Sali Hughes #15 Ugg slipper, a red lip, when dressing for Leonard don't let standards slip

[Jelly Bean]

People have every right to minutely dissect a product costing £130. I think it is a bit of a misstep as @PineappleQueen19 said. The horrible candle, the cruelty free stuff, the £5 Ordinary cleanser and the incredibly stingey Dennis Gross pads. Over half the products are problematic.
I will be fascinated to know how many are sold - is there a way of finding out?
I had a quick look at the Cult Beauty site for the first time, there are so many nice looking things - I really wonder what her thought process was with these?

 

[SqualorVictoria]

Thing is The Guardian published this in 2014 (which I find mind-boggling). Sali must have found out about the link with paedophilia either during her research for this piece or, like you say, someone more knowledgeable responding to it. She doesn’t care. If there’s any chance that it will help her achieve any kind of cool, literary-girl chic, or give her a tenuous link with the worlds of Bella Freud and Kate Moss, then she’s fine with it.

As she says, having researched the Bella Freud slogan for this piece, “I love it more now than ever”. Plus look at The Guardian’s photo caption, FFS.

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Love how she's at pains to point out the one and only time she's rushed out to buy something after seeing something on a celeb and calls it "shameful". The irony in that statement. She doesn't see that that's what she expects women to do in her capacity as an "influencer". She's the one that influences people and don't you forget it, ok.

 

[Hereforthefacts]

Could you imagine Lisa Eldridge responding in this manner if someone asked her about lipstick? Never ever ever......

 

[Mselvista]

Hubby (then boyf) makes a joke about it all
(same day SH posted the article)

 

[Shineyshine]

If you ever suffer from imposter syndrome, just read this and remember that it was written by a working journalist:

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What she’s admitting is that she used clever legal/marketing wording to trick people into thinking they were getting what they believed to be (to us regular punters) a full sized product... Nice way to treat folks

 

[Raker]

"Ginseng is god" is an improvement, I've got to say. Still, I am cringing with embarrassment just listening to her

Influencers are beyond parody at this point

maybe Sali’s been quiet because she’s been busy with a gold sharpie? Hand correcting each candle before the boxes are dispatched?

 

[AsterSalonen]

It's cynical and misleading, the way boxes like that are priced. It's worth what you paid for it, and not a penny more, because the whole thing has been calculated to turn a profit through volume. And of course there is no way in hell anyone was planning on buying those exact same things individually.

I bet it could be even less expensive if they didn't send so many freebies out to "influencers". Plebs can pay full cost, blue tickers can have them for free.

I bet it could be even less expensive if they didn't send so many freebies out to "influencers". Plebs can pay full cost, blue tickers can have them for free.

Sorry, I apologize for my tone. I just get sick of that industry. It's so disingenuous.

 

[bottlewrapper]

The terrifying 'advice' that is pushed at women around spf makes me sad. So women are now supposed to shield themselves inside their own homes? Is there nowhere women can just be without the claws of the beauty industry embedded in them?

The benefit of Spf is overstated. Obvs don't sit in the sun and sizzle, but skin ages from the inside too. You are going to get wrinkles. It will sag and dimple. It will lose elasticity. You will look like an old woman one day. It's inescapable, a fact of being alive.

There is no reason aging should be categorised as 'a bad thing'.

Spf is a pollutant, hence various resorts around the world banning it. Rates of skin cancer aren't really dropping, despite years of spf being championed because smearing chemicals on your skin and then adding heat has its own adverse effects on skin.

This old lady can confirm, via an unofficial survey of her own friends who do and don't wear spf, that over the years it doesn't make enough of a difference to merit the hassle or expense.

 

[NotDumbNotBlonde]

So the Mr knows if she slathers herself in Palmers he can forget any hope of a maintenance shag

 

[lipsticktaser]

I wonder why she even started mentioning legal terms? Sucks all the joy out of what should be a fun light-hearted venture.
And when I worked in retail (Saturday job in the local deli donkey's years ago but it still counts) it was drummed into us the customer is king. You might think a customer is an absolute twat but you don't argue with them and tell them they are wrong. There are ways and means of handling people politely.

I just can’t get my head round her saying ‘ I don’t want to argue with you’ to someone who is corresponding with her over something she’s selling. She thinks she doing people a favour by ‘curating’ (cult beauty dead stock) a box.
It’s so unprofessional and snippy.

 

[zcfthc5]

CB now says the box is sold out.

Option A) it's a ploy so she can send out an email saying its 'back in stock'
Option B) candle related controversy
Option C) it's been pulled
Option D) it has been bought in the millions by women with less beefy faces than us
Option E) there were only 200 boxes to start with

 

[Puzzfish]

I don’t doubt conversations about the box started happening a year ago, but as Biossance announced it was coming to the UK in January and started being sold by Cult Beauty in March this year, but still managed to make it into the box, I think it’s a bit much to suggest there was zero flexibility and her hands were tied.

 

[Lemsipmax]

How can you claim it's a sample if you're receiving the whole ruddy box!

 

[Raker]

Friends recently returned from a posting in Saudi report the same thing re eye health in their kids — they spent so much time indoors, out of sun/heat looking at screens that they’re both now wearing glasses, for exactly the focal distancing reasons described above. Optometrist said it was a growing problem, and something like a 25% increase in myopia worldwide in this generation is expected for this reason

I fear the Jack Monroe thread speed reads are having the same effect on me...

 

[zcfthc5]

Bella Freud seems like one of those people who wouldn't have got anywhere without their surname. Growing up she did beauty reviews in a sunday supplement and early-teen acne me just felt shit because her treatment reviews were always over the £100 mark. Her jumpers and candles just scream "I have money but no personal style" me.

 

[Tesla's Ghost]

If there's something I enjoy more than watching her thorough reviews and ASMR makeup application, it's her interaction with other women.

 

[Jelly Bean]

If you’re not bothered by wrinkles etc, why on earth would you get botox, FFS?

Yes it's the same principle as wealthy people blithely saying - 'money isn't at all important to me'.

 

[Raindropsonkittens]

That’s her whole next column written for her.

 

[Brian Butterfield]

I read some comments earlier, and somebody actually suggested to just choose any shade of the CC cream because even if it isn't used the box is still great value Who are these people!!

Idiots.

 

[lipsticktaser]

Sali is suspiciously quiet on Twitter about the box

I don’t think she expected any criticism. She won’t be happy that she’s being pulled up about the snail secretion or the problematic candle.
This box has just been in a phone in, much like her column.