Event - Bloggers Christmas #bbloggersxmas
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Hi hunnis!!
I know I have already posted today and im not one to do so but I was soo excited to share this with you I had to post it this evening!
On Saturday I attended the long awaited Bloggers Christmas Event. As I had never been to London or an event of this size before I was slightly nervous but the nerves were overtaken by excitement, I couldn't sleep on Friday night I was soo excited. I think the excitement was the thought of meeting other bloggers I had spoken to on twitter for months and would now be meeting them and also the opportunity to network with up and coming companies and pr's.
After travelling from Birmingham with Adam (the boyfriend) and the lovely Charlotte from Lil Miss Chickas, and having a right laugh on the train we arrived at Euston Station and met a lovely group of ladies. One of the lovlies we met Kat from Tales of a Pale Face had arranged to play tour guide and we would all travel to Canary wharf together, thank goodness because I would have got lost on my own.
Were here!
We arrived at the Reebok Bar, to be greeted by the lovely Lola from Lolastar Hearts and Vik from Vik Beauty, these girls were the organisers of this excellent event. I want to say a massive thank you to these girls for organising the event and a huge well done on it being such a success.
Lola and Vik, how pretty did they look!
We made our way inside to one of the tables covered with sweet and savoury treats. High five to Lola's mum's friend on making the cake pops because they were devine and throughout the day I made the most of them believe me.
Around the room were tables from SoapBox PR with brands they work with including Bad Apple, Bronze Ambition and Twisted Sista, Aromatherapy Associates and Slendertone. There were products on all the tables for us to try and test, the opportunity to have an OPI manicure and hand massage and amazing demonstrations by the ladies at Slendertone.
Bad Apple Nail Varnishes and Nail Wraps
Bronze Ambition Tanning Range
Lola and Vik had arranged a beauty quiz in which we could all take part with the chance to win prizes such as Make Believe Tan and Butter London goodies. Also there were a couple of twitter competitions to win prizes such a swarovski nail files and a three month subscription to Joliebox. These were such amazing prizes, so well done to the winners!
Everyone filling in their beauty quiz sheets
These were all amazing touches to the day and made us all get talking and know each other.
Getting to know each other and find new blogs was a massive part of the day and the part I was most excited about. I met so many ladies that I had been speaking to for months, reading their blogs it was great to put a voice to the posts id been reading. I also got the chance to meet some ladies and find new blogs id never been lucky enough to come across so far which is great and Iv spent most of Sunday following them all and having a relaxing time reading throught their previous posts.
I was super excited to meet Alice from Brigh town Girl, I love her blog!
Angelica from One Little Vice and Kat from Tales of a Pale Face
Even Adam wanted in on the photographs
Myself and Charlotte from Lil Miss Chickas
At the end of the day we were all gifted with amazing goodie bags, now girls I mean amazing. They were overflowing with amazing new products that I will be review for months to come, I have decided that it was so spectacular it deserved its own post, but for now I will tease you with a picture, please note the bag has ripped with the weight of all the contents!
The whole event was really wonderful and I would attend another one in a minute, so well organised, enjoyable and maninly so much fun!
On the day there was a lovely photographer Amal, taking photos of the day in action, which was a lovely touch!
You can view the photos here on her website
At the end of the day Lola and Vik asked me if they could improve anything about the day and I honestly had to really think about it, and all I could think of was to have name badges as noticing everyone can prove tricky as everyone looks so different in person.
Do you think they could have done it better and if so what would you suggest?
Lots of Love
Gemma
xxx
22 comments
Your hair looks beautiful! Is it your Amy Child's bun donut? xxx
ReplyDeleteThanks hunni, it sure iss! I will be reviewing it babe xx
DeleteLove it! Thanks so much for attending! Looking forward to seeing you again at our next event! You are gorgeous missy!!! xx
ReplyDeleteGlad you like it and thanks for reading :) No problem it was amazing :) Thank you for hosting, I cant wait if it is anything like your first it will be superb! Ohh thanks xxx<3
DeleteI really wanted to come to this but I already had plans for yesterday to attend a friends Christmas party. Looks like I really missed out. Hopefully there will be another next year! xxx
ReplyDeleteThere should beon next year iv seen talk about it, keep an eye out it would be lovely for you to come <3
DeleteLove the pictures hun. :) i agree i think name badges would be good idea. It was great too meet you & can't wait to meet up with charlotte & you again. :) xx
ReplyDeleteThanks hunni, glad you like them :) Yhh defo and Vik and Lola agreed and had actually thought about it so Im sure these will be at the next one, me either will be great, soemthing to look forward to x
DeleteYou looked beautiful Gemma - just thinking back to when we were both at the goodie bag table and I only reacted when I heard Button! Took me so long haha, jope you saw the joy on my face when I finally realised what you'd said. was lovely to meet you in person and yayy for the slendertone! :)
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Aww dont make me blush gorgeous, thank you x I know I was like she hasnt heard me,lol, I did hun I was soo delighted to finally meet you:) Big huge yay for the slendertone :)
DeleteIt was great to meet you and congrats for wining the slendertone! I loved every second of the night and hope to see you at another event soon! :)
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Really was, you definately had my favourite outfit of the day, I will never forget that amazing necklace :) Thanks babe will be so exciting to try it out :) Hope so hunni xxx
DeleteGreat write up hun, really glad you enjoyed yourself. You had better make sure your gorgeous face is at the next one! And we'll make sure that name badges are at the top of the list ;)
ReplyDeleteLet us know how you get on with your Slendertone prize! :)
Lola xx
Thanks Lola! I did it was fabulous and I wouldnt miss the next one for the world. Woohoo love a name badge, no embarrassing moments,lol
DeleteOhh I will indeed soo excited to try it out x
Hi Gemma, it was so nice to meet you there! :) You looked lovely and just like Jen said before me - your hair was beautiful. X
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It was indeed you are too sweet :) Thank you I wish my hair looked like yours when it was down though it looked super shiny and healthy :)
Deleteawesome post :)
ReplyDeleteI love those photos!
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Thanks chick :)
DeleteAll done with a cheepo camera too...hurry up santa :)
will check out your link hunni xx
Hey good looking whats cooking? Was so good to see you and your boy on Saturday - hope you enjoyed your first trip to London, even if you didn't get time to see much of it! Haha
ReplyDeleteHopefully see you at another event SOON xx
Hey Gorgeous!
DeleteWas more than lovely to meet you chick, really enjoyed having a good natter with you :)
It was amazing but me and the boy will definately be back soon for more sightseeing.
See you January!!
xx
Looks an amazing event - must have been so lovely to meet everyone x
ReplyDeleteIt really was :D That was the best part of the day meeting all the lovely girls I had been tweeting for months :)
DeleteThanks for reading hunni x
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