MBBE Melbourne Beauty Blogger Event

by | Oct 4, 2010 | Beauty, Life

On the weekend I was lucky enough to be invited to attend the Melbourne Beauty Bloggers Event. It was spectacular!

 

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We took cute beauty blogger mug shots on the way in to the party!

MBBE Venue

It was held at the Oxygen Skin Centre in Docklands, food was supplied by the Earl Canteen and drinks were from Nudie. James had his fair share of his treasured “tiny sandwiches” haha!MBBE VenueI’ve never been to a event quite like this before, everyone had so much in common that conversation was nice and easy and I felt like a princess being treated to so much luxury! I think I was a little out of my depth hanging out with so many beautiful and eloquent ladies but I had such a lovely time :DUnfortunately I can’t seem to get my stupid gallery plugin to do it’s job so you will have to make do with a smaller selection of photos and I’ll hopefully be able to update it when the plugin starts working again. Ugh technical drama![zenphotopress album=18 sort=random number=100] [zenphotopress album=27 sort=random number=100] [zenphotopress album=22 sort=random number=100]

With James being photographer for the day we ended up with something ridiculous like 500 photos :OYou can see all of the photos of the day on my Flickr here.A special thank you goes out to Val of Ponikutawho organized everything, she was fantastic and it was awesome to finally meet her in person!The event was a long time in the planning and so I think most of us had been chatting on Twitter in the lead up, it was fun to put real faces to Twitter handles 😀 I met so many lovely bloggers and I’m really hoping that we can stay in touch!Here is the list of attendees, they all run fantastic beauty blogs so do check them out!

MBBEAt the end of a lovely girly day full of pampering (foot spas and hand massages) we were treated to a *fantastic* array of gift bags! Val did some serious organising and put together a huge amount of goodies for us!This is what I looked like at the end of the day XDMBBEOk ok ok so only half of that is actually mine but still… HAUL and a half!You can see all of the goodies we took home here^_^ I’m such a lucky girl! So many products to try and that means lots more reviews on the blog!I had an absolutely wonderful time and I can’t wait until next year! I think I’m the luckiest blogger in the world 😀

New Nailart Photos!

by | Oct 3, 2010 | Nails

Yesterday was the Melbourne Beauty Bloggers Event which deserves a whole post in it’s own but I couldn’t wait to show you my current nails… well my current nails until this morning that is!

I took the opportunity to go all out with the nail art and practice my acrylic skills again. This is my first set of nails using nail guides rather than plastic tips and I am quite happy with them!

Nail Art

They are also the longest nails I’ve ever had 😀

Each nail has a base of clear acrylic then diagonal stripes of blue and pink glitter acrylic and topped with more clear. Then the gems and cabochons were added and lastly a gel coating for durability and extra shininess ^_^ The durability wasn’t really needed in the end because even though I has planned on wearing them for a few weeks I had to remove them this morning to catch up making nails for sale >_< It’s hard to keep your own nails pristine when working with acrylics, paint, remover etc

Nail Art

Overall while I can still see a lot of flaws in the nails I can also see myself improving so I’m pretty happy with them ^_^

Nail Art

I had a lot of comments on them at the event and I wish I had taken more photos in the sunlight because they sparkle like nobody’s business XD

Now back to doing nails for other people!

Melbourne Manifest 2010 Japanese Fashion Panel

by | Oct 1, 2010 | Hime Gyaru, Life

This post has been quite a while coming >_<

Quite a while ago I was invited to be a guest speaker at the Fruits Panel at Manifest. Manifest is a pop culture and anime convention here in Melbourne and this was my first time attending 😀

We went on the Friday which is the quietest day. We spent a lot of the day at the One Day in Paradise stall hanging out with Celeste and Marie. It was a great vantage point to see all of the fantastic cosplayers who were walking past! I didn’t get many photos of the cosplayers because I was shy but we got quite a few of the Fruits contestants.

Here are some of the best photos we got during the day…

[nggallery id=14]Thanks so much to everyone involved and a big hug to Sefie who was the co-ordinator for the panel. She was fantastic and made sure we were super comfy and knew what was going on.

I had a ball and met a whole bunch of lovely people, totally a fun way to spend a day!