Conrad has been featured on the covers of several magazine's best-selling issues, including those of "People StyleWatch" and "Cosmopolitan". She appeared on the May 2012 issue of "Glamour", which sold approximately 500,000 copies and became the magazine's strongest-selling issue of the year, and was featured on the covers of the second highest-selling issues of "Lucky" and "Marie Claire" in 2013. Lauren Sherman from Fashionista credited Conrad's success to "her knack for entrepreneurship, her easy style, and her friendliness". Jim Higgins from "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel" complimented her pursuit of several different career endeavors, and compared her to a "young Martha Stewart". However, in August 2012, Conrad was criticized for destroying a collection of "A Series of Unfortunate Events" novels for a crafting tutorial posted to YouTube.