If you're anything like me, you're always looking for the best feminine stock photos for your blog. But they can be hard to find! Luckily, I've got you covered. This post has 32 different stock photo sites where you can get free feminine stock photos or cheap feminine stock photos.
And they all look great.
So if you're looking for the best feminine stock photos for your blog, look no further. This is the definitive list of feminine stock photo sites.
Let's do this!
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Before we start listing sites (and believe me, I'm listing them below), let's talk about some of the basics first.
Why Does My Blog Need Stock Photos?
A blog needs images. They break up the text in posts, they catch the eye, they can be useful to explain things, and they just make pages and posts look good.
Depending on your blog topic, you might be taking some of your own photos. For example, a food blogger would almost certainly take her own photos of the dish she's writing about.
But other times you really don't need to take your own photos, and that's where stock photos come in.
And for some niches (like mine), it never makes sense to take your own photos. So all my photos (aside from the ones of myself, of course) are stock photos or screenshots (if I'm explaining something techy).
So bottom line: your blog needs images. So if you're not taking them yourself for whatever reason, you need to use stock photos.
Free Versus Paid Stock Photos
There are pros and cons to both free stock photos and paid stock photos
Free stock photos
The advantage of free stock photos is, of course, that they're free. And that's rarely a bad thing.
But, there are some detriments to using free stock photos too.
You may find that lots of other people are using the same image as you if you get it off a popular site.
Additionally, there can be some serious legal difficulties with using free stock photos from big sites like Unsplash and Pixabay. The explanation is a little convoluted, so I'll leave it for this article to explain it.
Paid stock photos
With paid stock photos, the disadvantage is, of course, that they cost money.
But, since you're paying, it generally means that it's less likely that someone else is going to be using the same photo (although it's still possible, since some of these membership sites are really popular).
You are also less likely to run into legal difficulties like with free photos discussed above.
Can you just take photos from Google Images?
NOOOO.
Don't ever do this. You do not own the rights to those photos, and you absolutely can get sued.
Don't do it.
21 Websites for Free Feminine Stock Photos
Canva
Canva has a huge library of stock photos. The library is much bigger if you have a paid Canva plan (which only costs $9.99/month), but you can still get some good ones on the free plan.
Sign Up Required: Yes, you need to sign up for Canva. But there is a free option.
Attribution Required: No.
Commercial Use Allowed: Yes.
Kate Harp Creative
Katie Harp Creative has some great free feminine stock photos. You can get access to 50 free feminine stock photos by signing up for her email list here. And once you're on her email list, you'll get an email about her free resource library which contains a few dozen more free feminine stock photos. And they're cute!
She also has a feminine photo membership that you can join, but that's no longer free.
Sign Up Required: Yes, you need to sign up for her email list.
Attribution Required: No information available.
Commercial Use Allowed: No information available.
Stock Boutique
The Stock Boutique has 5 free feminine photos if you sign up for their email list.
They also have a paid membership.
Sign Up Required: Yes, you must sign up for their email list.
Attribution Required: Information not available.
Commercial Use Allowed: Information not available.
Create Her Stock
Create Her Stock has a large number of free stock photos for female entrepreneurs available for download. Many of them feature people of color, so if you're looking for some diversity, this is a good place to go. You can download them right here.
Sign Up Required: Yes, you must sign up for her email list.
Attribution Required: No information available.
Commercial Use Allowed: No. Free stock photos are available for personal use only.
Hello You Designs
I usually think of Hello You Designs as a great place to get feminine WordPress themes (and they are), but they also have some great free feminine stock images.
You can download several different sets of feminine photos right here. But you do need to sign up to her email list first so that you can get the password (they're all password protected).
Sign Up Required: Yes, you need to sign up for her email list to get the password that allows you to access the feminine stock images.
Attribution Required: Information not available.
Commercial Use Allowed: Information not available.
She Bold Stock
She Bold Stock offers 20 free stock photos when you sign up for their email list. You can sign up right here.
Sign Up Required: Yes, you have to sign up for their email list.
Attribution Required: Information not available.
Commercial Use Allowed: Yes.
Kaboom Pics
Kaboom Pics has a huge library of free stock photos. They do not specialize in feminine stock images, but if you look you can find some. (I found the one above just by searching for “blogging”).
Sign Up Required: No. You can just download straight from their site, no sign-up required.
Attribution Required: No.
Commercial Use Allowed: Yes.
Unsplash
Unsplash has a huge library of stock photos. They do not specialize in feminine stock images, but you can find them if you look. (I found the photo above by searching for “blogging”).
Sign Up Required: No, you can download straight from the site.
Attribution Required: No.
Commercial Use Allowed: Yes.
Dabbles & Babbles
Dabbles and Babbles has 8 free stock photos that you can download without even signing up for their email list. Download the free feminine stock photos right here.
Sign Up Required: No, you can download straight from the link above.
Attribution Required: Information not available.
