Welcome back to my blog lovelies! It's that time of the year where clocks turned backwards, it gets dark early and it's too cold to just hang out outside for no reason. Gloomy days are a regular and it gets harder to get out of bed. Nonetheless, life goes on and gloomy days can be beautiful, too! It's all about what you make out of it with what you have and it's important for yourself to feel well as it affects everything you do, from getting up in the morning to meetings and dinner with friends.
I'm listing 4 things below that I do for self-care:
Spend some 'me-time'
I myself find it very relaxing to put on a face mask, make myself a fresh mint tea or hot water lemon, sit on my bed, put my phone on silence and watch a series. For me this is a big part of self-care as it simply makes me feel good about myself and I can just switch my mind off. Oh, a spa weekend away is another great way to spend some 'me-time'.
Go to the gym
Another part of self-care for me is going to the gym whenever I feel uncomfortable in my skin (not when society tells me to!) or just to relief stress. It's a good way to take your mind off stress.
Get rid of toxic relationships
If it's boyfriend/girlfriend or friend - distance yourself. You don't need drama, negativity or gossip in your life. There are more important things to do in life, we have work to do and bills to pay. Unfortunately the blogging world has loads of those people and one needs to be very careful who to trust. Staying away from negativity will change your life, I even stopped watching Love and Hip Hop to get my mind right a few years back, haha, but I'm telling you it had an impact on my life.
Social Media Detox
If you're a regular on Social Media like I am, it is good to sometimes just leave your phone alone and do something else. Take your mind off what other people do on Instagram and stop comparing yourself to someone that you're not. Acceptance is the key word girls!
If all that doesn't help, just book a flight and go away.. Traveling is good for the soul!
I hope you liked this post! Have a great evening guys!
Outfit Details:
Pleated Skirt: H&M (on sale!)
Hey guys!
I don't know what's going on with Instagram at the moment but I heard that I was not the only one yesterday, who almost had a heart attack when 200 of my photos just disappeard. Can you imagine?! All the hard work you put in and all the amazing memories of my holidays were just erased from my feed and I was so upset. I tried to contact Instagram but as they don't have a customer service I wasn't very hopeful that they'll fix the issue. I heard that even people's accounts were deleted😱 Imagine!!! After this shock, I woke up this morning and all my pictures were recovered!😌 Listen, this almost gave me a heart attack😂 but then I realised that at the end of the day it is Instagram and if it goes down one day, life still goes on. If something like this happened to your account and you have a solution, please comment below and help a sister out. Lol
Anyways, I've been asked so many questions about blogging, tips & tricks and how I grow my following so I thought I'm gonna put everything in a blog post for everyone to read and hopefully take something away from it.
Engagement is key!
I can't stress enough how important engagement is. We have this saying Germany, which basically says that if you don't put in work, you don't get anything out of it - this could not be any more accurate. If you don't communicate with your audience, why would they bother following you or trying to engage with you?! I know it can be a pain because really if blogging is not your full-time job then you need to find hours in a day to actually do this and it takes way more time than people imagine. My dear followers, if I don't reply to all your comments, I'm deeply sorry and I'll try to catch up! Bare with me!
Follow back
Don't be that girl who has 30k followers and only follows 100 people only because you think you're too cool to follow people back. Just don't, lol✋🏽 I understand if you don't want to follow as many people as you have followers but why not follow your main supporters back?! They love you content and they're the ones who hype your pics - Give them a follow girl/boy!
Follow Friday/ Instagram Story
Shout the people out you like to follow or visit their profile on Instagram stories. If it's a big influencer or just a any person, they might return the favour, which will get you exposure to their followers and if they like you they might give you a follow.
Support each other
In the influencer world it is so important to support each other as there's so much competition out here and people might pretend they want to help you but they actually don't and they only help people in their circle. It's sad but be sure that you and your influencer friends support each other in comments, likes, photo credit or shout outs.
Hashtags
It's good to switch up hashtags on a regular basis to what's trending and is most popular to get your account noticed by as many people as possible. Be careful, if you use the same hashtags over and over again and just copy paste them you can get shadow banned, which means that your post is banned from those hashtags and the won't appear when someone looks for it.
Instagram is trying all kinds of stuff to make us pay for ads by changing their algorithm or getting us shadow banned. Don't give up though - You got this!💪🏽
Love, Drea
xxx
Outfit details:
Dress: H&M (Sold out)
