Places to Find Free Stock Photos for Your Blog

A handful of sites for all of your stock photo dreams

Whether you're a beauty blogger or a design journalist, you're going to need stock photos at some point. For me, they come most useful when it's too late to take a photo (or you're too lazy) and the post needs to go up asap. Stock photos are pictures that you can use on your blog without tip-toeing around any licensed work, but only a handful are free. Here's a list of where I find my favourites.

KABOOM PICS
This is where I get 95% of my stock photos from as I find the site so easy to navigate around. The different categories are great for browsing and again, all are amazingly high quality.

ISOREPUBLIC
This is not a site that I take photos from personally as they're not my kinda thing, but I'm sure many of you will find some amazing photos on here! All photos are high quality.

DEATH TO THE STOCK PHOTO
DTTSF is different than the majority of other free stock photo libraries as it is not an online gallery, as such. You basically sign up to their subscription service and get sent free, non-spammy photos every month.

UNSPLASH
Here's another amazing website that is on my list of go-tos for finding a stock photo. Although the images on Unsplash tend to be more nature-related, you're bound to get use from them.

SNAPWIRE SNAPS
This is the newest addition to my list - an amazing place for gorgeous photos.

Where's your favourite place for finding stock photos?

20 Great Post Ideas for Beauty Bloggers

Blogging is tough and once in a while, a slump is inevitable. I wrote a post a while back on 20 Awesome Post Ideas for All Bloggers which seemed to go down pretty well, so today I'm back with 20 more post ideas more geared towards beauty bloggers. If you'd like I could do one of these for fashion bloggers, lifestyle bloggers etc - let me know in the comments! :)

5 Pinterest Boards for Blogging Tips

I have to say that I think Pinterest is without a doubt, one of the best social media platforms for blogging advice - I can't believe it's free! There's hundreds of thousands of blog advice & tips that you can search through. If you're a blogger yourself I've found it unbelievably useful to create your own board for Blogging Tips. I've done this myself and it's such a great library to referance back to if you need help with something. To get you inspired for your own Blogging board, I've rounded up 5 of my favourites.

BLOGGING TIPS by Autumn Leaves
Some amazing tips for bettering your blog & easy to understand tips.

BLOGGING & BUSINESS by Elle & Co
Graphic inspiration as well as amazing blogging advice from social media to business.

BLOG HELP & INSPIRATION by Cat Crawford
All-round blogging tips, from creating About pages to finding images online.

BLOGGING by Altsummit
Over 250 free pages of blog advice for any size blogger.

BLOGGING TIPS & ADVICE by Elise Dopson
My board! I collect things like growing & branding your blog as well as my very own blogging tips.

What's your favourite place to find blogging advice?

25 Free Resources for Bloggers

For the past two years that I've spent blogging, I've slowly but surely built up a little collection of resources that I use to help with my blog. Instead of them sitting in my Bookmarks for just myself to use, I thought I'd share some of the sites and tools that I am a frequent visitor too, to hopefully help you with your own blog. Also, all of these are free. Enjoy!

1  FLICKR  is what I use to upload images. Unlike Blogger, it doesn't dull the quality!
2  SUBTLE PATTERNS   find hundreds of free, subtle backgrounds.
3  BLOGLOVIN   you probably all know this - an essential for every blogger!
4  TWITTER  is an essential for any blogger. Learn more about the Blogger's Guide to Twitter.
5  CANVA   super easy for creating graphics
6  KEYWORD TOOL   title suggestions and keywords for your post.
7  PINTEREST   pin photos of inspiration and/or share your own content.
8  W3 SCHOOL   looking for help with coding? Look no further!
9  GOOGLE DOCS   is where I keep my editorial calendar as it's accessible from anywhere.
10  DO NOTHING   take two minutes off and chill.
11   FOTOR   want to use Curves without Photoshop? Try this!
12  GOOGLE FONTS   is a place to get hundreds of fonts, for free, that can be used alongside Blogger.
13  DAFONT   another place for hundreds of free fonts available for download.
14  INSTAGRAM   a place for sharing photos and connecting with other bloggers.
15  GISTS   for inserting codes into blog posts without actually applying the code to your blog.
16  ANGIE MAKES   a place for some gorgeous, girly clip art.
17  BUFFER   a life-saver for tweet scheduling. Free for up to 10 tweets.
18  BLOG TOPIC GENERATOR   a perfect site for inspiration when you're lacking creativity.
19  THE NOUN PROJECT   a place for finding icons for anything!
20 POST IDEAS   twenty content-rich, blog post ideas for all kinds of bloggers.
21  XOMISSE  I can't count the amount of times Elaine has helped me with her simple coding tutorials.
22  PICMONKEY  an awesome site for editing photos.
23  ETSY   looking for another blog design? There's some amazing ones here!
24  DISQUS   is what I use for commenting. I'll never return to Blogger's commenting system!
25  FREE BLOG RESOURCE LIBRARY   OK, so I may be a bit biased as I set this up but I have to say, it's great for bloggers.

Phew, there we go! Have fun clicking through and make sure to let me know your favourite resources. Let's all help each other!