Recipe boards, dream weddings, fantasy closets — there is so much to pin and so little time! Pinterest is sweeping the nation and the collegiettes at Her Campus are more than familiar with the addictive site.
Today we’re sharing what we use Pinterest for, to give you an idea of the endless possibilities with the site!
Let us know what you are pinning by leaving us a comment below!
I mostly use Pinterest to keep up with bloggers and magazines. Magazines are always pinning about the latest styles (especially right now with Fashion Week!) so following them makes it so much easier to keep up with who is wearing what.
– Melissa Paniagua, Campus Correspondent, University of North Carolina
I like to browse the fashion and beauty tabs for my “Lookbook” board. Essentially, I look for the latest trends on Pinterest. I also like to take advantage of the “Pin It” button on a lot of shopping weddings. I have a special board for my “Wishlist” where I pin cute clothes I find online.
– Jenna Fanduzzi, Campus Correspondent, Marquette University
I mainly pin fashion pictures. My most heavily pinned board is my ‘My Style’ board – I simply search women’s fashion and usually pin 50 new things at a time. I’m what you would call a Pinterest addict!! I also love finding food, home and craft ideas!
– Anna Teale, Campus Correspondent, University of Nottingham
Boards that I create tend to fall into one of two categories: real-life application or total daydreams. I have curly hair and I’m terrified/excited to maybe cut it into a pixie, so I have an entire board dedicated to potential hairstyles. I also dye my hair red, so I have another board with potential ginger shades. I have a DIY board, a sartorial inspiration board, and a board dedicated to dorm decoration ideas. But I also have boards that are just images in the same color family that I find visually appealing, one that’s filled with places I’d love to escape to, and similar, more abstractly-themed boards.
– Maddy Foley, Contributing Writer, Kenyon College
While I definitely use Pinterest to fantasize about my future wedding, future home, and all things involving interior decorating, I am loving using it for DIY inspiration at the moment. I pin things to use for inspiration or things that actually have the DIY instructions. A bunch of the art and wall decorations in my dorm room are DIY images I found through Pinterest.
– Kelsey Damassa, Contributing Writer, Boston College
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I’m addicted to Pinterest and go on the site almost everyday! I love pinning beautiful clothes and outfits which give me inspiration when shopping. Most of the outfits that I love come from tumblr, and even though I repin a lot of other peoples’ clothing pictures, I really love searching through different tumblrs and finding original pins to put on my fashion board. Surprising, out of all of my boards on Pinterest, I get more repins and followers on my board dedicated to cats. I love cats and pictures of cats doing funny/interesting things and apparently so do my fellow pinners!
– Phoebe Kaufman, Campus Correspondent, UCSB
Facebook is so 2008 — Pinterest is the hot thing! Since I’m such a fashion-oriented person, I usually pin awesome outfit ideas, pictures of my favorite magazine spreads, and beauty styles I want to try. In addition to those, I also have an interior decorating board, a wedding board (an essential), and “The Future Mr. Kelsey Mulvey” board, which basically pictures of Joseph Gordon Levitt. A girl can dream, right?
– Kelsey Mulvey, Contributing Writer, Boston University
I call my Pinterest my “dirty place”. I spend my time pinning amazing recipes, cute shoes, stuff for my future home and creative wedding plans. But more often I like things because I’m afraid of what people would say if they saw the things that I’d pin — they’d probably thought I was obsessed.
– Carmen Rey, Campus Correspondent, Binghamton University
I have a Pinterest board entitled “Words to Live By.” It’s a simple way of gathering quotes and lyrics that inspire me, and it’s an everyday reminder of the values, dreams, and ethics that are truly important to me.
– Alexandra Churchill, Love Editor, University of New Hampshire
I pin pictures of celebrities I like, fashion that I like, beautiful destination photos, fitspiration, menswear, nail art, recipes, ideas for my dream house, crafty ideas, kids with style, inspirational quotes, things related to my majors (linguistics and psychology), funny things, etc. I absolutely love Pinterest. It’s like reblogging on Tumblr, but much more organized.
– Taylor Bass, Campus Correspondent, Wellesley College