Val Garland
Glad We Had This Chat with Caroline Hirons
Wall to Wall Media
4.1 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
We are kicking off the week with make-up extrodinaire Val Garland - Ding Dong Darling! Tune in to find out how she inspired Lady Gaga's meat dress, the backstage scoop from Vivienne Westwood's catwalk shoots and how a facial resulted in Val losing her teeth.
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Presented By: Caroline Hirons
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Produced by: Danielle Bondzie
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With Thanks to: Tom Wright, Aoife Rice Murphy, Sarah Fenner, Shadia Oseni, Dom Seymour, Elizabeth Sloan & Penny Stratton
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Glad We Had This Chat with me, Caroline Hyrens. |
| 0:03.9 | It's your one-stop shop for all things, skincare, beauty and beyond. |
| 0:08.3 | We have something amazingly, brilliantly different for you this week. |
| 0:11.8 | It is a backstage beauty special where I'm talking to two of the most iconic hair and makeup people ever to grace the backstage area of any designer you can name. |
| 0:25.5 | My first guest to this week is fierce, fabulous and an absolute legend in our industry. |
| 0:30.6 | She is one of the biggest names in makeup. |
| 0:32.8 | She has done it all from Alexander McQueen's catwalk shows to Gaga's album covers. |
| 0:37.2 | She's also one of the judges |
| 0:38.2 | on BBC 3 and Netflix's glow up. Ding dong, darling. It's Val Garland. Well, good morning, Caroline. |
| 0:44.7 | Thank you for coming. Oh, look, it's such a pleasure to be here. I'm just going to jump straight in |
| 0:49.2 | because the first thing people say to me when I say Val Garland is Ding Dong. So where did |
| 0:54.0 | ding dong come So where did ding |
| 0:54.3 | dong come from? Well it's kind of straight to the hard questions, Val. Which is fine, which is |
| 0:59.6 | fine. All the makeup artists that I've worked with over the years, I met most of them backstage |
| 1:05.4 | at the shows. And we work as a team in order to encourage people, because everyone's working away doing the makeup, I'd sort of say, oh, Caroline, let's have a look at your girl. |
| 1:16.7 | And then Caroline would be thinking, oh my gosh, what are you going to say? |
| 1:20.3 | And I'd be like, now that is what I want to see from everybody. |
| 1:24.6 | That is a ding-dong dolly. |
| 1:27.1 | And that's where it started. |
| 1:28.9 | I wanted to elevate a makeup artist. |
| 1:32.1 | So the other makeup artist was going like, |
| 1:34.3 | oh, I want a ding-dong, you know. |
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