Hello and welcome :)

Hey there! My name's Lydia and I'm a 19 year old student who lives in a small town out side of Bath. I work part time at Superdrug which for those of you who don't know is a high street drug store. I was a sales advisor for just over a year and a half but in November 2013 I started training as a pharmacy assistant and have worked on the pharmacy ever since. I must confess this is the first blog I've ever attempted so please be patient as quite honestly I have no idea what it is that I am really doing haha.

I took inspiration from a couple of blogs that I follow that give honest opinions and reviews and I found that it gave me a glimpse on other peoples thoughts. The main reason that I decided to finally start this blog is because quite simply I love make up. I am obsessed with it. I love buying new products and trying out new looks and techniques, however through doing this of course I have found products that are fantastic and that I have fallen in love with but also those that I did not get on with. As I am not rolling in money, I started to do more research on the products I wanted to buy before I bought them to avoid wasting money. I tried to find honest reviews of products from people that would have no vested interest or bias in giving the product great reviews. Sometimes I found what I was looking for but more often than not I didn't, so I thought if I'm looking for reviews then surely others may be too and that was it I decided to write my reviews and opinions on products with the hope of helping others.

I guess I should probably tell you where my interest in make up came from and why I am the addict I am today aha. As a small child I used to take part in dance shows and I was fascinated by all the different costumes, hair styles and make up designs that I would change into each night and all of those around me, I was also aware that some of the make up artists were better than others and thus I came wise to avoiding those whose dancers looked like they had arrived from the circus. Of course I later learnt that the amount of make up you wear for a show is at least 10x the amount you would wear normally and that there were other eye shadow colours that just the bright stage make up blues, pinks and greens. At one point my step sister decided that she wanted to be a beauty therapist and enrolled in body shop make up and beauty course she was told that she had to bring a model so I volunteered to help her and when I arrived the ladies running the course asked me to take part and I passed the course and got the certificate all without paying. I also won prizes for my work that day in the form of free make up and skin care goodies. The thing that I think I valued the most from that lesson was about applying eye shadow, it was after that I must admit that my make up game really improved. Anyway I am rambling and most probably have lost your attention.

I will leave you with this for now :) Thank you for reading guys, until next time!

Smile beautiful :)

Lydia x