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Can You Make Money From Your Beauty Blog? + My Income Report : Beauty Blogging Vol.4

Hey people!

Today, I’m doing another (most requested) post on the beauty blogging series. It is about making money with your beauty blog! I shall also be sharing my rough income report at the end of this post. Do read on to know more!

can you make money from beauty blogging

Can you actually make money from beauty blogging? : Yes! You can make money from your beauty blog. But not EVERY beauty blog on the internet makes money! It takes time, dedication and patience. If you are planning to open and run a beauty blog only for the purpose of ‘money making’, I doubt if you will succeed your goal! The competition is getting tougher with popping new beauty blogs everywhere and to be honest, without true passion/interest in the niche, you can NOT survive the world of beauty blogging for a longer period!

You cannot gain readers if you don’t truly share a passion in your writing! There’s no eligibility criteria to become a beauty blogger though. You do NOT need to be a beauty/fashion expert; you do not need to complete a course for this! All you need are ‘true interest’ in the niche and ‘time’ to contribute! Be it makeup, skin care, hair care or anything else that comes under beauty, you will need to know/should be willing to know about it in order to be a beauty blogger! Only after that, the money comes!

I admit there are beauty sites/communities that make huge amount of money hiring writers to do the work. But they have a strong technical background with website developers, content writers and SEO experts in order to run their sites successfully! They make money and they’ll continue to earn the same or even higher with their increasing traffic unless they violate any terms/lose traffic.

If you want to start as a beauty blogger, who is an individual, firstly, ask yourself if you have interest in the niche before you start blogging. Ask yourself if you can love to do posts on regular basis or you will be just forcing yourself to do it in order to make money. The latter doesn’t work, sadly.

If makeup is your love, do write about it with attractive images! If you are not that into makeup, no issues; see if you love skin care! If you love growing out your hair, do share your journey with your readers! (Example: Me!) There are various categories under the main niche – beauty! Pick one that suits your interest best and share your true views with your readers. Learn some SEO and protect your blog! Only this way, you can think about making serious money with blogging! Money shouldn’t be your only motive; you should earn it out of the work you love to do! This ensures you stay on the beauty blogosphere forever!

I must also admit that you cannot start making money right away from your beauty blog. It may take months, even years to build a strong readership before you start seeing some $$$. I did not earn my first $100 for more than 6 months! It’ll require time and effort! If your concern is just about making money fast, and you have no interest on beauty/makeup or anything related to that, there are several other niches to blog/ways to earn on the internet! I wouldn’t recommend beauty blogging!

On the other hand, if you are truly interested in beauty blogging and would love to make it your career, then you can definitely succeed with patience and hard work. I doubt if you can do this in part-time as beauty blogging requires a lot of work. Even if you start as a part-time beauty blogger, you’ll need to contribute your whole time to it in order to see some decent money!

My Income Report : Honestly, I think I shouldn’t share my exact income report according to Google Adsense policies. But ‘Google Adsense’ contributes the major part of my blogging income. Though I earn through other projects, campaigns and sponsored posts, Adsense is making a stable income for me! Adsense is an advertising network started by Google that serves ads on your blog and pays you for clicks/impressions. More about that on another volume!

My adsense earnings vary month to month! I’ve made more than 50000 INR a month and less than 7000 INR to nothing a month in these 4+ years of my blogging journey! Adsense income totally depends on the TRAFFIC of your blog! After a strong google algorithm update in 2013, I’d lost 90% of MABH’s traffic – which means 90% drop in income as well! It was a nightmare since I gave up my regular schooling/college and opted for studies in correspondence to be a full time blogger! I could not accept that I lost my readers overnight – it was horrible!

I knew it was an evil work done by a competitor prior the update (toxic link building!) but I managed to get over the tragic incident by focusing myself on my work again. Though I received more discouraging comments after the incident – on how I should quit blogging, I could not image myself closing the blog just because it stopped making money; and hence, I worked to overcome it!

I’m not sharing this here to discourage you but to let you know that beauty blogging is not an icing on the cake! It is super good to do and tricky at the same time. If you do it right, you will love it 1000 times more than your regular day job!

Coming back to it – after the traffic drop, I’ve regained 75% of the lost traffic now (earnings, as well) and I’m truly happy about it!  Now I’m regularly keeping an eye on negative SEO as well since I don’t want to lose any more traffic that I’d earned over years with my work and all your support!

Note : If you are a blogger who’s enjoying a great traffic already, I highly suggest you to keep an eye on your backlink profile to avoid experiencing unfortunate incidents, as I did.

How much do I make now? : Roughly, I make 30000-40000 INR from adsense these months! Campaigns with brands, direct advertisements and sponsored posts make some decent $$$ as well. (Depending on the number of projects and the quotes/in a month)

Other than Adsense and the direct advertising, I also make money selling the product – MABH Fast Growth Hair Oil, after discovering my love for long hair! (updated my 6 month hair growth pictures recently!) The business, though small and home based is doing really well and makes roughly twice $$$ my blog makes! If not the MABH blog, I could not have promoted the product properly to gain buyers’ trust! People all over the country are buying the product; they love the formula; it has been receiving great feedback from all over and I’m happy about its success!

