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A funny and interesting thing happened to me very recently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was with my pup, waiting by the side of the road, when a total stranger came up to say Hi. I was a little cautious, as my pup is easily excitable, and I didn’t want him jumping on her. Much to my surprise, she wasn’t there to say Hi to the pup (most do, so I was expecting them to LOL!) but to me! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said she had been reading my blog for the longest time, and wanted to take the opportunity to say Hi. It was a bit of a whirlwind meeting, and then she was gone, and I was left with my pup, feeling a little bemused, but brimming with gratitude. I didn’t even get her name, because I was shellshocked haha! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then a couple of weekends ago, I was in Singapore, at the famed Newton Circus food court, stuffing my face with grilled chicken wings (it’s one of my fave things to eat in Singapore, oddly enough), when I received an Instagram DM just as I was leaving, to ask if I had been there. It must have been a long shot, because no one knew I was down in Singapore, but it was me and she said she ought to have come and said Hi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both these incidences left me pondering on the impact we leave on people’s lives, even those we think we’d never meet or have never met. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It then struck me just how long I’d been blogging for – 17 years <\/strong>this past 9 March! \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

While my activity has decreased in these past 5 years since the pandemic hit us, and I started up a new venture that has taken up most of my waking hours, it struck me that I had been actively blogging for over 12 years, and then, sporadically for the last 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s quite a feat by any measure!<\/p>\n\n\n

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I wish I could say with certainty that I’d be back at it, pounding out post after post, keeping my finger on the pulse of the beauty industry, much as I used to do 17 years ago. But the truth and the fact is that it’s not possible for me anymore, as my day-to-day focus is on growing my fledgling business (that has nothing to do with beauty – thankfully LOL!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, I am loathe to just close the shutters on something that has kept me going and sane for almost 2 decades. While writing is something I would still love to do, and will still do (don’t get me wrong, I and my blog aren’t going anywhere yet!) I have realised that my biggest stumbling block is the images that go with it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography takes time and effort, and to make photographs suitable for ‘publication’, they need post-processing. While I enjoy the process of photography, I enjoy the post-production process much less. It is for this reason that I have decided to be less anal about the photos that go up on the blog, because it is the biggest stumbling block for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As much as I (and maybe you) enjoy looking at pretty photos of a product, what I am here for is not to wow you with photography, but to share my opinions on a product I’ve used in the hope that it may help you discover a new and better product (like the Altruist sunscreen <\/a>– gamechanger!) and to share a tip or two of something I practise. Perhaps it might even be just something about a life observation, or a lifestyle product. <\/p>\n\n\n

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I hope that this realisation that imperfection is OK will help me get over the stumbling block of publishing new blog posts and product reviews more regularly. The adage that ‘there is no better time than the present’ rings true in this regard, because the longer I put something off, the less likely I’d want to revisit it. Then, the backlog builds up, and I become less and less motivated to write, and the downward spiral will continue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this is just my roundabout way of saying that I suck at photography, but I’m not going to let it stop me from continuing to write and share, and be that unapologetic, opinionated ass that I can be \ud83d\ude1b The long and short of it is that I would like to treat this more as a blog – a place I can dump some thoughts, make some observations and share some good finds, whatever they may be. And that is how I intend to use this space moving forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know how long you’ve been following this blog, and who knows, maybe it isn’t even relevant to you anymore today, as compared to before. Our lives evolve, our lifestyles change, and our interests will diversify as we grow – that’s all OK. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps we’ve outgrown each other. That’s OK too. Ultimately, if there’s something I’ve learnt from recent times is that on my end, I cannot cater to and please everyone, and I cannot expect everyone to like what I do, or to stick around. It’s nothing personal \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here’s to 17 years. What a ride it’s been \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

xoxo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paris B<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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