My personal top 5 apps for Instagram on the iPhone!

Soooo this could be an interesting post for all the instagram users reading this!

Since I'm a person with a relatively big Instagram audience the social network has become really important to me hence I care a lot about what I post on there.
The quality of my photos is just as important as posting regularly and engaging with my followers.
It, however, happens very often that I am rather busy so I usually don't have the time to sit on my macbook editing photos to post on instagram for hours. I therefore have a list of apps on my iPhone that I use, whenever my photos just need a quick fix.
Here are my personal all-time-favorites:

#5 Alisa
Alisa is always a good app if you wanna frame your photos or add a special, unique touch to them. It offers a wide variety of colorful frames/backgrounds for your photos and 3 filters to match the tone of your photos better to the tone of the frame. :)
I used to use this app a lot but now since the trend of instagram has gone into a more 'natural' edit I don't really use it anymore, at least not for my IG photos.


     

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#4 Phhhoto
Phhhoto isn't exactly a photo editing app, it's more of an app to record very short GIFs - so, moving photos. This app as well lets you choose between natural light or black and white filter and the results definitely convinced me! I love using this and experimenting with it whenever I'm bored now, the results are usually really great! :)

#3 VSCO cam
VSCO cam is already quite popular and well-known as a photo editing tool amongst many IG users. It offers a lot of retro inspired filters and the popular 'fade' effect.

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#2 Photos
This might sound weird since 'Photos' is already an apple intern application every iPhone user has on their phones but I personally couldn't imagine uploading photos without the 'fade' filter on my IG anymore. I think it's great and adds to the 'artistic' touch. haha.

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#1 Afterlight
This is by far my all time favorite for photo editing on the iPhone.
It offers an incredible amount of different, very beautiful filters and I will guarantee you will find at least one or two filters that will match your feed just perfectly. It also offers basic photo editing like adjustments in lighting, contrast, saturation, hue, etc. and users can also choose from an amount of frames or use the 'layering' effect on their photos.

 

I loved this app a lot, not only for Instagram but also for my general photo editing on the iPhone. Only minus here is that it's not completely free but I can promise you those 0,99 cents are definitely more than worth it!

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Another very useful app, probably not useful in terms of photography but definitely useful for instagram that I use is the 'followers'-app!

it allows you to keep an overview of your follower stats and enables you to unfollow those cheeky unfaithful ones in only just a click!
If you purchase the premium packs (which are like 0,99$ I believe) it also gives you a list of your followers from best to worst and also shows people who are not following you but like your photos on a regular basis so you can ideally give back some love!

 What is your favorite app for photo editing on your phone? :)

xx ♡ Micky

Long time no see!

Hello everybody, 

Phew, it's been a while.. But here we go again. Lot of things happened. Lot of travelling also, Amsterdam was amazing so I'm defo going to upload a blog post all about that soon! 

But first of all the most recent personal news, I finished all my exams and returned to Luxembourg for the summer. However I am still intending to do some work and travel during this time. I really wanna go to Canada or Australia since these are two countries I've always had an interest in and have never had the chance to go to.. 

It would be great to use the opportunities this summer gives me to travel 

and make some more great experiences living abroad. :) 

Another thing I really wanted to tell you that might be interesting for those of you with a tumblr account is, there's this really awesome website that offers free minimalist blog themes! They're awesome! I just updated my blog as well and this is what it looks like now: 

It just looks so much cleaner and organised (other than my life) now, I love it! 

The name of the website is Zen Themes & if you're also looking to 'minimalise' your tumblr you should definitely check them out! Hope this entry was helpful and keep looking forward my travel posts! 

xx ♡ Micky 

美拍！

美拍 (Meipai) is a new video editing app, 

or actually rather a 'social network' such as instagram but only for videos.

you might have heard of it already or seen videos 

that were created in meipai on your instagram or Facebook. 

so basically this network makes it really simple to edit your videos, 

trim them, apply filters and add music 

so they look really professional and cool when you're done!

I love this app and use it a lot which is also the main reason I want to recommend it. 

You can even fit the outlook of the video to your mood 

or the theme of the content so it can represent emotions

like happy, funny, angry, sad or send the viewer 

straight into a magic world like a fairy tale! (*^_^*)

since meipai is a chinese app the main option to register an account 

is via connecting it to your weibo but it also offers Facebook 

in case you don't have a weibo account (like me = =).

The videos you share in meipai are automatically saved to your phone 

from which you can post them to any other social platform you like, 

such as tumblr or instagram. 

The use of this app is really easy and fast and it allows you 

to straight away share created videos to chinese networks : 

WeChat, Qzone & Sina Weibo and of course Facebook 

The app itself works in a very similar way to instagram actually;

you can like & comment on posts of others, explore, follow & be followed 

and have a home timeline with posts of the people you follow. 

The only negative point I could find about it so far is that 

it limitates the lenght of the video to 10 seconds and the 'tips' for advice are in chinese haha 

but it really didn't bother me since the use of the app

 is really so simple so you won't need help for it. 

If you're interested, check it out here or download it straight from the app store 

These are some of my videos from Meipai: 

(quite stupid to be honest :p)

feel free to add me if you have meipai ～(´･ω･`)
『みみお姫様』

By The Way! - the Meipai equivalent for photos is called 

MeituPic and also offers many beautiful filters and is available in the app store as well. 

xx ♡ Micky

Do you like posting videos on social networks?