I’m also working to enable international shipping soon. My blog gave birth to the business – so this is an example why I stress on how you need to be focused when it comes to beauty blogging! You can experiment a lot more than you think and it makes an awesome career, only if done with passion!

Overall, beauty blogging has given me an identity! I love writing here and I’m happy that I’m working from home and making a decent income doing my favorite work!

If you liked the post, do subscribe to the blog to receive posts on your email box! In another volume, I shall share about the monetizing ways in detail! Kindly share your comments below on how you monetize your blog/how much you make, only if comfortable/or if you’ve topic suggestions for this series. I’d love to share my views on them! Much love.

P.S : Please don’t get offended if I couldn’t reply to any of your emails on this topic. To be honest, I feel good about sharing my beauty blogging journey with my readers; I love reading your emails! However it is still not practically possible for me to respond to each and every email on this topic of money making with your blog!

I’m doing this series out of my interest and I don’t guarantee that I can teach you blogging! That is why I try my best to cover all your doubts on these volumes. I’m simply sharing my views to help people. I’m not pushing my views on anyone either.

60 thoughts on “Can You Make Money From Your Beauty Blog? + My Income Report : Beauty Blogging Vol.4”

  1. no doubt it is going to be your one of the most viewed posts. approximately how much money is needed initially to start a professional blog and to run it properly? I mean including hosting+ domain name+ theme+ plugin etc. and did you learn SEO and technical knowledge from any institute? or yourself?

    1. Hello Debarati,

      Thanks for your comment. The money required depends on the company and their plans from where you purchase the domain and hosting. There are also several plans available according to which the costs will vary. I personally use hostgator for both my domain and hosting space. I shall soon do a post on it with rough costs!

      And I learn SEO by myself. Tech blogs really help a lot! I won’t call myself an expert though. I’m still learning! I shall definitely do a basic SEO post when I feel it is the right time.

      1. Thank you so much Lancy for your reply. and started waiting for next volumes. These are really interesting. And helpful too. All the best to you.

    1. Hello Shivani,

      As of now, I do SEO by myself. I read blogging tutorials and SEO basics online in case if I’m stuck somewhere with doubts. But I’m wishing for a long time to join a proper search engine optimization course. It will help a lot when it comes to professional blogging!

  2. I have to comment on your courage to write a post like this and also a big thank you for being helpful lancy ….
    I remember once you helped me too … without any selfish reason …
    reallyyyyyy appreciate the time and effort

  3. this is really a helpful post..especially for beginners like me..I’m waiting for your next post about google adsense.. need to know this world…very well.. long time to go… thanks a lot for sharing love.!!

  4. That was quite informative lancy. would ike to know more about SEO, that toxi link building and regaining the pageview…HOW you managed to do that?

    1. Hello Megha,

      Thanks for your comment. Coming to the bad links, I disavowed them using the Google webmasters tool. And I also cleaned up the broken links/dead posts on the blog. It helped me get back most of the traffic though it took more than a year. However, I would NOT suggest using the disavow tool without understanding the entire concept. It may even lead to severe traffic drop if you accidentally disavow the good links. The tool should be used very carefully only if you strongly believe you have toxic links pointing to your site and that has caused a huge drop in your search traffic. You can check your backlink profile from the GWT.

      I shall do complete post on it sometime soon, sharing my experience with the tool! Hope you’ll find it useful.

  5. Said right,,,its a long journey to earn good from blogging n home business. Loved it while reading the real story.. I am also struggling till now from 2 years but havn’t got more than 2k to 7k from writing n blogging both. Google adsense rejected my 2 applications..still I am working hard to get it cleared. Your words giving motivation to me I must try one more time.
    Goodluck for more happy earnings..

  6. I must say a big thank you for writing this post and yes i will never forget how mabh help me out getting my first readers….this is the blog where i started writing first after taking blogging seriously…Thank you Lancy for giving me this opportunity…and great post , it will help many new comers for sure :) keep it up <3

  7. Hey Lancy, such a great post.. super informative and helpful.. I never said but you truly are one amazing person i know in this blogging world, you have helped me through my hard times and always believed me when i needed the “trust” most.. <3 Lots of luv to u..
    for this post.. u truly deserve huge round of applause coz no-one has the courage to share income but glad you did.
    BTW i want to get in touch with you regarding this "blogging" thing.. should i mail or watsap you?

  8. wow! it has been so long since I have been on your blog! and, awesome for the income report. it is great indeeed. in fact, I have to admit, I never made so much money ever till now! and, good to know your business is doing well. but, I did not understand the part of toxic link building. how can anyone do it?

