Tuesday 25 March 2014

Awful Blogging and Getting Old!

How bad have I been at doing my blog recently?? The answer is very bad!! I have no worthy excuses other than time has passed me by and it's suddenly the last week of March, whoa where did that time go?? I feel like i will soon be 30/40/50 in the blink of an eye so I'm trying to do as many things as possible to create memories to look back on. I've been a bit nostalgic recently, thinking back to being 18/19 and having what I consider to be the best years of my life so far. You know when you had it so much easier back then (probably didn't feel like it at the time) but I had so much fun going out drinking/partying and hanging out with my friends every weekend not worrying about money and bills! Obviously I had a job in the week, I didn't just mess around all the time but the days seemed longer and I almost seemed busier. We are hopefully moving into our first home together in the next couple of months so I have been going through our boxes that are in storage to get rid of things we have had for years but no longer need, which of course meant I found lots of old photos that I didn't know much about. At the time of taking them I never thought to write on the back of them the year and location etc so now I find myself wanting to buy photo albums to put them all in- a sure sign I'm getting older!! You really don't want to see my list of boring things to buy for the house but I shall be adding albums to it! I'm also thinking of starting another blog, a sort of online diary of what I get up to day to day and things to remember/ positive thoughts/memories for me to look back on. I figured it may help other people too? What do you think? Do you like to read about things like that? 

IMATS 2014

IMATs is the International Makeup Artists Trade Show and is held in London, LA, New York, Vancouver, Toronto and Sydney and I am planning to go to the one in London in June. I really wanted to go last year but I was a bit slow on the uptake and i was too late by the time I realised it was on. Boo hoo! I've been obsessed with makeup for years and years and being a Beauty Therapist and Makeup Artist, I am always on the look out for items to add to my kit (and just use for myself!). I recently looked on the list of brands that were there last year, as this years list is yet to be released, and I am so excited to go! Hopefully the same people will be there this year or just some of the lesser available ones so I can get my hands on their products. Looking through the list, these catch my eye-

Bobbi Brown, Mac, Inglot, Makeup Forever, Eye Candy Cosmetics, NARS, NYX Cosmetics, PAM
Crown Brush, Royal and Langnickel 
Eldora False Eyelashes
Makeup Artist Magazine

Tickets cost £40 each and the show runs from Friday 27th to Sunday 29th, with the Friday being for Pro card holders only. It is held at Olympia in London which is so easy to get to as it has it's very own train stop. I might drag my boyfriend along as he can carry my bags and maybe buy me a few things! :) 

Xx