Sali Hughes #66 The Girl with the Pigeon Tattoo

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I felt a sort of rage when I saw Sali’s menopause story and couldn’t quite figure out why it made me so irrationally angry. Thanks to all of you who have articulated good reasons for being furious 😡
Also: Her near orgasmic face while applying crem, monogrammed bathrobe etc.
I think I must be there, mood swings and rage weren’t in my repertoire when I was younger.
 
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I felt a sort of rage when I saw Sali’s menopause story and couldn’t quite figure out why it made me so irrationally angry. Thanks to all of you who have articulated good reasons for being furious 😡
Also: Her near orgasmic face while applying crem, monogrammed bathrobe etc.
I think I must be there, mood swings and rage weren’t in my repertoire when I was younger.
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As someone who had a surgical menopause and chose not to take HRT can I say that I didn’t have mood swings and was never rage filled. We’re all different I guess and maybe I was lucky but I had no major issues other than middle aged weight gain .
 
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Utter, utter horse tit.

The "rigorous" accreditation process is you have to show your product eases ONE
..just ONE....of these symptoms, badly set out on this picture. I had to scan for a while to find "changes in skin texture".

Great.....you make moisturisers....ground breaking.

This is some of the most egregious patronising bandwagon jumping clap trap to date.
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The organisation which set it up is just a marketing gimmick. They are disgusting.
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Set up by Sam Simister (ex Innocent Drinks) and Heather Jackson ( ex a load of corporate relations balls by the looks of it).

Looks like they've set up a company called wait for it.....WE'VE GOT THIS LIMITED Company number 12109553

Barf at that boss babe lady bizniz name.

The other director is Julian Kynaston. I thought I recognised the name. Illamasqua founder "an actual brand founder".

I love Companies House website.

Can I call myself a journalist now?
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Kynaston now runs a company called Propaganda "We are a leading strategic and creative brand consultancy".
He describes himself as a Disruptor!
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Completely meaningless. Presumably brands pay to go through the 'robust application process'? Would be interesting to know if any fail. Hard to think of any product - from water through to chocolate chip ice-cream - that couldn't be presented (and evidenced) as helping to 'relieve, ease or support one or more of the 48 menopause symptoms and signs'.
 
They included feeling cold as a menopause issue so I'm absolutely thrilled to announce two days after World menopause day that my green jumper (and indeed the rest of my carefully curated jumper collection) has been accredited as a menopause friendly resource.
Have a little look at some pictures of me putting a jumper on and looking ecstatic because it is defo going to sort me right out.
Run to a jumper shop now and enjoy all them hormones rushing back into your system.
#jumperowner
I have worked closely with peri menopausal symptoms in the past and I yes I am there yet.
 
The bar is so low it's on the floor.

It's giving, I've worked a lifetime in a branding role and it hasn't fulfilled me so now I'm going to take on something that looks worthy but is really just another branding role.

And look, genuinely no offence to anyone who works in branding. I totally see why it exists. But it is to sell products and that's fine. I'm angry at the people who try to pretend it's anything else and green wash it, charity wash it, meno wash it.
 
I went through menopause 20 years ago. Do I wish there'd been the focus on menopause that there is today? No, I don't think so. I think it would have worried me, thinking it was going to be dreadful, looking out for all these various symptoms.

In the event the only symptoms i remember were putting on a bit of weight (for the first time in my life) in my late 40s and getting night sweats when I was 50. There were no noticeable changes to my mood or my skin or any of the other 40+ things they mention. Having done a bit of research I asked my GP to prescribe bio-identical HRT and the night sweats went away after a couple of days. That was it really.
 
youncer said:
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Utter, utter horse tit.

The "rigorous" accreditation process is you have to show your product eases ONE
..just ONE....of these symptoms, badly set out on this picture. I had to scan for a while to find "changes in skin texture".

Great.....you make moisturisers....ground breaking.

This is some of the most egregious patronising bandwagon jumping clap trap to date.
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The organisation which set it up is just a marketing gimmick. They are disgusting.
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Set up by Sam Simister (ex Innocent Drinks) and Heather Jackson ( ex a load of corporate relations balls by the looks of it).

Looks like they've set up a company called wait for it.....WE'VE GOT THIS LIMITED Company number 12109553

Barf at that boss babe lady bizniz name.

The other director is Julian Kynaston. I thought I recognised the name. Illamasqua founder "an actual brand founder".

I love Companies House website.

