{FAVOURITE MAKE UP BRAND//BOBBI BROWN}

Last year I attended my cousin’s wedding and myself and my sister decided to book ourselves in for a free makeover for the event at the Bobbi Brown counter in our local Fenwick. I’d always heard good things of the brand, my auntie always wears Bobbi Brown make up and its always had such a lovely natural finish on her and therefore we thought we’d give it a go. We had other options such as Benefit which we had used before for our other cousin’s wedding coincidentally but they treated it as more as a tutorial and I felt that throughout they were constantly trying to make me buy things! For the same wedding, my younger cousins actually got their make up done at Bobbi Brown and they looked so gorgeous it was a bit of a no brainer really to try it out this time round. The girl that did our make up was so friendly and chatty, made you feel really comfortable and was really thorough with the makeover. She was actually a trained professional make up artist who works freelance so really, you were getting a professional make up service for free. I was so happy with the final result and the products she used were just perfect for my skin. I’m slowly trying to build up a collection of all the products she used that I loved so I can do the process quickly and easily at home. I’ve already got their Skin Foundation which is amazing, really light on the skin but gives a really great coverage, and their Black Gel Eyeliner which is so good and stays on incredibly well, but using the brush with it does take a little bit of practice to perfect. At the end of the makeover, you felt no pressure at all to buy anything but after such a good makeover I defy you not to want to buy a special little something. They offer other really lovely services in a sort of ‘treat yourself’ style, such as how to perfect the best brows, evening and daytime make up and loads more. It was a lovely experience that I would definitely recommend, and who doesn’t love a bit of free pampering every once in a while!

// TO BLOG OR NOT TO BLOG.//

Blogs are rapidly becoming a highly important and popular aspect of our day to day lives and I felt that perhaps it was eventually time that I got involved. I always used to have preconceptions about blogs, imagining a large number of them consisted of slightly depressed kids pouring their hearts out over the internet but times are changing and blogs have become fashionable. You name it, there’s a blog for it, from fashion and interiors to celebrity gossip, everyones in on the blogging buzz and I felt it was about time I got in on it too. So here is where my blogging story begins, and I guess I came about looking into blogs in a seemingly peculiar way. It all started with easter last year when the time came for my friends and I to all decide what it was we were going to give up for lent, and as I was not there my friends decided for me - FACEBOOK. At first I was defensive, of course I don’t spend too much time on facebook…ah wait, yes maybe I do. I admit it, facebook is ridiculously addictive and something I am forever trying to detach myself from. So to take my mind off of my facebook cravings during the long weeks that span lent i decided to look into fashion blogs. I’d read about a few but never had the chance to look at them so now was my opportunity, one that turned out well worth the taking. I began with the Sartorialist, meandering through his gorgeous photography of street style and from there I discovered a number of different blogs that I’ve fallen in love with. My ultimate favourite of the moment would have to be www.cupcakesandcashmere.com, a blog that consists of an American called Emily’s own day to day personal style and outfits, delicious recipes and interior decor, all shown through beautifully shot photographs. The whole blog has a real light, fresh and youthful feel about it and checking it has become a daily routine of mine. I have always been hugely interested in fashion, interiors, photography and journalism and through looking at blogs it has made me realise that I’d love to explore a career that revolves around marketing and journalism virtually and online, as a new and ever changing aspect of the world that we live in. So here goes, let the blogging begin…