Sali Hughes on Going Grey

[ZaraW]

Interesting and well written

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Years ago there was a thread on here where someone claimed to work for Sali and dished some dirt. They hoodwinked a lot of posters including me to my lifelong But at the time it never occurred to me that anyone would go to the trouble of making up something so preposterous. I'm (a bit) wiser now. In the end Sali came onto the thread herself and kicked arse.

I'm not a fan of influencers and I don't follow any. Give me old fashioned, hard grafting salesmen and women any day. But SH seems to attract an extraordinary level of vitriol and I have no idea why.

My feelings about her are neutral but I still dont understand why she highlighted her hair if the brown was her natural colour.
It makes no sense.

When it comes to Sali, people seem to object to everything. The fact she dares to call herself a journalist when she hasn't followed a pathway that is deemed 'acceptable' to this career, i.e. no GCSEs/not going to university. Surely, people can see there are different types of journalist and not everyone is going to be Kate Adie.

I agree that lack of a university education, or any particular qualification, is a ludicrous criticism to make of a writer. Journalism has never been a graduate-only profession, and it shouldn’t become one. Some very serious political journalists and similar trained on the job straight from school.

The fact that she may have at some point many years ago stated she would never have Botox - and wait for it, she dared to change her mind, and whats more didn't advertise this fact with great fanfare.

OTOH, you do need to be transparent about your own face when you’ve started using it as a billboard for your product testing, which Sali did. If you’ve been outspoken that you won’t have injectibles, and renege on that, but keep your Botox use quiet, of course it is potentially misleading that you’re recommending and “modelling” skin creams.

Personally, I’d keep influencing out of journalism altogether and make it a requirement that you return your press card when you start accepting payment for social media promotion. It might be a bit tricky to draw the line as journalists and PRs have never been two discrete groups - lots of crossover - but social media influencing is something different from PR, and incredibly lucrative, so the line really does need to be described.

@Cocolapew

My feelings about her are neutral but I still dont understand why she highlighted her hair if the brown was her natural colour. It makes no sense.

Yes! That still has me befuddled.

Isn't most of what is in the papers/magazines just one long press release? Sali and all other beauty journalists receive PR samples in the hope they will write something favourable. Its always been like this, it isn't something that just started with instagram and YT. With writers/journalists/You Tubers that I like/respect, I have to trust that they will choose to talk about products that they believe in. They may not use the products themselves, but I believe that Sali gives products to friends/colleagues to try products to try if they aren't suited to her skin.

She receives hundreds and hundreds of press samples and I am sure she can't possibly try everything personally. I am also fairly sure she doesn't go out of her way to criticise products, she just doesn't talk about them.

I just had a quick look at a another article in the Guardian written by Rachel Dixon and June Dunford 'Crafty Breaks 15 of the UKs best creative retreats. Its just one long press release. I don't imagine they have been to these retreats. They will have received a press release from these retreats and these 2 writers put together an article. Thats just one article, but all papers and magazines are full of the same.

I don't get all the criticism aimed at Sali. I can think of several writers/You Tubers who I absolutely don't trust.

Wow- that is going to be a nightmare to grow out. I would understand I if her hair was dyed but it was natural already. Very odd thought process.

On the plus side a lot of women tempted by going down this route will give it hard swerve.

There is no miracle product on earth, at any price, that rebuilds bleached hair. I know this to my cost. I'm growing out my highlights because I can't bear the dead, candy floss texture any more.

Sure, with a pro blowdry she looks amazing. But her daily life just got a whole lot harder.

This thread is such a shame for so many reasons.

Why on Earth are people so pissed off with Sali Hughes?! It’s cos she is really pretty and has a nice life, and that’s it really. Urgh.

Honestly, she’s screwed up her hair and is styling it out and writing a Vogue article and whatever. Good for her. I wish I could turn my bad hair days into £££ but sadly I can’t. I haven’t done the hard grind in journalism that she has.

Why on Earth are people so pissed off with Sali Hughes?! It’s cos she is really pretty and has a nice life, and that’s it really. Urgh
Sali? Is that you?

@EarringsandLipstick

And I assume you mean 'Kate Adie' 🤨

My phone auto corrected, apologies x

To be fair, I don't follow any influencers, you-tubers or read beauty columns although. have glanced at a few of Sali's and have never read one one all the way through as I do not think she is a particularly good writer. (I felt likewise about her pieces on The Pool). I stopped reading British Vogue during the dull Alexandra Shulman years, and Sali's article did nothing to make me want to return. I have long felt that all beauty 'journalism' is pretty much taken directly from press releases and why I do not engage. If anything, the more I see a product in the press, marketed online, the less likely I will try it anyway.