Can I call myself a journalist now?
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Kynaston now runs a company called Propaganda "We are a leading strategic and creative brand consultancy".
He describes himself as a Disruptor!
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I saw an interview with one of this pair. It was an extensive word salad of “empowerment” meets “gap in the market” and to be fair I’m not even sure the market gap is as wide as all the tit they’re crowbarring into it. It’s all a bit post-truth. Although I feel bad because in “not there yet”myself, although I feel I might be on a bus that’s going to terminate there sometime soon.
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Jelly Bean said:
On World Menopause Day (wtf?) her entire range has been declared 'menopause friendly'. What does that even mean? Have any skin products ever actually been declared 'menopause unfriendly'? So a completely false equivalence. It's nonsense. I hate with a bleeping passion this cynical cash grab on the menopause. And actively avoid skincare aimed towards it as the price is usually doubled for the same product as usual. Cynical as duck. Menopausal women aren't a separate species. Brands have worked out older women probably have more disposable income and are targeting them.
And what af with her eyebrows?

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“Menogasm face”
 
Jelly Bean said:
On World Menopause Day (wtf?) her entire range has been declared 'menopause friendly'. What does that even mean? Have any skin products ever actually been declared 'menopause unfriendly'? So a completely false equivalence. It's nonsense. I hate with a bleeping passion this cynical cash grab on the menopause. And actively avoid skincare aimed towards it as the price is usually doubled for the same product as usual. Cynical as duck. Menopausal women aren't a separate species. Brands have worked out older women probably have more disposable income and are targeting them.
And what af with her eyebrows?

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Has she just posted this to her grid? These are old images, pre-TEETH
 
From one of the "founders" IG in response to it being criticised as menowashing.

More word salad. And the fact she leans on is that it was set up by two menopausal women not created by retailers is so weak!

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Next time I'm walking down the aisle at Boots and I "witness" the Mtick on a tube of Sali's Ring Crème I'll throw myself to the floor and weep in gratitude. I'll feel seen and complete as a menopausal woman and all will be right with the world.

Honestly, I feel that statement needs to read out loud, ...shouted from the rooftops by Kate Winslet, with a soaring orchestral score....!!!!!!!

The more you read it, the funnier it gets.

These people work at big international companies and earn big bucks. It's amazing!
 
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The Menopause Pound!!!

There you have it....hand 'em over ladies.

This is who they they are working for.

Grow your business. Rinse these women for all they're worth. We'll show you how. We've put together a list of symptoms so they can scan it and get health anxiety and maybe they'll buy you product. No surprise to see Dr Louise Newsom mentioned in one of the posts.
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I'll shut up now but this stuff makes me so mad.
 
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Jelly Bean said:
Her Guardian column is back on a Saturday - wonder if that's permanent 🤔
And a nice advert for Sam Mcknight too.
And sorry that is shocking advice - sleeping in curlers. The stress it cause on your hair will be terrible - constant slight tugging at the roots as your head is on the pillow will cause breakage.
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She here is just bleeping bonkers now. Wrap your bleached extensions in curlers to look pretty for breakfast 😁
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youncer said:
From one of the "founders" IG in response to it being criticised as menowashing.

More word salad. And the fact she leans on is that it was set up by two menopausal women not created by retailers is so weak!

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Next time I'm walking down the aisle at Boots and I "witness" the Mtick on a tube of Sali's Ring Crème I'll throw myself to the floor and weep in gratitude. I'll feel seen and complete as a menopausal woman and all will be right with the world.

Honestly, I feel that statement needs to read out loud, ...shouted from the rooftops by Kate Winslet, with a soaring orchestral score....!!!!!!!

The more you read it, the funnier it gets.

These people work at big international companies and earn big bucks. It's amazing!
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I actually can’t read it, it’s like a Chat GPT gone mad.
It’s quite heavy on the “unfalsifiable belief”at levels usually seen in a cult. Not joking.
https://leanlogic.online/glossary/unfalsifiability/#:~:text=An%20argument%20presented%20in%20a,you%20haven't%20enough%20faith.
 
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She here is just bleeping bonkers now. Wrap your bleached extensions in curlers to look pretty for breakfast 😁
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That's the only bleeping bounce - other than when the cheque clears - that this moron experiences.

Does she think we're stupid? By now, her target audience must have tried this 'tip' the first time it came out, circa 92. It bloody tugs, is totally uncomfortable and doesn't result in generalised 'bounce' but on flat (pulled tight by tension) roots with weirdly voluminous and unfortunate pouffy sides.

Try again Sali.
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Although I feel bad because in “not there yet”myself, although I feel I might be on a bus that’s going to terminate there sometime soon.
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Yeah but you know what, it's fine. As Aude says, you might put on a bit of weight, realise you've had a couple of unusually sleepless nights, wake up sweaty a few times. You go to the doctor, get some hrt or anti-depressants (some of which have a side effect of stopping hot flushes, which is why they are recommended), or if hrt isn't right for you, you sleep nude. It sorts it. Done. On the bright side, you stop getting spots and your skin stops being greasy.

And it doesn't terminate, it gets way better. You develop zero bleeping tolerance for these grifters, stop buying overpriced tit that does bugger all and prioritise topping up your pension rather than Sali's next bespoke window seat project or Hirons' mansion. And young men start being amazingly chivalrous, rather than sex pests.
 
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