Sketchblog

My 'About me page' - A little information on who I am and my interests. Letting readers know what my blog content is.

Blog Layout Development.

Blog Layout Development - drop down menu for different categories.

I added another gadget to my sidebar, for popular posts, so people can find my most loved posts easily.

I added a 'where to now' gadget to the footer of my page, again this helps readers to find popular posts.

I added a 'shop my beauty favourites' and a 'shop my style' slider to the sidebar and footer of my blog.

I changed my sidebar wishlist to a slider format and added new products.

Researching the Charlotte Tilbury Perfume on Fragrantica. To find out more about the perfume and it's notes, for my fragrance review post.

Putting together images for my February beauty and fashion wishlist.

Looking through the trend report pages of Hello Fashion Magazine, Inspired me to do a trend report of my own and to create a trend mood board. Below is a picture of the magazine and their report on the S/S 18 plastic trend.

More research for my fashion trend report post. Looking into what the big trends were at fashion week. Using online sources such as Vogue.

Creating a mood board in photoshop for my S/S 18 trend report on Pastel.

Putting together a small mood board for the denim rewind trend in my Fashion Trend Report for S/S 18.

Looking through the beauty pages of this issue of Hello Fashion Magazine, inspired me to do a review of the current beauty trends. I got the idea after seeing the review of graphic liner, which I have pictured below.

More Research for my S/S 18 beauty trend report. Using online sources such as Vogue and Elle to see what the biggest makeup and hair trends were at fashion week.

Whats in my handbag? (spring edition) GIF.  Ideas and BTS shots

Glamour magazines version of 'Whats in my bag' which inspired me to try and create my own!

I have always loved watching youtube videos of 'what in my handbag' so that inspired me to create this GIF,  I also started to search for GIF versions on youtube.

Watching youtuber 'Freddymylove'  and her 'what's in my bag for 2018'

Watching different Gifs on youtube to see how they were laid out.

Notes from I.T Technical session on how to create a GIF in Photoshop.

The photo studio set up for my What's In My Handbag for Spring GIF.

Positioning of the products and how I wanted them to look out of the bag before shooting the images.

I used photoshop to edit the images and put them together to make the GIF.

Going through all my bags and selecting my favourites to include in my 'Luxury Bag Collection - TK Maxx Finds'

UPDATED - About me and Contact page

Editing photo's for my skincare post. - Picking which photos to feature and then whitening the backgrounds and editing in them in Instagram.

Picking which photos, out of the ones I took to feature in the skincare post.

Before editing.

After editing.

Inspiration for my beauty edit post. These are my favourite pages of magazines and these ones in Hello Fashion Magazine made me want to create my own!

Creating my Beauty Edit post, using photoshop.

Blog Layout Development:

Creating new pages that feature my current wishlist and shop my style & beauty favourites. (on a slider gadget)

Screenshot from my whilst page.

Screenshot from my shop my style an beauty favourites page. Readers can click on the items and it will take them straight to a website to buy them.

Blog Layout Development:

Adding new gadgets to sidebar.

A contact form in the sidebar of my blog. This makes it quick and easy for people to get in contact with me,

I added this button to the sidebar of my blog. This allows readers to shop my favourites.

Choosing which photo's to use in my Carli Bybel palette review. 

Selection of pictures, taken for the post

Editing one of the photo's for the post.

Before editing

After editing, using Instagram