Sali Hughes #49 Sali Hughes: Lost herself, #founder self

[SqualorVictoria]

New thread!

@Jelly Bean please do one of your famous recaps!

Thanks to @Valiofthedolls for the title!

Continuing on from here

Sali Hughes #48 "One should not bob rashly"

Absolutely, however I do think that it’s an easy honest mistake to make. She is a skincare guru so people who don’t know of it will wonder about the stark contrast. I don’t think it’s so unusual that newer people here comment on it without knowing the background. I wonder what her scalp is like...

tattle.life

 

[Foxvint]

So just came back from my lovely sisters who had a gift for me... #notpaid #notsponsored

 

[melfish]

So just came back from my lovely sisters who had a gift for me... #notpaid #notsponsored

Are you still speaking to her?

 

[Jelly Bean]

Recap(ish).

To start with. 'Genius at shopping'.

Is it just me - or dafuq?

Anyway. Grimly onwards.
Sali's new notcollaboration collaboration (35 iterations in the making. Ffs people she has suffered for this. She cried Ah no don't be mean) was launched with a bang. It was a glitzy star studded affair. Claridges in Ould London Town kindly allowed her the use of, well no idea what the duck that was tbh - a very small rather sinister forgotten corridor? Hong Kong Phooeys janitor's cupboard? Doesn't matter. It looked soooo lovely. The funeral parlour theme, complete with flickering candles and dusty drab drapes, was an unexpected touch but oh so chic. There was a roster of big names: Caitlin Moran, Hirons, Claudia Winkleman, Trinny Wotsername, Chloe Simms off of TOWIE Reem!
Sali pulled out all the stops outfit wise for her big day. It isn't everyone who can work a crumpled shroud - but the maverick Estee Lauder Of Our Times© showed those boring conformists who use irons just where they are going wrong. (Ironing is just not something Sali does OK? Stop asking her. It's all in the book. Just think - What Would Madonna Do? Ironing wise).
To cut to the chase. The products. No idea. They look boring and overpriced to me. Luckily we have an in-house tester @Foxvint who has offered herself. Beef face. We salute you.

 

[Valiofthedolls]

Recap(ish).

To start with. 'Genius at shopping'.

Is it just me - or dafuq?

Hong Kong Phooeys janitor's cupboard?

1. It’s not just you.
2. Hong Kong Phooey has just ENDED me
3. Why does she look so oddly proportioned again?
4. Am I the only one who lazy read that sweatshirt initially as Maradona College? And do you think she knows Madonna College/university is a real college in Michigan?! And if so, why is she wearing a sweatshirt of a college she didn’t go to?! And if not and she thinks it’s just “the Madonna” and bought it without looking it up, what a berk.

ALSO, GLORIOUS recap as always! Mwwwah! as your reward, have a “vintage sweatshirt of a real university that you didn’t go to* but that’s also HILARIOUSLY the name of something else” with the cachet as the wearer of self-identifying as a daring toothpaste bandit

*making an assumption based on statistical probability there. If I am wrong, may I poke myself in the eye with a mascara spoolie while doing a beauty “hack” and may I “go grey” overnight

ETA Madonna college is about right for her. She’s certainly putting the hard hours of shopping and acquiring in to go full on Material Girl

 

[digsydelilah]

@Jelly Bean

I wish I had screen captured one of Chloe Sim's friends sat in front of Sali's products, it didn't look like a shelf, just an available flat surface. It was a gang of teenagers crashing a drab party vibe, it was all so slightly mickey mouse.

The inset with the sweatshirt design. I originally thought she had taken it from the eBay listing but now I see it's another shot of Herself.

 

[DianeAbbotsMojito]

"I'm not like other moms. I'm a cool mom"

 

[anais750185]

Brilliant recap @Jelly Bean and it’s not just you. She does look weirdly proportioned - I think the sweatshirt is probably an XXS and she should have sized up by at least 2 sizes.

 

[DianeAbbotsMojito]

Brilliant recap @Jelly Bean and it’s not just you. She does look weirdly proportioned - I think the sweatshirt is probably an XXS and she should have sized up by at least 2 sizes.

No, because then she can't humble brag about being a size -0. No matter that she doesn't look like she can't move her arms in the sweater, she WILL fit into an xxxxs.

 

[Bluebellesse]

I had to google Hong Kong Phooey and, well, here’s the inspo for her otherwise inexplicable outfit.

(No shade to the actual fashion person on the right. Or the cat.)

(Is there any way to make photos smaller?)

 

[dunhill]

Oops, I did it again - am wearing a sweatshirt that is exactly the same colour as Sali’s, and have to say that is a gorgeous colour on her. However, mine fits and doesn’t have any kind of log/crest/whatever on it. I have to confess a huge dislike of those kinds of sweatshirts anyway, and also band t-shirts as on most, they just look naff, particularly when just that little bit too shrunken (like this one is). With those jeans, an oversized sweatshirt would be better. As ever, the details are not quite right - her jeans are the wrong length and the whiskering makes the jeans seems too tight when the fit is probably ok. But it’s not even these things that are the most glaringly obvious thing, it’s how awkward and uncomfortable she looks in her own photos that is the most noticeable.

I find it astonishing that for someone who invests so much in her own appearance and clothing, she rarely gets it right.

 

[Rekyavikgirl]

bleeping hell, her hair

 

[anais750185]

I've only just realised the extent of the massiveness of that shirt.
The strange thing is @dunhill, she used to get it right, I always thought she had great style. I sympathise, I think it's hard being mid-late 40s as you realise that the style you'd had for the past 20 years doesn't work always anymore but you're not sure what does. I used to wear lots of skimpy short tea dresses and even if they still fit, I don't feel right in them anymore. Sali, however, has an enormous budget so a lot more room for manoeuvre than most of us. I also think trying to adopt a style which isn't your own (influencer style in her case) doesn't work as it's not genuine.

 

[HowardMoon]

Brilliant recap @Jelly Bean and it’s not just you. She does look weirdly proportioned - I think the sweatshirt is probably an XXS and she should have sized up by at least 2 sizes.

Yep, it’s not meant to be so tight! The fashion has been for years now to go very oversized in hoodies and sweatshirts and literally no one doesn’t know this. She either goes full on King size duvet cover or like she’s borrowed a 12 year old’s clothes

 

[GossipMongoose]

I really disliked her old Mary Janes and tea dresses style but it was very much ‘her’ and I think she’s struggled to find a style that she identifies so closely with since

 

[HowardMoon]

Whilst I’m here...I got a Cult Beauty ‘look what’s new in’ email today and saw a purple herbivore retinol product and had to look again as I thought it was one of Sali’s. I know another poster has pointed this out but the packaging is SO similar to Herbivore’s but looks much cheaper and less pretty. Revolution have form for copying other brands packaging, eg Cerave recently (and everyone does it to a certain extent, really) but Sali’s range really is so basic and unoriginal

 

[zcfthc5]

Think tea dresses or just slightly different cuts with her net a porter potential discount would look so chic on her. I get she’s been exploring her new wardrobe freedom post boob-reduction but thought she’d have found a better new style by now

 

[SqualorVictoria]

Yet another 'feminism and beauty are linked' article. Surely she has written this same kind of thing about 10 times and I haven't read this one but I know it'll be the same talking points again

 

[GossipMongoose]

Yet another 'feminism and beauty are linked' article. Surely she has written this same kind of thing about 10 times and I haven't read this one but I know it'll be the same talking points again

Money for old rope.

 

[particularparsnip]

whyyyyyy is she still flopping that hair forwards omg

im a broken record because I've commented on it before but I can't handle it, it looks so strange