Sali Hughes #28 See thread

[rosemarina]

Is it at all possible for this woman to wish a friend happy birthday without posting four (4) pictures of herself?

Narcissist.

 

[SqualorVictoria]

I laughed at the "people who don't go to Glastonbury". She had only been going for about 5 minutes herself And yes, the tweet from Sali is just pure snobby elitism, surely the opposite of what a music festival should be.

People who don't go to Glastonbury and people who do go to Glastonbury are not personality traits

 

[Jelly Bean]

I quite liked that openness - it’s what allowed for so many to become friends. I think the problem was the cliques - Sali with her “Shed” guys and the clique of people she favoured. Anyone who agreed with her viewpoint was ok, and those who had dissenting views (no matter how well founded) were demonised and quashed very quickly.

Here - people do dissent but differing viewpoints are heard and respected (at least on the Sali threads) and bigotry is shown the door very quickly. There, apologism for racism and homophobia was rife.

The problem, to be quite honest, was Sali herself and the mean girls culture she encouraged and actively perpetuated. That was what led to the mass departure of members a few years ago on the forum.

Serves her right.

Yes the cliqueness was off-putting. The group had a lot of plus points with a lot of nice funny people.
The problem was always when Sali and her friends had their bantz, calling each other by their surnames and going through their 'routines' and stock phrases *bangs gavel*. It was so performative with everyone else as their audience.

 

[Filouette]

I only have what I need makeup wise and it's so much more satisfying. I find it more satisfying to have a certain look and stick to it rather than dithering over 70 blushers and 80 lipsticks like the Salinistas. And which eyeshadow to pair with the lipstick and blusher. Seems like way too much hassle

I'm with you on that. I have more than I need though and yet I have bought 3 LE lipsticks before Christmas (beef-faced influencers. Tsk.). They're lovely.
I know what colours work on me and I don't see why I'd need to buy more. In the past when I tried new things they didn't work entirely too often. I don't need to spend a lot of money on disappointments.

I'm downsizing my beauty products. 10 years ago I had 200+ bottles of nail polish (bad time, borderline abusive relationship. I bought one after another as treats). I did get rid of a lot ('for each one you keep you have to toss one' worked well) and have about 30 left. I've been wearing them all in the last year and if I don't love them (awful brush, chips too much etc.) they're gone. I'll start the second round soon to get down to 10-15. Once I'm not working from home anymore I'll do the same with my lipsticks. Use it or lose it.

 

[Clovis]

An example of what happens when one stops dressing for oneself and instead dresses for affiliate links.

So satisfying, so cheering.

 

[GTL Old-Timer]

Knowing that Sali is tucking into White People Curry™ has made my Friday night complete!

Can you just pour out the goo and eat the shell?

No. The goo sticks to the sides.

 

[Jelly Bean]

I looked at the Chilli Pickle website. One of them seems to have worked 'in hotels in Dubai' which apparently have very strong Indian influences

I don't know what to make of the Beauty Banks/Superdrug pushing in her column. Something about it does seem off. I know it is not for her personal gain but still. She could've easily written about care for front line NHS staff without mentioning BB at all. A bit self congratulatory? And the 'my charity' - not 'the charity I co-founded'.

 

[Disillusioned]

You are all so cynical! I see this as a true gift from Sali, to cheer us in tricky times. I confidently expect to be peeing my pants with laughter.

(Personally I wouldn’t have put poached eggs and contraceptives in the same sentence, but perhaps that’s just me being picky.)

 

[lucylucyapplejuicy]

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.

Also, isn’t this ‘content’ a year too late? Everyone’s moved on Sali hun

 

[Word]

Lol she’s straight up got an attitude problem. Nothing more nothing less.

 

[Mrs Mangel]

She’s just uploaded a very cringe out of synch video. She also said a concealer is “banging” I cringed again. She really thinks she is cool. Can’t stand her anymore. The way she is now piping up about black women and skin ranges, when 5/6/7 years ago nothing was said. So fake. Just like her. Time to give the column to a young black woman who can freshen it up.

