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On Top Blogs, I have published a number of articles on starting a blog, with inputs from successful bloggers.    I have shared experiences and best practices on starting and maintaining a beauty and fashion blog, food blog, travel blog, product and book review blog and technology blog. The post on how to start a lifestyle blog comes rather late, but here it is:  Contents What is lifestyle blogging Why start a lifestyle blog How to start a lifestyle blog Making money from a lifestyle blog When fashion blogging is better than lifestyle blogging When to move blogging from a narrow niche to lifestyle Lifestyle blog topics What is lifestyle blogging   Lifestyle blogging is a niche (= segment) of professional blogging in which we talk about topics that lead people to have a good lifestyle.  Good lifestyle would mean good health, organized family and occupational life, enough money and comforts, style and fashion, overall well-being and happiness. Lifestyle...

Fashion blogging is one of the most visible niches in blogging. It is dominated by ladies, but there are some prominent male lifestyle bloggers too. In India, fashion blogging by/ for males came a bit late and we don't have many blogs devoted to male fashion. I showcase here two top male fashion bloggers from India. Each of them excels in fashion and - as is the basic principle of success in blogging of any type - they are passionate about fashion. Purushu Arie Purushu Arie is a fashion designer, illustrator, stylist and fashion blogger since 2009 and "founder of India's first gender-neutral label". He is a strong votary of neutrality of gender, age, race, appearance and other cultural differences. On the blog, Purushu not only talks of contemporary Indian and global fashion, he talks of history of fashion and cultural influences on fashion (and vice versa ). As he claims, his posts also cover gender neutrality in fashion. bowties and bones This lifestyle...

We bring you the list of top beauty and fashion blogs in India. Part of this list comes from the latest edition of the Directory of Best Indian Blogs and part from new discoveries by us and includes blogs that are outstanding and yet cannot be included in that directory. In India, even in the heydays of blogging, there were not many bloggers writing on beauty and fashion. However, in the last few years, a large number of good fashion bloggers have emerged. Some of them are reported to be earning good money too. This list contains the best among Indian beauty and fashion blogs (of course, we might have missed a few despite our best efforts to find good Indian blogs in these niches). The blogs listed here focus on beauty and/or fashion. Many blogs have come up in recent years, which deal with lifestyle topics beyond beauty and fashion. You can see such blogs in another listing: Top Indian lifestyle blogs . List of top Indian beauty and fashion blogs bbeautilicious - Be Beautili...

Updated: October 2020   In the last 6-7 years, a large number of bloggers have started blogs on beauty and fashion. A number of them have added other subjects related to urban lifestyle, and these include parenting, fitness, home decor, travel, reading, etc. and this genre is now well-recognized as lifestyle blogging .   Lifestyle blogs started late in India but have caught up with the west. A search for 'lifestyle blogs India' on Google shows up lists of 10 to 100 fashion blogs. Some lists give Instagram accounts of fashion bloggers. Some YouTube accounts also come up high.    As against other lists, Indian Top Blogs manually picks up blogs for their long-standing and quality of content. The blogs listed below are the chosen 15 among top lifestyle blogs in India. All these blogs are lifestyle blogs, not mere fashion blogs. Some of them have established themselves in the Indian lifestyle/ fashion blogging scene and a few are reported to be earning handsomely too. Th...

Updated in November 2020 What is a lifestyle blog? Before that: what is lifestyle ? Simply said, 'lifestyle' is how people live. Since living has individual, family and social dimensions, lifestyle naturally talks about all of these. Lifestyle connotes good living , not just living . When a blog talks about how to improve one's lifestyle  or discusses topics around lifestyle , it is a lifestyle blog. Lifestyle blog is a professional blog, with the aim to earn money from it.  A lifestyle blog mostly has beauty and fashion as main segments but just having them does not make a blog a lifestyle blog.  A lifestyle blog is one that deals with a combination of the following subjects, with prominence being given to 'style', i.e. fashion, personality and urbane matters.  Beauty and fashion Self-improvement, personality development Urban culture, socializing Relationships Home decor DIY, life hacks, crafts Health, food and nutrition Parenting Personal finance ...

Thoroughly revised: August 2020  This is a long article discussing various aspects of fashion blogging, with concepts as well as tips and tricks - especially for beginners, who have little knowledge and experience of professional blogging. The information and tips given here are based on my own blogging knowledge and experience, and as shared by successful bloggers in fashion, beauty and lifestyle niches. This post talks about making and running a standard blog, not a blog on YouTube, Instagram or other photo/ video sharing apps. You might notice that some concepts have been partly repeated in different sections. This has been done so that you do not miss a point if you read just one or two sections. In this post, the expression 'fashion blog' is sometimes used for blogs on fashion as well as beauty and lifestyle subjects. If you are interested only in some of the topics covered, you can use the following links to jump to those topics: Fashion blogs: types and ideas. How broa...