BlogYorkshire Meetup Leeds | The Inelegant Wench

I know I promised posts about my Harry Potter party and my holiday and Rich coming home from Afghanistan, however on Saturday I went to the #BlogYorkshire meetup kindly and wonderfully organised by Carrieanne and Faith and held at Revolution in Leeds so I thought I'd better write about that first!

It was festival themed, and a very hot day, which caused me a bit of a dilemma. My usual go to festival outfit (as discussed in my Festival Tips post) is hoody, tshirt, denim shorts, black tights and wellies. I have never been to a festival when it was as warm as it was at the weekend! After much umming and aahing, and lots of variations, I finally decided to brave shorts without tights in the UK for the first time in my life and put together this outfit.

Please excuse the paleness of my legs, I was on holiday recently, with very little suncream on them - they just don't ever change colour! My Hogwarts t-shirt is from New Look tall section, denim shorts are very old Topshop ones, and my Converse are my custom ones designed by Rich for my birthday last year.

It was brilliant to see the Leeds bloggers I'm getting to know again, and to meet new faces. The addition of the lanyards with people's Twitter pictures on was genius, as I know I tend to recognise people from Twitter mostly! 

Now onto the brands, who all had made such an effort and helped to make the event truly fun!

First up was Quiz who had brought a lovely array of dresses, shoes and handbags with them for us to be dazzled by, and who held a style competition for us to have a chance to win a Quiz voucher. I took part, naturally, and lost, inevitably as I am about as far from a style blogger as you can get! I love Quiz dresses, and got to live my short girl dream putting the outfit together, as I struggle to find things in there which aren't indecently short on me.

Next up were Country Attire who gave us the most amazing goody bags, and had Hunter Wellies everywhere which I was lusting after, adding to the general festival theme of the day. They arranged a game of Hunter Croquet for us to compete to win a pair of Hunters, which was great fun, even if I was rubbish at it! 

ESPA were doing skin consultations and giving out their amazing goody bags again, trying to make everyone smell better after their festival experience perhaps?

Very generously, Pastille were offering free dash manis to bloggers, but unfortunately the queue was never ending so I didn't get to have one, even though I went to the event naked nailed just in case! The quality of the manicures was incredible from what I saw on other people, and I think I might have to visit soon to treat myself.

Allertons were there, along with Rock Pamper Scissors doing festival hair on lots of bloggers. I have been hearing a lot about them on twitter, as they seem to be taking Leeds by storm, making lots of ladies very happy! 

The stunningly gorgeous Georgina from She May Be Loved was trying out her MUA skills on us, and I very eagerly volunteered, as I am clueless at makeup as I wrote about in that post. I was after something natural that made me still feel like myself, just a bit better, and oh boy did she deliver! Georgina was delicate handed, and gave me an amazing makeover which I was still comfortable wearing, and looking good in hours later. I highly recommend her to everyone, she will make a brilliant MUA.

Even with all of the other activities going on there was a huge raffle in aid of the British Heart Foundation, with the most amazing prizes, including Hunter Wellies, Illamasqua makeup and Zatchels bags! Even though I bought lots of tickets, I was very unlucky and didn't win a thing, but it was brilliant seeing the delight on the other girls faces when they were winning their prizes. 

All in all it was a fantastic event, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. The Leeds bloggers are such a lovely bunch, and I count myself very lucky to be a part of the "scene". I'm already counting down to the next meetup, whenever it may be! I will be doing a blog post on the goody bags soon, I promise!

Rachel xx

Wrote by The wonderful Rachel @ theinelegantwench.blogspot.co.uk click the Link to check her out!

Blog Yorkshire July Meet | Kels Kurls

Yesterday it was finally time for Blog Yorkshire's first event at Revolution in Leeds.

I've been helping Carrieanne from Beauties unlocked and Faith from Music and Eyeliner out with the planning and other little bits and bats for the past six weeks and it was fab to see it all come together yesterday. It couldn't have gone any better.

I'm not going to go into too much detail as this could end up being a very long post but I've included all the best bits for you below including the goody bags!

Brands that attended on the day were, Espa, Pastille Beauty Bar, Country Attire, Quiz, Wynsors Shoes, House of Fraser, Allertons & Georgina Grogan from shemightbeloved.com doing makeovers - click on the links to find out more! I may have forgotten some there but forgive me, it was a very fast day!

Towards the bottom are just a few general shots i got throughout the day, i'm no photographer haha.

Enjoy!

I have no idea where i'm going to put all this stuff, let alone use it all! We were absolutely spoilt by all the brands that offered products for the goody bags.

