Sparkles and Lipgloss no more?

This is a situation that I'd love to hear back from all of you and would greatly love your thoughts and opinions on this.

I'm not deleting the blog... I may not blog as often as others, and my blog may not be read by a lot of people compared to others, and that's ok with me. I love my little blog and everyone who takes the time to read what I have to say about beauty, fashion and life in general.

I have been blogging for almost three years now, (my blog was born in April 2009), and it was mainly used as an outlet for me to escape to, to cope with my Gran's illness, and the loss of her, my illness scare and also the stress of university. I never thought I would still be blogging three years later. Ok so I'm not posting every day, I can't do that. I run out of things to post about. I struggled with it during 'Blogmas' but it was fun. I will try to post more, but I can't promise x amount of posts per week.

Nobody, apart from those of you who read my blog, know about it. I'm not embarrassed about it, or the blogging community, not a lot of people would understand why I do it. Including my family. Although they support everything I do, I don't see them understanding why I blog. Some people blog for the free products/money, yes I said it, and it does happen. If that is what people want to do then good for them, and I support you, at making a bit of money at something (I would think) that they enjoy. I don't. I don't get sent free products, nor do I get paid, so everything I blog about I have purchased myself, and to me that is fine too. Everyone blogs for their own reasons, and for me, I do it for the enjoyment of sharing my opinions and exciting news, and if people want to read it, that's great and I really do appreciate your comments and support.

Basically, the gist of this post is I am having a dilemma about the blog. 'Sparkles and Lipgloss' was created when I was 19, and in my second year of university. I LOVED cosmetics then, and I still do, I think that there is more to me than just makeup. Let's face it, there are so many other makeup blogs out there that are absolutely fantastic and you know that they are the blogs to read. I still want to keep the beauty aspect to my blog, as that was the reason why I started this experience. I thought long and hard about starting this blog, over a year actually, and when it came to it, I was stuck on a name. I thought I love sparkles and sequins and all things glittery, and I love lipgloss, so why not combine both? And thus 'Sparkles and Lipgloss' went live on Thursday 23rd April 2009.

However, as I have got older, I feel that 'Sparkles and Lipgloss' is not me anymore. I'll be 23 this year, and to me if I was to say I had a blog, and it was called 'Sparkles and Lipgloss' I would feel embarrassed, not because of my blog content, because if I was embarrassed about what I blogged about, I wouldn't do it at all. I would be embarrassed about the name. To me it seems juvenile now. It's cute but, it's not me. I don't even like lipgloss anymore lol!

So my question to you, as a reader, what are your thoughts on this? I tweeted about this earlier and Victoria of lilyandlola suggested that I keep the 'Sparkles' and add something to it instead of 'Lipgloss'. What do you think? Or completely change it? I want something sleek, more my age and doesn't limit what I can post about really. More of a life blog than a lipgloss one :)

Also I plan on changing my layout (again, I know) but I don't really know where to begin. I was thinking about changing to a .com address so I could build it up the way I want to, but I wanted to hear what you all thought about it before I did anything drastic.

I really would appreciate your thoughts and opinions on this, so please leave a comment. I wouldn't beg for comments but I want to hear what you think, and be as brutally honest as you wish! I can take it :)

Thanks for your time

Heather x