Hi (-atus No More)

Hello everyone! That doesn't feel like an adequate or enthusiastic enough hello after a long hiatus from blogging, but there you go... How have you all been? I hope your 2014 has started off swimmingly!

Back in September, I kind of fell out of love with blogging as I felt the blogging world was evolving faster than I could keep up and that my little space was lacking direction. I was also constantly comparing my blog to others', which is never good for your sanity.

Recently I'd been thinking about blogging again, and after a friend asked me why I hadn't blogged in a long time, I was compelled to start again... So, here we are - a few tweaks to my layout, new post ideas up my sleeve and a fresh start for 2014. I've decided to make up for my long hiatus by blogging as often as I can (hopefully 2-3x week) throughout February and see how it goes from there. Looking over my blog statistics, I've realised that there is no need to drastically change how I was blogging. My blog stats may not be millions of hits per day, but I don't care about that. I've realised that bells, whistles and fancy edits aren't needed - An honest and thorough review of products is the most important thing for a beauty blog and Dearjoy will remain as a way to share my opinions of products that I have tried in order to help other people that may be considering them too.

If you are reading this, thank you for you support and here's to a fresh start. Cheers xx