Outsourcing Image Editing: A Cost-Effective Solution for High-Quality Results

Photo editing is a process that can make or break a photo. It can be the difference between a good photo and a great one. A lot of people think that photo editing is easy, but it's a complex process that takes...

Fashion Blogger’s Content Toolkit: Unlocking Efficiency with Proven Workflow Hacks

Fashion blogging is a whirlwind of trends, outfit inspiration, and nonstop content creation. Efficiency is critical to thriving in this fast-paced world. Consider various workflow hacks as your secret weapon. ...

Beginners Guide: Improving Fashion Blogs With Photo Branding

You love your fashion blog - it’s your dream and passion. And you have tried anything and everything to boost its rankings, from SEO to following the latest trends and collaborating with influencers. Yet, you ...

Best Digital Nomad Cities in 2024

What are the best digital nomad cities if you're on a budget? In the past couple of years, more and more people have been given the freedom to choose their place of work. So why work from home if you can take...

The Best Canon Vlog Camera 2024 Round-Up

These top 5 Canon vlog cameras will turn video recording into a seamless experience. Bring life into YouTube videos with the best vlog cameras from our guide!

Every Writer Needs a Great Laptop! What are The Best Laptops For Writers?

What makes a laptop great for writing? Check out some of the most reliable laptops that will help you kickstart your writing or blogging career in our guide.

12 Best Thrift Fashion Bloggers to Follow

Thrifting is a fashion trend that will always be in style. It adapts with the times, and it will always be fashionable to wear proven traditional styles. Thrifting is all this, and we haven't even mentioned a...

The Best Fashion WordPress Blog Themes [Updated 2024]

When it comes to creating a fashion blog or website, choosing the right design is crucial. A fashion blog should be about style and elegance, so it’s essential to showcase your material with a trendy blog des...

Photos you can use on your blog without breaking the law…

Image by Digital Sophia What kind of photos can  you use on your blog? Having great images is an important part of creating a successful fashion blog, and even if we're lacking in th...

10 Best Free Blog Sites

Start blogging; that's what I have to say to you. Because if you have come looking for the best free blog sites, I’m guessing you are interested in starting your blog. You might have heard the famous S...

6 Dream Jobs Custom Made for Fashion Bloggers

I grew up in California, miles away from Condé Nast. I knew I wanted to work in the fashion industry, but the specifics were a bit hazy. Aside from being a designer or a buyer or a magazine editor, I didn't...

Is Blogging Dead?

Every single year, content creators, marketers, and business owners ask the very same question. After all, so many other, more interactive, visually-appealing content marketing formats have stolen the spotlig...

How To Start A Successful Beauty Blog

Starting a beauty blog is a fun and exciting process, one that allows you to unleash your creativity and share your knowledge with like-minded people while trying out new beauty products and techniques. And s...

How to Appear More Authentic in Your Fashion Blogging

It seems like everyone and their brother has a blog these days. People write about food, travel, books and fashion. Yet what sets skilled bloggers apart from casual writers is authenticity.  Online fan...

8 Best Grammar Checker Tools for Bloggers

There are a lot of grammar checking tools, but which tool is best for bloggers? We did some research and now will share the results with you. Why Check? Automatic grammar checking is useful for everyone, ...

How To Start A Fashion Blog With Instagram: What You Need To Know in 2024

Do you even need a fashion blog to be considered a fashion blogger in 2024? This week, we're diving into how YOU can start a fashion blog with Instagram (i.e. an Insta-blog) - and talking whether or not it's a...

5 Ways Fashion Bloggers Can Use Fiverr

Have you ever hear about Fiverr? If you haven't, we're about to share one of the best kept blogging secrets on the Internet with you... Fiverr is the world's largest online marketplace for freelance services...

How To Create A Business Plan for Your Blog

Fact: If you plan on monetizing your blog or want to make a full-time living out of blogging, you need a business plan for your blog. You might not be seeking investors or plan on selling your blog any t...

Introductory Guide to Accepting Guests Posts For Your Fashion Blog

IFB's Introductory Guide to Accepting Guests Posts For Your Fashion Blog. I penned a blog post about growing your audience that sparked some conversation in the comments about the idea of guest posting. ...

Halloween Guide For Fashion Bloggers

It’s that time of the year again, boys and ghouls! Halloween is slowly creeping up on us. It’s less than a week away now! Do you have your costume planned out? Are you ready for the Trick-or-Treaters? Will you ...

Start Your Own Podcast, Part II: What Your Need Before Your Begin

Have You Ever Wanted to Start Your Own Podcast? Throughout the next few weeks, we will be running a series titled “Start Your Own Podcast: A How-To for Fashion Bloggers”. We’ll break down everything from w...

Start Your Own Podcast: A How-To for Fashion Bloggers

Have You Ever Wanted to Start Your Own Podcast? There’s no doubt about it: the popularity of podcasts are on the rise. Studies show that Millennials prefer to listen to podcasts than read long bodies o...

