Someone suggested fuck you and your blusher, I think that should be the next one!
Or "Sali Hughes and the skidmark people"
Or "Sali Hughes and the skidmark people"
Yup, very true. My ex is Welsh and he doesn't have a regional accent. Not posh either!I’m sure it takes a bit of effort to acquire a new accent but it will happen organically too to a degree.
I’d never heard of the shower cap debacle but then again I have only read her Guardian column once and it annoyed me asWell, I have to say that I FOUND MY PEOPLE!!
Some context:
This morning I saw on my Twitter timeline that someone I follow liked "that" tweet from Sali, the one directing to her Instagram video. Clicking through that tweet I saw her mention of this site and came here and maaaaaaannn, I wasn't disappointed
I didn't read every single post of the three threads because it's nearly 3000 posts and I rushed though them, I wanted to know as much as I could about the people who were inflicting suffering on poor little Sal' *cackles*
Some history:
I used to belong to her GTL FB group and when it was closed I moved to her website forum along everyone who did it too. And what happened you may ask? I was bullied twice, once in the FB group and the second time in the forum, not only by the people who had I had a different opinion from but alas, Sali herself. I decided that I wasn't going to be bullied a third time and just left. Why was I bullied? Because I obviously dared to have a different opinion to the majority of people on both discussions. I am absolutely not surprised to find so many ex GTLers and ex Forumites here as I refused to feel the odd one out, deep down I knew that there should be more people like me around.
I have never read the forum since I left but I carried on reading her column on the Guardian mostly out of curiosity. I started noticing a shift in the comments a while ago when people genuinely began asking her why she had stopped making videos and started making columns - ie. badly disguised paid for ads - about products. The kickstart point if I'm not wrong was the column about the 40 quid shower cap where the shower cap "inventor" (bwahahaha) came BTL to defend good ol' Sal who was being roasted about recommending a shower cap that cost 40 English pounds and practically gave the game away that such column was a paid post. I relished, yes, I bloody did.
The comments started getting more and more inquisitive and I'm sure she has a list of posters' names she doesn't want their comments posted as I tried to post many times - nothing aggressive - and the comment was never published. Please note that I never had a problem with my comments in any other section of the Guardian.
I am ashamed to say that I was once her admirer but after a while I could see her for what she really is: a glorified make up artist. She calling herself a journalist is an affront to real journalists. She basically uses flowered up language to talk about lipstick. Who exactly does she think she is? The Keats of Foundation? The Shakespeare of Eye Shadow? Her writing is pitiful, vacuous, empty. What she is though, is a basic sales person. Had she never met the right connections and charmed her way through her "career" she would be at a counter selling her beloved Bobbi Brown stuff.
Going through these threads I learned so much more stuff that actually confirmed my point of view: the clique, the bullying, the double standards when it comes to female friendships, that she married a Tory while being a "leftie" (the champagne socialist stuff is pretty galling). Her website completely tanked, I had a look today and no new posts for years, no wonder she's returning to Facebook where she can flog stuff for free while being paid for it. I flicked through her books in a bookshop and I can't believe anybody in their sane mind would buy that crap. If you compare and contrast to the book Lisa Eldrige wrote, about the history of make up, her efforts are laughable.
She has no discernible talent and like the saying goes, you can fool some people for a while but not everyone all the time. Today is probably the first column ever that had no comments section BTL. Her desperation in her video saying that she had legal advice - DID SHE BOLLOCKS - is hilarious! I don't want to give away too much but unless she's receiving rape/death threats or serious and repetitive abuse she can do zilch about it. She is annoyed and scared because people started seeing her for what she really is, a big fraud. Someone who does paid posts for scrunchies and shower caps. Someone who's bitter because she wasn't at the Victoria Beckham make up launch. Someone who can't write something insightful to save her life. Someone who's incredibly jealous of talented people like Lisa Eldrige and associates herself with likewise shits like Botox Tilbury.
She's going to regret her video because I could see this site got a LOT of new posters, me included, because of her own stupidity in publicising it. This whole omnishambles should be a warning to her, she should take a step back and ask herself why so many people are taking a stand against her. This should be an opportunity to stop, think and learn. Unfortunately, she's too conceited, arrogant and vain to admit that she was ever wrong. Her world is about to come crashing down on her and I am going to watch it with my very large G&T in one hand and my phone in the other.
https://giphy.com/P7JmDW7IkB7TW PS: I'm so sorry about the long post but I had never spoken to anyone about the bullying I suffered from Sali and her cronies, I bottled everything up. This is the first time and I feel so relieved.
To be fair though, there’s no one Welsh accent. Every town has a different accent that’s quite distinctive and North Walian is a world away from South Walian. like comparing a Home Counties accent to a Liverpudlian accent. Very different. There are places in Wales with a very mild accent (usually where little to no Welsh is spoken) too. Anyway I’m boring myselfYup, very true. My ex is Welsh and he doesn't have a regional accent. Not posh either!
I think anyone who came here to defend her did so by calling us all c*nts (or similar) and then got blocked, rather than trying to enter into discussion. That's from what I saw anyway (which was one post of someone calling us all names that vanished shortly afterwards).I have just looked through the comments and was suprised not too see any taking a defensive stance ??
Fuck you and your blusher is amazing! Could combine with @BettyDoodah to ‘The Keats of Foundation is a lying little fucker, Cries Troll too much! Fuck You and Your Blusher!’Someone suggested fuck you and your blusher, I think that should be the next one!
Or "Sali Hughes and the skidmark people"
Completely. If she just owned it then she wouldn’t be such a fake greasy shitbagVery good point made. Influencers are salespeople with a different name. They're cheaper than paying for advertising on TV, radio, newspapers and magazines. They also have the added advantage of being deceitful about the relationship with the brand, giving the impression the product was bought with their own money
Sali had the advantage of her background in journalism but now with her presence on IG she's no different to your bog standard "Ooh just had a haul at Boots" influencer
You are absolutely right! I really should know better as I lived in Wales for a few yearsTo be fair though, there’s no one Welsh accent. Every town has a different accent that’s quite distinctive and North Walian is a world away from South Walian. like comparing a Home Counties accent to a Liverpudlian accent. Very different. There are places in Wales with a very mild accent (usually where little to no Welsh is spoken) too. Anyway I’m boring myself
YES, THIS!The Keats of Foundation and a fuck your blusher, Sali Hughes the Tattle crusher!
Hypocrite.Well the Giles Coren thing is interesting. I have completely detached from many of the people I used to watch on YouTube or read the columns of, so had not heard any of it at all. If true, then Hughes is a massive hyprocrite as well as a smug so and so.
Yes I remember the twitter pile on of Esther Coren that Sali started and encouraged as Esther’s article wasn’t to her liking. A couple of people calmly challenged SH on this, suggesting she had misread the tongue in cheek tone of the article and was behaving reprehensibly by stirring things up. Of course SH was having none of this and refused to consider an alternative viewpoint or take responsibility for EC having to lock down her social media.Well the Giles Coren thing is interesting. I have completely detached from many of the people I used to watch on YouTube or read the columns of, so had not heard any of it at all. If true, then Hughes is a massive hyprocrite as well as a smug so and so.
Ooh yes please@HowardMoon there is a thread called actually honest set up for skincare chat by one of you lovely people. Shall I link it?
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