The Big Barry M London Bash!

So FINALLY I get to do a blog post! The last couple of weeks have been unbelievably busy! Normal service can now resume however - The Most Boring Essay In The World (TM) has now been handed in, work is settling down a bit and my social life has returned to its normal 'meh' level, (well till next weekend anyway, when I hit they dreaded big-30! Scream!)

So as I'm sure you have heard, Barry M invited a load of us bloggers down to Madame JoJo's - a burlesque club in London's Soho. I was fortunate enough to be on the same train as Kirsten (Better known as Sakia the Salsa Fairy!). Having a lovely catch up, made what would have been a long and dull journey, really enjoyable, and before I knew it we'd arrived at Euston!

At the station, we met up with some other lovely bloggers/you-tubers - Gemsmaquillage; OliviaCosmetics; VocalTest and Dolly Is Glitter - all of whom were just as lovely in real life as you'd imagine!

So finally, we arrived at Madame JoJo's. There I met up with Laura and Kelly again, as well as loads of other bloggers, such as Panda does Makeup, Sirvinya, Oxford Jasmine, Me Love Makeup, WSITN, FilthyGorgeousMakeup, DressJunkie, I would go out tonight... , and even Samantha Chapman from Pixiwoo! There were so many people there! (Sorry if I forgot to mention you - this would be the longest blog post ever otherwise!). The venue was fab and we were greeted by a healthy spread of cupcakes and sweeties - perfect! We were treated to some amazing perfomances by the fab drag artists there;
Then we had a couple of speeches to tell us all about the company and it's beginnings (this speech given by Barry M himself!). We were told all about the "M Club" which is going to be a new social networking sight combining facebook, video/photo uploads and tutorials, twitter, email - it looked and sounded like it was going to be great - like you tube but better and specifically focussed on makeup lovers! I am hoping that the launch of this will mean we can upload longer videos lol - I can finally start to do some tutorials then! I am not a fan of the 10 minute YT limit!

We also had a special sneak preview of the fab new Barry M advert, which has been on channel 4 a few times this week during "Hollyoaks". I think the ad represents the brand really well - you can watch it on you-tube here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAxtN5qjScM

One of the many highlights of the day for me was meeting Mister Barry M himself! Him and his son were there and made a point to say hello to everyone and make sure we were having a good time - they both seemed such lovely guys and were really friendly and approachable. It was lovely that they made such an effort to speak to everyone!

Myself and Kelly (Happy1234) with the lovely Mr Barry M.

The next part of the afternoon was the "Colour Chaos" contest - five pairs of models and makeup artists got to play with Barry M cosmetics to create a colourful bright look...

"Colour Chaos" in full swing! Models included Laura, Natalya and Natalia, MeLoveMakeup and Arlene(DressJunkie)

Samantha Chapman from Pixiwoo working her magic on Natalia, who looked fab!

The Winning Look - Apparently this will be appearing soon in an issue of "Now" magazine, so keep your eyes peeled for that one!

While all this was going on I was really chuffed to finally meet the lovely lady who writes BritishBeautyBlogger - she is a beauty journalist and we wrote guest blogspots for each other a few weeks back - she was just as lovely in real life as I hoped!

Before leaving the venue, we were all given another lovely treat by the company - a fab bag of goodies to try out;

The goody bag included a cute t-shirt, a makeup bag, a natural dazzle bronzer a mirror and a glitter "eye candy" set. We also got these little beauties; Nail polishes in Block Orange, Fuchsia, Mint Green (My heart skipped a little beat when I saw this one!), Bright Purple, and Acid Yellow (Summer toenail colour me thinks!). These are a welcome addition to my current nail paint collection!

Lip Paints in 144 (Cerise Pink - a lovely berry shade); 145 (Punky Pink - reminds me of MAC's Show Orchid!), and 146 (Dolly pink - a lovely bubblegum barbie pink shade, which puts me in mind of MAC Saint Germain), as well as glossy tube number four, a nude peach shade. I am looking forward to trying these, as I know the lip paints are great - 132 is one of my fave lipcolours and I love vibrant shades like these pinks. I've never tried the glossy tubes before, so I can't wait to try that!

We also got all these eye goodies - A green mascara, an intense black 3 in 1 mascara, which I can't wait to try after reading Kirsten's review -(http://saskiathesalsafairy.blogspot.com/2009/05/barry-m-3-in-1-intense-black-mascara.html) as it sounds fab! Also various liners including kohl, liquid and glitter... I also got fine glitter dusts in numbers 22 and 24, as well as Dazzle dusts in numbers 96 (a gorgeous yellow gold), 97 and 98 (an amazing color which reminds me of when you see oil stains and all the colours reflecting out of it... I hope you get what I mean lol!) as well as a special VIP colour made specially for the day (a blue and lilac one were made - I recieved the lilac).

After the event we headed to the MAC store in Covent Garden - I don't think they knew what hit them as about thirty people descended complete with pink goody bags! I decided to wait outside and get some fresh air as there was nothing I majorly wanted... we were planning to go to Selfridges after that, but by the time everyone finished their MAC hauling, I had to leave as I had arranged to meet my BF who happened to be in London at the same time doing some training for his shiny new job... I should have known to give the shopping more time lol!

I was really sad to say goodbye to everyone - there were loads of people I wanted to chat with but never got to speak to as there were just so many people there - I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did! If I did get to speak to you then hello again! If I didn't get to say hello, then I hope we get to meet again so I can say hello properly!

Thanks Barry M for a great day of colour, cupcakes and fun - it was a really fun day in a great venue and it was lovely to meet Barry M himself as well as his son, and so many lovely lovely bloggers and you-tubers. I really hope we all get to meet again , and next time, I'm definately going to speak to more people!