£450 for a consultation! She's not a derm, she's a celeb doctor with an IG and YouTube account. Crazy
Sali Hughes #11 A red lip, a pink tight, a leopard boot - how very singular!
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There is a GP (private, not NHS) called Renee Hoenderkamp, who pontificates on the Jo Good BBC London programme and the Tim Arthur programme, same station, about medical things. She also has some kind of skin cosmetic clinic on the side, also private. She's only been a GP for a few years, maybe four, and also has a YouTube channel where she also pontificates about thyroid problems. She's not an endocrinologist either. She irritates me. I have a feeling she's never worked in the NHS, except to study and train. She's in her fifties so trained very late as a doctor.
I went to see Dr Bunting about 8 years ago about a bad case of eczema on my face and she was lovely. My GP was spectacularly unhelpful so I decided to go private. Sam mentioned that when she worked in the NHS it was common for doctors to be dismissive of the impact of skin issues on patients’ confidence and she found it frustrating.
We were chatting about skincare and I asked her if she would have her own line one day.
She said that was working on it, was approached by Clinique but didn’t think it was the right match. I think I paid around £170 for my consultation. This was before her Insta days.
We were chatting about skincare and I asked her if she would have her own line one day.
She said that was working on it, was approached by Clinique but didn’t think it was the right match. I think I paid around £170 for my consultation. This was before her Insta days.@Vivib I saw her for Botox a couple of times about 10 years ago, and she was lovely. This was before she was famous, when she worked for Sk:n clinics.
@rosemarina she was at Harley Street when I saw her. I was expecting a super nice place and it was very 80’s and a bit shabby. So disappointing!
Judging by the Instagram photos, the clinic had an upgrade or moved.
Judging by the Instagram photos, the clinic had an upgrade or moved.
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Today's Graun - how is a brow gel multipurpose? It has one purpose. You can't use it on cheeks, lashes or lips FFS 
Also the 'less expensive' options are still £8-10. A quick Google took me to E.L.F gel for £4.50
Also the 'less expensive' options are still £8-10. A quick Google took me to E.L.F gel for £4.50
Yes multipurpose is a strange description. I presume as it thickens and fills in gaps? But if so then a mascara does more than one job (colours, lengthens, thickens) and I wouldn't call that multipurpose. And my finances since before Christmas and until next payday are so dire those cheap options are not cheap. As I keep boringly saying this is when comments below are so missed.
How depressing that young people are doing Botox preventatively. Who knows what their faces will look like when they are in their 40s, 50s? Have the very long term effects of Botox ever been looked at? I simply can't believe injecting poison into your system over decades is ever advisable - especially as I imagine they are amongst the demographic frantically clean eating for health reasons. Not even getting into the ethics of most beauty writers having tweakments yet not declaring it.
The Collection brow mascara is £4 and has good reviews. Baffled by “synthetic beeswax” in the ingredients though.
Today's column has to be the worst ever. It's like she knocked it up five minutes before the deadline, giving it no thought whatsoever.
I really think it's time to put the column out of its misery once and for all.
I really think it's time to put the column out of its misery once and for all.
The lack of comments does leave the column itself awfully exposed. Now I think of it most decent recommendations were below the line - using the column itself as a springboard. I'll have to look through some old ones with comments to see if they have actually changed in themselves.
This is going back a while but I remember a lovely one she wrote all about heritage British brands eg Yardley. I bought some cologne on her recommendation and loved it.
Such a dull column. Colour tips for the blondest / gingers / greying / white could have jazzed it up a little. In her selfies she does the sticking the eyebrow hairs up in an artificial way at the top side of the brow but still v manicured on the underside of the brow looks weird
It's so sad. I overheard a conversation on a bus with two girls in their twenties talking about getting fillers in their lips.
Answering my own query above - the column I mentioned above about English brands was from 2012 (interestingly using the exact same photo as today's). There was a video which I know TG stopped - not her choice - but even so the format was much better. A list of 6 recommendations with description. I wonder why it changed to just 3? Even if sometimes there was an explanation that this week she couldn't find 6 she could justify.
I'm not sure that other beauty writers don't declare their cosmetic procedures. Alice Hart Davis certainly writes about hers as do India Knight and Nadine Baggott and I've read numerous articles in, say, the Times or Telegraph or online (e.g. Into the Gloss) with beauty writers describing their experience of different procedures. Some - Alice, Nadine, Trinny - even post videos of themselves having procedures.
In my, admittedly limited, experience it's only SH who seemed to have had procedures without being open about it and while - and this to me is the key point - continuing to use pictures of her own face to illustrate posts and articles about beauty products.
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Probably rented by the day.@rosemarina she was at Harley Street when I saw her. I was expecting a super nice place and it was very 80’s and a bit shabby. So disappointing!
All I see is an airline hostess circa 1983
Months of research went into that column, for those thinking she phoned it in
Months of research went into that column, for those thinking she phoned it in
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OT but I was bored and was reading Mumsnet earlier and saw a thread about menopause horror stories and symptoms. I'm now dreading it. Please someone tell me it's not that bad?
I would take anything said on Mumsnet with a VERY large pinch of salt. An entire drum of salt perhaps.
I don't think the wisdom of the crowd applies there
@DCICassieStuart I will never not think I'm in conversation with Nicola Walker when you post
@DCICassieStuart I will never not think I'm in conversation with Nicola Walker when you post
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