After what felt like weeks of build up – getting ourselves all excited on twitter – yesterday I jumped on a train to Birmingham to the FABB Birmingham event! I had seen some write up about the events which had already taken place in Liverpool and Manchester so I was very excited to head off to Birmingham! Even more exciting I arranged to meet up with the lovely Sarah [Link] and Naomi [link] who I met at the event I went to in May in Birmingham!

To be honest once I got there I was very glad that I had arranged to meet up with the girls. Especially since Naomi knew exactly where she was going! My sense of direction if I have not been somewhere is awful (thank god for google maps and smart phones).

The event was held in the Custard Factory which isn’t somewhere I had seen or heard of before but was an awesome area just south of the hustle and bustle of the Bull Ring.

The building itself that we were in was a very cool café come bar called Alfie Birds. Hosting 4 floors we made our way upstairs to where the event was being held – of course after we had picked up our awesome free goodie bag.

How fantastic is this goodie bag! Inside there was a mini Benefit they are real mascara, a full sized batiste dry shampoo, some fake tan and a little travel mitt, some N spa perfect blur primer, hello breath spray, dermalogica exfoliator as well as lots of other little goodies!

There were lots of different brands at the event. Some beauty, some fashion. It was lovely to chat to some of the brands that were there – there was a mixture of brands that I had heard of like Me Me Me and other ones that I was new to but that sounded amazing! It was lovely to get the opportunity to chat to the owners of the smaller brands and listen to their background and ethos! Often as beauty bloggers we try out so many different products but you don’t get the opportunity to sit and chat with the makers of those products!

I particularly loved chatting with the owners of the brands – Bee Good, Bodhi and Birch and Anovia who all have an ethos of using natural products.

We also got the opportunity to chat to Tom Pellereau who was on the apprentice a couple of years ago with his product the Style File. What was really lovely is not only did he take the time to explain the products he had to us, he also was interested in hearing what products we would love to see in the future and took a genuine interest in hearing our ideas!

Look at all the fantastic products I came away with! Lots of amazing freebies! Me me me certainly gave a good haul of stuff away! Keep your peepers peeled over the next month or so as you know I shall be testing these out to the max!!! Overall I had a fab day - it was lovely to meet some new bloggers and catch up with some Id met before! I shall definitely be keeping my eyes peeled for future FABB events!!!