What’s Wrong with Blogging: Donuts and Dior’s Fifth Birthday
It wasn’t until I had over 5,000 followers on Instagram that I started to taste what being a “real” fashion blogger might be. Brands were reaching out, willing to send me samples of makeup, perfume, clothing, even fitness programs and cookbooks free of charge in return for a post on my blog and/ or Instagram account. Seeing the grandiose success of some of the bloggers I’d followed for years or bloggers I’d since watch blow up into the blogosphere after starting my own made me aspire to be someone with access like this. I started a blog over 5 years ago for a genuine reason completely unconnected to strangers’ validation and social media popularity. It was a place where I cataloged interests, sightings and new obsessions I wanted to share, and outfits I wore day-to-day. However, that slowly evolved into something so impossibly inorganic I ceased doing it all together. I haven’t blogged in nearly nine months. Why would I do that? Since then, my follower count on Instagram has f...
