphones if I want to have a go at it.

Just a couple of things to take in consideration when using headphones outside (sorry for being a bore):

Just be careful with the volume when your out running, its tempting to increase the volume when the background noises are loud but please be careful it might damage your hearing in the long run. Its probably better to go for noise cancelling ones, although they are a bit if a pain in the areas if you have tinitus since the silence amplifies the issues. Bose is a popular brand, not sure about their in-ears ones.

Also consider not going for Bone conduction headphones (I think thats what the dud in the reddit thread was using) when running. The guy used headphones that used vibrations to send sound to the inner ear, it did not cover his ears, so he had difficulties hearing the music so he kept increasing the volume. After a couple of weeks of extremely loud volume his tinnitus got more prominent, it was after the damage was done that he figured out what was happening.

Sorry if I am scarring you, I just don't want you to end up damaging your hearing and/ or get tinitus. I have it and its tit. I have been to specialist and apparently I have no hearing damage and my ears are fine, I am just very unlucky. It might be due stress, weight or some blockages in ear but thats not something the doctors wanted to consider since its a issue not taken seriously in Norway- as long as its not making you suicidal they are like "meh, you just have to live with it".

 

[LT31514]

Just a couple of things to take in consideration when using headphones outside (sorry for being a bore):

Just be careful with the volume when your out running, its tempting to increase the volume when the background noises are loud but please be careful it might damage your hearing in the long run. Its probably better to go for noise cancelling ones, although they are a bit if a pain in the areas if you have tinitus since the silence amplifies the issues. Bose is a popular brand, not sure about their in-ears ones.

Also consider not going for Bone conduction headphones (I think thats what the dud in the reddit thread was using) when running. The guy used headphones that used vibrations to send sound to the inner ear, it did not cover his ears, so he had difficulties hearing the music so he kept increasing the volume. After a couple of weeks of extremely loud volume his tinnitus got more prominent, it was after the damage was done that he figured out what was happening.

Sorry if I am scarring you, I just don't want you to end up damaging your hearing and/ or get tinitus. I have it and its tit. I have been to specialist and apparently I have no hearing damage and my ears are fine, I am just very unlucky. It might be due stress, weight or some blockages in ear but thats not something the doctors wanted to consider since its a issue not taken seriously in Norway- as long as its not making you suicidal they are like "meh, you just have to live with it".

On this subject, always be wary of not being able to hear your surroundings, especially if you’re in a park or a quiet area. Read too many horror stories on the murder thread on here Also don’t want to dampen the mood!

 

[it’s not been changed?!]

On this subject, always be wary of not being able to hear your surroundings, especially if you’re in a park or a quiet area. Read too many horror stories on the murder thread on here Also don’t want to dampen the mood!

Yeh, that’s what scares me a little bit I mean, I can be walking along with no headphones in and still don’t hear someone coming up behind me if I’m looking at my phone. I would definitely go during the day.

 

[FoggyDay58]

Has anyone noticed the rebrand of Lilys instagram stories? She's started to do that thing of starting each day with "Monday" in a handwritten font and a timestamp. Almost like Gleam have told her to ditch that whole "chaotic energy".

 

[CatHun]

I wonder what Rich will buy her for Father’s Day as a thank you for giving birth and making him eligible for Father’s Day

 

[janedowe]

Here we go again.... in her latest vlog ‘it didn’t feel right posting a video last week, actually I didn’t even film anything’
So, it didn’t feel right or just like a week or two before, you hadn’t been bothered to film anything for your job, but conveniently for you BLM meant you didn’t have to post anything? Sounds so very Lily.

 

[Eskimogem]

She’s making a point in her stories this morning of using Fenty make up. She has previously slagged off the name of the brand and said it wasn’t for her...it’s so disingenuous.
I’m embarrassed for her, nothing she has posted re BLM comes across as genuine, it all comes across as a script straight from Gleam HQ!

 

[it’s not been changed?!]

Has she always used Fenty make up?

 

[Freebies_come2me]

Has she always used Fenty make up?

Nope almost never, she annoyed me so much. Looking to ditching her current concealer coz they aren’t ‘inclusive’ enough, scream rich and privilege! Also she has suddenly care about Grenfell haha, all her performative acts are so bad. Why can’t she do everything privately?