    1. Thanks for your lovely comment, Swati! :)

      Toxic link building can be done by the competitor(s) to bring down a blog’s traffic; so that they can top in the search results. Not everyone does it except for few sick minded people who don’t believe in their hard work. Though it doesn’t work instantly, if in case the blog author fails to check and disavow/remove the bad links, there is a huge possibility of losing their search traffic during an google algorithm update. It happened to me overnight! and only then, I got to know about the good and bad linking methods. I shall soon do a post on it!

  9. This post is very informative and helpful. I just bookmark this post and Read all past three post too about beauty blogging. Please explain what is toxic link building?? I am a newbie :(

  10. Unless u make a proper website with tech part sorted u wont earn anything substantial by adsense in fact sadly they used to approve blogs with blogspot.in fr adsense bt nw they clearly say make a proper website which is ridiculous..
    Thanks fr sharing ur inputs Lancy coz u def knw much more i know that :)

    1. Thanks for sharing your views Natasha! :) You are true about the tech part. It is very important to make a living with adsense! And I never knew Google stopped accepting blogspot blogs for adsense? Did they? It’s really unfortunate! They shouldn’t be doing this because blogspot is an awesome platform for bloggers who start their journey.

  11. That is an inspirational journey Lancy. Beauty blogging is reaching new heights with a lot of new bloggers targeting the niche. However, only those with passion like you can achieve the dream. I wish your product also to create new wonders in this niche. All the best :)

  12. Hey Lancy,

    You are an inspiration. Your posts on blogging really helps me understand how one should proceed in this field. Few months back even I was tthinking to start my own blog, but then your first post on how to start blogging came and I got a reality check. I need to be more focused and prepared to get into it given that I have passion for writing. Thanks for all the information girl.

  13. This is a great post Lancy, It might have taken lot of courage and hard work to write this. I really appreciate it. I guess I might be one of the laziest one when it comes to AdSense. I applied long back when I was using blogspot.com. It got rejected. Later, I changed to my domain but now, I cannot change the link in Ad Sense. I have tried to find many possible solution but again I start getting lazy and completely forget about it.

    I am really happy that you got back most of your readers back. I am sure you will get more and more reader and much more earnings soon.

  14. Hey Lancy!!

    Thanks a lot for sharing this enlightening post. I have working for quite some time on my beauty blog. However, there were still some doubts on whether I would get to that level when it comes to monetization. I have been building the beauty blog part-time but yes, working dedicatedly on it. I have a passion for makeup and style, however was quite demotivated with the results.

    This post of yours has really boosted my confidence and the realities you have mentioned are worth thinking and acting upon. Thanks a lot for the post…..You made my day :) and ofcourse congrats for the Adsense income….this is again a big inspiration since I got mine approved recently.

  15. OMG this is such an informative post Lancy! Thumbs Up for your honesty <3 I myself would love to see a post on toxic link building in this series. Congrats on your success and wish you many more to come :)

  16. Lancy. You are inspirational. I found your blog while on my quest to learn about hair straightening and I landed up here! I am so glad I did.
    I like the way you’ve told your story – Its straight from the heart, honest and encouraging! Just this one post gives me an idea of what a wonderful human being you are – helpful, determined, head-strong, honest, hard-working – and that is the secret to your success!!
    Don’t EVER pay heed to comments from people that try to pull you down… keep n doing the work you love with sincerity and dedication, and the rest will follow….You already are an example of that :)
    I wish you the best in life always :)

  17. I found this post very Inspiring Lancy..as I’m a part time beauty blogger and hardly get an hour for myself in a day and due to my passion for blogging i devote that to my blog… and this is really inspiring that earnings will come sooner or later if I will do my bits right.. :)

  18. Hi Lancy,

    Really Liked your article ;) though i know all the details…Most imp. thing to generate an Organic traffic which is SEO…Keep Writing..You can take a look on my website too :D

    Cheers

  19. Hi Lancy.i hv been a reader of your blog for a year now.i really like ur blog posts n the best part of ur posts r that there is a simplicity to all ur posts,easy understandable language,very to the point reviews,all major points covered,everything.I am a cosmetologist,I hv done my course my VLCC Institutes.i love everything that’s related to skincare,make up,hair care,I love trying out new products,I am a make up hoarder.i also m planning to start a beauty blog coz skincare,make up n hair care is all that I hv interest in.i hv always been interested in dis n today after reading ur post I feel YES,I need to start a blog where I can share my experiences,my take on beauty products,my DIY’s,my make up looks.u at such a young age r doing so well n it’s really overwhelming to see u doing gr8 as a beauty blogger.u truly r an inspiration.plz do a post on SEO.i hv been really impressed with ur blog n u inspire me to start my own blog.thanks a lot.

  20. First of all i wana say I am proud of u.. Lancy! U r indeed a self made woman! U have worked really hard. Hence u r where u r! U have bought ur family too in the success grind n they must be sooo proud n happy parents. Thanx for the amazing tips. M working hard on my success.

  21. Lancy, I want to write blogs on skin care. Can you tell me from where I will start my journey and how?
    Thanks in advance!!

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