My Blogging Confessions

I still consider myself a bit of a newbie in terms of blogging. It's been less than 8 months, so there are definitely still a few things I'm getting to grips with! Today I thought I'd confess some of the things about blogging that I don't talk about that much - the good, the bad and the ugly. So it's truth time on the blog today - here are some of my blogging confessions!

1. I'm pretty disorganised - I routinely will leave a post until the last minute and then write it up the day before or on the day itself. All my blog photos for the week get taken, streamlined and edited on Sundays, but time just seems to run away and often I'm left tapping away at my keyboard the morning of the day my post is going live. I'm kind of doing that right now. Shhhh! 

2. It's hard not to get caught up in the numbers - I always find this a bit of a controversial one, because really we're constantly reminded that it's not about numbers, which is true. I started blogging as a hobby because I've always had a mild to severe obsession with beauty and wanted a creative outlet. However, it is tough not to let yourself get carried away worrying about expanding your audience or being concerned about traffic. I think it's normal to want to reach more people but sometimes it's important to remind yourself that there's so much more to it than the numbers. Having said that...

3. Losing followers sucks - So the numbers most certainly aren't everything but when you refresh your social media and the follower count drops it always gets me. I don't think I'll ever stop being a little miffed over people who follow me solely for the purpose of me following back. I feel like any blogger who says that they don't inwardly shed a tiny tear when they see their Instagram followers drop is lying! Either that or I need to stop being such a baby.

4. I'm a total tech noob - If I had a techie friend, I would be badgering them all day every day. I'm honestly so useless when it comes to things like HTML. I'm so scared of messing something up in my blog's HTML I barely ever go near it unless I really have to! There are about fifty things I want to change on my blog and just have no clue how to. Thank goodness for YouTube tutorials, amirite?

5. I worry about being boring - Sometimes I read through my posts and think "hold on a minute. Is this really boring?". Truth be told, when you're doing an in-depth beauty review I think it's a bit of a challenge to bring it on both fronts in terms of helpful facts and some cracking jokes. Ah well, you can't have it all!

6. I'd like to blog about other topics - All in all, the blogging world still scares me a bit and whilst I'd love to blog about more serious topics, I do worry about how it'll come across. I've had a more personal post sitting in my drafts for months now, too worried to press "publish", so that's definitely something I still have to work on!

7. I'll take 40 photos of the same thing - ...and then promptly delete them all and start all over again. The amount of effort it can sometimes take to get one good photo even just for my Instagram is ridiculous. I have no idea how some bloggers take photos for ten posts at once, I think I'd need a nap after that! Hats off to you!

8. I really don't understand Google Analytics - Honestly, I tried to set up Google Analytics ages ago before giving up when I couldn't figure out what a meta tag was or where to put it - I told you I'm useless at tech - and then recently realised that apparently Google Analytics is up and running for my website. The only catch is that all the data is completely inaccurate and I regularly get spam crawlers from analytics giving me a bunch of invalid traffic. Basically I have no idea what's going on. Seriously, if you have a techie friend I can borrow...

So there we go, a nice rambly post on me dishing the dirt on the many areas of blogging I certainly do not excel at! Overall I love blogging and I don't even really remember what I did with all my free time before I started! Nonetheless, sometimes it's fun to chat about the things that don't always crop up on the blog. Like how I'll swatch things and then forget and end up freaking out that I have a horrible rash when it's actually just smudged lipstick. Oh the glamour! Have any of you encountered any of these things? What are some of your blogging confessions?