Commercial Use Allowed: Information not available.
Girl Boss Stock
Girl Boss Stock will send you 20 free feminine stock photos with an email list sign-up. They also have a paid membership.
Sign Up Required: Yes, you need to sign up for their email list.
Attribution Required: Information not available.
Commercial Use Allowed: Information not available.
Jeshoots
Jeshoots has a large library of free stock photos. They are not specifically geared towards feminine photos, but if you dig around you can find some. (I found the one above by searching for “laptop”).
Sign Up Required: No, you can download right from the site.
Attribution Required: No.
Commercial Use Allowed: Yes.
Louise Henry
Louise Henry has 10 free stock photos that you don't even need to hand over your email address for. Get them right here.
Sign Up Required: No, you can download straight from the site.
Attribution Required: Information not available.
Commercial Use Allowed: Information not available.
Gratisography
Gratisography has a ton of photos. They're not specifically focused on feminine images, but you can find some if you search.
Sign Up Required: No, you can download straight from the site.
Attribution Required: Information not available.
Commercial Use Allowed: Yes.
Elle Drouin
Elle Drouin offers 20 free stock photos for female entrepreneurs when you sign up for her email list. She also has a paid membership.
You can get the free photos right here.
Sign Up Required: Yes.
Attribution Required: No.
Commercial Use Allowed: Yes.
Pexels
Pexels has a huge library of stock photos. They're not specifically focused on feminine stock images, but you can find feminine photos in there pretty easily with the right search terms.
Sign Up Required: No.
Attribution Required: No.
Commercial Use Allowed: Yes.
Picography
Picography has a big library of free stock photos. Like some of the other sites, they're not specifically focused on feminine stock photos, but if you search you can find them pretty easily.
Sign Up Required: No.
Attribution Required: No.
Commercial Use Allowed: Yes.
Moms Make Cents
Moms Make Cents will give you 25 free feminine stock images if you sign up for their email list.
(And they're super cute pics, in my opinion 😉).
Sign Up Required: Yes, you need to sign up for her email list.
Attribution Required: Information not available.
Commercial Use Allowed: Information not available.
Pixabay
Pixabay has a huge library of free stock photos. Again, they're not focused on feminine images, but you can find them if you search.
Sign Up Required: No, you can download straight from the site.
Attribution Required: No.
Commercial Use Allowed: Yes.
Splitshire
Splitshire offers a library for free stock photos. They are not all feminine stock images, but you can find some if you look.
Sign Up Required: No, you can download straight from the site.
Attribution Required: No.
Commercial Use Allowed: Yes.
PicXClicX
PicXClicX has several sets of feminine photos available for download, without an email list signup.
You can access the free photos here.
Sign Up Required: No, you can download straight from the site.
Attribution Required: Yes and no. You need to attribute unless you purchase a lifetime nonattribution license. You can read the specifics here.
Commercial Use Allowed: No.
Julie Butler
Julie C. Butler has a free resource library that includes lots of free feminine stock photos.
You can sign up for the resource library here.
Sign Up Required: Yes, you need to register to get the password to the resource library. You also have to enter your email address each time you download a photo.
Attribution Required: No.
Commercial Use Allowed: Yes.
11 Websites for Cheap Feminine Styled Stock Photos
Ivory Mix
Ivory Mix is my absolute favorite membership site. Not only does it include thousands of great stock photos (most of them feminine photos), but it also includes tons and tons of Canva templates that are REALLY well designed. (Side note: if you're wondering about all the things you can do with Canva, you'll want to give this post a read). And if that's not enough, it also comes with dozens of courses and workshops that are all genuinely really valuable.
I'm always shocked by how much content she gives away for such a low membership price.
It's well worth it.
Sign Up Required: Yes. You can either download stock photo bundles (or Canva templates) one a time and pay a price for each bundle, or you can sign up for her membership which gives you access to absolutely everything. All photos, all Canva templates, all courses, all workshops. Everything. Can you tell I'm a fan?
Cost: $167 for an annual membership; $67 for a quarterly membership.
Attribution Required: No.
Commercial Use Allowed: Yes.
Pixistock
Pixistock is another fantastic membership site that I also use. They offer tons and tons of feminine stock images, plus a huge number of Canva templates for pretty much everything you could possibly need. I use them all the time.
Sign Up Required: Yes, you need to sign up for the membership.
Cost: $47/month or $375/year.
Attribution Required: No.
Commercial Use Allowed: Yes.
Haute Stock
Haute Stock is another membership I use (I know, it's a sickness). Their photos are absolutely phenomenal, and almost all are feminine images. I use them all the time.
Cost: $139/quarter; $399/year.
Sign Up Required: Yes, you need to sign up for a membership.
Attribution Required: No.
Commercial Use Allowed: Yes.
Styled Stock Society
Styled Stock Society is not one where I'm a member, but I've heard good things. They have a large library of feminine stock photos.
