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🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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In today’s episode, Vicky chats with the amazing Dani G!
Dani, who has lived with alopecia since she was a child, explains why she’s using her social platforms to raise awareness of her condition in the hopes of changing society’s perceptions of beauty standards.
Plus, Dani, who has a combined social following of 1.6 million, reveals her tips for going viral, explains why Geordie Lasses loves to get glam, and shares her advice for those who also are experiencing hair loss and have alopecia.
Thank you, Dani, for such an open and honest episode 💖
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0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to part two of Vicky Patterson the Secret |
0:07.0 | too this week I'm joined by the gorgeous Danny Gilber or Danny J |
0:11.3 | that feels like very like 90s hip-hop. Danny D. And I don't like it though, mate. That's definitely my era there. I just wanted to congratulate you, mate, because obviously I know how hard it is to build a platform and you have like 200,000 followers on Instagram and like over a million on TikTok like, |
0:31.5 | fuck me mate, I'm struggling so much with me TikTok I feel like I feel like |
0:36.0 | So planning them both doing them both is like a full-time job like it's yeah very time-consuming |
0:42.3 | But I think it's so important that you are using your platform to sort of, I think, influence the way the beauty industry views different individuals like I know you've said it was never your intention |
0:57.6 | But now you're there is a do you try to sort of say like, you know, we're all beautiful, |
1:04.4 | we're all individual, this that and the other, like, |
1:06.2 | even though it wasn't initially a goal, |
1:08.1 | it's definitely something you're doing unintentionally. |
1:10.9 | Yeah, yeah, definitely. |
1:12.1 | It's kind of went into that avenue without it being intended to go into that. But now a lot of, like I can see the value and importance of doing that and spreading the positive sides of everything. |
1:25.8 | So yeah, I definitely try and be that positive force on people's feeds and I do create content to try and be so happy. I feel like with social |
1:38.6 | media, I don't know, I just feel like there's such a horrible side to social media and I'll never ever like go into that I'm not about drama I'm not about anything I'm here to do my makeup and that is it |
1:56.4 | So yeah, I'm just I'm just staying on in my own lane and just doing what I want to do and I can like I said I can see the importance and how |
2:00.9 | much value it brings to people's lives. |
2:04.0 | So I'll keep doing that. |
2:06.0 | Good for you, mate. |
2:08.0 | Yeah, I know, it's really great. |
2:09.0 | It would be a bright shining light on what can sometimes be quite a hateful space actually. |
2:14.4 | Yeah. |
2:15.4 | Okay, so you're absolutely massive on Tik-Tock. |
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