So unfortunately I happen to be one of those people who is obsessed with technology, especially apps, but never seems to have any technological talents. It’s almost hilarious sometimes. I have a brother who is a technologies major and as fascinated as I am with coding and hacking I probably couldn’t tell you a single thing about how to do either. I am really into apps however. I find they make my life a lot easier and like most people, I enjoy having so much at my fingertips as my phone never strays far from me.
This week, I’m obsessed with the following three apps: Booking.com, InstaBeauty, and Twitter. These three apps have really been on my mind this week and they’ve come in handy many times over. I believe that everyone should have them downloaded for quick access any time of the day. I’ll go over them individually below.
I love to tr
avel, and I don’t get to do it as often as I’d like; perils of being a broke college kid and all. However, whenever I do travel, especially to NYC, I ALWAYS use the Booking.com app. It’s extremely user friendly. With a great and simple search bar, multiple menus, the ability to change both language and currency, and much more. The app, like it’s site, has a very succinct filters bar and Booking.com always shows you the best deal all over the area that you’re looking. Whenever I’m traveling to NYC for fashion week or just to see friends I always use the app to find the best deal right away. Funny story, when I was in NYC for fashion week last month, I found out on the ride up that staying with a friend for my first night had fallen through. I pulled the app right up on my phone and found a really great/affordable hotel that I booked right then; only two hours from arrival time, in the middle of the night, with no credit card information necessary! Plus, when you’re looking at the hotels the app shows you a bunch of high definition photos that are very simple to scroll through. As far as I’m concerned, everything about this app is user friendly. My favorite kind!
I actually 
downloaded this app by accident one day when I was looking for something to help with all the acne that was showing in one of my photos. Turns out, it was one of the best mistakes I’ve ever made. I only have the free version of the app, so there are a few ads that will pop up while you’re using it, but I don’t tend to mind them. Once you choose a photo, either from your gallery, or because you decide to take one with camera right then and there, you have multiple options. You can do a full auto retouch to the picture, or you can narrow down what you want to focus on. Choices include skin, makeup, eye bags, teeth whitening, and blemishes. The app even goes so far as to correct your nose, face slimming, eyes, and smile! Now I’m not THAT into retouching my photos, I don’t really believe in that much editing, but I suppose it’s there if you want it. I’ve corrected plenty of photos I originally thought to trash because of this app. Especially if the lighting wasn’t very nice to my skin.
I know th
is recommendation sounds crazy, if not stupid, but I’m really serious about it. I might sound blasphemous as a blogger, and a millenial, but I really hate having to keep track of 100 different social media sites. Between Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr, Vine, Tindr, Lookbook, and all of the rest I’m definitely annoyed and overwhelmed. However, I find Twitter to be a really nice go-to for everything. When I was first working on this blog I went to Twitter to be my blog’s go-to social media site. I find it really easy to connect and share, as well as to reach out to fellow bloggers and people in the industry. 140 characters is a bit short for me but it still gives me room to talk while keeping me succinct. I also believe that Twitter is an extremely quick way of keeping up with and sharing information. Plus, Twitter allows you to connect accounts which makes it super easy for me to switch back and forth between my personal account and my blog’s account! Everything in just one click.