Celina, based in Melbourne Australia is an aspiring artist. With a passion for expressing herself through makeup, beauty, fashion, cosplay & photography, she believes in living life as creatively as possible.
Over the weekend I attended the Melbourne Beauty Bloggers Event, kindly hosted by Oxygen Skin Centre and organised by the very talented Ponikuta. And by luck, the weather was finally awesome! Winter is over, Spring is here =D
Not going to lie, when I was first invited I was pretty apprehensive just because I was SO nervous about the idea of being in a room of people I don’t know, I’m sure everyone knew each other and I’d be the girl looking in. Luckily, Violet and Jimmy were attending so at least I had someone I knew to keep me company 
And I’m so glad I went, everyone was so lovely! Truly was surprised to learn how friendly other beauty bloggers were <3 I’m not sure I managed to talk to everyone, but I am honoured I say I know some very lovely local beauty bloggers now!
Here are some of my photos, I wasn’t as trigger happy as I should have been (dude, I was nervous!!), so I’ll be updating this post gradually to link to other people’s posts and photos of MBBE’s coverage.
Check out the lovely spread from EARL Canteen! Nom Nom!
Violet and Ponikuta!
Jacie getting her mug shot taken 
Sandi gave us a lovely and motivating talk on blogging and being and editor of a magazine!
Me, Tine, Nadia, Akisa and Violet
Some of the goodies we left with~
Moar goodies! Dude, left with so much stuff I couldn’t hardly carry it all back to the car @_@
Need to send a huge thanks to Ponikuta for organising this awesome event, girl you have to let us know when you’re organising it next year so we can help you!!
And thanks to Violet for keeping me company and easing my nerves, she’s such a pro at blogging events and took such good care of me <3 <3
MBBE Coverage by fellow bloggers:
Stef from The Lip Print
Akisa from Akisa Love
Tine from Beautyholic Anonymous
Looks like a lot of fun! Love Earl Canteen.
What did you get in the goodie bags?
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Celina
Twitter: fablesinfashion
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October 3rd, 2010 at 8:31 pm
It was, so glad I went in the end!
I don’t think I’d be able to list everything! @_@ Ponikuta took pics for all the companies who sent us samples here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ponikuta/244192546934?ref=mf#!/album.php?aid=200327&id=244192546934
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Great photos!! Was lovely to meet you
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Celina
Twitter: fablesinfashion
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October 3rd, 2010 at 9:56 pm
Thanks! It was so great to finally meet you too
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Twitter: fortheloveofme
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It was good to meet you! I didn’t know 3/4 of the bloggers there before the event
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Celina
Twitter: fablesinfashion
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October 3rd, 2010 at 10:39 pm
Right back at you! Oh phew, I was so sure I’d be the quiet girl in the corner who knew no one lol
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Hey Celina, don’t be silly. It was great meeting you and I’m so glad you had a great time. I always tell myself, beauty bloggers don’t bite! xx
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Celina
Twitter: fablesinfashion
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October 3rd, 2010 at 11:17 pm
Thank you for organising such a wonderful event! And you certainly showed me that beauty bloggers are some of the friendliest people on earth <3
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Twitter: indulgentdiva
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Hi Celina! It was lovely meeting & chatting with you! Now I have a great new blog to follow! Love your makeup shots throughout the blog. You really have a talent in makeup artistry!
Anyway, in that group pic, my name’s Nadia not Kim.
Great post by the way on MBBE! You’re not the only nervous one! I was a wreck coz I only knew of this event just the Monday before! So you can imagine what a nerve-wrecking week I had! I’m glad I went though!
Anyway, lovely, lovely to meet you and here’s to many more meet ups!
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Celina
Twitter: fablesinfashion
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October 4th, 2010 at 9:28 am
Oops! Must have gone too far down the list of beauty bloggers when I was making the links, all fixed now! =D It was so lovely to meet you too Nadia, I’m so glad to know such friendly local bloggers!
Looking forward to future meet ups~
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Twitter: violetlebeaux
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I’m so glad you came too! It was such a lovely day <3
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Celina
Twitter: fablesinfashion
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October 4th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Yay! It was a great day
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Twitter: missjshopaholic
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So awesome to meet you in person Celina!! MBBE was such a fab day. Looking forward to catching up again soon xo
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Celina
Twitter: fablesinfashion
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October 6th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Great meeting you too! I need to bug you about where your RSS feed is so I can add your blog to my feed =D
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