New Beginnings

You may have come here expecting to see a beauty related blog post, but I wanted to let my dear readers know that I am taking my blog and associated social media links in a different direction. While I have loved sharing my thoughts on makeup and skincare, I've been pretty bored with it for quite some time. I started my initial Instagram beauty themed account back at the beginning of 2013, and was fortunate enough to amass a following of over 7,000 followers by 2014. I started blogging and felt inspired. Since 2015, that inspiration has grown less and less. I hosted my last giveaway earlier this year and had a backlash about the winner that was chosen electronically. In trying to be fair, I made quite a number of people upset which in turn upset me as I have always paid for the expensive prizes from my own pocket. I stopped blogging all together and long periods of time would pass before I wanted to post anything on my Instagram.

People change and life goes on. I am at a different place in my life personally and I am wanting to explore new things creatively, focus less on the superficial and more on what is important to me as a wife and mother with a busy worklife and full house.

I'm very happy if you want to follow along as I go forward on a new journey, but I understand if you choose to stay behind in the land of beauty. It's a fun (but dangerously tempting) place to be. And while I will miss posting staged photos of pretty lipsticks and shiny things, I am eager to stretch my photography skills with a different venue.

I appreciate all the sweet comments and likes on both my blogposts and Instagram account which has now been deactivated. The friendships that I have made with people across the globe that I wouldn't have had a chance to otherwise make in "real life" is what I take away and hold dear from this experience.

Until next time.

Frederica