Hello Lovelies!
So as I'm sure you know the Como Blog Awards 2012 took place in London last night and I was lucky enough to have been shortlisted for Best Newcomer and asked to go along. Well you'll also probably know I didn't win my category, but to be honest I felt like a winner for just being invited out of the 35,000 blogs that got nominated and had such an amazing time which I'm going to tell you all about now. You might want to grab a cup of tea and something chocolately as this is going to be rather long and picture heavy but I'll try and keep it interesting for you!
The Look
Playsuit- Topshop
Blazer- Dorothy Perkins
Wedges- New Look
Clutch- New Look
Jewellery- Dorothy Perkins
Nails- No.7 'Beautifully Black'
Lips- MAC 'hue'
Tan- St.Tropez Gradual Tanning Lotion Medium/Dark
Finding the right outfit for the night was a rather stressful experience as I didn't want to be too over or under dressed, but still wanted to stand out and show my individual style (I was going to be in a room with lots of fashion bloggers afterall!). Because of all this I thought going for a playsuit would be perfect as it's a bit different and can be dressed up or down and when I saw this smart nudey pink one with an open lacy back in Topshop it took me less than a ten seconds to decide I wanted it. As the front of the playsuit was quite simple I wanted to team it with big black statement accessories so a chunky bracelet, dangly feather earrings, oversized lacy clutch and black nails were added and the silky loose blazer finished off the smart/casual/classy thing I was going for. For footwear I bought a pair of platform wedged shoe boots to add a bit of 'edge', they were also suprisingly comfy and my feet didn't hate me at the end of the night which made a nice change! Make up wise I really wanted to do a good dark smoky eye so made sure to keep my lips neutral with MAC 'hue' and then decided to wear my hair up in a hair donut to add a bit of glamour and make sure my hair had would stay in place all night.
The Event
The venue for the big event was The Rose Club next to Selfridges just off Oxford Street and I felt very important being let in to a club right by the best store in London just by saying my name! The club itself was really cool and there was plenty of sparkle and pink making it all very Cosmo. It was also incredible to be in the same room as the Cosmo editor, Louise Court and 'catwalk to curvy' columist, Laura Puddy. The place had a nice set up too with sofas for chilling and chatting and a dance floor for boogying along to the dj once everyone had drank a few cocktails which were available for free all night from the gorgeous shiny bar. Turns out I'm not one to turn down a free drink(s). There were also people floating round with canapes which were very fancy and incredibly tasty.
The Products
The side areas of the club were pretty much heaven for beauty lovers as you could get made over with Next make up, have a manicure done by Elemis with your choice of Essie polish and get some cool lash perfect false eye lashes put on. I'd already done all the make up I wanted but I did swap my black nails for Essie 'Recessionista' which was a gorgeous autumnal plum and got some lash perfect eyelashes put on in the style 'drama queen' which were amazing thick spiky things that my Dad referred to as large spiders when I took them off. Cheers Dad. Of course I can't forget to mention the amazing goody bags everyone got given as they left, the Cosmo bag itself would have been enough to please me but then there was all this great stuff inside it too including St.Tropez gradual tan, Philip Kingsley Elasticizer and an Urban Decay eyeliner. I don't really have room in this post to go into any more detail so I'll do a complete post/video on what was in there over the weekend for you...
The People
Arguably the best thing about last night was meeting lots of lovely bloggers! Being quite a newbie to the blogging world means I don't really know anyone yet and didn't know a soul at the awards so I was quite nervous, however I shouldn't have worried because everyone was so sweet, particularly
Em, Beth, Ellie and
Emma. I want to also give a special shoutout to the lovely
Em who won the best Newcomer prize. Before I went along last night I had planned to chat to a few of my favourite bloggers such as
Vivianna, Fleur and
Lily, but Lily couldn't go and I didn't get the chance to speak to the others but just being a few metres away from them was amazing anyway. In a completely non stalkerish way I promise...I also got the chance to speak to a really nice girl from Next who invited me to a Christmas beauty preview event in a couple of weeks so I'm very excited about that.
So that's my run down of the Cosmo Blog Awards, well done to everyone that won (full winners list
here)
and I hope everyone that didn't had a great time anyway. Also thank you so much to anyone that voted to get me there in the first place, you're all wonderful people. Today has very much been an unwind sort of day consisting mainly of checking out the blogs of people I met last night, eating all the food from my goody bag and writing this enormous blog post. Apologies if I've bored you but thanks so much for getting this far if you're actually reading this bit!
Have a great weekend everyone!
Love Meg
x