TESS DALY: My unique selling point is centred
around my disability and the fact that it is quite unusual to see somebody with a disability
dressed, how I do when with make-up.
TESS DALY: Hi everybody and welcome to my very first clothing haul.
COMM: Tess Daly has been wowing social media
with her incredible make-up skills, but this beauty-Vlogger has been disabled since birth,
making her eye shadow blending skills all the more impressive.
TESS DALY: I have got spinal muscular atrophy Type 2.
It’s a muscle-wasting disorder, so, it makes me incredibly weak. I can’t
stand or walk. I was first diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy when I was 18 months old.
My parents actually took me to the doctors because I wasn’t crawling or walking and
ever since then I’ve been in a electric wheelchair.
TESS DALY: I’ve been following lots of bloggers
on Instagram and lots of social influences, beauty influences and I decided that,
you know what, I actually kind of think that’s really cool and I could see myself doing that.
So, one day, I deleted all the pictures of burgers, pictures of my dog, pictures of my family
off my Instagram and turned it into something that would be a little bit more interesting
to people that are interested in fashion or make-up. And I’ve slowly grown from there.
COMM: Her striking looks have won her tens
of thousands of followers online.
TESS DALY: Instagram is my main platform. I also use Snapchat quite a lot as well.
I'm still trying to get into the whole YouTube world.
TESS DALY: Hi everyone! So this is my first
ever YouTube video. Said I was never ever going to do one of these because, to
be honest, I was a little bit scared to. That feels so weird. That is a bad start. All right wait,
let me start that again.
TESS DALY: From the minute I wake up, I have my PA come in and help me get ready. They
help prepare my food, they dress me.
PA: Are we getting approving nods? Ya?
TESS DALY: Yes.
TESS DALY: Getting from my bed to my wheelchair, things like going to the toilet, I do rely
on great help from others. I am able to do my own make-up. For example, I do my own eyebrows,
my own eyes, my own lips, my PA’s do help with my skin. So, when I employed them,
they had to be aware that they were going to learn to be make-up artists in their spare time.
COMM: 29-year-old Tess, recently crowd funded
to raise money to buy a bionic arm to help her with everyday tasks such as feeding herself.
TESS DALY: I’m sat now and I can’t actually
move my arms higher than probably an inch off my lap. So, the arm, I can raise my hand
over my head, I can scratch my nose, I can pick it if I want to pick it, I can feed myself
and that not might sound like a big thing to an everyday average person that can do
all this, but, it’s life changing. Scratching your nose is life changing.
TESS DALY: You’re absolutely going to have
to bear with me on this one because this is like weight lifting for me. So, I’m going
to put the product in shot for a few seconds, then we’re going to have to put it down
because I might drop it. So, here we go. Is she in shot? Is it in shot?
LADY: Yeah.
TESS DALY: Excellent!
TESS DALY: Today the make-up that I have put on
only took me about half an hour-45 minutes. However, if I’m going all extravagant:
I’m putting false lashes on and crazy cookery style make-up, it can probably take me like two hours.
DAN BIGGIN: Well, I’ve followed Tess from the beginning when she had maybe about 10,000
followers. So, it’s been really fun because I’ve seen it grow. I am very, very proud
of her. She is one of funniest people that I’ve ever known: genuine, fun to be around,
really chilled out.
ALLIA KANJAI: Tess hasn’t always been good at make-up. When she didn’t know how to
put foundation on, she put on the hands. I am proud of Tess. I think that some people
might assume it’s because of the disability when it’s not at all. Just because she is in
a wheelchair doesn’t mean she knows how to put on eye shadow. She puts it on better
than me, than half of my friends that are disabled body so she is just naturally gifted.
TESS DALY: I receive an overwhelming amount
of support and love, and really nice confidence-boosting comments.
However, I do get some quite funny negative ones:
being called a doll, being called a dwarf.
I get things like vegetable,
turnip, carrot. I don’t generally hide away from trolls. The way I see is people need schooling.
They need to realise that they cannot go around, saying this stuff to people.
They need to be held accountable for their actions. And I’m just the kind of girl that
will go around and do that for them.
TESS DALY: A lot of people with disabilities have actually contacted me and told me that
I’ve changed things for them or I’ve made them see things differently.
TESS DALY: It kind of makes what I do have
a little bit more meaning than just putting a bit of lipstick on or sticking a pair of shoes on.
It gives me kind of a bit of purpose behind what it is that I do.
I usually hate the word inspirational; however I’m slowly accepting that to some people actually, I
probably am a little bit inspirational. It’s not something that sits well with me, because
I just kind of get on with things, which I’m kind of digging at the moment as opposed to
the khaki (camera drops) and a wine... Wow. The gimble is on one.
I think I was saying something about the top. So, yeah I get the same top.
TESS DALY: I quietly hope to get about a million followers eventually.
But you know, small steps, small steps.
I think that’s it, what else do these YouTube people say?
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LADY: See you on my next...
TESS DALY: I’ll see you on my next video.