How Starting A Blog Can Lead to Your Dream Job in 8 Weeks or Less

Graciela Rivera Pereira landed her dream job through her blog, in February 2017 – despite only launching the blog a few weeks earlier in January. That’s right, this fresh-faced San Juan-based blogger (with...

Diary of a Failed Fashion Blogger

Hey everyone! This post is both a hello and a goodbye. Until about two weeks ago, I was editor-in-chief of IFB. It was a really fun gig. I worked from home, made my own hours, and was paid well for my efforts...

Beware of These Brands That May Be Stealing Your Photos

When Pascale Rowe, a.k.a. @MsBlingMiami (who has 500k+ followers on Instagram), posted a selfie while wearing her bright yellow, green and blue maxi dress, it got more than 7,500 likes. Little did she know that...

How to Keep Up Your Blog During the Holidays. Or Not

The holiday season is upon us, at least in the US. For many that means more time with family and friends and less time blogging. So how do you keep your blog up during the holidays? Or do you? Personally, ...

Fashion Blogging: The Definitive List of Best Practices

So you want to be a fashion blogger...or you already are. Here are some important best practices pulled from the wealth of IFB archives, from the simple (be nice!!) to the more technical (how to do competitiv...

Six Things For Personal Style Bloggers To Do Before Buying New Clothes

I've been a personal style blogger for almost 8 years. When it comes to taking photos of myself on a regular basis, falling into the "new clothes" habit is not only bad for my bank account, it also is bad for...

The Truth About Fashion Bloggers

It's no secret there's a lot said about bloggers in general, and there's certainly no shortage of criticisms and/or critiques of fashion bloggers specifically. We sometimes get the worst of it, because we sho...

5 Ways to Say, “No, thank you.” to Blogger Opportunities

As a blogger, I'm sure you get a lot of emails from brands and PR reps asking to "work with you." What happens when you get a request or inquiry from a brand that you don't want to work with? Or they're talki...

What I’ve Learned in 10 Years Posting OOTD

ifb-fashion I've been posting outfits of the day (OOTD) for ten years. Back when I started, not a lot of people were doing it, so it was a relatively new phenomenon, and there weren't a lot of "rules" or stand...

10 Ways to Celebrate Your Blog Anniversary

We naturally find ourselves, in the last month of any given year, reflecting on our accomplishments, our trials and how often we hit the marks of personal and professional success and happiness. Whether you h...

What Do YOU Want From Your Readers?

When you start your blog, you think about what you want from your blog. You think about what kind of content you want to create. You think about what kind of design you want, what kind of logo you want... all...

24 Fashion Blogging Lessons From Animated GIFs

What can you learn from animated GIFs? Plenty!   1. Get right to the point.   (source) 2. Have fun with other bloggers. (source) 3. Don't waste your time judging other bloggers. (source) ...

Hiring Help For Your Blog, pt. 1: Why Hire Someone and What Kinds of Jobs to Hire For

Note: This article is based on a roundtable presentation I gave at Blogalicious. You may not know this, but many famous or "big" bloggers have an entire team of people behind them. This invisible (but esse...

8 Tough Challenges New Bloggers Face Today

IFB is great for many things, and I believe the best thing that our contributors have to offer is years and years of experience in the industry.  That being said, our experience doesn't always help when it co...

3 Things No One Tells You About Being a Full Time Blogger

There's a lot of glamour associated with being a full time blogger. Many people think it's all fast money, sponsored trips, and fabulous clothes (if only!). While being a full time fashion blogger is absolute...

Keep It Simple: 4 Tips for the Part-Time or Hobby Blogger

Many of the members in the IFB Community are hobby bloggers or part-time bloggers, myself included!  I'm sure by now you've all realized that blogging can quickly take over your life if you let it and that ma...

Is Fashion Blogging Broken? 5 Issues Hurting Bloggers

It surprises me whenever I hear an authority in the fashion blogging community say things like, "The bubble has burst." "Things have changed so much, and it just doesn't work anymore." "The fashion ...

12 Reasons You Won’t “Make It” as a Blogger

I've contributed for IFB for the past four years and have written a LOT of posts.  I've also received thousands of comments over the years, so I feel like I have an idea of "what the IFB community wants."  Su...

How to be a Fashion Blogger WITHOUT a DSLR & Other Things….

Have you ever been afraid to start something - a new blog, a new project, or whatever? Or told yourself you'd start when you have _______ (fill in the blank)? I know I have. We're so good at putting things ...

7 Common Traits of High Quality Fashion Blogs

"Be so good they can't ignore you." ~Steve Martin I keep going back to this, because it's at once sage advice, and completely subjective advice. For bloggers wishing to become professional, getting noticed i...

The 6 Fashion Bloggers Personality Types

Fashion bloggers are an interesting mix aren't we? Who else takes photos of ourselves (often with a tripod) and posts them on the internet? Sounds strange when you say it out loud doesn't it? But somehow it's...

7 Signs You Might be a Professional Blogger

"I want to be a professional blogger." We've all said it, but what does it mean? I imagine that for each of us the definition of professional blogger varies.  For some of us, being a professional blogger m...