 

[AllTheRum]

She’s making a point in her stories this morning of using Fenty make up. She has previously slagged off the name of the brand and said it wasn’t for her...it’s so disingenuous.
I’m embarrassed for her, nothing she has posted re BLM comes across as genuine, it all comes across as a script straight from Gleam HQ!

Did you notice as well that a few days ago she shared people/things she loves and she’d included loads of POC (which is good!) but she definitely wouldn’t have included them before. She’s definitely trying to make a point. It’s good that she is expanding her world a bit but for how long?

 

[ELFILY]

She’s trying but it’s not genuine in the slightest.

 

[rainonme]

just came on to say it’s funny that she’s now using fenty beauty and suddenly cares about shade range! it very much feels like “oh look at me doing the right thing” too little too late love and doesn’t feel genuine at all! all to save face!

 

[Freebies_come2me]

Not lily related but this goes to show how influencers get sponsorship or gifted products.

Hey guys, do you have a PR contact product we can reach you on?

 

[Frnlitfet]

She is purposely showing her makeup to prove that she cares and is using black owned brand, but we all know what she said about fenty in the past

 

[Mermaid456]

she is so transparent using fenty products and saying how powerful it is for the grenfell light, wow she's another level!

 

[rainonme]

i have never seen her do anything for grenfell in the years previous. and people have been discussing poor shade ranges for years... why is she only now taking action? oh because it wasn’t as attractive for her in the past. she doesn’t actually care about the everyday people that this affects. it’s all about how she looks. well it’s looking very disingenuous and only for her benefit at the moment.

 

[julylyly]

Ugh, came on this morning to see if anyone noticed all the fenty stuff on her insta story earlier!
Seems a bit fake

 

[TheBabeWithThePower]

Their podcast theme they're recording is university. Considering it's been getting on for 10 years since they left uni I'm not sure anyone wants to hear the irrelevant ramblings of two women in their thirties talking about the "crazy" stuff they got up to at uni.

Utter lack of creativity - seriously who is this aimed at?!

 

[Too Much]

The start of her latest vlog felt so icky and stilted. Her speech about BLM felt disingenuous and I thought that her statement 'it started off so tragic, but has become so powerful' seems both unintelligent and totally missing the point. It feels like she's just saying things for the sake of it trying to hit the right notes.

I've been thinking that I also really don't like this 'the difference between not being racist and being anti-racist' thing that I've heard some of the more fragile white privileged influencers mention (e.g. Lily, Louise Pentland, Zoe Sugg). It's like they don't have to admit that they ever did anything wrong before - they were always 'not racist' - even though a number of us can clearly see specific and numerous ways that e.g. Lily has contributed to racism (and this is when she is on her 'best behaviour' online). To me, this sentiment further protects white privilege as she doesn't have to take accountability in any way, just feel good about trying to do even better and be 'anti racist', which smacks of white saviour-ism.

I noticed that another influencer, Olivia Neill put in the description of one of her latest videos 'TO STAY NEUTRAL IN A CASE OF INJUSTICE = TAKING THE SIDE OF THE OPPRESSOR'. Maybe this is the same sentiment Lily and others are going for, but it feels a lot different and better to me.

I know that this isn't a racism/BLM thread, but I'd be interested to know what other people think about this, maybe specifically with regard to Lily if that's more relevant.

On watching again, I've noticed that Lily doesn't actually take any accountability. She says "I thought I knew it all" - we know hun - she's "always understood about racism" just not "how I can help", and "that's what's been new for me". This is exactly the white saviour tit I was talking about. She says this week she's "learned so much more than she already knew". So, to summarise, she thought she knew it all and she still thinks she knows it all (except more).

Also, can she please eat her peanut butter on toast before she decides to have this chat with us - she's not on the phone to her Mum, and I think it also shows her lack of real understanding about the respect that this issue deserves. I also don't give a tit that petals have fallen off her flower out of shot.

Edited to add: I've just seen that she says her and Anna are donating the first month of their podcast income to BLM charities. I was surprised to hear that at the end of the rest of what she said. I suppose I can't knock that, although I wonder how much of a role Anna had in that - I haven't been following Anna's recent content so don't know if that's a decision she's likely to have influenced.

 

[BananaPenguin]

God I cannot stand her miserable putting on makeup face! Big pussy frown on her the whole time, it's so off putting