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 a chance to use it yet, if the reviews are up, and so on.

It’s times like this that I long for the good ol’ days when we actually had to buy our own stuff to review. Remember those? 😛

But I know what you mean. It’s no fun to have to deal with pushy PRs and blogging stress. We get enough of those from work. Blogging is supposed to be fun! It’s where we go to to get away from stress, and not to have additional stress.

I’m thankful that being a beauty blogger in Australia, we get a lot of support from brands who like working with bloggers. I’ve been given a lot of opportunities to try out new products that I probably wouldn’t have known about before. With that, sometimes those opportunities, fantastic as they may be, get a bit overwhelming. I just don’t have enough time to try them all out. And now, I have PRs chasing me left, right and centre on my reviews. Argh what is a beauty blogger to do? When did it get so complicated?!

Sound familiar?

It does not have to be so complicated. It can be done.

Here are my top 5 tips on how you can manage your product review load.

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When Almay’s Smart Shade Perfect & Correct Primer landed on my desk for review, my first thoughts were “woah how cool is that bottle?” and “how did they get the two creams to form like that?“. My nerd brain immediately went to breaking the bottle apart just to see how it works, and not even to use and review.

Well done, Almay, for impressing me enough on packaging alone 😉

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Thanks very much for participating in Beautyholics Anonymous’ 5th Birthday Giveaway. My apologies for taking so long in announcing the winners. I really appreciate all your feedback and will try to work on some of the suggestions. 🙂

I’m glad to announce the following winners of the giveaway:

Australian Winner: Lilit from Makeup and Macaroons

International Winner: Idaira

Please email me your contact details within the next 3 days. I’ll send out the prizes as soon as possible 🙂