If you think you are updated with the beauty industry and have a keen knowledge of beauty products, then starting a beauty blog is a lucrative job. It is not only about informing people about beauty products and the industry, but also you can become an influencer and earn a passive income from the beauty blog. However, in the beginning, it is hard to know about everything about blogging and how to start a blog. But do not worry. Through my blogging experience and our team experts’ opinions, I will briefly discuss how to start a beauty blog.
Beauty Blog – An Intro for Beginners
A beauty blog is an online website to share opinions about the beauty industry, review beauty products, and give tips about beauty. It is not only a blog, but a business if you have experitise and you are consistent with work. You can build a trusted audience through your beauty blog and become an influence which helps to earn money through sponsorships afflictions, and other sources.
How to Start A Beauty Blog – Some Easy Steps to follow
How to start a beauty blog as a beginner? It is not a daunting task, but you will need some steps and consideration to build your website. However, it is important to keep in mind before you start blogging that it is time-consuming and you will need a budget to start the personal bog and grow it to a larger audience.
In the undersection, I have mentioned the steps to start a beauty blog. Read in detail below:
Choose Your Beauty Blog Niche
The beauty is the vast landscape, but you will need to choose the specific sub-niche according to your expertise to stand above the competition. This will help you target your audience to become experts in your chosen blog topics. You can choose the niche like Makeup tutorials, product reviews, skincare, haircare, budget beauty tips, or beauty fashion (for complete fashion tips, it is better to start a fashion blog.) These are just examples, you can narrow down your research to choose from the marketing trending niche according to your passion and expertise.
Here are some beauty blog niches reccommened:
- Budget beauty products
- Hair Type
- Cruelty Free beauty
- Skincare
- Nails
- Makeup tutorials
- DIY Beauty
- Vegan beauty
- No makeup looks
- Homemade beauty treatment
- Celebrity makeup looks
Choose a Name and Buy Domain
After the niche is chosen, the name is an important part of the blog because it represents the blog, and people search through the name. You can choose a name that represents beauty and especially relevant to your niche. It lets the user that what your blog is about. However, I must say keep it short but a catchy and unique name that no one has used in the blog. For example, “The Skincare Edit” is the name of a beauty blog. You can also choose like this according to your niche.
How to buy the domain name:
If you have decided on your name for your blog, now you can check your domain availability and secure your domain. Many domain registrars are available on the web to buy your domain and start blogging. For example, Godaddy, Namecheap and others. You can choose according to your preference. Here is a guide to buying the domain:
- Visit the domain registrar’s website to check the domain availability. I have tried using Namecheap to check the domain availability.
- Open the official website and Search the Name in the “Search Box”
- If your domain is available, You can easily buy by clicking on “Add to Cart” after the payment process.
It is important to keep in mind the domain extensions such as .Com. .ORG, .Online, and .Net. Each extension is available with a different price tag. Price of domain also depends on your name a premium name is available at a premium price. Unfortunately, if the domain is already taken you can try a different name to buy the domain.
Host Your Blog On a Blogging Platform
Only a domain is not enough for blogging; but you need a hosting provider service for online presence. If you dont buy the hosting then people cant find you online. However, a hosting provider service allows you to publish content manage your content and store it online on the server to become accessible to the user.
You need some consideration before choosing a blogging platform, like costs, reliability, uptime and storage space. All these things affect the website loading and user experience. There are a variety of hosting provider services that allow you to host your blog. So you can select the reliable web hosting according to your budget and preference.
Design Your Blog
Design and theme make a blog attractive that enhance the user experience. Design is about to focus on color and logo platelets, dont ever use the mixture of color in your webiste design. Keep it simple. Just use the two colors in the logo and overall design. However, you can focus on the color elements according to your niche, like a beauty blog, so use the colors that match your beauty.
If you have decided the design now create a logo for you brand and intsall theme on your blog. As a beginner you can use the pre-made themes of wordpress related to beauty. However, if you have a budget then you must develop your own theme and design with coding through developers. Self made theme enhances the website speed and user experience.
Further, for a quality user experience add some essential pages on your blog, such as Contact, About Us, Social Media pages, Homepage, Terms&Conditions.
Create Content for Your Blog
Content is the key to engaging your target audience. It is important to write quality content that is engaging, captivating and informative to build a trusted audience. To write good content, you will need writing skills, proper research, expertise and self-experienced things to make it useful for users who are looking for solutions. Know the interests of your audience, trending topics, keywords, and niche specifics. For example, in summer, you can cover topics related to skincare, summer outfits, how to maintain the beauty in hot weather, etc. In this way, you can engage users with your blog.
Promote the Blog
It is the most important factor to keep in mind because, in the beginning, you will need readers for your blog. How can you engage readers? Promote your blog to a large audience. Social media platforms are a free source to promote and reach your target audience. You can just share your posts on timelines, pages and groups. SEO is another best way to increase the number of organic blog users, but you must have knowledge of SEO tactics. As your blog grows organically and you post content regularly, your users will find you through your name.
Earn Money with Blog
As I have discussed in the beginning, a beauty blog is not only about sharing posts about beauty, but you can also earn a passive income. When your blog users increase the number of posts completed, you can monetize the blog to earn money. There are differenet ways to earn with beauty blog like, Affiliation to earn money, google ads is also good way to make money. Above all, you can launch your own products when you build a trusted audience, and you can sell through your blog. In this way, blogging turns into a income source.
Ending Note
This is how you can start a beauty blog. But it is important to be dedicated, consistent, and hardworking to achieve gaols in blogging. First, you must decide your niche to write about specific beauty trends and target your audience. After that, give a name to your blog and buy a domain to secure your name. For online presence, you will need a blogging platform to host your website and make it accessible to your users. You can store your data online, publish content and manage everything. Design with a beautiful layout and install a beauty theme to enhance the user experience. As traffic increases, monetize the blog and earn money with it.
FAQ’s
How can I make money with beauty blog?
You can earn money through different ways like affiliation, ads display, sponsored with brands or sponsored posts, selling own products etc.
What makes a beauty blog?
Writng a well researched content which is helpful and useful for the users and provides a simple solution makes beauty blog trust worthy.
Can I start beauty business with beauty blog?
Yes, beauty blog is the best source to start your own beauty business. When your organic traffic increases and you builds a trusted audience you can launch your own prodcuts and start beauty business.
Can I start a blog for free?
Yes, if don’t want to invest money on then there are different platform to host website for free but you cannot use it for long term and build a trusted audience.