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Blog Tips: My Top Pinterest Strategies To Bring Massive Traffic to Your Blog

Here’s the thing you need to know about Pinterest: It is not a social media platform. It’s in an entirely different category than Twitter or Facebook. Everyone who visits Pinterest is looking for value, something that will help them improve their life. Users come to Pinterest to find business or blogging tips, to find a haircut inspiration, to find ways to deal with stress or anxiety, to learn about self-improvement, to find recipes, makeup tutorials, and reviews. So, no. Pinterest…

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Beauty

Ex over-plucker’s guide to growing out your brows

I still remember how it starts. You start plucking your brows, suddenly you notice how uneven they are and then you pluck some more. And some more. Next thing you know, your brows are so thin, if you just put enough foundation on, they practically disappear. Yes, using too much foundation was another one of my late-teen beauty mistakes. Story of my life. I mean, plucking my brows was like a ritual- just like acrylic french tips which I always…

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Lifestyle

The Roundup: April

Yes, it is hard to believe, but May is already here. I want to start this month’s roundup by giving a little shoutout to Lily of Pint Sized Beauty for saying such kind things about Thirteen Thoughts in the latest issue of Blogosphere magazine. I was SO excited to have been featured and I’m so happy that I was just able to get my hands on the magazine (thanks to the Blogosphere team!) which unfortunately isn’t available in the US. If…

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Beauty

What’s in my makeup bag: April

I gotta say, after four months of not buying any new makeup, I’m doing pretty well in the beauty-spending department. Back in January I had a huge beauty-cleanup and was shocked to see how wasteful I’ve become. I had SO much makeup, haircare, body care and a lot of it was just sitting around. So, after getting rid of a huge portion of my collection, I promised myself not to buy any new makeup until April. April came and I…

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Lifestyle self-growth

7 Habits to Quit to Be More Successful

7 Habits to Quit to Be More Successful

The easiest way to introduce some new, fun and exciting things into your life, is to first make some room by getting rid of old, limiting habits. There are a lot of things we don’t have control over. One thing you can control is what you do every day- because success isn’t something that happens all of a sudden; it’s something that happens every single day. Every “overnight” success you’ve ever heard of, was years in the making. Success means different…

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