My FIRST Toronto Beauty Bloggers Meetup and Things I Learned |

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 )

Now on to some pictures of bloggers!

The wonderful Alicia of Funny Face Beauty working the front desk and signing bloggers in

Our event organizer the beautiful and talented Farah of Faces by Farah

A blurry picture of Lisamarie of Beauty Crazed in Canada with Farah

Candid shot of Em of Emily Loves, Tess of Makeup by Tess and Janella Bold N Beautiful Makeup

Ande of Make Me Over Ande and Farah after winning the Foxy Originals prize

Janella Bold N Beautiful Makeup and Tess of Makeup by Tess

Sarah of Allure Makeup Artistry

The closest to a group shot I could get

Me, Anjali of Rock That Look, Arianne of Glitter Geek

Amanda Wu of Featherband

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”

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

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

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

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