A key stumbling block to any new makeup or beauty blog’s flying start is its name.

Almost every blogger gets stuck for a frustratingly long time trying to come up with a creative name. It’s time consuming and zaps up a lot of your energy. The worst part is that after all that effort, you may not be any closer to a good name.

Depending on what you’ve been doing to try and find that elusive ideal name, it’s highly probable that you can make life a lot easier for yourself.

Some people sit on their desk and rack their head hoping to think of a cool name all by themselves. Now, unless you’ve got experience in naming or know a bit about the art of creating a brand, then this is not the best way to do it.

What you should do is look through as many good blog names as you can to pick out the ones you like. Ideally, they’re beauty focused, or blogs that are targeted at women. But they don’t have to be, as you can still pick up great naming techniques from non-related blogs.

For instance, take your time to go through these 39 top beauty blogs and notice how each of their names has been carefully composed to reflect the blog or blogger’s unique appeal:

• Genuine Glow (http://genuineglow.com/)
• Lipgloss Break (http://www.lipglossbreak.com/)
• Glamour Journals (http://www.glamourjournals.com/)
• Chic Of Glam (http://www.chicofglam.com/)
• Pretty Gossip (http://prettygossip.com/)
• Lex Loves Couture (http://lexlovescouture.com/)
• The Glossy Life (http://glossymusings.com/)
• A Complete Waste Of Makeup (http://acompletewasteofmakeup.com/)
• ReadySetGlamour (http://www.readysetglamour.com/)
• How To Be A Redhead (http://howtobearedhead.com/)
• From A Purple Chair (http://www.fromapurplechair.com/)
• Makeup With Tea (http://makeupwithtea.blogspot.com/)
• InTruBeauty (http://www.intrubeauty.com/)
• Cafe Makeup (http://cafemakeup.com/)
• Glitz Glam Budget (http://www.glitzglambudget.com/)
• Naturalla Beauty (http://naturallabeauty.com/)
• Glitter.Gloss.Garbage (http://www.glitterglossgarbage.com/)
• Chicago Beauty Report (http://www.chicagobeautyreport.com/)
• Glitz Glam Budget (http://www.glitzglambudget.com/)
• Slashed Beauty (http://www.mirandasmakeup.blogspot.com/)
• Remotely Fashion (http://remotelyfashion.blogspot.co.uk/)
• Getting Cheeky (http://www.gettingcheeky.com/)
• Tribe Called Curl (http://tribecalledcurl.com/)
• My Highest Self (http://myhighestselfblog.com/)
• Embracing Beauty (http://embracingbeauty.com/)
• Beauty Twist (http://www.beauty-twist.com/)
• Lipstick With Some Sunshine (http://lipstickwithsomesunshine.com/)
• The Glossarie (http://theglossarie.com/)
• Lipstick & Lace (http://lipstickndlace.blogspot.com/)
• True Unfading Beauty (http://www.trueunfadingbeauty.com/)
• Southern Glamourista (http://southernglamourista.blogspot.com/)
• Pretty In Pigment (http://www.prettyinpigment.com/)
• The Style And Beauty Doctor (http://www.thestyleandbeautydoctor.com/)
• Peachy Polish (http://www.peachypolish.com/)
• Vast Aspiration (http://vastaspiration.com/)
• The Beauty Snoop (http://www.thebeautysnoop.com/)
• Love For Lacquer (http://www.loveforlacquer.com/)
• My Lucite Dreams (http://mylucitedreams.com/)
• Wake Up For Makeup (http://wakeupformakeup.com/)

Wish you’d thought of some of those names? Well, you can. Not those exact same ones, but there are plenty of other fantastic names that can easily be made up.

All you need to do is do some thinking to figure out what’s special about you or your blog’s content, and pick the most appealing element to incorporate into your blog’s name.

Love to run, go to the gym, workout, eat well, live healthy and want to start a blog to share your passion with other fitness fanatics? Well, the first thing you need to do is think of a good catchy name to help your new site attract and retain readers.

Until you try it, you may not realise how hard it is to come up with a creative blog name that sounds cool and unique. Most of the obvious options you can think of are probably already in use by another blogger who had the same idea, or the domain may not be available to be registered. The whole process can be extremely frustrating. Chances are, you’ve tried your luck and not found anything you like.

Since you’re reading this, it would seem you’ve taken a step in the right direction by doing a bit of research rather than continuing to stress yourself out.

What you need is a bit of inspiration that’s fuelled by lots of naming ideas, and the best way to get this is to browse through a list of creatively named blogs to examine how they come up with meaningfully memorable names.

Here’s a list of 36 cool fitness related blogs that use a variety of naming techniques to create clever and catchy names:

1. Every Gym’s Nightmare
2. Zen to Fitness
3. Sprint 2 The Table
4. Tori Teaches Fitness
5. Fitness, Health And Happiness
6. Daily Cup of Yoga
7. Fit Mom’s Blog
8. Fit ‘N’ Cookies
9. Nutrition Nut On The Run
10. Stronglifts
11. Hungry Mother Runner
12. Run to the Finish
13. Pumps & Iron
14. Preppy Runner
15. Running With Perseverance
16. Skinny Taste
17. Eat. Drink & Be Skinny
18. Manifest Yourself
19. Girls Gone Strong
20. Lean Lena
21. Mizzfit
22. Strength Running
23. Straight to the Bar
24. All Out Effort
25. Strength And Sunshine
26. Carrots ‘N’ Cake
27. Workout Mommy
28. Katrina Runs For Food
29. Running For Kicks And Giggles
30. Livin The Sweat Life
31. LittleMsFitness Life
32. Fit Bottomed Girls
33. Fittin Pretty
34. Fit Foodie Finds
35. The Lean Green Bean
36. Peanut Butter Fingers

As you can see, there are two main branding strategies – focus the name around your blog’s content or some aspect about yourself as the blogger.

After making this initial decision, find something that’s truly unique about you or your interests to distinguish your blog from all the others on the Web.

Ideally, you want to have an unusually interesting name that makes people take notice of it and want to take a look at what you’ve got to offer.