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Even though the beauty blogging niche is considered small in the ocean of blogs in the blogosphere all over the world, the niches in itself are wide. Not all beauty bloggers operate the same way; we don’t all only do product reviews and in our product reviews, not all of us do individual product reviews.

I’d like to talk about bloggers whose product reviews are specific ones. E.g. instead of mentioning multiple products in one blog post, when it’s a product review, they concentrate mainly on just that one product. That’s how Beautyholics Anonymous operates; I seldom mention many products in one blog post when it’s supposed to be a product review. Mini reviews in categories like favourite lipsticks are different. I’m talking about writing an in-depth review of just one item in one blog post.

If you do product reviews, do you write in-depth ones in their individual blog posts or do you mention many in one blog post? Do you avoid giving exclusive mention to just one brand in your blog posts?

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I was just looking at my stash of Dior blushes (okay, not a stash; I don’t actually have that many!) and I realised that there isn’t one that I don’t like. My first Dior blush was the Diorblush Cherie Bow Edition in Rose Bonheur Pink Happiness which I bought ages ago with Paris B‘s help and I haven’t been disappointed in any since.

Now I know you probably think that this is leading up to an unhappy discovery and that I’ve finally found one I don’t like. Ooops, sorry to disappoint you, folks, because this is another winner in my books. Another time, and I’ll show you one that I really don’t like. Yes, a blush. That I don’t like. Hah! 😛

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How many of us suffer from Mondayitis?

*wildly waves my hand*

I used to really hate Mondays. Weekends were fabulous but come Sunday evening, I would have that dreaded feeling in my stomach because I knew come Monday, it’s back to work and the weekly grind would start all over again. Even though I’m working from home, it doesn’t mean I don’t feel the dreaded Mondayitis.

It took me a very long time to start to slowly break away from the shackles of Mondayitis. I’m relieved to say that while I haven’t gotten rid of feeling like poo on Mondays altogether, it’s really not so bad anymore. It took some planning on my part and a bit of work on Sundays but once I got those down to a T, Mondays started to flow much better for me, which meant that the days that follow continued more smoothly.

The problem with me is that if my Mondays are horrid, the days that follow usually aren’t much better. But if my Mondays are good, high chances are that my Tuesdays, Wednesdays and so on would be good.

Call it psychological mumbo-jumbo but that’s how I function. Believe it or not, Mondays are my most productive days now and it’s when I get most of my work done.

Your Mondays don’t have to suck. You too can be get your productivity juices kickstarted on Monday without feeling as though the weight of the world is on your shoulders.

Here are some tips and tricks I’ve picked up over the years, from when I was still working in the corporate world and now that I’m working from home. Get your pen and paper ready and let’s get started. No, really, you will need a pen and paper for this exercise, which will hopefully turn into a routine and end up kicking Mondayitis in the butt.

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