Update Log

Sep 27, 2026

feature Homepage blog posts now swipe as a carousel on phones

The homepage Articles section now shows 3 posts, and on phones they sit in a swipeable carousel instead of stacking on top of each other. Desktop still shows them side by side.

Sep 22, 2026

content Homepage Articles section now shows 2 blog posts

The homepage Articles section was changed from showing 1 blog post to 2.

Sep 20, 2026

lou Set up the Blog page layout

The main Blog page's display settings were configured: posts show in 2 columns on desktop with their image, date and author.

Sep 17, 2026

feature Split the Collections page's columns-per-row setting into separate mobile and desktop controls

The single "number of collections in a row" setting now has its own mobile and desktop versions, so each screen size can show a different number of collections per row.

feature Added Prev/Next Step navigation to the 5 routine product pages

Each Step 1–5 product page now has small colored Prev/Next links to the step before and after it (Step 5 loops back to Step 1) — in the corner of the breadcrumb on desktop, and after the product details on mobile.

Sep 16, 2026

feature Added the ability to hand-pick which collections show on the Collections page

The Collections page can now be set to show only specific, chosen collections instead of always showing every collection in the store.

content Created a custom "All Products" collection and linked it from the Catalog menu

Replaced Shopify's automatic "All Products" collection with a custom one, giving control over the product display order, and pointed the header menu's Catalog button to it.

Sep 15, 2026

lou Added an Articles section to the homepage

Shows the latest post from the blog, with an image, title, and a link to read more.

fix Fixed the new Articles section's photo being oversized on desktop

With only one article showing, the featured photo was rendering far too large on desktop. It's now capped to a reasonable size and centered, matching its own image's proportions.

Sep 5, 2026

lou Added a Shop button to the Post-Wax System page

A "Shop" button now appears on the Post-Wax System page, linking directly to the full collection.

content Minor spacing tweaks

Switched the Build Your Routine cards to a portrait image ratio and added extra bottom spacing under that section on mobile, and added more top spacing above the Product Showcase section.

feature Added an Add to Cart button inside the Build Your Routine drawers

Each card's slide-out drawer now has its own Add to Cart button at the bottom, so a product can be added straight from the drawer.

fix Fixed the Build Your Routine carousel arrows and cleaned up the drawer's scrollbar

The left/right arrows were hard to see and could show a disabled arrow on the first card; they now show clearly in the site's teal color and behave correctly at both ends. Also tidied up the drawer's scrollbar and removed a double-scrolling issue.

fix Fixed mobile spacing on the Product Showcase quick-add buttons and under Hero Support's scroll arrow

Quick-add buttons were too cramped to tap comfortably on mobile, and the homepage's decorative scroll arrow was overlapping content on some phones. Both are now fixed.

Sep 4, 2026

feature Added a Product Benefits section to the Post-Wax System page

Walks through what the skin needs at each stage, from Day 0 (hair removal) through Step 5.

content Extended step-color theming to the Product Benefits headings and each product page's header logo

The Product Benefits section's item headings on the Post-Wax System page are now colored (and bolded) to match their step, and each of the 5 step product pages now shows that step's own colored version of the header logo.

fix Reverted the Complete System bundle page's header line back to teal and fixed an invisible close icon

The bundle page's sticky header line is back to the original teal, and the announcement bar's close button is now visible against its white circle.

Sep 3, 2026

feature Rolled out step-color theming across the site

Routine product cards now show a colored left accent bar for their step, the homepage and Post-Wax System page have a color-shifting scroll bar, and each step's product page gets its own colored scrollbar, header line, announcement bar, and selected gallery thumbnail.

Sep 1, 2026

fix Fixed a blank white gap under the homepage's Hero Support section

That section could render as an empty white block on the live site under certain content setups. It now displays correctly.

content Finished homepage copy, reordered homepage sections, and moved the brand mission to the Contact page

Wrapped up the homepage copywriting pass, adjusted section order, and moved the brand mission content over to the Contact page.