Sign Up Required: Yes, you need a membership.
Cost: $97/quarter; $297/year; or $697/lifetime.
Attribution Required: No.
Commercial Use Allowed: Yes.
Creative Market
Creative Market (a place where I could easily spend an entire paycheck if I let myself) has thousands of stock photos for sale from hundreds of different photographers. You can find pretty much anything on there, including tons and tons of cheap feminine stock photos.
Sign Up Required: Yes, you need to sign up for an account in order to purchase the photo bundles.
Cost: Every photographer sets their own prices, so it just depends on what bundle you're looking at.
Attribution Required: Depends on the photographer.
Commercial Use Allowed: You can buy a commercial license (which isn't that much more expensive than a regular license).
Etsy
Etsy sells a huge variety of things, but they also sell photographs. A lot of their photos are meant to be hung on a wall, not used on Instagram, but they do have some cheap feminine stock photos for sale.
Sign Up Required: Yes, you need to sign up to make a purchase.
Attribution Required: Depends on the photographer.
Commercial Use Allowed: Depends on the photographer.
Social Squares
Social Squares by Shay Cochrane has a big library of feminine photos. You do need to sign up for a membership.
Sign Up Required: Yes, you must sign up for the membership.
Cost: $39/month; $109/quarter; $420/annual.
Attribution Required: No.
Commercial Use Allowed: Yes.
Oh Tilly
Oh Tilly is another feminine stock photo membership site. They have tons of feminine photos to choose from.
Sign Up Required: Yes, you must sign up for a membership.
Cost: $25/month; $70/quarter; $120/6 months.
Attribution Required: Information not available.
Commercial Use Allowed: No, unless you purchase a commercial license from her.
Canva
Canva, as already discussed above, has lots of free images on its free plan. But it was WAY more images on the paid plan (which is only $9.99/month…I really can't recommend it enough).
The library of stock photos on Canva's paid plan has over 75 MILLION photos in it. Not all of them are feminine images, but you can easily find many, many feminine stock photos for female entrepreneurs on there.
Sign Up Required: Yes, you must sign up for a free or paid membership.
Cost: $9.99/month (paid annually).
Attribution Required: No.
Commercial Use Allowed: Yes.
Deposit Photos
Deposit Photos is a massive stock photo site. They have thousands and thousands of images. Not all are feminine stock photos, but you can easily find feminine photos in there.
PRO TIP: A few times a year, App Sumo runs a deal where you get 100 downloads from Deposit Photos for $49. It's a GREAT deal and I almost always buy at least one pack. I highly recommend jumping on this the next time it comes around (tons of people do).
Sign Up Required: Yes, you have to sign up to purchase photos.
Cost: Aside from the App Sumo deal I discussed above, you can normally purchase monthly plans or purchase a certain number of downloads.
Attribution Required: No.
Commercial Use Allowed: Yes.
Stock That Rocks
Stock That Rocks has some truly fabulous feminine stock photos. I bought several dozen a few years back (back then they were called Bloguettes) and I still use them constantly.
Sign Up Required: Yes, you have to sign up to purchase photos.
Cost: They have different monthly plans depending on how many photos you want. You can also pay per photo.
Attribution Required: No.
Commercial Use Allowed: Yes.
So is that enough feminine stock photos for you? With that many sites, I'd say you should be set for…a while. Finding free feminine stock photos and cheap feminine stock photos can be hard, but with this list you should be golden.
I know I have enough feminine stock photos to last me until about the year 2072.
Which site is your favorite place to get feminine styled stock photos? Let me know in the comments!
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Great post! I’m always looking for new stock photos.
I am a Canva, Unsplash, and Pexels kind of gal, but only because I had not heard of many of these image subscription sites and memberships! Love that you share an in-depth and comprehensive list. I am signed up for the Ivory Mix newsletter, but I have not joined her membership yet. The samples are always beautifully designed!
Thanks for sharing. 🙂
I LOVE my Ivory Mix membership. She honestly gives SO much value and it actually costs significantly less than the other memberships I mention. She’s got stock photos, Canva templates, workshops, and courses.
Thank you so much for this post! I feel like I’ve gotten to the point now where I’m constantly using the same free photos and struggling to know where to source more. This was really helpful for me and I’ll need to have a look at some of your recommendations.
Glad I could help!
This is very helpful! I use Canva stock photos a lot and I loved it so much! I bookmarked this post in case I need more photos for my blog posts. Thanks for sharing this!
You’re welcome! Glad I could help!
Great compilation of resources! I haven’t heard of several so I’m going to bookmark your post. Appreciate it!
Glad you liked it! I found a bunch of new ones that I had never heard of either when I researched this. I now have stock photos to last until I’m about 90.
This is such a great resource. Thanks so much for sharing it!
You’re welcome! Glad it was helpful!
This is a good resource you’ve compiled here — thanks for this!
Glad it was helpful!