When I first started my blog I spent hours searching for the best plugins to install on my site. There are so many to choose from and I was intimidated by the selection. To help people like me I thought I’d put together a list of my 5 favourite and most used WordPress plugins. View Full Post
When I was writing my last post ( My Daily Makeup Products + Total Cost) I thought it might be interesting to time myself and see how long it actually took to write the whole post. I don’t think many non-bloggers realise how much time blogging can take up. Everything from taking photos, to writing and editing, can be time consuming. So here’s a quick break down of how long everything took: View Full Post
Before I started this blog I was at University studying for a degree in Forensic Science. After I graduated I had a lot of free time and, being a beauty fan, I decided to start my own blog. After years of writing in a specific, scientific way, I found (and am still finding) it difficult to write less formally. The two writing styles are so completely different, everything I learnt not to do in a science report is everything that should be done in blog writing. I thought I’d put together a little list of the the rules I had to stick to, the differences and everything I’ve had to change. View Full Post
Just a quick post today to announce that Rated In Beauty has had a makeover! I was getting a little bored of the layout of my blog and I wanted a change. My blog is a WordPress blog and although there are loads of free themes I felt that I would have more control (and a better design) if I paid for a theme. I was fairly happy with my old theme (see photo above) but it just wasn’t quite right. The main issue was that I didn’t like the dark header and didn’t want to mess up my blog trying to change it with code. Now I’m so much happier with my site, I think it looks more professional and I can change the colours without needing to know any code! View Full Post
I’ve always struggled to get into Pinterest. I heard about bloggers getting a lot of traffic from it, but I just couldn’t seem to make it work for me. A couple of weeks ago I decided that I would make an effort and I am now a little bit obsessed! Just to be clear this isn’t going to be an advice post because I am still very new to Pinterest and there are a lot of things I have to learn, but I thought I would share with you what I have learnt so far. Also apologies if any of this seems obvious, but I am aiming this post at complete Pinterest newbies like me! View Full Post
3 Months ago I wrote a post about my 10 blogging goals for the next 3 months (here). As it has now been 3 months (and my blog is now 6 months old!) I thought I’d have a look back at the post and see how well I did! I have to admit that I haven’t actually looked at the post for a while so it will be interesting to see how it went… View Full Post