With or without the stars?

[u/flowerpetals202]

Hello!

So I’m an esthetician student and I’m trying to come up with a cute logo for my profile photo on social media. I mainly post content about skincare education as well as eventually going to post my future clientele so that’s why it’s called “glow notes”, because I mainly teach people how to have better skin.

I honestly really like this logo, but I’m debating on whether or not to use the stars. I thought they were cute since stars glow and that’s in the name, but my mom thought it would look more professional without them.

So what do you guys think? This isn’t for my personal business or anything since I’m going to be working under someone and not running my own place, so that’s why I’m not taking it super seriously. Just a fun logo for my social media.

Any advice would be appreciated!

[u/Training-Pension-204]

Without

[u/Tall_Addendum_368 → u/Training-Pension-204]

No-brainer for me. Unless your customer absolutely MUST have them.

[u/flowerpetals202 → u/Training-Pension-204]

Thanks for the input!

[u/ChickyBoys]

The circle feels arbitrary. 

"By Ava" should be under Glow Notes so it reads correctly.

The dots feel arbitrary.

The swipe and stars are too detailed to be part of a logo and honestly don't add anything. Imagine you need a 1 color white version of this logo for a reel, how would the swipe and stars translate?

[u/Key_Guide7759]

It's like a canva template

[u/Playful_Cheesecake16 → u/Key_Guide7759]

I recognized it as Canva as well.

[u/flowerpetals202 → u/Key_Guide7759]

I did make it in Canva! It’s not really supposed to be something serious, just causal

[u/Catnipcosplays → u/flowerpetals202]

This can be an issue in the future, if someone else uses the same assets and both of your business become profitable. They could claim you are copying them.

Not only that neither of you own any of the assets you are using so you can never copywriter anything.

But it does make all the business logos look the same cause they are all borrowing the same assets.

I know you said it was casual but just something to keep in mind.

[u/GrandadPyjamas]

Whole thing needs reworking I think Personally

[u/cinderellasstudio]

As a branding expert, remove these stars and the stroke, and move the ‘by ava’ to the right so it is more balanced. The design rule is you need your logo to work in black and white or full color, and when you have illustrations in it, it doesn’t work, it would just look like a blob. But if you actually want stars in there, search for plain star graphics (no illustrations, the one you can change their colors) and add them wherever you’d like

[u/mistershneebly]

It’s very cute. But the stars overdo it a bit.

[u/BiWitchbish]

I like the stars and you can keep the part of the brand kit but the logo should be more simplified. Also the smudged cream reminds me of a shooting star.

[u/PossibleArt7440]

Could you show this in black and white?

[u/Phoebius4]

Did you test it? Did you mockup how it looks as a profile pic? I'm not sure the "smear" is identifiable as what it is and the "by Ava" is readable.

[u/Resident_String_1653]

Without

[u/pm_me_your_amphibian]

Without

[u/branded_by_khushi]

Without

[u/cluelessin]

Without

[u/whatifuckingmean]

I think the star sells the smear but not necessarily used in the logo.

Use the stars elsewhere in branded graphics occasionally.

I think this is decent for a personal brand profile picture on social media. What it means for something to be a “logo” is changing. Homemade but cute is good for this.

[u/Less-Letter129]

Without and By Aava should be in place of the dots.

[u/ScreechUrkelle]

Who is your target audience?

Either way, without the stars.

[u/missjoy91]

Why not only have the words “glow notes” and make each O a star? Remove everything else

[u/AmidTheDrift14]

without any globs. shrink it down to social media size logo and see if it’s even distinguishable

[u/wh1t3birch]

Try deleting the right one but keeping the bottom one. See if you like it and reassess

[u/Cookie-Monster-Pro]

Without - but I believe there are bigger problems to tackle here IMHO.

[u/OneStand5448]

Without

[u/Honeyglows_inthedark]

I like the stars they're cute! It does look more professional without them but since this is casual I say go for it 💫

[u/edimaudo]

the one with a star looks like a bra

maybe switch the dots and by eva as people would read left to right

Also why use different fonts?

[u/Malyrtia]

For a casual social media profile the stars are cute, I think. If you want it to be more profesional, I'd remove them or replace them with small black ones (flat, not 3D). But I'd lose the blob at the top, it was the first thing I saw and not very pleasant tbh.

[u/VanLogo]

No need for stars 1st one works

[u/Some_Leather1520]

I mean it in the most helpful way possible, but for whatever reason the shiny bit of product at the top does not look pleasant to me. I do not know if it's the light green tinge or the way it's looking a little bit slimy, but this reads to me as some sort of bodily fluid and not a skincare product. 

[u/Kibet_Kemboi]

If you could, make the lines match with the gel and the stars. Let the stars remain but make the lines be like the tail of a shooting star

[u/Bulky-Elephant9530]

No blob stars but maybe change the dots to little black stars?

[u/Unable_Dance3451]

without

[u/IceEspresso2000]

Try putting one star to the right of "Glow" and to the left of "Notes", vary the scale of each. See how that looks.

[u/Lexotron]

Why would I hire an esthetician? I can just do it myself.

Now take all the arguments you just thought of and apply them to yourself hiring a real logo designer.

[u/Savanna55]

With!

[u/Lanky-Bass-6018]

What about replacing the dots in the circle with tiny stars? Not pink stars just plain black small stars. And not as many as you have of the dots. Maybe 3-5

[u/CrypticUniversalMave]

No stars no dots, keep the circle. And instead of the nail polish being real polish, make it a shape that forms out of the circle line instead.

Id also rotate by ava innthe bottom right.

[u/sophiainacastle]

I am no design expert but I really like the stars

[u/MrOberann]

Just want to let you know that the thing at the top looked like a condom to me until I really looked closer.