Image Credit: The Cake Store.
Someone asked me yesterday if my blog was really six, and I replied, “No, it’s five”. I over-nighted this thought and woke up realising that yes, BBB is six! Even though I missed the actual day (31st January 2008), I’m taking today as my special blog day.
On this side of the screen, my blog still feels brand new! It doesn’t feel as though it should be six years old and I have mixed feelings about having been blogging for this long. On the one hand, I’m thrilled that I am still here amongst so much stiff competition and yet, on the other, I wonder how long I want to continue for. When years are laid out in letters, it really does make me question that.
I was on a trip last week and was the only beauty blogger amongst a host of fashion bloggers – the very striking thing was that fashion really ‘gets’ blogging, in a way that beauty still doesn’t. I still find myself almost apologetic for having ‘only’ a blog sometimes. If beauty blogs suddenly ceased to exist, the beauty industry would not know what had hit them.
We are powerhouses in sharing information across many platforms, at creating multiple conversations around beauty and at keeping beauty at the forefront of retail. We are an industry in ourselves. So for anyone with a new blog or just starting a beauty blog, consider yourselves part of something incredible only made possible by a shared love of beauty.
And yay.. happy birthday, me! I’m off to find a wheat-free cake and an obscenely large cocktail.
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33 comments
Happy Birthday honey
Happy birthday BBB!
I’ve been following you for yonks and I have loved every moment of it! Thank you for being so amazing xx
Many happy returns! If I still had my site, it would be 9 now, but I was happy to stop when I did because there are far more amazing blogs and dotcoms out there, yours being one of those
In the last year, yours is the only one I read faithfully every time you post, and you have enabled many a wise purchade!
Congrats to you lovely, keep on keeping on!
Sam x
Sam thank you so much! We only got to know each other through blogging which is something in itself!
Happy Blog Birthday Jane
I only discovered your blog last Summer, but now it’s a daily ritual for me. Long may this blog continue!
Happy Birthday! May your blog have many more years to come! Now, let’s pop the Champagne! Xxx
Happy Birthday, here’s to a few more 😉
Happy Birthday BBB
hope to see you around more
A very Happy Birthday Jane & BBB, and, selfishly, many happy returns, I enjoy reading your posts too much for you to stop!!!
Woooo! Happy Happy Blog Birthday xx
Yay! Happy BBB bday!! I love you and your blog! 😉 <3
Happy birthday Jane. As a new beauty blogger, trying to do something a bit different with my antiageing focus and editorial policy, I find your words incredibly humbling, comforting and encouraging. You are an inspiration.
Happy birthday to your blog! I absolutely adore it and although I’m new to reading it, I read it every day and love it.
http://thebravestindividual.blogspot.co.uk
Congratulations and Happy Birthday!
Stephanie
http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/3436251
xxxx
Fantastic Jane! Funny you say that the beauty industry doesn’t ‘get’ blogging! I thought the opposite, I find beauty brands more blog-savvy than fashion, but maybe it’s just the major American/international ones I’m thinking of…
Congratulations Jane! It’s my blog birthday today too, although mine is only one year old today! X
Jo ★ | A Little Pop Of Coral Q
Happy birthday 🙂 your blog is the only one I read everyday and love i hope you have many more years of blogging to go x
Congrats you star – you have achieved great things – thank you for all the inspiration & support you’ve shown me since I started blogging.
Nic x
Happy Birthday!
Colourful Stuff | Beauty, Fashion, Life ♥
happy birthday BBB. This is my first port of call every day, so keep up the good work. With the “younger blogs” there is a fine line between self-obsession and good content. You never cross that line. You just provide excellent content and can always be trusted for an honest opinion which is rare these days.
Happy B-day dear BBB! I hope to read more of your incredible articles, juicy sneak peeks and behind the scenes photos. Keep up the amazing work you are doing. BBB is not a baby anymore 🙂
Happy Birthday!
I only discovered you blog less than a year ago, and to be honest up until then I had never really “got” beauty blogs – the ones I came across were generally very poorly written with bloggers giving more of an impression of just loving aquiring yet another product and squealing about (often complete with pouty selfie!). I just knew as soon as I’d read yours for the first time that I would be back…again….and again… Oh, ok at LEAST a couple of times a day!!
Fiona
Wishing your blog a very very happy 6th birthday. That is quite an achievement. I love checking your blog daily for my fix of beauty news & honest reviews. xx
http://www.letstalkbeauty.co.uk/
Happy Birthday to your blog !
Happy birthday BBB! You’re the best!
Congratulations. Wishing BBB the most incredible and amazing Happy Birthday ever. I must make a resolution of commenting on all your posts hence forth as they are such a delight to read and there is so much much more to learn from you. Keep going and I would love to celebrate 100 yrs of BBB someday. Love and regards.
Happy Birthday BBB.
Look at all those lovely comments – what would we all do without you?
Wishing you a great day full of fun and cake.
Happy Birthday BBB. Keep up the inspiring work!
Congratulations Jane on the 6th anniversary of BBB from a loyal reader from “across the pond.” I’ve listed BBB among 6 beauty sites to follow, http://thestylepagep2.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/6-beauty-sites-to-follow/. I have BBB delivered to my email everyday.
thank you so much! x
Happy birthday! Here’s to many more!
Congratulations Jane!
Maybe another British Beauty Blogger Beaty Box to celebrate !?!?! Just an idea 😉
Keep up the amazing work, we truly do appreciate it x
Bon anniversaire BBB!!