Obsessions: Val Garland On The Thrill Of A Car Boot Sale
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This week we're joined by the absolutely ICONIC Val Garland. The legendary makeup artist and judge of Glow Up is chatting to us about her many obsessions and what they mean to her. From vintage dolls, to car boot sales, Royal Worcester china and her penchant for a good jug. We discuss how to avoid cursed dolls and their negative energy when antique shopping, Val's brief stint as a car boot vendor, her top tips for the car boot, and why she keeps her work space and her home completely separate. Val also tells us how her love of collecting informs her makeup artistry, why the way we seek inspiration is changing, and whether the internet is homogenising our creative references.
Every other week we'll be picking the brain of a different creative about something they admire that has nothing to do with how they generate their income.
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| 0:00.0 | Ding dong, darlings. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | Screw! |
| 0:09.0 | Hi, Gina. |
| 0:10.3 | Hi, I'm only. |
| 0:11.6 | And hello to the listeners, in particular. |
| 0:14.4 | Hello to J. Rick 20, who left us a lovely five-star review, which I will read in a second. |
| 0:20.4 | But for now, welcome to the Polyester |
| 0:22.4 | podcast. I'm Myoni and I'm the founder and editor-in-chief of Polyester Online, imprint and |
| 0:26.3 | everywhere else. And I'm Gina. I'm the deputy editor of Polyester Online, and I'm co-hosting this |
| 0:33.0 | week to cover for Olivia. We publish weekly episodes with the Sleepover Club mostly at Obsessions every so often. This week it's the obsessions episode where we talk to a person we admire |
| 0:42.4 | about something they're obsessed with that has nothing to do of how they generate their income. |
| 0:45.8 | And next week a sleepover club, Ray Ioni and Olivia have all these gorge conversations |
| 0:50.2 | you usually have at sleepover with your girl mate. So, onto the review quickly, |
| 0:55.8 | five stars love, my favourite podcast, |
| 0:58.1 | got me through a lot by J. Rick 20, |
| 1:00.5 | which is very cute. |
| 1:02.2 | But, as you may have noticed, |
| 1:05.0 | lots of changes around here today. |
| 1:07.1 | We have a special introduction by our guest, |
| 1:10.7 | Val Garland, which is bananas just ding-dong |
| 1:14.8 | I'm glad she was game for it also now she'd be like nah I'm not doing that she's a legend to be |
| 1:20.1 | honest um so Gina why are you here why am I here uh because Olivia's taking the week off? Olivia's taking the week off. And yeah, so |
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