Sali Hughes #28 See thread

[The Dowager]

Morning Zoom face?! How many times do these sodding influencers need to be told? Teams! We're on Teams! Or at least 95% of 'corporate' types in the UK are. We're on Teams during the day, on Zoom for non-immediate family and friends socialising stuff, and on malbec to deal with the godforesaken horror of it all.

Also, does she actually think we need advice on how to quickly do make-up for video calls? Thank you dear Sali, I'd never have figured it out without your help. Here I was, rubbing foundations into my eyeballs and putting my mascara wand up my nose, but you've set me right up for tomorrow morning now, thanks so much. Now if you could just switch your attention to making a video on how I can change my cheekbones to mirror how much yours have changed in the past two years, then I'll definitely watch that.

 

[Clovis]

Well, I think we've found our next thread title. Sali Hughes: expert content creator.

 

[Disillusioned]

Next thread title...

Sali Hughes: Nope

 

[Missypissy]

Just a regular day in the life of a journalist/ broadcaster/ vegitarian/ beauty editor columnist/ author general expert on everything.

Throw on a casual relaxed outfit that you would buy even if it wasn't given to you because it's so everyday relaxed wearable that you will live in it. Until your next parcel of free clothes turn up.

Pop on a red lip to defeat pesky global pandemic

And oversized sunglasses. And a hat. For extra shilling opps obvs.

Head to back garden. Which turns out to be a beach. REMEMBER TO SAY HOW LUCKY YOU ARE.

Casually sit on some cold wet pebbles in the weatheryness whilst exuding relaxedyness.

Go home for some kindly gifted beans on toast and some hard agreeing on twitter.

Watch money roll in

 

[Blahblahbuzzy]

I noticed on the Superdrug website yesterday for the Beauty Banks bags they described Sali as an 'influencer'. It's been changed today to 'an expert content creator'. Not sure what's worse

 

[GTL Old-Timer]

That whole concentration camp thing is so fucking offensive. A red lip, fixing PTSD since 1945

My mother was in Maijdanek concentration camp (showing my age here!) and she would be absolutely furious if you were to recite the red lipstick story to her. The horrors her generation went through are unimaginable and to suggest that any of that could be ameliorated even for one moment by a fucking pair of red lips is beyond gross.

Gosh - I truly do despise that woman.

 

[melfish]

I did some deep research and found it

"Unlike you peasants, I have perfume everywhere. I wash the dog in it, and use it to boil my vegetarian pasta."

 

[SqualorVictoria]

I can picture it now

"My trolls are so relentless that one crashed rudely onto my Insta to denounce Brighton beach. This I took to heart because though I am from the Welsh Valleys, I now consider myself as Brightonian as the pier, the arcade and the Chili Pickle where I celebrated my wedding breakfast. To cast aspersions on this beach is a grave personal insult to me, in this place I have called home for a decade and a half. You can take the girl out of the Welsh Valleys but you can't take the Welsh Valley out of the girl, or so they say. I would counter that when you take the girl out of the Welsh Valleys and place her on a pebble-dashed seashore, that's where her heart and core will remain. Pebbles crunching underfoot a chunky Grenson boot, I simply couldn't countenance feeling at home anywhere else"

 

[GTL Old-Timer]

Everyone has lots of time on their hands? Really?!

My wife and I are completely exhausted 100% of the time and when our babies are asleep we have to go back to work and finish what we couldn’t do whilst looking after them during the day. The bloody house looks like a bomb has hit it because we don’t have the fucking time or energy to clean it. We have to take turns to have a shower and dry our hair so that one person can always be around to feed, clothe, watch the children. I can’t remember the last time I spoke with my friends on the phone.

She is so fucking removed from reality that she must be living in a parallel universe. Clueless twat.

Honestly what is the point of her?

ZERO. There is ZERO point of her. If she faded into obscurity, society would be none the poorer.

 

[Tesla's Ghost]

"no question is too small"
See reel.
"How to break up with a friend"
Wait until her boyfriend is convicted and ghost her.

