Prior to starting this beauty blog in 2007, I had a personal blog that I was blogging on for 2 years. I wrote personal anecdotes, shared recipes, lifestyle stories, etc on that personal blog. To me, that was a sort of personal-cum-lifestyle blog, which was why I dedicated Beautyholics Anonymous solely to beauty stories. BA [...]
Bloggie Wednesday: 35 Things Beauty Blogging Taught Me About Beauty
How many beauty bloggers are there in the world, you reckon? Thousands? Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands? Over a million? I’m afraid I don’t know the figures, but I’ll venture a guess that there are far more than we can count. When we blog about beauty, we write about the beauty products we’ve tried, [...]
Bloggie Wednesday: Can You Run A Beauty Blog Without Working With Brands?
© DURIS Guillaume I’m sure you’ve seen this topic on lots of Twitter chats, blog posts, webinars, forums, etc for the past couple of years. The subject almost always revolves around the big question: how do I work with brands? It’s not surprising that some beauty blogs are dropping out of the, what I’d like [...]
Bloggie Wednesdays: Frequently Asked Questions About Products Received For Editorial Consideration (Part 2)
Happy Wednesdays, folks! Thanks very much for your input on last week’s post where I share with you the answers to the frequently asked questions about products received for editorial consideration. I’m glad it’s been a helpful post to most of you. Man, I wish someone told me what to expect and do when it [...]
Bloggie Wednesdays: Frequently Asked Questions About Products Received For Editorial Consideration (Part 1)
Happy hump day, fellow beautyholics! Hope you’ve had a good start to the week. Today I thought I’d do a bit of a Q&A on FAQ about products received for editorial consideration. You’ll notice that when I review products that were sent to me for review, there’s a disclosure at the bottom of the post [...]