Welcome to the place where I talk about my life, my likes and all things beauty

Blogs shouldn't all be about "sorry I've been so bad at posting", because that's boring, nobody wants to read that, so let's jump right in.

Since my last post (way way back), my life in terms of my writing career has changed A LOT. And this website needs to reflect that. Back then I was a journalism student with a beauty blog, a dream of being a well-known journalism and absolutely no clue how to get there. A year and a half on, I'm still a journalism student with a beauty blog and a dream of being a well known journalist, but I have a much better idea of how I'm gonna make that dream a reality.

In the year and a bit that's passed since my last post, I've worked with the likes of BBC Radio, ITV News, The Sun, Vice, The Trinity Mirror Group, Mercury, S4C and more. I was made Editor of The Tab Cardiff in April last year, and I'm now heading into my second year in the position. I can honestly say that joining The Tab family has been the best thing I've done since starting university, and it's helped me in ways I never thought possible. I've picked up so many skills that I haven't yet (and probably won't) on my course, and I've gone from considering myself as a "journalism student" to a journalist.

This blog is from now on, gonna be a little outlet for the things I wanna write about which aren't exactly materials for the masses. From life updates, rants about things that piss me off, hauls, makeup tutorials to reviews; there could be anything on here. For once, I'm not writing something for the traffic, I'll just be writing it for me, and for those who have requested certain beauty-related things. This is your spot.

This is The Beauty Bay 2.0: maredparry.com

For those of you who don't know; this blog used to be called 'The Beauty Bay'- I'd had it for a while and even bought the domain "thebeautybay.co.uk", but the online cosmetics shop "beautybay.com" threatened to sue me, which was nice (thanks for that, legitimately made me shit my pants that day, well played.) I wanted to be bitter and never buy off them again after the fuss they'd kicked up over a 19-year-old's blog THAT NO ONE EVEN READ, but I love Beauty Bay, and the stock Jeffree Starr, so I've ended up crawling back to use their services anyway.

That's it for this first post, it's just the introduction for what's coming soon..