Here's to trying something new

   So having been a media student for near 3 years now, setting up my own blog is something that I’ve wanted to do for some time.  I was never really sure what the purpose of a blog was before I started college, I had always kind of thought they were used like an online diary or for publishing stories for people to read at their own free leisure.  Now I see that blogs used for absolutely everything: fashion, food, book reviews & make up tutorials.  I’m excited to do a little bit of everything here, be it reviews of products I adore or places I go to visit.  I enjoy so many different things that I would find it hard to narrow my blog down to one specific area of my interests.

I l o v e Instagram, it’s my favourite social media platform.  I like to take pictures and I love to scroll through thousands of pictures of scenery, food, fashion, make-up and even peoples bedrooms.  Instagram has always made me feel as though I can share a little bit more of who I am as a person when I’m online, opposed to the likes of Facebook and Twitter.  Facebook and Twitter don’t like to know what you’re doing, Facebook and Twitter don’t understand. 

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I’ve always felt as though Instagram was in some way, my own kind of blog.  I like to make my pictures look pretty before I post them, and I enjoy making maximum use of hashtags to allow people to see my photos.  This may not be fun to some, but I really enjoy this aspect of social media, and have no shame admitting to it!  I hope to be able to expand on things I post on Instagram from here, as a picture is sometimes just not enough.

I’m looking forward to sharing my favourite health and beauty products, my love of different coffees, the projects that I’m involved in and my sad obsession with freebies and vouchers that I have developed.  But most of all, I’m excited to be sharing my thoughts and writing online for the first time besides my course work.  I’m really keen to progress into media related work when I’m finished my studies, and I feel that this will be an appropriate first step in allowing me to do just that.

Please feel free to share any feedback or give me any suggestions, it would be much appreciated!

Until the next one,

Lauren x