First Post

So this is my first post (as you can possibly tell by the fact that there aren't any posts previous to this one). I'm not going to lie to you this is not the first time I've started a blog or the first time I've been excited about the prospect of writing one however this blog, unlike my other ones in the past, is based around something that for as long as I can remember has been an interest of mine...makeup! I don't know what it is about products that, essentially, you paint on your face to make yourself look different, but I have always been fascinated by makeup.

Even when I was little, my mum will quite happily tell you, I would sit on my parents bed while my mum was getting ready and ask; "What is that?", "What does that do?" "What's that for?" as she took each cosmetic out of her makeup bag. When I was little I was quite happy to sit and smear lipstick and eye shadow in the most outlandish and unflattering colours all over my face in order to try and mimic my mother's careful morning application, but I guess it still held the same principles and meaning to me then as it does now. After all I think there is something about makeup that feels grown-up, sophisticated and glamorous which I don't think anything else can replicate. For me this was encapsulated by my first experience of wearing, what in my mind I had dubbed as 'proper makeup' as in it wasn't worn as part of dressing up; mascara. I had gotten a tube free out of a magazine and my mum helped me to apply it (it was one of those with a white base coat upon which you then apply the black formula). I felt like my eyes were suddenly bigger and more beautiful, even if they were hidden behind glasses as I had yet to discover the wonder of contact lenses. But it wasn't just about the way it made me look, for me the mascara was a symbol of growing up and with that came all the sophisticated and glamorous connotations too.

What I guess I am trying to stress to you is that I have always, and as far as I can see, will always love makeup (just ask my long suffering friends who have to drag me kicking and screaming from the makeup counters in order to not spend the entire day in Boots). And therefore as my love for makeup has lasted so long I am hoping that this longevity will also apply to blog! Do you see my thinking? Anyway I hope you enjoy reading my blog and I also hope that you can find this as a place to share in my love for makeup too!

Chloe x