Beauty Blogging

Bloggie Wednesdays: When Beauty Blogging (Almost) Becomes A Financial Burden

April 24, 2013
Bloggie Wednesdays: When Beauty Blogging (Almost) Becomes A Financial Burden

Finance and beauty. These are two words you probably never see together in the same sentence. Now finance and blogging, that’s a whole different story. Search these two words on Google and you’ll get about 47 million results. What do I mean about beauty blogging almost becoming a financial burden? I was on the bog [...]

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Bloggie Wednesdays: Engage Your Followers With Facebook Insights

August 22, 2012
Bloggie Wednesdays: Engage Your Followers With Facebook Insights

I’ve been using Facebook a lot more often these days to engage with the readers of my blog. To be honest, when I first signed up for a Facebook page for the blog, I did it because everyone else did it. Every other blogger had one too. Being the kiasu (Chinese for ‘afraid to lose’) [...]

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Bloggie Wednesdays: The Cost of Running My Beauty Blog

June 20, 2012
Bloggie Wednesdays: The Cost of Running My Beauty Blog

Tax season is upon us, so what better time to itemise my blogging expenditure, eh?

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Bloggie Wednesdays: 5 Tips on Managing Expectations When Reviewing Products Received For Consideration

June 13, 2012
Bloggie Wednesdays: 5 Tips on Managing Expectations When Reviewing Products Received For Consideration

When I blogged about how I trial new skincare products, I received a few comments and questions on how to manage the pressure of churning reviews after reviews, especially when the products were provided by PRs for consideration. They were getting emails from PRs asking them what they thought of the product, if they had [...]

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Bloggie Wednesdays: How Blogging Saved My Sanity

May 23, 2012
Bloggie Wednesdays: How Blogging Saved My Sanity

I celebrated Beautyholics Anonymous’ birthday yesterday. As I prepared for the 5th anniversary, I looked back to how it all started. When cousin Beetrice began blogging in 2004, I thought it looked like a lot of fun. It wasn’t till 2005 that I too jumped on the blogging bandwagon. My first blog was something I [...]

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