Aug 31, 2026

content Expanded Product Showcase to all 6 products

The homepage's Product Showcase section now shows the full lineup (all 5 steps plus the complete system) instead of 4, and moved further down the page.

content Minor homepage layout tweaks

New photo on the Empowering Professionals section, flipped one image-and-text block to lead with text instead of the image, and turned off a section that wasn't in use.

content Updated the brand kit in Shopify's backend

Set the store's logo, colors, and slogan ("The Post Wax Skin System") in Shopify's brand settings, and added a short company description: "A complete five-step skincare routine built around the waxing cycle, helping people who wax understand what their skin needs and why homecare matters."

Aug 28, 2026

feature Enabled and refreshed the Step 1 and Step 5 cards in Build Your Routine

These two cards had been hidden; turned them back on with new photos and put all the cards back in Step 1 through 5 order.

content Rewrote the Empowering Professionals section

New copy aimed at wholesale and professional accounts.

Aug 27, 2026

content Added more lifestyle photos to the Step 1–5 products

Additional lifestyle photography added across all 5 step products.

Aug 26, 2026

content Continued refining homepage copy and section order

Trimmed the hero and Problem Section copy, renamed the Routine Timing heading to "Smooth Skin Starts Here" with updated blurbs, and moved Product Showcase to sit after Routine Timing instead of before it.

content Created a new diagram graphic for the Waxed Skin System cycle

New diagram illustrating the 5-step routine cycle.

Aug 23, 2026

feature Edited the Build Your Routine section to the homepage

This section already existed — moved it and updated its content. Steps 1–5 and the complete system, each card opening a slide-out drawer with more detail.

lou Rewrote and expanded the FAQ sections on the step product pages

Replaced the FAQ questions and answers with more specific, SEO-focused ones and added several new entries to each page.

Aug 21, 2026

content Updated the email signup message sitewide

Swapped the newsletter section's "Get 10% off your first order" copy for "WAXING IS HALF THE RESULT" messaging, applied across all 8 pages that show it.

Also updated the Newsletter Sign Up popup (Klaviyo form) with the same new message.

Aug 20, 2026

performance Uninstalled the AMP Descriptions app

No longer needed, so removed it from the store.

Aug 19, 2026

content Updated several product photos

Made a new Step 2 product photo with purple text in place of blue, to match the actual physical product. Created a new Step 4 photo matching the style of the other steps (the original Step 4 label was made before the designs were finalized). Replaced the Step 3 lifestyle image with a new one that has no ingredient label, and added a clean pad to the shot.

Aug 18, 2026

content Started revising the homepage copy

The phrase "what their skin needs, when it needs it, and why consistent homecare matters" appeared six times. The full 5-step sequence was explained four separate times (hero, "the sequence" section, "Complete System" section, and the shopping section). "People who wax" appeared in nearly every paragraph. Each individual section read fine, but stacked together the page kept re-introducing itself — a visitor who'd scrolled halfway down had read the same pitch three times and still hadn't been shown a product to buy.

Aug 17, 2026

content Manual update log update

Consolidated a few entries directly in the Shopify theme editor: merged the separate "added new page sections to the rest of the product pages" note into one entry, folded the "removed vendor name from search results" note into the homepage product cards entry, and trimmed some copy for clarity.

Aug 12, 2026

fix Fixed the Update Log page silently failing to update in Shopify

Six entries used an unsupported inline tag for filenames, settings, and hex values, which Shopify's richtext validation rejects — and a single invalid tag fails the entire template's import, so newly added entries stopped appearing in the theme editor with no visible error. Replaced the unsupported tag with em across all six entries to restore the import.

content Restyled the Update Log entries for readability

Made entry headings and date group headings bold, removed the underline that appeared on headings on hover, and let the date headings render in the theme's full-strength text color instead of a dimmed opacity.