 

[LyraBalaqua]

Sali has a superiority complex ,she clearly thinks she’s above us plebs but relies on social media and has to communicate with us civilians albeit snippily.

Being the Nan she wants to portray she’d be happy bashing away at a type writer and sending in her copy to the newspaper.

Different times Sal, different times.

 

[Disillusioned]

I thought it was more the glow it gives, why waste that whilst you’re sparko. I have often thought this myself as I take my clean, moisturised, glowy skin to bed (to look at a glowing screen in the dark).

Tp avoid wasting your nighttime glow, just leave the lights on for your maintenance shag. #everythingiswashable

 

[LyraBalaqua]

Spot on, @melfish

The general Joe Public has zero respect for supermarket workers at the best of times and I've seen some horrifying footage of supermarket workers calmly asking customers to put on a mask and the customer screeching "what about my rights"

One of my children works at a supermarket and has done since before the pandemic , he’s changed his shifts and works overnight now . He says it’s preferable to having to deal with obnoxious , vile customers. He says the worst offenders are the elderly for rudeness.

 

[WinterSolstice]

Re the curry discussion above, I get the whole mansplaining thing, but I would have broken myself laughing if, instead of responding’you have good taste’ he’d replied ‘STFU whitey’

Off to read today’s epic, thanks (?) for the reminder!

Interesting she recommends Niacinamide + Zinc for compromised skin.

Without knowing exact formulations of the repective formulations, I know the Ordinary version of this is associated with causing dryness, so it’s marketed for acne rather than skin repair.

Hmm.

 

[Jelly Bean]

I sonetimes get tenderness to my scalp , as though I've bumped my head when I haven't. It was really bothering me the other week and I thought maybe it was inflamed like when you feel you have a spot coming which doesn't materialise.

This might be a *really* stupid question but you don't tie your hair back tightly sometimes do you? I find if I do it sometimes get what feels like slight bruising. (Took me ages to figure this out )

Knowing that Sali is tucking into White People Curry™ has made my Friday night complete!

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Strange. Biryani is imo the worst curry. And on this point I will not be questioned.
I thought you were all joking about the owners of Chilli Pickle, but they literally seem to have spent a gap yah in India and that is it?

 

[Gairlfb]

I know I shouldn’t be surprised by now but the way she replies really does amaze me! This on the REN ad post. Would a ‘welcome’ or a ‘sorry for your loss’ really be so hard?

 

[Mselvista]

It's actually part of an almost comic-skit level conversation (topic notwithstanding) between Sali and FeeBee, where Sali tries repeatedly to explain to FeeBee that not all abuse victims become abusers but almost all abusers were abused. But poor FeeBee keeps not getting it

Haha, I remember that bizarrely (though not the screenshot you posted).
Can only find this amongst my screenshots- this was under the discussion of "trans issues" after Julie Burchill wrote an article in defence of Suzanne Moore, which the Observer pulled the same day. But there was another separate discussion- possibly started by a gay womsn talking about how she felt about the jokey use of "lezza" ( but that's from memory so may be wrong).

YOU CANNOT BE OFFENDED ON SOMEONE'S BEHALF FEEBEE*

*unless they don't think much of Brighton Beach aka your friend's home.

I remember her defending John Peel as well because, well, it's John Peel. And who can blame girls for throwing themselves at him.
For those that don't know, Peel's first wife was 15 when they married in Texas, he 27. Another 15 year old aborted his child - he was 30. There was a quote which I can't find that when girls were throwing themselves at him in the 70s he "didn't ask for a birth certificate".

 

[GTL Old-Timer]

What, a straight up comparison?

Yes, she wrote that paedophilia is a sexual attraction in the same way that homosexuality is. Not only does this ignore the fact that one born gay, it harks back to the age-old prejudice that queers were perverts.

 

[Mselvista]

Can you detect the smell once your nose has dropped off from advanced syphilis? Seems rather a waste of 170 quid if not.