Even though fashion and beauty blogs are a great way to make money blogging, there is one thing that bugs me with fashion blogging: Fast fashion is too fast! Items are sold out within months, if not weeks and it’s hard to find items that are evergreen. It can get frustrating to try to keep up with broken links on your site that need to be fixed on the regular.

Another thing about fashion and beauty blogging is that nowadays, a big chunk of the audience has moved over to YouTube and Instagram because they’re much more visual. Also, it’s arguably easier to hear someone review a product on YouTube than it is to read a blog post about it.

With that being said, fashion blogs are still an awesome way to make money, especially if you are open to doing sponsorships. Personally, as a fashion blogger, I make about $120k per year, and I know other fashion bloggers who have opened up about their earnings (on their podcasts) and make similar amounts.

Blogs in this niche: 

• Chic Pursuit: $4,284
• Baller On A Budget: $5,200
• Fit Mommy in Heels: $5,653
• The Modest Man: $8,526

How Do All These Bloggers Make Money?

There are four main ways that bloggers make money: display advertising, selling their own products, sponsorships and affiliate marketing. Sponsorships are a great way to earn some extra money, but they’re not consistent and you can’t rely on them to make a living online.

Display advertising can be very lucrative if you have a lot of traffic coming to your blog. For food, parenting and christian blogs this is often their main source of income. For example, Lindsay from Pinch Of Yum made $52k from display advertising in this income report. However, she also had 4.2 million people visit her blog that month.

Selling your own products can also be lucrative, like Sarah Titus shows with her impressive $240k+ monthly income. In fact, almost all bloggers who make more than six-figures per year have at least one product that they’re selling, whether that’s an ebook, a course or something else. However, the catch here is that you need to be really in tuned with your audience to be able to create a product that they’ll love and want to pay money for. Otherwise, it could be a huge waste of time and effort.