Confessions of a Blogger Tag.

Hey guys,

I know, I'm hopeless!! I last posted in February and that is not good enough! But I have a few excuses lined up, Uni finished a few weeks back and so up until then I was burdened with work and spent all my waking hours sat in the library writing 4000 word essays. It payed off though, came out of my second year with 2 Cs, 3 Bs and 3 As and since summer began I have been doing overtime at work. I'm hoping to be a better blogger from now on though. I'm going to start off a little easy with a tag and I'll soon (hopefully) be uploading some OOTDs and Hauls (accidentally spent about £150 in Topshop last week, oooops). So anyway after that essay, into the Tag.

01. When did you start your blog?

I started this little blog of mine on the first of July 2012, meaning it's nearly a year old :O how fast has that gone!

02. Have you had any online presence before?

I have never had a blog before or a YouTube channel (as much as I'd love one!!) but I have Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and things (Links up there ^^ *winkwink*)

03. Why did you start a blog?

I love and am incredibly addicted to watching YouTube and have for a couple of years, wanted to start up my own channel but I have zero confidence with stuff like that. I knew about blogs and had read a few and followed some on BlogLovin' and so I decided to start up my blog LucyLoves :)

04. When did you become serious about blogging?

For a while I posted really randomly, sometimes three times a day and then again two weeks later, I had a very basic blog design and maybe one or two followers. After a few weeks I realised how to personalise it and how to gain more followers. I also started blogging more frequently and even scheduled certain posts if I knew I was going to be out. 

05. What was your first post?

I actually started a LucyLoves blog before this one but forgot the password and so remade my blog as this one you see now. Originally on that one my first post was a 'hi, this is my blog' post, although on this blog, my first post was about Revlon lip butters and MUA lipsticks.

06. What has been your biggest challenge about blogging?

Definitely (as you can tell) keeping motivated to blog and to not take months out. I LOVE blogging and reading blogs and when I compose proper posts I spend ages on them. It's just sometimes I push blogging to the back and can't build the motivation or find the time to blog. I do miss the blogging community when I take time out though.

07. Where do you see your blog in one year?

Ehm, not that amazing to be honest. I'm training as a teacher and so don't see it becoming anything big unlike bloggers who work in the beauty/fashion industry. I just love using it as a way to express my love for fashion and beauty and such things and hope that I can entertain some of you guys with my future posts.

08. What is the most rewarding thing to you about blogging?

for sure the people. I have never met any of you lovely guys although I enjoy reading about peoples lives and what they've been upto and what clothes they like and things and reading comments on my posts. It has opened up a whole other community and world for me that I never knew that much of before. I love you guys :)

09. What is the most discouraging thing?

Nothing too major, just again the time it takes me (as a bit of a perfectionist) to compose posts. After getting home from a day at work all I want to do is watch YouTube or The Big Bang Theory and eat, I have thought about uploading a post on numerous occasions but just cannot get off my but and do it.

10. What's your lasting inspiration or motivation?

Hearing from you guys in comments or e-mails about posts you've liked and saying that you've followed or something. To think that people actually read this stuff I post is what WHAAAAT!? I also absolutely love fashion and make up and pretty things and love sharing things with other people and finding out about new things through reading other's blogs. 

Aaaaaaaand, that is it. I apologise again for my lack of blogging and hope that you'll forgive me haha. 

Also, I tag anyone who is reading this right now to also do this tag

Lots of love, Lucy 

Beauty Vs Brains Tag

Hello :)

So this is a bit of a random post but I've seen it floating around and decided to give it a go, considering i've just got home from Uni and am in a pretty intellectual mood still.

1. Favourite book
I love books so this one is hard. A book i've been reading more recently is A Game of Thrones which is pretty amazing, it's very mystical and super-natural, but I like that because it's so different to real life you sort of teleport into another world. I also love Breaking The Silence by Diane Chamberlain. But I also like non-fiction books like The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen, which is a super nerdy science book.

2. Favourite Quotation 
I'm not too sure about this, I usually have quotations which I like which are from songs or modern books like in Eat Pray Love it says "In order to get to the castle you have to swim the moat". I do like a lot of Dr Seuss' quotes like..."We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone who's weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love" and also "Be what you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."

3. English or Maths?
Neither but both? I've not done either in some 3 years now but when I was at school neither were really my favourite subject but I did pretty well in them. I liked English because you could be all imaginative and read, which I loved. But since I was very little i've been good with numbers and maths and the only way my mum could get me to stay at pre-school was by sitting me down with the main teacher lady so that I could help her count the money. I was a little geek.

4. 5 Musical artists that have changed your life.
Ehm, none have really changed my life? I love music stupidly loads and most songs relate to some memory or time in my life and then you have ones which help you through sad times or go along with the happy times. Although I can't say there are any which I can put my finger on and say "yep, that changed my life!"

5. Favourite and least favourite school subjects
One of my favourite school subjects was Science. I was a little science nerd and got A*s and As in all three, it came really easily to me and I looved doing experiments and learning about space. My other fave subjects were Performing Arts and Music. I took both for GCSE and was the lead in our like main school play (Audrey in little shop of horrors ;) ) which I had to audition for out of like 200 other kids. Least favourite would probably have to be ICT. My teacher was the most boring person in the universe and if you asked him for help he'd pretty much say he didn't understand then walk off.

6. Favourite celebrity "with a brain"
Stephen Fry all the way. I did Health and Social Care at college and we did loads about depression and things and watched lots of programmes and documentaries with him in about his bipolar. I think he's an amazing guy to have done so well. He's funny too. I also LOVE professor Brian Cox...I'm not sure if he's really classed as a celeb though.

7. If you could study anything anywhere, what would it be?
I love studying Ed studies at Worcester uni but I'd rather like to do science at Manchester Uni as i'm pretty sure Prof Brian Cox does some lectures there.

8. What is your 'nerdy little secret'?
I used to go to a maths masterclass on a Saturday! In like year 8 maybe some people from schools all around Worcester met up and were given lessons and lectures from mathematicians and uni professors because we were part of NAGTY (national academy of gifted and talented youth). So yeah, I did maths on a Saturday :/

9. Favourite beauty gurus who you admire for more than their love for beauty/fashion
Hmmm tricky. If we're talking about YouTube gurus it'd have to be Tanya Burr from pixi2woo. I really love her videos and she's like one of the most popular British beauty gurus on YouTube but she's worked hard to get there.

10. If your blog couldn't focus on beauty/fashion, what would it be?
It'd probably be something sciencey, talking about stars or moons or planets of sciencey news or something. Failing that it'd be book reviews.

11. Name a person who inspires you (no friends or family)
It's more a group of people than a single person. People especially children, who are ill but manage to stay cheery and achieve amazing things really inspires me. I think some people really take life for granted at times including myself, but you're always hearing about poorly children who have raised amazing amounts of money for charity. There are also people like Ellie Simmonds, who don't let their disabilities effect them at all.

12. Who is your intellectual soulmate?
I do not have a clue to be completely honest. I'm not super smart so I couldn't say like Einstein or Brian Cox. Although i'd love to meet Brian Cox so i'll just go with him...

Thank you for reading :) Hope you're having a fab Wednesday :)

Lots of love, Lucy xx