Beauty and Self Image is where hair, clothes, skincare, ageing, grooming, and appearance stop being “just beauty things.” These stories look at how women learn to see themselves, maintain themselves, correct themselves, and sometimes laugh at the entire performance while still booking the appointment.
This is a category for personal essays on beauty, body image, self-perception, ageing, and the strange emotional admin that comes with being visible.
There is love all around us. Specially today, you see talks of valentines on TV, on FB, on Blogs etc etc… For me, V-day was just another day… My marriage anniv was 3 days back and since we celebrate on 11th, we don’t bother with the 14th… Every year, I do a wedding related post […]
Hey girls, how many of you have hosted a lunch / dinner at home? All on your own? Stressful! right? I get goosebumps even thinking about the effort involved… cleaning and polishing everything, hours in the kitchen over food, the crockery, the knick knacks and what not… And when the guests finally arrive, you’d be running
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For the last two and a half years, I had reverted to wearing nude lips most of the time. When not wearing lippies like Oriflame Pure Colors Lipstick in Vintage Rose, I was wearing very light colors like Lotus Herbals Pure Colors Lipstick in Mod Mauve or my Nivea Starshine lipbalms. Around 8-9 months back, I realised
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Hiya girls, when I tweeted about my new hairdo, Zara and Ankita wanted to see it. So, I went ahead and clicked a few pics. Say hello to my glasses, making their first appearance on the blog! I know the pic is a little blurry, but we have had no sun for four days now
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hello girls… it comes a tad late here, but wish you all a very happy and colourful 2012 :)i had a terrible last week.. with an eye infection that made my eye swell and shut. Thankfully it was down by new year’s eve and wewere able to head out to a get together. So how
Girls, do you wear specs? No? Great… you can rock any eye makeup! Yes? Hmm, do you wear mascara with specs? I don’t. Should I?
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I needed to get a formal professional photograph clicked a while ago. Before I became the makeup junkie that I am now, I would just brush my hair and get a pic clicked. But now, I couldn’t do that. It would be a makeup crime. Right? I had no idea how to do makeup for
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I had a small get together for my daughter’s birthday back in September. We had a crazy time coz we were moving to a new city within two weeks. So my look, like the party was quite simple: The blush is overdone on purpose for this picture! As always, this pic was taken after all
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I wanted to sport a festive yet simple look when we went Pandal hopping in Kolkata during Durga Puja. A bright lip was the best route to go. I had just bought Maybelline Coloursensational in Hooken on Pink and this seemed the perfect excuse to wear it and sport a goofy happy expression! Face: Lotus
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Hello girls, how often have you been caught in a situation where you have almost no makeup on you and you need to head out? This happened to me on a recent business trip to Bangalore. I was carrying the basic compact, kajal and a few neutral lippies for day wear. Turned out bro had
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