Packaging for your Etsy Business

 

 When it comes to packaging for your Etsy business, you really need to make a little investment to create that added value for your customers. Your products are one thing, but you'd be surprised how many customers appreciate really good packaging! It's important that your packaging is beautiful so it gives an air of luxury to your item, but it also needs to be practical so it protects your item in transit.

The "keep calm and have a bath" boxes above are from Bomb Cosmetics, they look beautiful and they also make a great way of storing the item in your home! Making your packaging useful to your customers even after it has served its primary purpose is a great idea!

 

Even if you need to have functional plan packaging on the outside like a gold padded envelope, you can still wrap your packaging up beautifully on the inside. This packaging is from Luna On The Moon. Wrapped up in black tissue paper and a black grosgrain ribbon, then adorned with her business cards and a free gift of a skull shaped lipgloss, Luna on the Moon is making sure people have that extra reason to shop with her again!

 

Do as Jainie Basil does as well! Make sure you add lots of beautiful business cards to your packaging so your customers always have a keepsake to remember to come back to your shop!

 

Remember to research how bigger companies use packaging to take inspiration for your own. The shoe boxes above are from Irregular Choice and Bordello shoes, they reflect their branding well and are instantly recognizable, so always keep that in mind!

 

Why We Love: Lime Crime

Welcome to the rainbow unicorn world of Lime Crime.

Lime Crime is a make-up brand that isn't afraid of breaking convention. They produce a range of candy coloured lipsticks, luxe eyeshadow pallets and Marie-antoinette inspired nail polishes.

 

 

Just in time for Halloween they've recently launched their Alchemy collection which has a witch-y zodiac vibe and features two unusual coloured lipsticks. 

 

 

Their founder is the beautiful and unique self proclaimed unicorn queen Doe Deere, who often posts some great make up looks and tutorials.

Lipstick Inspiration

 Image from Audrey Kitching's Buzznet

We don't like to keep all our good ideas to ourselves, so here's some of the most amazing lipstick ideas from around the web. How about heart lips? All you need to do to create this effect is paint a heart onto your lips using lip liner and a lipstick brush, then simply fill in the rest of your lips in another shade. This is a cute look for a day out if you do it in rosy pinks, but it can be incredibly striking in black and gold lipsticks!

Source: tumblr.com via Kirstie-Ann on Pinterest

For something even more striking you could try these neon pink lips lined with gold and blended.

 

You can create this gasoline look in two ways! Either use fine shimmering powders over a black lipstick and finish with gloss, or use a mixture of blended Lime Crime Carousel Glosses.

Keep Puggin' On. QooQoo Fashion

We love quirky and odd designs; we like fashion we've never seen before and ideally not priced well out of our reach! Our pug has hunted down some sweet threads this time. Enter QooQoo (No, the pug can't pronounce that.), mix graphic surreal prints with pastel tones and add to tights, swimwear and accessories. Chic but still crazy enough to make you stand out in a good way! 

 

Pink Puss Swimsuit $75

The dreamy, out of this world line makes some perfect pieces featuring pink Persians, space bears and truly epic Aztec prints. 

 

Dog Eye Stockings $45 

 Hairy Snake Scarf $55

Our pug normally snubs the high street, he's a spoilt little thing, but he loves the designer feel on a budget. if you're looking to inject some colour into your AW wardrobe, this is the brand to do it with. 

 

Supernature Shirt $60

A Pug's Best Friend - Favourite Bloggers - Hey Dickface

Hey Dickface. Oh my. What a name. But what a blog! The pug knows there's a lot of blogs out there, but this Parisian has a love of all the things we like too. She's not a normal blogger just after designer goods, she lives a real life and has her own unique sense of style that you can't help but admire. 

-All images belong to Heydickface.com and come from the blog, Pug of Sharing claims no rights! - 

The blog is run by the gorgeous and very talented Katia, so make sure you go check it out!

A Puggin' Good Illustrator - Gemma Correll

Well, OK, our pug is a little bit narcissistic. He's a little bit in love with himself - but if you were a pug, wouldn't you be too?

Gemma Correll turned her doodles into some very popular designs for T-shirts and greetings cards.

 

Her drawing style is cute, quirky and unique. It's not quite elegant, in fact her characters are a little squishy looking (like pugs) but also have an incredibly cute charm about them. Gemma started selling her designs on her Etsy store, but she now had her own website and you can even find her T-Shirt designs in branches of Urban Outfitters. 

Whether you're looking for a really awesome walrus related key-chain, or a podgey unicorn badge, this is the shop you need to go to!

Welcome to The Pug of Sharing!

We all know that the internet is a very vast place indeed. And we know that because it's such a vast place, it can be really hard to filter though and find all the really good stuff. Even if you're a social media expert and the best Google-r out there, sometimes all you're greeted with is blogs, shops, websites, and music that ruthlessly self-promotes, but lacks quality! 

 

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So we thought, what's good at finding things? Well, we looked at fancy algorithms, search engines and apps, but we needed something real, something that only picks out the best of the best and sniffs down all the good hidden things. We bought ourselves a pug. We trained it in the ancient ways of sniffing out good content, and we set it loose on the internet. So now, when you're looking for the best of the internet, whether you're shopping, reading, listening or I-don't-know-what, all you need to do is check with our fancy Pug of Sharing. He'll point you to all the goodies, with none of the hassle.

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