Aug 10, 2026

feature Added this Update Log page

This page — built to track every change made to the site's theme over time, replacing the default timeline section that shipped with the theme. Entries are grouped by date with descriptions collapsed by default.

feature Made the header stick to the top and fixed the logo scroll animation

Header layout switched to sticky (layout: option_4, sticky_header/sticky_header_always: true), added a dedicated transparent-header logo variant (transparent_logo), and swapped the header's own logo file. This is what lets the Logo banner's shrink-into-header scroll animation actually complete — it only works properly with a sticky header, since a non-sticky header scrolls out of view before the animation finishes.

content Replaced the homepage banner logo with a properly centered SVG version

The homepage Logo banner's logo image was swapped from WS_Main_logo_4.png to the new Waxed_Skin_White_TPBG.svg.

content Updated the site's favicon (browser tab icon)

Swapped from the circular logo PNG (added 2026-07-31) to the new Waxed_Skin.svg mark.

content Linked more backgrounds and borders to the site's secondary color

Several section backgrounds (homepage, Shop All collection page, all 5 product pages) and the sitewide border color setting were switched from one-off hex values to reference the theme's shared Color 7 setting (#9EDEDA) instead. Changing that one swatch in Theme Settings will now update all of these at once.

content Reordered sections on product pages

Swapped the order of the Benefits and FAQ sections on the product templates.

Aug 7, 2026

content Added new page sections to the rest of the product pages, most kept hidden for now

Steps 1, 2, 4, 5 and the Shop All collection page all received the same set of new sections Step 3 got the day before — hid the benefits, testimonials, video, before/after, sections, and updated FAQ as the same faqs across all templates, and email signup.

Aug 6, 2026

feature Added a way to show 2 collections per row on the Collections page

The "number of collections in a row" setting now supports 2 columns in addition to 3–6.

fix Replaced Step 1 and Step 5's blurry product photos

Both product images were only 180×180px, so the Shopify CDN couldn't upscale them cleanly at display size (compare to ~720×720px on the other steps). Re-uploaded at proper resolution.

Aug 5, 2026

feature Built out the Correct product page and the Shop All page

First full page layout added to product.wastep3.json: benefits, testimonials, video, before/after comparison, FAQ, features banner (most left disabled), and an email signup form embedded via Klaviyo. templates/collection.json (the real Shop All page) got the same treatment. Footer logo also swapped to a new transparent SVG.

content Updated the color palette across the site

Expanded the theme's color settings from 6 brand swatches to a 17-swatch extended palette, and linked several semantic color roles (border, outline, button-text-hover, rating, sold-out, input-border, sale, accent, primary) to reference the new swatches — most to Color 7 (#9EDEDA) — instead of hardcoded hex values.

Aug 4, 2026

content Updated the Step 1–5 circle icons and the header logo

Replaced the homepage's 5-step product photos with new circular step-icon SVGs (Cleanse, Recover, Correct, Maintain, Protect), and swapped in a new header logo file.

content Made all the fonts Montserrat

Body, headings, navigation, buttons, and price text all switched from the demo theme's original fonts (Figtree body, Merriweather headings) to Montserrat.

Aug 3, 2026

content Adjusted the homepage banner logo size

Increased the Logo banner's desktop logo width setting from 50 to 100.

Jul 31, 2026

fix Undid a change to how the homepage logo shrinks while scrolling

The scroll animation that shrinks the homepage Logo banner into the header was reverted to its original formula — a newer version that guaranteed an exact size match looked less smooth in practice. The banner and header logo widths remain independently adjustable.

content Rebuilt the footer

Footer menu headings changed to "Shop"/"Support," the old About Us text replaced with the circular logo and tagline, copyright turned on.

feature Updated the homepage product cards

Homepage product grid enabled secondary hover images and quick-add buttons, and switched card colors to real theme settings. Also removed the show product rating and show vendor displays. (Removed show vendor from search settings as well)

Jul 30, 2026

feature Made the homepage banner logo resize separately from the header logo

The header's logo-width sliders were also resizing the separate homepage Logo banner logo. Scoped the header's CSS variables to the header section only, and gave the Logo banner its own independent width settings.

fix Fixed the promo bar's close button showing through the scrolling text

The close button was fully transparent by default, so the scrolling marquee text showed through it. Gave it a solid white circle background matching the hover state's dimensions.

feature Connected the Waxed Skin theme and kicked off the rebrand

Repo connected and cloned. This relaunch introduces the new 5-step post-wax skincare system: Cleanse, Recover, Correct, Maintain, Protect.