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6 Minute English

Being a beauty influencer

6 Minute English

BBC

Language Learning, Education

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Hear about women who are using social media to change attitudes to beauty

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a download from BBC Learning English.

0:03.1

To find out more, visit our website.

0:14.6

Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Neil.

0:18.6

And I'm Sam. In the UK, there's a well-known children's game called Happy Families.

0:24.7

Players have to collect all the cards belonging to one family.

0:28.8

There's a butcher, a baker, a carpenter, a doctor, and a tailor.

0:33.6

Some of the traditional jobs that people in the UK have been doing for centuries.

0:38.5

But since the invention of the internet and social media,

0:42.1

a more up-to-date list of jobs in the 21st century would be very different.

0:47.3

It would include modern jobs which didn't exist before.

0:50.6

Online jobs like web designer and YouTuber.

0:54.4

One of the most unusual of these new digital jobs is the influencer.

0:59.3

Someone who is paid by a company to promote their brand on social media,

1:03.6

encouraging people to buy their products.

1:06.3

In this programme, we'll meet two beauty influencers from different parts of the world,

1:11.5

Nigeria and Pakistan. We'll discover how these women are using their

1:16.6

online influence to change attitudes towards female beauty

1:20.6

and, as usual, we'll learn some related vocabulary too.

1:23.8

But first, I have a question for you, Sam.

1:26.4

YouTube makeup tutorials are very modern, but makeup has been around for a long time.

1:32.5

So when was lipstick first used?

1:35.3

Was it A, around 3,000 years ago by the ancient Celts?

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