As somebody who writes about beauty so often I have over the last three years come across various little issues that I have to work around; I’m sure you have too. For the record this is by no means a post complaining, in fact it’s quite the contrary as I thought I’d pop together a light hearted post where I share some of the various blogger conundrums that I have come across in that time. Feel free to leave yours in the comments below; I’ll enjoy reading them when I get home from work.
To swatch or not? – I’ve read a lot of opinions in the time that I have being blogging in regards to beauty swatches, some really positive and some really quite negative. When I started off writing A Little Boat Sailing I always included swatches however over time I developed more of an interest in the presentation of my blog and found that I rarely felt happy with swatch pictures. Generally speaking that’s why there are not many on my blog these days, it’s not because I don’t like them, it’s purely because I’m still yet to find a way that I’m happy to portray them. One final thought is that I couldn’t care less whether someone includes swatches in a post or not; it’s their blog at the end of the day. It’s great to see the product on but let’s face it the product will probably look different on everybody anyway so whether you post swatches on your arm, hand, finger tips or forehead or you decide to not to include them at all, who would I be to judge?
Photograph before use! – Hands up who is guilty here? I know this may seem silly to some but if I have a new product then nine times out of ten I will wait until I have photographed it for a future review before I actually use it. Some people may not be bothered about this fact and do you know what that’s completely cool, however for me personally it’s just something I like to do.
Grammar errors at 2am – No matter how often I re-read my blog posts I’m almost guaranteed to spot an error when I’m looking back on a post at a rather unnatural hour. You bet your bottom dollar I’ll find one in this tonight.
Winter is coming – Whilst many bloggers find themselves super excited for the arrival of autumn and winter, queue snoods and ankle boots galore I can’t be the only one who is secretly miserable inside at the sheer lack of light to come. I really do find it difficult to get nice pictures at that time of year and often spend a lot of my time in august taking photographs that will see me through over that period. I’m yet to buy dedicated lights for my blog as I prefer the look natural light if I’m honest however if you have any good recommendations then please do let me know.
Oh shiny! – Shiny packaging aside from cylinder products (until I discovered blue tac) are the bane of my life when it comes to featuring them on here. The amount of times I have come to edit pictures and have my seen little face glaring back at me on a product; it’s not pretty. I have also discovered through this that my floors are clearly not flat; I’ve chased a few products across the floor in my time.
I’m a gymnast and I didn’t know it – Photographing products can be quite the challenge at times, it’s not all white card and pretty notebooks folks. The amount of odd positions I’ve found myself in and things that I have balanced on in the past to get a decent photograph is quite interesting. On many occasions I’ve found myself standing on a chair leaning over something so far that I’m convinced I will fall off.
Restart EVERYTHING – Yup, I’m not going to lie I have already started the process of going through older blog posts in order to tidy them up by making sure that links are coloured in grey and bold (they used to be blue) and re-sizing photographs. It’s so incredibly time consuming and part of me wishes I could just leave it but I just can’t, is anybody else like this?
Lists – The amount of lists I create for my blog is endless, I even find myself adding things on that I know I have already done so I can just tick them off (it makes me feel good).
I’ve also been known to buy pretty stationary just to use as props in blog photos…yes guilty as charged.
