Welcome to And Blot, my new beauty blog!
My name's Lucy, I'm 26 and from the glorious county of Essex (home of the anthropological masterpiece "The Only Way Is Essex"). I live and breathe beauty products - hair, make up, perfume, tan, you name it - and so I thought setting up my own little blog would give me the chance to talk beauty till the cows come home and share my passion with all you beauty fans out there! I had another blog at Glitz Gloss and Lotions but unfotunately I lost my password, and can't remember or recover it :-(
Ever since I was little I've loved beauty products and the power they have to transform how you feel about yourself. For me, nothing beats having a wander round a beauty hall or Boots when I'm bored, stressed or a bit down. I pore over (pardon the pun!) all the magazines for beauty tips and recommendations and have done this since I got my first copy of Shout magazine aged 10 and a bit! I always buy the glossies when they have their Beauty Awards as I love to find out what the pros and celebs use.
For me there was something lacking about the beauty pages in the magazines. Like all normal folk, I soon discovered how much magazines pandered to advertisers, so you'd often pick up a product at the recommendation of a magazine and find it was useless. Or nearly every product in a mag was well out of your price range. So the beauty blogs have really been my saviour. I can get honest opinions of products, swatches galore so you can acually see what something looks like on a real live human being (not a photoshopped-doll/preened and plucked celeb), and plenty of information on products I can afford. Plus it's great being able to join in on one big conversation with so many people who adore beauty.
I've been so inspired by the beauty bloggers that I've decided to set up my own. I'm not a guru, and I don't purport to be, I'm an ordinary girl on an ordinary budget just chatting about beauty products.
If anyone out there wants to listen or join in, then come on in...
Lots of love...
