Alison Young | Top tip for making it in beauty
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Alison Young (@aliyoungbeauty) joins me to talk about her incredible career in beauty. She has over thirty years experience, is QVC's longest serving presenter and has sold an estimated £500m of beauty products - it's quite the career, and in this intimate chat we discuss where and how it all started, why she was the original beauty blogger and the huge changes she's seen in the beauty landscape since she started over three decades ago.
I also quiz Alison about the 'snake oils' she's seen come and go, how her personal approach to skincare, in particular, has changed over the years and the products she thinks actually work.
We also talk about her new channel and website where she's funnelling all her expertise into helpful tutorials, all of which can be found at Alison Young Beauty.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the podcast is brought to you in partnership with Sensodyne. |
| 0:04.4 | You may have heard in the podcast last week that I took part in a chill test with dentist Anita Sandu. |
| 0:10.6 | This is her area of expertise and she guided me through drinking ice cold water, |
| 0:15.0 | eating a slice of fresh apple and taking a bite out of a trock ice, |
| 0:20.0 | all with the purpose of learning about my teeth sensitivity. Now I knew I had some sensitivity but it was really helpful |
| 0:26.1 | learning from Anita the reasons why, the foods that can cause that sharp feeling of sensitivity, |
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| 1:08.1 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Emma Gunn's show. I am your host Emma Gunn Award and I hope that I hope that you're all really well thank you |
| 1:11.8 | for tuning in it's lovely to have you here I'm really, really well. Thank you for tuning in. It's lovely to have you here. |
| 1:14.3 | I'm so pleased to say that my guest on this episode is, I mean, it's legendary status. |
| 1:21.7 | It's Allison Young. Now, she is probably one of the best known |
| 1:25.6 | knowledgeable and respected names in the beauty industry. Her knowledge of |
| 1:31.8 | beauty products of ingredients is just next level and she has over 30 years experience talking about all things beauty how to use products, why products work, all of the above, on television and most notably as the longest serving and most successful QVC presenter. And I was sent a press release a little while ago with some stats about |
| 1:57.5 | Allison on and it was estimated that in her career she has sold over 500 million pounds of the product which I just think is |
| 2:05.9 | absolutely incredible but it isn't just about selling Allison really does know her stuff and she really is something of legend. I have done some work with |
| 2:15.7 | QVC and I have seen her talk directly to customers at |
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