Instamums 2

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Interested to read this in the Guardian today

www.theguardian.com/fashion/2018/mar/21/instagram-influencers-can-flog-stuff-all-day-but-its-weird-when-they-use-their-kids-to-do-it

Brimming with what Sama?? The one that plays violin?

Seriously Evs whose sister/cousin/neighbour/friend are you????!!!!!

I went off THTMM when she featured in an interiors magazine and it was basically Charlotte congratulating herself on managing to buy a house. She was 'really proud of herself for everything she'd managed to achieve at such a young age'

She bought her first property Age 18, apparently her mum put the money her dad gave as child support, away in an account for her to buy her first home with

I did really like her and admittedly still follow since I like how she doesn't really mention parenting and is focused on exactly why her follow her - For her interior

Don’t think anyone has mentioned lifeasourlittlefamily ?? I find the constant “my gorgeous boy” and “adventures” a bit nauseating

Anyone follow Florence and the fox? She is a full time working mum and Dad is a stay at home dad. They just seem to try too hard to be insta popular!

Never thought of the instamums as brace. Just greedy on the whole.

*Brave!!

Has anyone heard of Martha's Happily ever after?

I use to like her but she comes across as quite smug now, so cba anymore

For all of us on here saying it puts us off buying or they can't understand why it works. We are the minority.

Sadly there are so many women out there desperate to 'belong' and be part of a gang. That they will buy the stuff just so they can tweet/ me the blogger to say I got it too.

The huge amount of people starting blogging and going to blogging conferences hoping they'll be the next big thing shows that.

Yes there are lots blogging and instagramming their thing to just share and support. And only a teeny amount Male it big.

For a lot of the instagram 'big' people they have a background in PR or editing big magazines. Very few are just mums who have given up their 'normal' jobs. Possibly that's why so many have issues with MOD as she was 'normal' and now it seems like a distant memory.

I really imagine this will all implode in the next couple of years. Kids will grow up, the money won't be there and the rules will change.

I like MOD and FOD. I can kind of see how MOD fell into doing it, she had her blog about midwifery and it grew from there. I also think she has a skill to bring to the table.

The ones I find more difficult are those who are just bloggers but don't seem to have much to blog about, Mother Freckle is one or MrsM.

Brimming with products! All kinds of stuff. Face cream, baby stuff, just shit she's been sent on the proviso she puts it on IG.

Aaah Sama gotcha. Yep the hauls are awful. I'm glad I don't have babies anymore, I think I'd be so jealous.

On a random note I'm uncomfortable with the vast amount of packaging being sent to all these bloggers (blaggers). I stopped ordering from amazon for various reasons, but one of them was the packaging. Is that why MOFOD spend so much time at the tip 🤔

I find THTMM a bit beige, if I'm honest. I like interiors but some of the accounts are bit repetitive. How many different photos can you take of the same 6 or 7 rooms in your house.

I had never heard of FOD until reading this thread.

Followed him on Instagram, and, my god.

I’m sure he’s a lovely bloke but Christ - the cringe! I had to skip though his stories, just couldn’t hack it.

Trying so very hard.

Yeah Pavlova like the green sofa one. 30 different angles of the green sofa later..,,

Babaloo it's shocking isn't it! The other day she stories her daughter putting on make up (badly) I couldn't help but think she'd copied quite well. Not going to comment on the teeth.
Takemetothefresh, loved Martha last year, gone off her now.

They mostly negative about breastfeeding
Always pushing their perfect prep machines.
If you ever try make helpful comment you get accused being breastfeeding mafia and all we get is fed is best jog on.

That's not true at all, if anything amongst the middle class ones it's the complete opposite.

Re interiors (which I love) once I got a bit bored of the mags and IG accounts, I found the best thing was to pick a swishy postcode on Rightmove to get inspiration/have a nose. No annoying hashtags 😀

M&S are sending food parcels out now?

M&S get it so wrong. Every time. Their PR department seem to be completely incompetent. No wonder their sales are down.

Lisa Dawson and Ultimate GirlGang were flogging the M+S Easter lunch yesterday.

Charlotte Taylor is starting to grate too, She used to be lovely to watch but has become very patronising just lately.

I’m surprised at M+S doing the food gifts to ig’ers. I thought their food sales were pretty good and didn’t need these stunts.