Is Sali Hughes a Mumsnetter?

[ImperialBlether]

Sali, if you are, I love your bathroom beauty videos, particularly

Oh but I did really like the bit about not saving things for best which I think she'd written previously as a column.

India Knight comes across as a really unpleasant person.

She has some good tips sometimes but unfortunately have been really put off by how she defends friends who do crap things eg India Knight. Seems unprofessional somehow. I was in the fb group and she wasn't that pleasant.

I much prefer Jane Cunningham.

I liked the videos with Caitlyn Moran & Brix Start Smith but I think thats cos they were pretty concise and the subjects were succinct.

I love Marian, but she waffles on a bit. Succinct she is not.

I don't mind Sali at all, but her column is a bit crap and pointless. Its too short to have a personality so its just a quick blurb about a couple of new products. Boring.

I agree that she can appear a bit frosty on camera and yes, I've noticed the sniffing thing too! Overall though I do like her and have had a lot of good results with her recommendations. The In The Bathroom videos are way too long but I used to love the videos that accompanied her Guardian column.

Also, I enjoy her (non beauty related) writing on The Pool.

India Knight on the other hand is an atrocious woman. Brought out some shite lifestyle book last year that described childfree women's 'small and unpeopled lives'.

What a dick.

I never agree with Sali's zealous belief that it is totally fine to apply makeup in public. I think it looks terrible and I'd never apply more than lipbalm in public.

There was a very heated and very entertaining thread about that very subject before.

Basically it's a MN divider along the lines of the incendiary shoes on indoors/shoes off indoors debates.

If you think those are incendiary you should check out the washing machine temperatures ones. Oh my life but my eyes havr been opened. Scary Marys abound in the world of hotpoint and persil.

I like SH's column, and I loved MK 20 yrs ago when she started out (but boy has she lost her way now) but I prefer Caroline H. And Paula thingy when she's not telling me the best products are her own range.

Oooh I didn't know washing machine temps was a MN flashpoint!

Yes, apparently even if you wash your clothes and they look clean, they are not!

Sali wrote a very good article recently about the quinoa and kale lifestyle gurus. I agreed with a lot of what she said.

Imperial I suspect the good women of the Housekeeping boards would be appalled at my paltry 40 degree washes!

Who's MK?

MK = Marian Keyes.

This is the article that Mrs Campbell Black referred to.

Imperial. Of course! Thank you

I think Sali is a good interviewer - she's very good at shutting up and letting people talk, rather than butting in all the time. She has a bit of an ice maiden persona on camera but I would take that over a ditzy airhead act any day.

Interesting that some people thought her book wasn't up to much. I've often thought of buying it but never got around to it. Might give it a miss now.

I think she's a very inspirational woman - she's come from a very tough background and worked her butt off to get to where she is today. She's also very good at celebrating other women rather than being negative. I enjoy her writing about all sorts of stuff on The Pool.

I really enjoyed that Marian Keyes interview, especially what she said about make up being an important part of her recovery from depression.