 

[Missypissy]

Lolllz at her efforts to shepherd folk on to reels and then the info being covered. Sales fail. Also her reply to the follower asking about her eyebrow shaping. Hardly touched them in 5 years. She has simply plucked away a few stragglers oh and had them microbladed annualy.
I THINK THE MICROBLADING IS THE HEADLINE HERE SAL

 

[Shineyshine]

Cher Webb is a makeup artist. She did Sali’s makeup on IG a couple of years ago.

I would have bought at least one if Sali wasn’t associated with the project. Will make a donation to my local food bank instead.

I’ve never heard of the fourth person at all, but his design was by far the best and he’d made an effort. The rest looked like they’d spent an afternoon with the crayon box and thought ‘that’ll do’.

I will not support Sali’s charity either. I can’t get past how the charity, which is meant to be all about hygiene poverty, gave it’s brand donations to NHS workers. Whilst I completely agree that key workers are deserving of support and praise, they are by no means in hygiene poverty. For me this calls into question the charity’s governance, when on the personal whim of it’s founders / executives, the main objective can be overridden.

No thanks.

 

[SqualorVictoria]

I’ve never heard of the fourth person at all, but his design was by far the best and he’d made an effort. The rest looked like they’d spent an afternoon with the crayon box and thought ‘that’ll do’.

I will not support Sali’s charity either. I can’t get past how the charity, which is meant to be all about hygiene poverty, gave it’s brand donations to NHS workers. Whilst I completely agree that key workers are deserving of support and praise, they are by no means in hygiene poverty. For me this calls into question the charity’s governance, when on the personal whim of it’s founders / executives, the main objective can be overridden.

No thanks.

I fully agree. A charity should have clear aims and objectives and not just attach itself to a cause du jour. I'm not saying that NHS workers didn't and don't work their asses off, but those who experienced hygiene poverty will still be experiencing it and often worse so than before the pandemic.

Also: side note and I don't want to offend anyone here but I kind of feel that other essential workers like supermarket workers have been ignored. NHS workers do amazing work and in tough conditions but many others also work in tough conditions but were mostly ignored

 

[LyraBalaqua]

She’s a self serving , snippy, brittle woman.

Today’s column is all about what a good charitable woman Sali is and she’s throwing a bit of Superdrug in for good measure.

She’s also an appalling journalist and writer.

 

[Hereforthefacts]

The hair comment really bugged me. "Nope" fuck right off Sali, if you can't be nice just be quiet. She's depending on these "fans" to keep her in business and yet she lacks any ounce of respect or even self awareness to treat them with anything other than utterly disdain. God I can't stand her.

 

[melfish]

Who could forget this pleasant exchange, in which the other person reacts to her rudeness first by apologising and then by flattering her

 

[The Dowager]

On the subject of the famous bath salts, I previously said that I was going to have an indulgent weekend to try to feel a bit more human again, and this weekend is that weekend

I’m going to have an uncomfortably hot bath with the Radox salts, with a new candle and a glass of red wine. This will be after a wonderfully slobby day of reading a stack of magazines, maybe watching a film, and certainly eating my own weight in biscuits. I’ve also ordered one of those Dishoom bacon naan kits, because if I’m going to be an indulgent slug, why not go all out?

All of this is on the assumption that I make it through the working week without cracking though.

And for the beef-faced trolls on the thread who would give their right arm for a day by themselves, I am available for baby-sitting duty once it’s safe and legal! Or we’ll do a Center Parcs spa day and drop the younglings off at some activity there

 

[Mazerati]

Right?! “Sorry, sorry, silly question” *walks out of room backwards; bows head*

It's a straight up unequal power dynamic though. And she should damn well know better than to be shitty to people who are literally not doing any harm and are actually fans of hers. Not to mention the way women just automatically apologise as a way of forging closeness. It's learned and ingrained behaviour. Even on this thread we apologise before even being called out on anything. I'm learning to be a bit more selective about how and why I dish out my sorrys.

 

[HotesTilaire]

If this book simply references pieces which were written and published before, will each chapter be like
Chapter 1 “How to poach an egg”
I literally wrote a tweet about this - see tweet.
Chapter 2 “Finding your style”
See previous

 

[LostMachine]

Someone needs to tell Nana skinny jeans are over. This outfit looks like the sort of thing you see in shops that sell terrible cheap clothing as a front for money laundering.

back to lurking now