Who else besides me likes to hear how people came up with their social media names? I find the instagram names I see so memorable. Also, I think it’s so intriguing with the creativity that we put into deriving a “screen” name that we answer to on social media. For example, my sister’s IG name is Smile_a_little_longer because she enjoys smiling and attracts that type of feeling to her page……
My blog name “vivakolor” derived from doing nails on a Sunday afternoon. I do my own nails and very good at nail art and decided to start a nail blog years ago (at the time the market for nail blogging wasn’t so saturated). Also, I wanted a name that described my fun personality and I like colors. I was really into my nail blog as I was writing blog posts and painting designs on my nails at least 4 days a week. I bought my first camera, and even set up a bright working station area in my apartment. I could’ve been the next big nail blogger ya’ll!! However, it became time consuming and tiring as I was trying to juggle school full time and my job to pay my bills. And, writing papers almost daily for graduate school took up soo much of my time. So I stopped my nail blog for a while and pursued my fashion blog as a hobby. It was more practical since I love fashion and I felt like that was way easier as I was wearing the clothes anyway. But….nope it wasn’t easier. It’s the same work ethics but a different field. Then I realized how saturated the fashion industry was, but brands were reaching out to me and I realized that was the start of something great. And, at the time Instagram was new and popping so I continued to have fun with my fashion blog!! The algorithm was always on my side then…..now is a different story and requires me to think extra different lol. So that’s how I came up with the name “vivakolor” for my blog.
I would love to hear the stories of how you guys came up with your social media names.
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