Little goody bags were available as you walked into the venue from House of Fraser. Mine included the above which are all amazing. Chuffed!

Country Attire were one of my fave's that attended and their goody bags were so cute!

Espa - I had never heard of Espa before but was lured into their beautiful little area. We were asked to pick out a scent we were drawn to and apparently the scent you choose is what your skin needs. The scent i picked was for combination/oily skin and just look at all the goodys ready for me to try! I'm really excited to use these so i'll be doing another review on this little lot when i've got more to say.

Cute little goody bags from Wynsors shoes were given out as well. I'll certainly get my use out of all these! 

This Post was wrote by Keli @ kelskurls.blogspot.co.uk

Go check out her amazing beauty blog and her journey to tame her lion like mane. 

Our 1st Event | Carrieanne Beauties Unlocked

So the about 6 weeks ago I decided I would do my 1st bloggers meet. I asked around and decided on Leeds as the destination. My hat goes off to anyone who has organised meets in the past I didn't realise how much hard work goes into them.

Before I even tweeted about the meet I knew what I wanted to do. I have been to lots of meets in the past in which I had hardly spoke to people because I didn't know who they were until I got home later that night to see people on twitter talking about the event and I didn't even know they were there. I knew I wanted to have someway of reconising people by their twitter pictures as Lets be honest not many of us look like ours, I know mine is always a highly edited one that I when I have changed it that much it finally doesn't look an ounce like me anymore and I think wow I look ok! 

I came up with the lanyard Idea and thought a festival theme would fit right in with this so off I went with the planning. I would like to say a big thank you to Keli at Kels Kurls for making them from my not so amazing prototypes. 

I went to see a few venues and decided on Revolution Call Lane. I then got contacting all the brands and I have to say I was blown away by the response I got. Then 5 weeks ago I got talking to Faith from musicandeyeliner and over a Starbucks coffee Blog Yorkshire was born. 

The day came around quick and my house began filling up with boxes. Faith was also busy calling PR companies which led to some amazing brands coming on the day. 

On the day I struggled down stairs with the 44 Goodie bags and got my partner to squeeze them all into our car along with lots of prizes for the Charity Raffle.  Me and Faith was at the venue for just after 10.30 and started the preparation closely followed by Keli. 

The day was Amazing I just wish I had more time to mingle. I stood on front greeting everyone and giving them their lanyard and Blog Yorkshire wrist band in true festival style. House of Fraser  also provided little goodie bags which were fantastic which were giving on arrival too.

We started the day off with a little Introdution and then let everyone go visit the brands.

Snacks were provided by Jelly Belly and Urban Fruit. Faith PR also sent some mouth watering Macaroons. We also provided Jugs of fruit infused water and I made some Vanilla/lemon and choc/vanilla cupcakes. 

We played the cotton Ball Challenge which was sponsored by The City Rack a fashion-forward on-line retail store selling clothing at affordable prices.

Espa did a little introduction to the brand followed by skincare consultations and hand massages. I have to say I am in love with their products and was so happy to have them as part of the day as our Skincare brand.  The girls were so helpful and approachable and was giving out their own generous goodie bags (I will do a follow up post on this).

Pastile Nail Bar were offering speedy Mani's and I was guttered I didnt get chance to get my own but I won a £20 gift voucher in the Charity Raffle so will be getting one soon. 

Country Attire bought endless amounts of fun to the day with a game of Welly Croquet with the chance to win a Pair of Hunter Wellies (ooooo). The also gave out the most amazing Festival theme goodie bags.

Quiz Clothing came and did a style challenge giving people the chance to win a £50 voucher. What a brilliant prize and the beautiful Rebecca from http://queenbeady.com/ won this. 

Allertons where also there on the day doing festival and dry hairstyle and Tom from Rock Pamper Scissors was giving out amazing advise. 

The very beautiful Georgina Grogan from shemightbeloved.com was giving beautiful makeover throughout the day and people left her table feeling very happy.

Last but not least were Wynsor Shoes who provided the cutest goodie bags I especially liked the little dibdab lolly in the shape of a foot. The foot cushion will also come in good use for nights out as I always forget to buy these. 

We ended the day with a Charity Raffle in aid of the British Heart foundation and I am very chuffed to say we raised £159 with the raffle and my Sky Dive!! 

I would like to thank all the brands for making the day special and Faith and Keli for helping me make it possible. 

