Who’s up for a weekend stroll down memory lane? Fab. Grab your coat and let’s walk. I’m not sure I’ve spoken much about the VDM backstory, but I’ll give you the short one. Girl bored at Uni, girl procrastinates and after typing in ’40’s Makeup Tutorial’ on YouTube for a party she was due to attend that night stumbles across one from Pixiwoo, girl discovers a whole new world online, girl starts her own blog. That was four and a half years ago and what a four and a half years it’s been. Things were a little more ‘rustic’ back then with a header that I’d created myself in Paint – I don’t think graphic design will ever be my forte – grainy photos galore and some question beauty decisions. Although the first ever posts from this site got wiped when I had a makeover a few years back, every single YouTube video still exists…
In the interests of entertainment sometimes I find myself perusing the backend of my YouTube videos, scraping through the archives at footage shot in 2010 on a teenie tiny point and shoot that I used to rest on my bin and with eyebrows that had been plucked within an inch of their life and a complexion that had been treated with a layer of fake tan on a twice daily basis. It’s all very amusing. Spot the differences aside I like to look back and see what was topping my ‘can’t put down’ lists at the time and they make for some interesting reading.
Let’s take my May Favourites from 2011, which were: Sudocream, Xen-Tan Daily Body Scrub, Xen-Tan Transform Luxe, CHANEL Soleil Tan De CHANEL, NARS Sheerglow Foundation in Deauville, Guerlain Lingerie De Peau Foundation in 2 & 3, MAC Face + Body Foundation in N3, Vichy Dermablend Foundation in 25 Nude, NARS Bronzer in Laguna, Topshop Cream Blusher in Flush, Benefit Coralista Blusher, MAC 188 Brush, MAC All That Glitters Eyeshadow, MAC Chromographic Pencil in NC15/NW20, Blistex Intensive Moisturiser, V05 Miracle Concentrate, Lee Stafford Flat Iron Shine Protection Mist.
There are a few products there that I used up and moved on from. The Sudocream, Xen-Tan Daily Body Scrub (though that was good – repurchase required), the CHANEL Soleil Tan De CHANEL is a product that I forever try to bring back into the daily rotation and constantly fail, me and MAC Face + Body Foundation had a big falling out when a repurchase left me with one of the worst reactions I’ve had to a product ever and I have a feeling that the Topshop Cream Blusher in Flush somehow found its way into my sister’s makeup bag. But some real life-long favourites were discovered that month; the NARS Sheer Glow Foundation is one that I’ve just picked up a new bottle of and have rekindled my flame for, the NARS Bronzer is still my go-to three years down the line, MAC All That Glitters Eyeshadow is still to this day the only shade that I’ve ever hit pan on and the MAC Chromographic Pencil, though on its final nub, still rocks. Re-watching the video has also reminded me to crack out the MAC 188 Brush and Benefit Coralista again and to pick up the Lee Stafford Protection Mist, not just because the smell always takes me back, but it was good stuff.
Fellow bloggers I highly recommend a riffle through old content from time to time. Not only will you belly laugh at the hilarity of it all but you may just find some old good’uns…
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