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Picture this: you’ve spent a crazy amount of time creating beautiful blog posts for your blog. A lot of time goes into taking photographs, editing the images, researching and writing. You’re pretty damn proud of your blog and so you should be.

Then you receive an email from a reader that she found several of your articles (including the photographs) on another website. These were republished without your permission. They may or may not have credited you for the articles but at the end of the day, it was published on another website without your consent.

WHAT THE @^%$^#*!@#???!!!

May I just say, been there, done that, bought the T-shirt? 😉

Unfortunately, this is a common occurrence amongst bloggers and content creators. There are websites that claim to trawl the Internet for the “best content”, lift the content, curate them and put it on their sites. You might think “but it’s a link back to me. Isn’t that a good thing?“. Genuine, organic link backs are good. This is just plain doggone thievery.

You may also see a lot of sites like this that have advertisements from Google Adsense peppered all over the page. What they’re doing is earning money off YOUR content. Are these the sort of links you want when other people aren’t just taking your content (along with all that hard work you’ve put in), they’re making money off you as well?

You may also notice that every time you post something new, these websites display your latest posts as well. How does this happen? What they do is they have your RSS feed linked to their platform. This means that whenever you publish something new, they publish it too.

It’s frustrating as hell and I get it. I’ve seen my content copied and pasted in many spam websites. It’s bloody infuriating but you can do something about it. Here are a few ways I’ve found that helped me:

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When I first saw this blush on Temptalia last year, I could only think of one thing: “I need to get me some of that!”. Of course, living on the other side of the earth also means that we were probably the last to get this. *grumble*

So, many months later, the InStain blush range was finally launched in Australia. I had my eye on only the Argyle. The problem was, this shade was bloody sold out at my local David Jones. For weeks. GAH!

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I think all nail polishes should come in this size. Seriously, show of hands, who has ever finished an entire bottle of nail polish that isn’t base or top coats? Make less, charge less and people will buy more. I’m not an economist but even that makes plenty of sense, no? 😛

Right, let’s go back to the shades at hand (*kaching!*), and that’s the Pina Colada and Bahama Mama by Covergirl. These shades are part of the cute little Glosstini nail polish range. Pina Colada looks a little more eggnog than the drink to me, to be honest but hey, I’m digging the shade. Makes my hands look slightly tanned without even trying. As for the Bahama Mama, it’s a light peach with subtle gold shimmer. These two shades are quite pretty and definitely summer-worthy colours.

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