Welcome to the 5th episode of BB Creamlogy! I hope you’re enjoying this series of mini BB cream reviews so far. As for me, I highly enjoy it because it means I get to try different types of BB creams (purchased or sent for editorial consideration) and let you know which ones you should try and which ones you should just save your hard-earned money on. 🙂

Today, I’m happy to bring you 3 BB creams that goes across the seas. One’s from Korea, another from Japan and the other one from the UK. One that I didn’t expect to like and another that I really expected to like but ended up disappointing me.

Can you guess which one goes where? 😉

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After talking about sponsored posts last week, I thought I’d carry on with another related topic to making a bit of moolah for your blog, and that is affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing/advertising isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, so if this isn’t something you’re interested in doing for your blog, please feel free to skip today’s Bloggie Wednesday post (although I do hope you stay on and read for fun :)).

What is affiliate marketing/advertising?

So, what is this affiliate marketing? According to Wikipedia,

Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s own marketing efforts. The industry has four core players: the merchant (also known as ‘retailer’ or ‘brand’), the network (that contains offers for the affiliate to choose from and also takes care of the payments), the publisher (also known as ‘the affiliate’), and the customer.

In other words or blogging terms, if you place an affiliate link to a product on your blog, a reader clicks on that link and buys something from retailer X, retailer X will pay you a small commission for referring your reader to them. For some affiliate networks, they will still pay you for referring the reader to retailers without the reader having to buy anything.

Next to sponsored posts, bloggers can also use affiliate marketing to draw a bit of income to the blog. This may or may not work for your blog as it depends on your niche and what your main content is about. Tech bloggers or bloggers who write about expensive high-end goods may end up making more money out of affiliate ads on their blog as the items mentioned would usually be more expensive. The higher the price, the higher the commission (e.g. cameras or designer goods).

On the other hand, these are not goods that people would purchase regularly so it might work out that the large commission isn’t consistent across the board. This really depends on how you “sell” the product.

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The Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat has been my Holy Grail of nail varnish top coats for the past 3 years. In fact, it was because of the Seche Vite that I started to enjoy painting my fingernails. Before that I only did my toes. All the top coats I tried before the Seche Vite didn’t dry fast enough and chipped easy.

The problem I have with the Seche Vite is how quickly it thickens in the bottle. With frequent exposure to air, the formula coagulates and soon, I’ll be lifting a brush of very gluggy gel. It started to look and feel like glue out of a bottle. Instead of a thin layer of top coat, it often goes on thicker than my 2-layered nail polish. Something that I enjoyed using started to be a real pain in the bum.

You can buy a bottle of the Seche Vite thinner (can’t use any ol’ cheapie thinner or nail polish remover) to thin the formula out and restore its original texture. I didn’t have one and was too lazy to buy one. 😛 LeGeeque kindly restored my Seche Vite top coat with her SV thinner but soon after, it was back to its gluggy self.

It was during that time of frustrating fight with the “glue” that I saw Yishan‘s tweet on how good Sally Hansen’s Diamond Flash Top Coat is. I didn’t get one to try because I didn’t think anything could beat the Seche Vite, no matter how fussy it can be to use. It was during that time that I was given a bottle of Diamond Flash top coat in a goodie bag. Well, good time as any to try it out, right?

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