Sali Hughes

Sali Hughes is a journalist presenter and broadcaster specialising in beauty womens issues and film A former magazine editor she has written extensively for Grazia The Telegraph The Observer Vogue Elle Stylist Marie Claire Cosmopolitan Glamour Shortlist Woman Home Good Housekeeping and NetaPorter She is Contributing Editor on Red magazine and former resident columnist on The Pool and Empire magazine both of which saw her twicenominated for Columnist of The Year She is also Beauty Editor on The Guardian where she is known for her intelligent straighttalking advice and honest product recommendations Sali is a very experienced radio broadcaster appearing frequently on BBC Radio 4s Womans Hour for whom she has also presented three inprogramme series Late Night Womans Hour You Yours and The Today Programme She has made many guest television appearances on Sky News BBC2s Newsnight ITVs This Morning Good Morning Britain and Lorraine She has written and presented her own factual reports for BBC One Wales and appeared as beauty expert on a number of consumer shows including BBC Ones The Truth About Beauty and BBC2s What to Buy and Why Her own popular YouTube series of In The Bathroom With interviews has won three major beauty industry awards Since 2015 Sali has also presented her own show on Soho Radio Sali has presented a number of TV industry events for the BBC and Channel 4 chaired countless discussion panels for high profile brands organisations and at all major UK literary festivals In 2016 she accepted a prestigious invitation to address The Oxford Union arguing that beauty feminism and substance are not mutually exclusive In 2018 she cofounded Beauty Banks a nonprofit collective providing essential toiletries to people living in serious poverty in Britain For their work on Beauty Banks she and cofounder Jo Jones have won several major awards including The Big Issues Changemakers 2019 and 2021 You Magazines Most Extraordinary Women of 2021 as well as a nomination for the lifetime achievement award at the 2020 Vogue Beauty Awards In 2022 she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from Cardiff University for services to journalism and charity Sali is author of Pretty Honest and Pretty Iconic In 2019 she won the JJ Award for Outstanding Contribution to Beauty and the prestigious CEW Achiever awards both as voted by industry peers She has a large social media presence Tweeting and Instagraming from salihughes She lives in Brighton with her two sons and husband TV comedy writer Daniel Maier