This past weekend was the first
Generation Beauty event in Toronto! My friend Elena (
+Nail Experiments) asked me to go with her and once I looked at what
brands would be at the event, I knew I wanted to go. I had missed out on the super early bird tickets at $50, so I got my ticket for the early bird price of $100 (tickets were normally
$200!!). Afterwards, I realized that since I'm a member of
IpsyOS, I would be getting a free ticket - so I sold my ticket to another friend and brought her along on the journey.
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| Beauty Creator Badge |
Generation Beauty is an event where beauty and fashion creators, along with makeup fanatics come and meet during a weekend of inspiration, networking, and fun! I wasn't sure what to expect at all since I've never been to an event like this before, but I was excited to try some new products out.
Unfortunately, I was unable to come to the event on Saturday, as well as the Canadian Beauty Bloggers and IpsyOS dinners - which bummed me out, especially because I missed out on meeting some of my blogger friends and getting an awesome swag bag. I could only come on the Sunday, but ended up meeting
Elena (
+Nail Experiments).. but as soon as the event started we all got separated because we just ran to all the different booths haha,
Before coming to the event, I was expecting there to be booths everywhere with products to buy, but to my surprise only a handful of booths had products to buy, whereas the others just had displays of their products and gave away free samples. The line-ups at some booths were also ridiculously long.. 30min - 2 hour wait times! Everyone who came to the event got a booklet with a map of the event, as well as tickets to redeem at each booth for a sample product (majority of them were full sized products!). Some booths had requirements to follow them on social media or post photos & tag them.
Check out all my photos, along with all the goodies I got!
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| #InstaReady photo from Physicians Formula |
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| Me & my friend posing with our makeup bags. |
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| The amazing display of Crown Brush brushes |
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| Selfie after a makeup touch-up at Smashbox |
The Good Stuff
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| All the items I got! |
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| Essence Mascara's! I bought 5 for $15 - the others were free. |
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NYX Pro Lip Cream Palette's
Generously given to me by their PR contact |
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| Absolute New York - Illuminating 3D Liquid Highlighter & Velvet Lippie |
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| Smashbox - Photo Finish Pore Minimizing Foundation Primer, and a sample of their X-Rated Mascara |
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| OGX Shampoo & Conditioner samples |
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Crown Brush Eyeliner & Makeup Brushes*
*The Makeup Brushes were generously given to me by their CFO, Dan |
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Another look at Crown Brush Makeup Brushes*
*The Makeup Brushes were generously given to me by their CFO, Dan
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| Physicians Formula - #InstaReady BB Cream (in light) and their Contour Trio BB Stick's in Bronze & Blush |
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The last of the samples: Cake - Everything Balm, Luxie - Tapered Highlighting Brush, Royal & Langnickel - Moda Smokey Eye, NudeStix - Gel Colour Lip & Cheek Balm, and Pur Volume Vixen Mascara
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Did any of you girls go? I wish I had went on the Saturday so I could actually meet up with people. I think I'll come to this event if it comes back next year, but I hope their event gets sorted out better.. Maybe more people available to give out samples to avoid huge lines, blogger/vlogger discussions, makeup tutorials, and definitely more products available for purchase? I think that would make for an awesome event.
Labels: event, makeup