Six Tax Tips for Bloggers

Have you filed your taxes yet? In the business of blogging, taxes are the biggest drag. For most of us at least. In fact, you many be reading this post in procrastination of actually doing your taxes. But no ...

How to Protect your Blog from Plagiarism

Guest Post by Sandra Miller After investing that much time and effort in creating fresh, interesting and completely unique content for your blog, it would be best to also make sure your posts are protected...

Blogger True Story: My Blog Helped Me Get My Dream Job

I met Kiley Stenberg of a Sequin Dress at Breakfast a few fashion week seasons ago at a brunch (where else?) and we've been fast friends ever since. While living in Des Moines, Iowa, Kiley has been working at a...

Viral Content in Fashion: What Makes It Go Big?

  In digital media, we're all looking to capture that special something that could make our content go viral. It can feel like luck of the draw and often prove difficult to pin down just what exactl...

How To: Use SWOT Analysis to Strengthen Your Blog Business

Why fashion bloggers should start using a SWOT analysis to strengthen their blog business

4 Timeless Blogging Lessons From Carrie Bradshaw

By Emily VanderBeek, Isn't That Charming It’s safe to say that if Sex and the City had started 10 years later, Carrie Bradshaw would have been a blogger. New York City’s “It” girl would have tweeted to M...

Jealousy & Envy in the Blogging Community

Perhaps it's not the most festive topic this time of year, but I've been thinking a lot about jealousy and envy in the blogging community. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's felt more than a tinge of one o...

Is It Anyone’s Business? The “Reality” Of Lifestyle Blogger Content

When it comes to lifestyle blogging, is omission of certain "lifestyle elements" untruthful or tactical? New York Magazine's The Cut published an article Wednesday, "No Sex Please -- We're Domestic Godde...

You Are Creative: Here’s How To Ignite Your Spark

By Emily Vanderbeek of Isn't That Charming Pablo Picasso is turning in his grave. Ernest Hemingway is shouting from the heavens. Andy Warhol is glaring at me with warning in his eyes. Why? I’m about to g...

Write Your Next Post – in 30 Minutes OR LESS

Bloggers and gentlemen - prepare to be amazed! I'm about to dazzle you with instructions on how to complete a feat of Internet magic: You can write your next fashion blog post in 30 minutes - or less. ...

Don’t Lie About Your Blog Traffic, You’ll Get Caught

Everyone knows lying is bad. However, when it comes to selling services the line between fact and fiction gets blurred in trying to paint the best picture. My favorite example of this is the food label, "Fa...

Why Being An Entrepreneur is Better Than Having a “Day Job”

Have you ever thought of starting your own business? Of being your own boss? The reality is that 66% of businesses fail in the first two years, which can be scary. Yet, the dream of being your own boss is s...

School of Hard Blogs: What a Bachelor’s Degree in Blogging Could Include

Explore the potential courses that would be offered to get a degree in fashion blogging.

Does Your Blog Need A Terms of Use & Copyright Notice?

Now, I know this is going to sound strange, but I have to tell you something: Not everything about setting up a blog is fun. I know, I know, crazy right? Some of the boxes you have to check off as you prepa...

Bloggers & Body Image: Are We Helping Or Hurting Ourselves?

Update: 8/14/12 Taylor Davies has issued an apology. *This post has been edited and updated as of Saturday, August 11th, to clarify the intentions of both IFB and the author. I can almost guarantee th...

Try, Try Again: A Failure Can Lead To The Ultimate Success Story

Sometimes trying to be both a resource and a support system can be a challenging line to straddle. IFB wants to motivate you, help you, inspire you and make you the smartest, most successful blogger you can...

Are Personal Style Bloggers Impacting Retail Trends?

Do you take your Prada with a side of Old Navy? How about that Jimmy Choo shoe with a Hanes white t-shirt? Last week Women's Wear Daily reported that there's a new shopping trend emerging in the retail world...

The Thinspiration Problem: Where Do Fashion Bloggers Factor In?

Body image and health are two topics not often touched on over here at IFB. However, all the recent thinspiration controversy has caused Terms of Use and Community Guidelines updates on some of the most popular...

5 Things Every Blog Should Have

We talk about blogs a lot in the office. Would you believe we actually talk about blogs almost all the time? Shocking, I know! We talk about what we love, what bothers us, what we wish we saw more of, less of, ...

6 Tips For Finding Your Blog Niche

I'll be the first to admit that when I started my blog, I had no idea what I was doing. All I knew was that I needed an outlet for my compulsive fashion obsession and my love of writing. And so it began: a ...

The Reality of Blogging While Working a Full Time Job

As I write this, I'm actually behind on my deadline-- posts I write for IFB go live on Mondays and Fridays and it's Monday morning.  Yesterday I had to send Jennine an email that said, "I'm sorry, I'm behin...

How To Overcome The Challenges of Blogging in a Second Language

Many bloggers in foreign countries choose to blog in English instead of their mother tongue.  I am one of those bloggers.  Living in the French part of Canada, I really understand the importance of speaking E...