Valentines Day

It's a bit late to write this post but I wanted to share with you guys how I spent my Valentines evening.
The day started with my hubby gifting me this beautiful Folli Follie rose gold watch.

I have fallen in love with this watch.
When I came back from work that day my husband gave me a card and red roses. That was really so sweet of him :)
We went to a Belgian restaurant and had loads and loads of mussels. Overall the evening turned out to be a romantic and memorable evening.
If you guys celebrate Valentines Day, how did you celebrate it?

On another note, I have been made youtube partner. I am happy and excited about it.
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Toe ...errrr....Rings-Part 2

In my last post on toe rings, I had shown how I use my toe rings as my finger rings. If interested you can find the post here. I also use them as pendants. I use my gold toe rings with gold chain. I also like mixing metal as shown in the pics

Do you guys have any other ideas? You are more than welcome to share them with me.

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How: I lost 3 kilos

If you know me well or have been following me for sometime you must know that I am a big foodie. Oh! Doesn't my Facebook picture explicitly says so .. Hmmm . For those who are not on my facebook page. This is my profile picture

So I recently discovered that I had gone crazy in mind and my every conversation started with diet and ended with diet, Mind you! with a pizza in hand. Even my husband pointed me out once about me being very obsessed with talking about  the way my body looks and different kinds of diets(which I never followed, just dreamt of following them).

There was one more thing that personally had driven me crazy. I love shopping and want to wear good clothes. Unfortunately most of the things stopped looking good on me and I had to opt for grandma clothing and that's it I had to lose weight.

So I thought of few options :
Diets-Naah won't work for me.
Workout-Too tired to go after a hectic day at work


So decided that I had to plan out something that works for me and suits my life style. Before I start telling you what I did , here is the disclaimer:

• I am not a professional dietician.
• It worked for me and is not necessary that it works for everyone
• I have just lost 3 kgs so its just first step. I still have 726217 steps to take :P
• I still can't see any difference in the way my clothes fit. Hope to see it soon.

Now after the disclaimer I guess I am sure you all are desperate to know what I did. Let me warn you that there is no magic or secret. So here are the steps I followed:

• I stopped feeling bad about the way my body looks and started concentrating on what I can do about it.
• I made myself determined to eat healthy and improve my eating habits slowly and steadily.
• I have started eating proper breakfast like cereal, oats and single slice of toast and egg whites.
• Didn't change anything about what I ate at lunch.I love my food.
• For dinner I usually eat 2 chapatis (Indian bread). I have cut it down to one.
• Major change I made to my eating habits is, I have completely cut down on sugar. I started by drinking sugarless tea and coffees. Now I no longer crave for cakes, cookies etc. I am proud of myself.[I think this is what made the biggest difference]
• Started working out twice a week.
• Started drinking lemon juice with warm water and honey.
• Started keeping track of food I ate using an iPhone app called myfitnesspal. It's amazing, try it out.

So these are the only changes I have made and within 3 weeks I have lost 3 kgs. It's not a lot but I haven't been going to gym much ,so I am kind of happy about the weight loss.

I knew that if I make any drastic changes to diet I won't be able to stand through it. I will get back to normal ways of eating chocs, cup cakes and all the crap under the sky. So I am taking it slow. 


So girls, any advice on how to lose inches?

My reason of posting this on my blog is to inspire the readers as well as be accountable so that I continue being on healthy diet.

My future Goal:

• Start going to gym or get involved in physical activities
• I don't know if I can make more changes to the way I eat. I will try.

I will keep posting the updates and keep you all in the loop 

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PS: I was 62 Kilos and now I am 59.

Pics from IMATS-Part 1

As promised I am posting my IMATS pictures today. Unfortunately these pictures are taken using my iphone. I am still waiting for others to send me the pics.

So here is the story, Sue from love-makeup offered us(me and my youtube friends) to be face models for Makeup Atelier Paris. Obviously we couldn't say no. As a result we  had loads of fun.
So here are few pics. I will upload good pics once I get them from Sue.

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                                                           Kelly, Maria and Diane

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I had real fun with all these beautiful girls

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10 things before 29 -Update-Edition 1

This year I don’t have any resolutions. The reason? The reason is that I already had a list which was more or less similar to resolutions. The list is 10 things to do before I turn 29 which you can find here

For some background, I have seen several bloggers writing about 30 things to do before turning 30. Some motivating, some not so motivating and some extreme nonsense (No offence!). I immediately decided to come up with my own list. So accordingly I was supposed to do 29 things before turning 29.

As this was my first time, trying something like this, I felt it’s better to do 10 things before 29.

So here is an update on the list:

1. I haven’t yet lost much weight but I have already incorporated healthy eating and exercising in my lifestyle. I don’t want to crash diet. I am taking it slow.

2. I admit that I am not able to update blog every alternate date but doing it regularly. Either lazy bug takes over me or sometimes my mind just lacks creative ideas. I promise to be good.

3. I am attending various dance classes at Pineapple studios(Will give more info about it in my future posts)

4. I have learnt only one item since this post

5. Growing my hair long-In progress. Might get a healthy trim though.

6. Mediation-Not yet started

7. No progress on learning to photoshop. I get so tired of the tools I use at work that I hate learning something new after coming home

8. Taking driving lessons. 10 more to go.

9. Successfully made some vanilla cupcakes. Was not very successful at frosting though

10. Updated for few days and then ...then...then...now I have run and search where I have kept my journal

  So do you guys make any sort of lists? If yes, share them with me
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Glossy Box-Valentine's day edition

Hi ,


I ordered my first glossy box when they first started it. Later due the very disappointing items given in the glossy box(the samples which we can get over the counter any day!), I decided to cancel my subscription. I felt that it was better to spend my money on something which I want.


Recently I  felt like re-subscribing to glossy box as I got little tempted to the Valentine's day special. I have received different products than what I have seen on other blogs.


These are the products I received:

1. Clarins Extra firming day cream
2. Clarins Extra firming night cream
3. Murad's Skin perfecting primer
4. Eye eyeliner in colour "Emerald Green "
5. First Aid Beauty body moisturiser 

My first impression:

It comes in their classic pink box but this being a Valentine's day special edition, it's in brighter pink rather than a pastel pink.

Clarins Extra firming day and night creams: Even though they are amazing products and have a very good review. I think I am too young to use "EXTRA" firming products. So I am not very impressed with that. I might pass these to on some one else.

Eyeko Eyeliner: Not a huge fan of eyeko products but I don't own a green eyeliner in pencil form, so I am excited to try it on.

Murad's Primer: Again, excited to try this. I have used Murad's products below and they are not bad.

First Aid Beauty moisturiser: Never heard of this brand before. I will try it and then let you know what I think about it.

Have you guys tried any of these items? If Yes, let me know what you think?

On a painful note, I strained my left hand thumb and index finger. So basically I have just one functional hand. Hope the pain in my hand will subside soon :)

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January favourites

Hey Lovelies

The makeup that I am wearing:

Face:
Nars sheer glow & MAC fix +
MAC prep+prime powder

Cheeks:
 La Femme Mocca blush
Dior Amber diamonds highlighter

Eyes:

Inglot matte eyeshadow in 360
Inglot matte e/s in 378(I use the same for my brows)
Inglot shine e/s in 46 as highlighter

Lips:
MAC mocha l/s+Revlon fushia l/s

Below are the swatches of the eyeliners mentioned in my favourites video.

Here is my favourites video:

Hope you enjoyed it
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