Beauty Blogging Woes


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As a beauty blogger I'm continuously grateful and feel very lucky to have the readers and support that I do. The beauty blogging community is great and I'm truly honoured to call my blog part of full-time job!

But however much I'm aware I've got it good it's easy to have those 1st world problems and on occasion more serious problems/hang-ups. So today I thought I'd share a few of my own! 

The urge to swatch new products 
You have a exciting new product in your mitts and are faced with the question: To swatch or to not swatch. Resisting of course means perfect photos but if you aren't instantly photographing it avoiding swatching can be hard work! I do always wonder though how a select few bloggers have seemingly untouched products in favourites posts though... curious?!

It's easy to fall behind when blogging full-time  
I'm not the most organised of bloggers, in fact up until 2 months ago I use to blog for only the day ahead. I'm now steadily improving but still find it incredibly hard to keep up and find even having a few days off can making me slip back into having a stack of posts to write. As for actually going away on holiday I find it a bit of a nightmare and can get pretty stressed out by having to fit in writing extra blog posts!

You forget makeup
This is very much a woe is me one. Having so much makeup you forget products you once loved! I actually remember the sheer joy I got in buying the first ever UD Naked Palette and now a few years later the Naked 2 Palette lays unloved in a drawer. I always try my best to circulate makeup products but forgetting products will always happen.

People don't take beauty blogging seriously 
 Of course I'm not including everyone in this but a large majority of people just don't get blogging and that it can be a sustainable job. I know quite a lot of people that tend to forget that yes, I do have a job or what it is I exactly do. Is it forgetfulness, ignorance or people just not willing to accept the modern world? I really don't know. Even my own Grandad use to tell me when jobs were available at Asda?!

Too much skincare
With only one face too much skincare can be a bit of a nightmare. With the urge to try out new products and over complicate my skincare routine I can often suffer from breakouts. I now have countless cleanser and moisturisers that sit in my bathroom collecting dust.

It's easy to never switch off 
With blogging it easy to blog whenever without setting time limits or at least a time to switch off at night. I constantly find myself blogging well past midnight and even writing myself lists related to blogging in the middle of the night when I can't sleep?! This is one I'm currently trying my best to improve upon. 

If you're also a blogger what are a few of your own blogging woes? 

Fee xo. 

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As I've just recently started my blog up, I find that the lack of viewers disheartening. I know it will take a while to build up a viewer base but when I leave my blog for over 24 hours and there is only one hit, it makes me feel bad.
I am also so disorganised. I sometimes have no time to get a post out each day, due to uni. I'm trying to get better about writing a few and scheduling them.

Louise www.thatscottishlassie.blogspot.co.uk
3 replies · active 542 weeks ago
I would guess it's the need to get new products. Instead of finishing what you already have and getting something new to add to your stash. I mean, how many blushers do you need? Does anyone ever finished one?
I feel the same way when you fall out of the routine of writing everyday, it is difficult to get back to where you were. I guess that is your body telling you to take a rest and you know that each time you are rested you will be able to resume to normal again. Well that is the way I feel. Recently my skin was a lot worse than normal so I decided to revamp my skincare routine and happily it is working. I try to use all the products I buy too! I don't think I have ever finished a blusher!!! Well I slightly hit pan on Benefit Coralista!

Great blog post :)

Trish www.reservedforruby.com
Thank you so much for sharing!! Great post

Candice | Beauty Candy Loves
xoxo
I definitely agree with the urge to swatch and the fact that people don't take it seriously. In addition to that, because I'm a student, have a job, and try to write my blog, I get caught up in everything and don't always have time to write posts, even though it's my favorite thing to do.

blushandfairydust.blogspot.com
Probably the posting things gives me hives! I haven't blogged properly in ages, but it's just the thought of writing and editing photos. I blog full time for work anyway, so to do it for my own personal blog is much harder.
I just started and don't know where to began without doing something that has been done a million times over.
I also forget a lot of makeup items that I have, I try not to use the same brand of eyeshadow twice in a row in order to kind of use all of my collection. However, when you are as obsessed as a beauty blogger, I feel you accumulate more makeup than you could ever use anyhow.

And I agree with the comment about bloggers/vloggers saying it's their favorite item and it looks untouched. I can tell when someone is lying and it makes me not want to read or watch anymore.

Keep up the good work though! I enjoy your blog a lot!!

Batty4Beauty.com
I totally understand the never wanting to switch off! I have been struggling with that. Every spare second is spent blogging or reading blogs or working somehow.
Keep on keeping on! Love following your blog! http://thejoycediaries.blogspot.com
as a new beauty blogger I can absolutely relate!

Alicia | www.LipsticksandChicklit.com
Noone I tell takes me seriously about my blog they always laugh so I stopped telling people.
It must be amazing to Blog as a full time job I just do it as a hobby. xox
http://rainbowsandunicorns27.blogspot.co.uk/
Several woes; really, it's just a cycle. My magpie tendencies has led to a small collection of an excess of skin care products, leading up to a real struggle to finish up products. All of my beauty hoarding led me to beauty blogging, ironically, not the other way round.

I wanted to be accountable about what I spent money on and I wanted to help people. If they could save money based on my experience that would be awesome.

Tiff | AMtoPM
My struggles include replying to PR emails...and some PRs are SOOOO pushy and even when I get unsolicited products, they still expect the world!!
When it comes to a product I know I want to photograph I make sure I swatch until my hearts content in the store! When my Lorac Pro arrived in the mail though it was too hard to resist and my little fingerprints showed up in the photos.

nueyork.blogspot.com
My biggest blogging woe is balancing blogging and the rest of my life, as I have job and I'm a full time student!
Forgetting makeup and too much skin care sound so sad. And this is why some people should understand that full time blogging is a JOB not just fun and putting make up on.
One of my woes is never finishing a product so I embarked on the 10 Pan challenge. :)

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