One Year Blog Anniversary!

I have never ever stuck to a New Years Resolution that I know of, but YES as of now I have kept one for a whole year! On the first of January 2014 I posted the first entry on Just Being Hannah. I have manage to post at least once a month (just!) and I'm pretty proud of what I have achieved. It might not look a lot to some but to me it is!

I have found out a few truths about blogging over the first year of Just Being Hannah...

Do you agree? 

1.) That's becoming a superstar blogger doesn't happen over night or over a few months or even in a year.

2.) It's pretty hard work to blog regularly with a full time job and busy life. Even when you want to blog life gets in the way.

3.) You seem to collect a lot of beauty products and they start spilling from bathroom cabinet to dressing table and onwards until they take over your life.

4.) You check your Boots points total every time you buy anything in there then you way up if it's time to spurge them yet! Hmm and what on?  

5.) Muji storage is your new best friend. 

6.) Taking good photos with good lighting is hard work and more or less impossible in winter.

7.)Yankee candles are a blogger essential.

8.) You debate starting a YouTube channel more or less everyday, then remember how you hate the sound of your own voice. 

9.) When something new comes out you want it... No you NEED IT! 

10.) You develop an obsession with notebooks and pens, to jot down any blog post idea anywhere.

11.)You wish you were doing/going to all the cool places and holidays every other bloggers seems to be going on. And think your life seems pretty crap. (but it's not!!).

12.)Your mum/boyfriend/sister forever makes comments about how many products you have and always say why don't you use up what you have got first?

13.) Going to Costa and taking an artistic photo of your drink is really cool, then up loading it to instgram and watch the likes fly in.

  

14.) You think about going on a spending ban every few weeks... Then you get temped to the shops... Game over!

15.) You learn not to rush ideas and not to worry that you haven't posted at all this week even though some people have posted 5 times and it's already Thursday. Every blogger is different with different things happening in there lives. Go at your own pace and who cares if you haven't posted in a month, it's you life and its your blog and it's not a competition or a race.

Overall I have really enjoyed my first year of blogging and I will defo carry it in into 2015. I will try to blog more regularly and more structured. I'm aiming for one post a week so let's see how this goes...!

I have learnt that it's not all about the numbers of followers, views and comments it's more about you and how your blog has made you feel or how it has given you a new least of life. My blog has given me something to focus on and is changing my worrying and anxious mind set. I'm not to fussed about the fact I don't get 100s of comments on every post (or any post!) or I don't have 1000s of followers, it's something for me and that I'm proud of know matter now small. 

I really love the bloggers community and hopefully in the new year I will get involved with more blogger chats on Twitter because when I have joined in I have really enjoyed them. I have made some blogger cyber friends too! 

If you are reading this and thinking about starting a blog... Do it! Do it for yourself and enjoy doing it. Don't make its a chore and something you have to force yourself to do, post when you want and not when you have been made to feel like you have too!

Catch you next time
Just Hannah
xxxx

My Top 5 Go to Make Up Items of 2014

I found it pretty hard to pick my top make up products of 2014 (the list would have gone of for a while!) so I have decided to tell you about the top 5 I always pick up.

Maybelline Colour Tattoo in On and On Bronze
I have a few of these  in different colours but this one is defiantly the most used one. It's a great base for one and lasts all day on me. I also find it to be a perfect day look with some bronze shadow on top and along the lower lash line but you can add a flick of eyeliner and it is a great night look. Nice and Simple!

MUA Shimmer Highlighter
I bought this right at the start of 2014 and I got so many complements on what I was wearing on my cheekbones! I don't wear it every day but paired with a simple pink blush is just gives an added dimension to the look. I think they now do this in a gold so I think I will invest in that in the new year and at £3 why not.

Revlon Colourburst Matte Balm in Elusive
Every blogger around fell in love with these during 2014 and I was know exception! This mid tone pink is my favourite colour as it is just so wearable. You do have to make sure your lips are nice and moisturised and not dry and flaky but that's nothing a lip scrub can't sort out! I only have 2 of these and I have been very resistant in not buying any more but I might have to perk my self up with another one during the start of 2015.

Bourjois Volume 1 Seconde Mascara
I LOVE this mascara, I have rebought and I will do again! To be honest I think its all about the brush, this brush is a pretty large plastic one, some people hate plastic mascara brushes but each to there own. When I first used it I was blown away with how much length and volume it gave my stubby lashes! If you like a plastic brush you need to try this!

Laura Mercier Foundation Primer
This is unlike any foundation primer I have ever used! I have used lots of silicon based gel ones before which yeah they sort of work but I don't really like the gel like feel on my skin, but this one is out of this world! It's a kind of cream consistency which most people with an oily skin with scream at! But I sinks into the skin perfectly and after a few minutes I apply my foundation and it goes on amazingly! It also has very impressive staying power. I don't use this everyday but if I know I'm going straight out after work or I have a special occasion/meal/night out I will most defiantly pick this up! I got this free in a Lastest in Beauty Box so I'm gonna use it sparingly as the full size one is pretty pricey.

What have been your go to products of 2014?

Just Hannah xx