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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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