Glam magnificence professional ditches salon to don pink hello vis vest to work for scaffolding agency
Abbey Moring is willing to go up on to 150ft high roofs or apartment blocks to video her boyfriend’s scaffolding business – but always wears a pink hard hat to film their erections
A glam beauty expert has ditched the salon to don a pink hi vis vest at her boyfriend’s scaffolding firm – and film their erections.
Abbey Moring, 27, now works part-time for Stellar Scaffolding every week and often finds herself standing on roofs up to 150ft high or filming on apartment blocks – all while wearing her trademark pink hard hat.
She captures videos of her boyfriend and his team working to help boost the business’ YouTube channel and says views have gone “crazy” since she started doing it nine months ago.
The 18-strong team of scaffolders – including her boyfrien, Joe Carr, 32 – have become social media celebrities and say they get regularly recognised on the street.
Abbey shares her work on social media and a recent clip about being told she “shouldn’t be in a man’s world” went viral, racking up over 13,000 views.
She said: “When I first started, I got a lot of comments on my TikTok saying things like ‘I’d hate if my missus followed me round all day’, ‘why are you on site’, ‘that’s not a job’ and ‘I wouldn’t want you filming me’.
“But people didn’t realise it was the best marketing tool we could have ever used. Now everyone knows Stellar Scaffolding, and it has created so many amazing opportunities for the business, and for me and my boyfriend. We got flown out to Lithuania in the summer to create a YouTube video for the Scaffolding Olympics, we’ve been on the TV, and my TikTok has blown up.”
Abbey added: “I always finish my videos by saying ‘back to being just a girl’, playing on the crossover of being a girly girl in a typical man’s world.
“I think also because it’s for my boyfriend’s business, they don’t take it seriously and say it’s not a ‘job’, but like I said, the amount of opportunities and business it has brought makes it the best marketing job you could have for your business. It doesn’t bother me.
“People love to hate on social media, but I think it always comes from insecurity because they would be too scared to step out of the norm.”
Abbey still works as an aesthetic practitioner three days a week – doing lip fillers, Botox and skin boosters – but is really embracing the idea of being a glamourous on-site videographer.
She says she wants girls to realise that they can “do anything”.
Abbey, who lives with Joe in Fleet, Hampshire, said: “I’ve always liked social media and TikTok and had not thought about it but thought I’ll start doing them.
“I do aesthetics alongside it. I started posting about it because people like different stuff. Whenever I think about the videos, I’m thinking about doing it for the girls. Being a girlie girl makes me stick out with my pink hard hat. I want to show you can do anything.”
Abbey says she’s not daunted by the heights or the places she has to go to filming and says she “goes with the flow”.
She said: “I film at least once a week and edit for a day but it’s normally more.
“The best one was around Christmas time and it was the highest job they’d done so far on top of an apartment block. I’m literally stood on top of a building with a harness. It was quite scary – it was very windy.”
The videos usually involve the day-to-day life of the team working on jobs, as well as Joe, director of the company, talking to camera about he’s trying to grow his business.
Abbey said the team were “a real mixed bag” when she started filming content.
She added: “But as it’s gone on, they love it and want to be on camera. There’s been so much business from it. People actually recognise them on the street.”
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