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Blogger True Story: My Pinterest Account Was Deactivated

19 Comments 15 May 2012

TweetBe honest: What would you do if your Pinterest account was deactivated? That’s what happened to DIY blogger Donatella Mestriner of inspiration and realization. The Italian blogger used the social-image sharing site to pin her projects, and many users pinned her images as well. However, on May 7th her pins started being flagged as spam when [...]

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Cool Start-Up To Watch: I Like What You’re Wearing

6 Comments 15 May 2012

TweetAlong with being the founder of I Like What You’re Wearing, Olivia Gossett also holds the title, Director of ‘Ness. It’s a concept she came up with to encapsulate what her less-than-two-week-old publication is all about. She wants to “save the [fashion] industry from its stagnant state of Same.” In 2010, Gossett launched a [...]

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Has Blogging Lost Its Community?

85 Comments 14 May 2012

TweetWe’ve been noticing a trend here at IFB headquarters - it seems as though fewer and fewer comments are being left on blog posts. It’s been a gradual decline, but it’s noticeable. Blogs that once got hundreds of comments per post now only receive a dozen or so. Smaller blogs are only getting a handful here and there. Are bloggers getting to [...]

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IFB’s 15 Most Gorgeous Beauty Blogs To Watch

25 Comments 14 May 2012

TweetI’ve been doing my make up the same way since I was sixteen. Black eyeliner, loads of mascara, bronzer and a dash of pinky lip balm. It wasn’t until I started blogging about fashion that I was introduced to the world of beauty blogs. Suddenly a whole new universe of possibilities for pretty was available [...]

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IFB Project #47: Show Us Your May Flowers

7 Comments 11 May 2012

TweetEven though it’s kind of cheesy, whenever May arrives I always think of that old adage, “April showers bring May flowers.” And while global warming (or whatever you might want to blame this unseasonably warm spring on) brought out the flowers a bit early, and graced us with a lack of showers – there was [...]

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Hot Mama: Here’s To All The Fabulous Women Who Raised Us!

5 Comments 11 May 2012

TweetMother’s Day is on Sunday, and it’s got all of us at IFB feeling a bit reflective. Many of us don’t live near our moms anymore, so we send cards, flowers, spa gift certificates… The usual. Being the internet-savvy crew that we are, we wanted our celebration of mothers to be a bit more, well, [...]

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Event Recap: Inside Generation Style

Added on 13 April 2012

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TweetWhen we first started to envision how we wanted the Inside Generation Style event to look and feel, we had dreams of a Parisian cafe, bloggers-turned models, sipping lattes, working away, and wearing fabulous clothes. I’m not sure any of us were really prepared for just how close to our initial visions the runway [...]