Lucky Fabb Photo Diary and My Two Cents

You know the saying if you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all. It’s something I struggle with, especially here on my blog. I want to be completely honest with you, my readers, without offending anyone, which is not easy to do. I am going to try to be honest about my thoughts and feelings about Lucky Fabb, but I mean it only as constructive and hopefully no one gets offended: Lucky Fabb let me down this year. It may be why I was dragging my feet a little with this post, but ultimately I owe it to you to give it to you straight, so here goes.

If you don’t know much about it, let me fill you in. It’s a conference for fashion and beauty bloggers (hence FABB) that happens twice a year, once on the east coast and once on the west coast. It brings bloggers together with brands, as well as people in the industry and is a place to network, learn new tricks, get tips, the latest techy stuff and have fun. Since it began, I have been attending and I would say next to NYFW, it’s one of the bigger events bloggers look forward to.

I felt this year it was a flop for a few reasons. 1. It just wasn’t a place where someone who has been blogging as long as I have could learn from. It was really geared toward bloggers who have just begun. 2. I felt like the panelists really didn’t contribute anything to bettering anyone as a blogger. It was cool to listen to some amazing women, like Nicole Ritchie and Coco Rocha, it’s always encouraging to hear successful women speak, but I didn’t LEARN anything. 3. Some of the sponsors were even completely unrelated to fashion and beauty like Wendy’s (there was a contest to style and outfit inspired by a salad…!) 4. The event, which is usually a cocktail party, followed by two days of fun, was shortened to one day of conference and a two hour brunch on the second day. The cost of the tickets did not change despite the conference only being one day and the most amazing gift bag in which Lucky Fabb is known for, was half the size (And had a baby hat in it. Yes! Not sure what they were thinking with that one.) Now I’m not trying to sound ungrateful, but we pay $250 for tickets to this event and there is a reason for that. I’m also a big Eva Chen fan, and I’m certainly not pointing fingers, but I felt like this year the conference lacked the passion of years past. It felt like it became more about the money than nurturing a community of bloggers that contribute to this industry of fashion and beauty.

Ok end of rant.

Over all I did have a good time, but sadly I don’t think I will attend again. I hate to say I’ve outgrown it, because I feel like we can always learn something and I certainly don’t profess to know everything, but it’s just not a place that will help me continue to grow. On a positive note, I got a great blow out and there were some great beauty products in the gift bag. I also got to see some people I don’t get to see often.

That being said, here are some pics I snapped beginning at the cocktail party the night before, then onto day one and ending at the brunch on day 2.

I’m interested in your thoughts. Do you think I was too honest?

XO,