FWIW, I read Sali's article because I have done similarly with my own hair, although I paid for my hair to be done and did not go the route she did by choosing to bleach all my hair. I don't actually think her hair is too bad, but it could be a hell of a lot better than it is.

Life would be pretty boring if we all had the same opinions.

@MilesOfSand

I like the hair. For what it’s worth though, I've seen Sali giving her opinion (to her thousands of followers) about other people’s output. An Esther Walker article for example.

I don't know why she hates Esther Walker so much. She just really dislikes her

I love it and think she looks amazing. I went natural a few years ago and my natural colour is quite similar so yeah I probably would say that, grey comes in lots of shades and tones.

Like Sali I have developed allergies to hair colour which means I couldn't maintain my natural brunette as allergies to hair dye can be fatal. I'd rather be alive than have good hair in my coffin. To be fair I love my hair now, its softer, left frizzy and I receive a lot of compliments on the colour. I would need to dye my hair weekly to cover root regrowth whereas now I occasionally use a silver shampoo which takes no more time than just using a regular shampoo. I can't understand the posters who say about the cost of maintenance. She said she didnt pay for it and she had to use a different shampoo brand. Where is the cost?

I can't understand the posters who say about the cost of maintenance. She said she didnt pay for it and she had to use a different shampoo brand. Where is the cost?

I think posters mean cost in general. I have been considering what to do with my hair, and now seems the perfect time, because COVID and lockdown broke up the routine, but the costs for me, or indeed the anyone who isn’t given the treatment for free, to maintain the look would be unsustainable. Also, the time involved? Who has seven hour for a hairdresser’s visit? That’s why I’m glad that someone else has done it and that’s saved me a lot of grief.

Grey comes in many shades and tones. This is my natural grey which can look blond in certain lights. Eyebrows are still brunette, make up hasn't changed for those wondering about that earlier.

@ChardonnaysPetDragon I just let mine grow out but did consider a dye job. I wouldn't have maintained it though, I would assume the roots would come in grey and blend with the rest.

Your's is lovely. Yes, hair comes in all shades and states of grey and I can certainly believe that your upkeep is minimal/

Mine is just like Sali's. 30 something % scattered in the most inconvenient places. If I wanted something like her dye job, it would be very difficult to maintain and very costly to do. For me that is, being an ordinary non beauty journalistic or influencing inclined person.

Sorry, a few rogues apostrophes here and there, but the gist is clear.

She's given her reasons, but I don't really understand why she's chosen to put her hair through harsh processes and her root growth is much darker which means the bleaching, etc needs to be repeated. Seems worse to me than dyeing grey roots. But each to their own.

Another pic of my hair a year later than the previous...it was cut in October but not since (apart from me chopping at the fringe). It could do with some attention. I use standard High Street brand shampoo and conditioner, but avoid any that claim unlikely ingredients, are weird colours or smell like tropical fruit that I wouldn’t even bother to eat. I brush it well every night (as I was taught as a child...)

Steady on @San9ro.
Not liking Hair or being vocal about dodgy journalistic/influencer tendencies is not wanting them hung.

you are being ridiculous

@WeAreTheHeroes

She's given her reasons, but I don't really understand why she's chosen to put her hair through harsh processes and her root growth is much darker which means the bleaching, etc needs to be repeated. Seems worse to me than dyeing grey roots. But each to their own.

The thing is though she won't have grey roots if thats her natural brown. It will be like puppymonkys' and the individual hairs will turn grey. Non dyed hair doesn't get a demarcation line/roots.

I don't think the 'grey' suits her at all. As other posters have said, it ain't grey anyway, but if she only has 30% natural grey then her skin tone is likely to be more aligned with brunette than grey.

Of course there are many variations of grey hair, but I think she looks blonde and her hair looks to be in poor condition now. My hair is mostly grey (well, the five or six inches from the top down) and it is in better condition now than it was during all the years of dyeing it, because it's supposed to be grey. Sali's hair is supposed to be brunette and looks better when it is. That's not to say people should never dye their hair - where's the fun in that? But that particular shade of 'grey' really doesn't suit her. I'm sure she'll be utterly devastated by my opinion

@DaisyDando

I think she looks beautiful, but I suppose it does help that she actually is beautiful.

I don’t think she’s beautiful at all. She’s attractive and stylish - although I’m not a fan of the new hair but not classically beautiful. If you see her without make up she’s actually quite plain.