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My FIRST Toronto Beauty Bloggers Meetup and Things I Learned

Posted on March 29, 2011November 22, 2014 by Elaine

Well if you haven’t heard already there was a FABULOUS Toronto Beauty Bloggers (TBB) meetup held on Sunday March 27th, 2011 at the Loki Salon provided by Kavita hosted by the fabulous Farah of Faces by Farah .

This was my first EVER meetup with TBB and I have to admit – I was nervous and intimidated! I remember before buying my ticket email Farah and asking her if it was ok for me to attend since I wasn’t a makeup artist and my blog was very new.  Farah with her virtual open arms told me to come so I did!

Boy am I glad I did!  By fluke I met Farah at another event the week before but other than that I didn’t know anyone at the event and was having trouble getting everyone’s names and twitter handles straight LOL!

Here are a few photos then I’ll post what I learned from the meetup.

First up, some pictures of the beautiful venue (because I got there early 😛 )

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Now on to some pictures of bloggers!
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The wonderful Alicia of Funny Face Beauty working the front desk and signing bloggers in
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Our event organizer the beautiful and talented Farah of Faces by Farah
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A blurry picture of Lisamarie of Beauty Crazed in Canada with Farah
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Candid shot of Em of Emily Loves, Tess of Makeup by Tess and Janella Bold N Beautiful Makeup
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Ande of Make Me Over Ande and Farah after winning the Foxy Originals prize
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Janella Bold N Beautiful Makeup and Tess of Makeup by Tess
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Sarah of Allure Makeup Artistry
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The closest to a group shot I could get 😛
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Me, Anjali of Rock That Look, Arianne of Glitter Geek
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Amanda Wu of Featherband
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One of my favorite shots: Isabel of Marcelle looking on while Arianne takes a picture of her and Meredith!
Overloaded with pictures?  Sorry!!!
Ok so here’s what I learned:
1) Beauty Bloggers are NOT scary.  They are amazing and so super friendly and welcoming
2) I need business cards LOL – this should have been a no brainer for me but I’m pretty new to the blogging world and never even THOUGHT about carrying business cards for my two blogs.
3) I’m better with twitter handles than I am with names…but now that I have put twitter handles WITH names to FACES I think I will be able to remember in the future (but please don’t test me)
4) TBB meet ups are AMAZING!  And even though I didn’t know ONE person there, it was really cool because I still felt like I belonged 🙂
Some people I didn’t get pictures of THIS time but I will for sure next time that I wanted to say “hi” to:
Jenn of Spiced Beauty who KNEW who I was before I introduced myself…talk about flattered!
Jill of Batting a Lash with whom I tweet with a lot about Avon stuff 😉
Meredith of Et Tu and You who I LOVED chatting with 🙂
Lena of Listen to Lena who was so full of energy and loved my name LOL!

Fiona of the Product War series that I JUST discovered…it was fun hanging with you!

And of course I can’t wait to get to know MANY of the other ladies I tweet with but  didn’t get a chance to chat with on Sunday 🙂

Well that’s it from me, I’m looking forward to being more a part of the TBB community and of course looking forward to the next meet up.

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10 thoughts on “My FIRST Toronto Beauty Bloggers Meetup and Things I Learned”

  1. MissIPP says:
    April 4, 2011 at 6:38 pm

    I LOVE that I get to be chosen at the fave pic! It was such a treat meeting you and discussing. I love “my’ beauty bloggers!
    -Isabel

    Reply
  2. Jill-O says:
    April 1, 2011 at 10:27 am

    Thanks for the shout out. It was great to meet you and I am so glad you had a good time.

    Reply
  3. meredith says:
    March 31, 2011 at 8:01 pm

    waaaah-I am SO glad I got to meet YOU! Let’s set a playdate for you, Joy, and ME!!!

    Reply
  4. FunnyFaceBeauty says:
    March 30, 2011 at 5:03 pm

    Amazing. Such a great post. It was so great to meet you in person although I wish we’d had more time to chat. Your pictures are spectacular. May have to borrow a couple (and credit you of course). Can’t wait for the next TBB meet-up.
    xx
    Alicia

    Reply
  5. Farah says:
    March 30, 2011 at 8:50 am

    Awe what a great post!!! You are so sweet and im really glad you came out and met everyone 🙂 I better see you at more events now lol xo

    Reply
  6. Elaine A says:
    March 30, 2011 at 7:36 am

    @Justine (Productrater) It was so fun! Hope you can make it out next time 🙂

    @Lena!Hey Lena 🙂 Hope we can chat more soon!

    @kileenThanks Kileen 🙂

    @*The Makeupholic* Yay you found me!!! I was worried b/c I forgot your website name, but now I have it 🙂

    Reply
  7. *The Makeupholic* says:
    March 30, 2011 at 12:27 am

    Hey!! It was great meeting you btw! 🙂

    Reply
  8. kileen says:
    March 29, 2011 at 9:55 pm

    what a great event and you gals all look so beautiful!

    cute & little

    Reply
  9. Lena! says:
    March 29, 2011 at 8:22 pm

    “Hi” girlie! It was SO MUCH fun chatting with you too! xo

    Reply
  10. Justine (Productrater) says:
    March 29, 2011 at 8:00 pm

    that looked like a great event! 🙂

    Reply

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