7. Louise Pentland, Social Media, Fashion & Prudishness

Is It Just Me?

Jo Elvin & James Williams

Arts, Fashion & Beauty, Comedy, Tv & Film

4.7 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Happy podcast day! Jo is joined by Louise Pentland: the vlogging and blogging superstar behind Sprinkle of Glitter. Deputy Features Editor Lisa Harvey and Junior Beauty Writer Rebecca Fearn join Louise and Jo in the podcupboard to talk about not getting involved in social media; shamelessly loving fashion; and X-rating it up with talk about being prudish.Plus Louise tells us the joys of "fleshy square pants", and what it's like to move her extremely popular YouTube channel away from its tween-friendly feel to something that feels more authentic to her as an adult.Music by Martin Austwick and edited by Kat Brown Find GLAMOUR online at www.glamourmagazine.co.uk, on Facebook and Twitter @glamourmaguk, and on Instagram and Snapchat, @glamouruk.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to Glamour. Hey, it's OK. We're going to talk about some very serious issues.
0:05.0	Well, in brackets, not very at all, actually, but they're sort of important to us and important to the glamour world.
0:11.6	Joining me today are Lisa Harvey, our deputy features editor. Hello.
0:16.0	And lovely Becky Fern, our junior beauty writer. And not last but not least, very excited today to introduce vlogging and blogging YouTube
0:26.3	sensation of our age.
0:28.7	A real 21st century icon, ladies and gentlemen.
0:32.2	Louise Pentland.
0:33.1	Hello, thank you.
0:34.4	I would like you to introduce me to everything always like that. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Louise, you are now a fully fledged, grown-up adult of the interwebbing world.
0:45.7	Yeah. Well, trying to. Until recently, you had the, I mean, you've still got it. They're hugely successful YouTube channel, Sprinkle of Glitter. And that's how most of your fans know you.
0:56.1	Yes.
0:56.3	But you're, I don't know, you're sort of like busting out of that shell.
1:00.3	Is that right?
1:01.5	Yes.
1:02.1	I'm still actually keeping the channel sprinkle of glitter.
1:04.9	That's not going to be changed.
1:05.7	The URL is staying the same.
1:07.9	However, when I started it, I started as Louise Pentland and just kind of fell into being
1:13.7	this very sweet persona of sprinkle of glitter because even just the name sprinkle of glitter
1:18.3	sounds sweet and cute. I didn't really mean to do that, but it happened naturally. And then a couple of
1:24.8	years ago, really, I started to feel like that didn't feel quite natural to me, but I didn't know how to get out of it.
1:30.0	And I thought, well, that's what you do.
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