Polyvore

Polyvore
     A great app for individuals interested in fashion, interior design, or just shopping or being creative.  Polyvore features a wide selection of clothing, beauty supplies, interior decor and more.  It even allows you to create your own collections, sets, and heart the things you really love.  Find friends that like the same things you do and share fun finds!

     When you create your account the application will show you a few items that you will have to choose your favourites from.  This will help the application understand what your personal style is to help it determine what should be displayed on your feed.  If you don't like any of the options, don't fret.  You can unheart them later.
    Your feed are suggested content for you to view along with any content from other users or official accounts you are "following".  I will get into that later.  You can browse your feed to view items to heart or inspire you.  You can click them to find out where to buy them and how much they cost.  Along with additional options. It also shows how many other users have liked that particular item.  You can see an example of this in the screen shot to the right.
     The buttons at the bottom determine what part of the application you are viewing.  Switching from the feed to the browse button will allow you to search for specific keywords with the search bar at the top.  You can also browse their predetermined categories, which change regularly, depending on what is currently trending.
     You can also use the search bar to find your friends by typing in their Polyvore username.
     The create button will take you to a black page where you can add content, flip it, cut it out, add other items that go with it, to create your own set.  You can create a clothing set that you would love to wear or a bedroom set for the future home of your dreams.  You can even play with magazine pages, art and text.
     To the right you can see some examples of sets I created.  For more samples you can visit my Polyvore page by clicking here.
     Lastly, let's cover the "Me" button.  From here you can add a profile image and change your username (The username can only be changed once.  This is because the username becomes your URL).  You can see how many views your sets have gotten (And how many hearts), browse your sets and collections.  See what you've hearted.  You can see the users you have added, and who has followed you.
     From here, you can also decide to unheart things if you decided you no longer like it.  You can delete sets and other basic profile maintenance.

     Here's where it gets a bit not picky for me...  Look at the screen shot to the right.  This is apparently a list of all the users I follow... This is day one of joining the app... The odd part?  I never added any of these people.  The app automatically adds a bunch of popular and official accounts to your follow list to control what appears on your feed.  I dislike this feature.  I want to add who "I" want to add.  On the bright side, you can remove these users from your follow list.  On the down side, this is done manually, one at a time.  I would highly suggest doing this first.  Or at least the first day.  Once you get all of those out of the way, you can start adding people you actually want to follow!
     All in all, I enjoy the application.  It's easy to navigate and has a clean and simple layout.  I love being able to easily put together sets (I used to do this manually with Photoshop.  This is so much easier).  I don't like the forced following feed, but this isn't a big deal, since those accounts can be easily removed from your feed, if you want.  I would say this is the perfect app for anyone into design, be it fashion, clothing, magazine, etc...  Plus, it's free!
Rating: 4/5

• Free
• Category: Lifestyle
• Updated: Feb 24, 2015
• Version: 4.6.1
• Size: 23.1 MB
• Language: English
• Seller: Polyvore
• © 2015 Polyvore, Inc.

Rated 12+ for the following:

• Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
• Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
• Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor
• Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity
• Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
• Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence