Dollar Store haul!

Hello lovebugs!

A few months ago, Hailey and I went to the dollar store in search of some props to use for our blog photos.

beads:

These beads will be super cute neatly scattered around a product

Flowers:

Blog Party!

Hello guys! We have decided to host a blog party in order to give back to you guys, (our very supportive followers) as a thank you for 2,000 follows. We want to give you the opportunity to promote your blog, connect with some new bloggers and get some new readers!

(This is not an original idea, many other bloggers have done blog parties. Naya is one of the bloggers we follow who does blog parties every month, go follow her if you are interested in that!)

If you would like to, please follow our blog if you are into beauty!

Rules:

1. Write a comment summarizing what your blog is about and leave a link to your homepage/favorite post!

2. Check out at least one other blogger’s link for each link you share, that way everyone gets to benefit from the party.

3. No offensive content

Have fun!

— Christine and Hailey

 

Liebster Award #2!

Hello guys! We’ve recently been nominated for a Liebster Award, which we are so grateful for!

Thank you to MultiBendyBeauty  for nominating us! She has a lovely beauty blog and posts a lot of reviews on new products! Be sure that you go follow her and check out her blog, because it is so lovely.

The Rules

• Acknowledge the person who nominated you and share their blog.
• Share 11 facts about yourself.
• Answer the 11 questions that you have been asked.
• Nominate 11 more bloggers whose blogs you like.
• Ask 11 questions that you would like those bloggers to answer.
• Let the bloggers you have nominated know that they’ve been nominated.

11 Facts About Us

1. We are seniors in high school! Christine is 18 and Hailey is still 17.

2. Both of us have just gotten into colleges, Christine has just gotten accepted to Elmira College and Hailey has gotten accepted to University of the Pacific!

3. In college Christine plans on studying early childhood education! Hailey plans to study Music Industry and become a concert promoter for artists and bands in Los Angeles!

4. Both of us love music and love playing together! Christine plays violin, piano, guitar and ukulele, and Hailey plays piano, viola and bass guitar.

Blogging and Social Media Update!

Hello guys! Recently, we made both a twitter and a facebook, and we would love to follow some of you all.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Beautyholics101

50 Beauty Blog Post Ideas for Inspiration

Hello guys! Welcome back to our blog. Today I want to share with you 50 beauty blog post ideas that I’ve come up with, I hope you find them creative and use a couple!. If you are uninspired and can’t think of anything to post I hope these can get you out of a blogging rut.

This is tailored specifically to beauty, makeup, fashion, nail and hair sort of blogs!

Makeup:

1. top 3 eyeshadow formulas

2. top 3 lipsticks for (season)

3. top 3 favorite (insert any sort of product here)

4. compile a list of products you have mixed feelings on

5. declutter your collection

6. compare a high end product and drugstore dupe

7. Holy grail (concealers, eyeshadows, blushes)

8. Product fails

9. talk about your favorite beauty bloggers

10. talk about your favorite youtubers

11. Pair Makeup of the day with an outfit and show it off!

12. start a project pan and post about it regularly, that will get you inspired

13. The first five makeup items you ever had

14. Discuss all the new releases you’ve seen and your opinion on them

15. antihaul- what don’t you want to buy!

16. Favorite brushes or beauty tools

17. How you organize your makeup (what storage?)

18. Post your makeup inventory

19. Products with the prettiest packaging – Packaging awards

20. products that you bought because of the packaging…. (guilty)

21. Makeup you have that is sentimental

22. Three eyeshadow looks with one palette

23. High end products worth the hype

24. Post a makeup of the day

25. makeup wishlist

26. Top 3 liquid lipstick formulas

27. A makeup look inspired by the seasons or nature

Haircare:

28. Haircare routine

29. DIY hair masks, face mask, lip scrub, lipstick

30. Holy grail haircare products for (dry hair, oily scalp, blondes)

31. What hair oils you like

32. Favorite dry shampoos

Skincare:

33. Favorite face masks for (problem skin, dry skin, blackheads etc.)

34. How you take your makeup off at night (what do you use?)

Nails:

35. Favorite nail polish shades for the season

36. If you could only keep 5 nail polishes

Miscellaneous/ can work in any category:

37. post a haul of products you’ve picked up lately

38. Top 3 perfumes

39. Post a challenge

40. If you could only keep 3 (mascaras, eyeliners, bronzers) etc.

41. What you would take with you on a desert island

42. Things that youtube or other bloggers made you buy

43. Brand reviews (Becca, Tarte, Loreal, NYX etc.)

44. determine if a high end product is really worth the price

45. Talk about products that disappointed you

46. A vanity tour

47. Do a beauty Q and A!

48. Share your favorite jewelry

49. Share your take on something that is a cult favorite

50. Design your dream beauty space

That is all I have for you guys today and I hope that you enjoyed it! I mean what isn’t there to like about post ideas? If you have any suggestions then leave them in the comments below and I hope that these were inspiring to some of you!

— Hailey 💄

Do’s and Don’ts of Blogging

Hello guys! So many of you find my little blogging tips mini series helpful that I decided to make another one. I always get such sweet comments on post like this so thank you all for that! Todays post will be do’s and dont’s of blogging (what not to do!)

Do edit your posts and don’t make typos 

First and foremost editing! Editing will prevent the unprofessional typos that inevitably will occur. I sometimes have typos actually, trying to work on this!

Do Promote your post but don’t be annoying about it!

Promoting your new post on social media can be really valuable but don’t spam your followers feeds with it and go overly crazy to get views. Also in the comments of someone else’s post don’t shove your new post down their throat in efforts to get them to check it out, it is unprofessional.

Do take your own pictures (even if they aren’t amazing!) but Don’t use stock photos!

How to: Grow Your Blog Semi – Easily

Hello everyone! Gaining readers and blog followers is difficult when you just start out, so here are tips that helped this blog grow, and can be applied to any blog. I hope this is helpful for all of you who want to blog but are discouraged that no one is reading, or are beginners!

1. use tags! – Easiest one!

 

Be sure you don’t use too many and also that they are all separated. What tags do is put your post in the WordPress reader so other bloggers can find it, it’s similar to using hashtags on Instagram.

2.Spread the word every time you post something

4 Tips for Gorgeous Blog Photos (Without a Camera)

Hi guys! Welcome back to another blogging tips sort of post, I hope this will be helpful to anyone who is starting out, or if you don’t have a camera and are using your phone! Even if you have been blogging for ages, comment down below your own tricks for nice photos, since I am no pro here!

Backgrounds for Photos –

You can create backgrounds out of things you already own or cheap materials. A white background or marble one looks the cleanest. You can pick up a tile of marble from a home improvement store for $2 for pictures. I have this white leather stool (from Poppin!) that I always use the side of for pictures. You can use anything, so its worth experimenting!

Photo Editing –

Tricks to Stay Consistent with Blogging

Hi everyone! This is a different sort of post, I usually don’t talk about blogging because of course I am still learning myself, it’s only been about four months. But something I am great at is consistency so I thought maybe I should share some of my main tips with you all, since life always seems to get in the way of blogging and it is so hard for many bloggers to post consistently.

1. Schedule posts –