Carrieanne xx

I blog over at Beauties Unlocked on Beauty and Lifestyle feel free to pop by and say hello 

Due to me been very busy I had help with photography throughout the day so credit goes to Keli at Kels Kurls and Pete from Plus One Magazine for some of the pictures. 

Blog Yorkshire Goodie Haul | Katherine Rosie

Blog Yorkshire was definitely the thing I was most looking forward to this July, which I attended last Saturday (July 12th). A while ago my friend Phoebe from FlawlessFlares and I booked our tickets to attend the Yorkshire Bloggers meetup hosted by the lovely Carrieanne from BeautiesUnlocked and Faith from MusicandEyeliner. Since the event has been announced their have been #blogyorkshire chats from their twitter page in which so many lovely bloggers have been involved which made me feel so much more at ease and less nervous to attend the event. It was my first blogging event which I was over the moon about as I have only been blogging since February, so it definitely made me feel like I have achieved a lot with my blog and come far in only a short space of time. 

There were some amazing brands at the event on Saturday which included Espa, Allertons, Quiz, Country Attire, Pastille and Wyndsors. ESPA was a brand I was especially excited to try as their products are completely 100% the natural. The girls who were there representing the brand were completely lovely and explained how ESPA is completely British as it is manufactured over here in the UK - I especially love this as its nice to keep some tradition when it comes to the beauty industry. There were different goodie bags depending on your skin type, of course my skin is dry so therefore I ended up with the goodie bag with the products which aimed to remove dead skin and also smoothen it out, which I can't at all complain about. I am so surprised at how much ESPA gave to us as their products don't retail the cheapest..

ESPA were kind enough to give me their Exfoliating Body Polish (100ml), which a review will be coming shortly as its so far the only exfoliator which hasn't irritated my skin and brought up an allergic reaction. Also in the little goodie bag was their Energising Shower Gel and one of their Pro Serums, both of which are aimed for dry and sensitive skin so I cannot wait to try this products out. 

Inside the ESPA gift bag was also a smaller little gift set which had various samples of their products such as their Pro Serum, 24 Hour Replenishing Moisuriser, Eyecream and Toner. They gave us so much to try which is amazing considering it was all for free and we got a lovely skin consultation at the same time. I especially love the 'Love Your Skin' tips which came inside the smaller bag..so cute.

The goodie bag we received at the end of the event had even more skincare products in store for us. I was beyond excited to see the Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream in my bag as I have been wanting to try it for so long as it seems to be hyped up all over the beauty community, another thing I was so pleased about was the Hand It To Me Dreamy Handcream - I adore handcreams and my hands get especially dry in summer so its nice to have a new one to try out. 

Aaaah makeup products! In my bag was an AKA Eyeshaow Duo which I'm excited to try as I don't tend to have many blue or navy shadows in my collection. I also received the Oriflame Wonderlash mascara which I used today and its amazing for lash separation and length. I was too happy when I saw I had a makeup brush in my bag, I nearly missed this as it was wrapped in its little bag but when I saw it was a blending brush ( I was so pleased. I've wanted MAC's 217 Blending Brush for so long now, so its nice to have a new good quality blending brush in my collection and I'll now be able to see whether I really do need MAC's 217. 

As you know, myself and fake tan don't tend to get on very well. However I've used 'Fake Don't Bake's Natural Look Tanning Cream before and its similar to the Dove Summer Glow which really suits my skin time as its a build up of colour rather than a strong instant fake tan which I really like, so I am glad I have one of these back in my summer skincare collection.

Woooow, I love Lee Stafford products and have always said how I've wanted to try more, and what's even better is that they are from the Argan Oil collection which is an amazing ingredient for your hair.

These are just a few extra bits and bobs which we got in our bags such as gel cushions for heeled shoes, which will be perfect for me as its all I wear, a nail file and a perfume sample. 

Blog Yorkshire was such a good day, Pastille Beauty Bar from Leeds were there to supply free manicures to any one who wanted and I got my nails done in the Essie shade 'Chinchilly' and it was so therapeutic and lovely to have my nails done for once as I don't ever get them done. Also, Georgina Grogan from SheMightBeLoved was available to give makeovers for just £5, it was so lovely to meet her and talk to her about her makeup kit and she even let me try out some of the products on my face for free. 

I am so pleased I went to the Blog Yorkshire event and will definitely be attending some more of their events in the near future which I am looking forward too, thank you to everyone who I met for being so lovely and I hope to see you again soon.

xxxx

Post wrote by Katherine @ katherinerosie.blogspot.co.uk please check out her beauty and lifestyle blog she has some lovely wish lists