This is a much belated post regarding the Generation Beauty Event that was held by Ipsy and Michelle Phan. I originally was not going to post this, but I already had the pictures edited and figured why not.
The event was two days and the tickets for both days (they were not sold per day) was $$150! That's a hefty price and I met a few people who did pay that amount, but the Ipsy girls such as Michelle, Heart, Kandee, and Sonia were offering discount codes which made the price around $50-75 dollars depending on what code you used. I bought mine for around $65 in February and I had no idea what I signed up for to be honest.
I can only recap Saturday because that's the only day I got to go. I planned to go Sunday, but I ended up getting sick. I got my name badge from the registration booth and immediately started an activity. It was a treasure hunt sponsored by Smashbox and with this event you had to form groups so you can take pictures at specific locations. I came alone so I was not happy about this because I just wanted to walk around the booths and check it out. Three people did find me and ask me to be in their group and I got to hang out with them all day so I wasn't lonely after all YAY!
We were given a schedule and every booth had a different speaker/event going on at all times until 5pm for Happy Hour. There was only about 10-15 booths and if you've been to IMATS this is no where near. It's more personal booths and you don't really buy anything, you watch them do demos. I finished looking at every booth within an hour.
I didn't care for the booths, but my main highlight of the day was getting to meet all the Youtubers I watch such as Kandee Johnson, and itsjudytime Judy. Meeting those two people was the highlight of my day. I always wanted to take a picture with them and finally got to do so.
Happy Hour was freaking crazy and the lines were so long. In the schedule you were given tear outs with the name of each booth there and you give them the tearout so they can give you a product. It's all "free" and most were full sized products. I was bummed out I could not go on Sunday, but I can't complain my husband took me out that day before we headed home to a nice breakfast.
Overall, this event was okay. I think I will end up going again next year only because these events really do bring people together. I know I will probably end up attending later on in the day so I can take advantage of the Happy Hour, but I will be back for the meet and greets with the Gurus. I will be posting a "haul" of the goodies I got in a separate post!
PS - Sorry for no pictures on this post. I actually didn't take any pictures of the venue haha.
