Gee that sounds a bit awful, doesn’t it? “Old” readers? By old, I don’t mean the age of the readers (God forbid!); I am referring to the loyal ones who have been sticking around your blog for ages.

Often we get so caught up in increasing the traffic of ours blogs, desperately finding more ways to increase our traffic and readership, wanting more and more and more. Well, at least, I do.

I can’t pinpoint the exact date of a particular conversation I had with Paris B; I think it must have been many months ago. We were chatting about giveaways on our blogs, and she mentioned something about holding one just for our loyal readers. In hindsight, it seemed like such an obvious thing to do, but at that time, I’ll be honest. It didn’t even come across my mind to reward my loyal readers.

In getting caught up with wanting to find more readers, I had forgotten about the ones who made my blog what it is today.

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Note: This is a picture-heavy post

I was going to squeeze my post on the IMATS Sydney 2012 into my writeup of the Beauty Bloggers Utopia weekend just a few days ago. After poring over hundreds of photos I took at IMATS, I figured the IMATS deserved a post of its own. This way I can show you more photos of the day, what I saw, what I bought, etc. More importantly, the latter. 😉

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Five Minutes with My Favourite Blogger is a series of posts where I’ll be showcasing some of my favourite bloggers. These are the bloggers whom I admire and inspire me.

Enjoy!

Image Credits: Japan | Writing A Book | Glasses

My style icon: Bizarrely, I don’t actually have a style icon because I am probably one of the least stylish people I know and I don’t follow the newest hottest trends. I am so un-stylish that I have never read an entire Vogue magazine! I should get me a style icon though because my wardrobe needs a revamp so if you or your readers have any suggestions, I will check them out 🙂

Dream holiday destination: I would love to go to Japan to experience the culture, eat lots of Japanese food (ramen and sushi), go shopping and people watch. Of course, you can do the same thing in most countries…but Japanese people have the wackiest inventions and the coolest gadgets and amazing skincare so I gotta go!!

One random thing you can find in my bag: Unlike most girls who carry around tissues, make-up essentials, mints, tampons, etc and have heavy handbags, my bag has to be as light as possible because of my shoulder/back problem. This means that my bag is boring and it will usually only contain my phone and my purse. The end. But perhaps, randomly, you may find strands of my hair in the bag because I shed hair like no tomorrow!

My favourite item of makeup: Oooh, that changes all the time! Of course, I love lipsticks but I am also currently loving foundations. I think it’s because everyone and their dog have discovered BB creams and to be ‘unique’, I am going back to foundations – just to be difficult…I mean different 😛

You will never see me without: My eyes! By my eyes, I mean my glasses or my contact lenses. I am as blind as a bat! I really want to get them lasered but knowing me, I’ll be the unlucky 1% who gets her eyeball lasered to a crisp 😛

I’m absolutely addicted to: Rambling! *cue Rambo music* I love to ramble on emails, blog posts, Facebook statuses, Twitter updates…anything that can be written, like this for example. But when it comes to speaking, I am not as articulate and I hate the sound of my own voice, so I may look quiet and reserved, but in my head, I am sending you rambling written messages!

One thing on my bucket list: I want to write a best-selling novel! Come on, if EL James, author of 50 Shades Of Grey, can do it, I want a piece of that too!

Ling blogs at The Best Beauty Blog and Lip Stalker.