I am Oshin - a complete toddler in this world of makeup and beauty related stuff. I love cooking, reading, writing and sleeping. My little world comprises of my family, my cell phone and my baby turtles.
These beauties are omnipresent. Right from the school girl’s blazer pocket to the office girl’s vanity. These can be seen adorning every beauty store counter across the country.
So, I am talking about the much loved and very much cherished Maybelline baby lips lip balm. These can be considered the Arjit Singh of the lip balm industry! Just as every Bollywood movie, nowadays is incomplete without his voice, so is our beauty stash incomplete without these.
O my God! I have a date tomorrow and what is that? Don’t tell me.. a zit! So what options do I have? Neem face pack? Ummm done! Sandalwood powder? Still to get hold of original sandalwood powder which doesn’t burn a hole in my pocket! Multani mitti? Doesn’t seem like working for me anymore! Regular cleanups? Not at all comfortable with anyone messing up with my face!!
So if you are an oily skinned girl like me who gazes at the mirror a zillion times just to check that nasty pimple along her jaw line which has popped out of nowhere, you can probably relate to all that I have stated above!
I am an Ayurvedic student with a strong belief staunchly embedded in my head that the solution to every problem lays inside us! The cleaner our bodies are from inside, the better it appears on the outside. With toxins inside your material body, no matter how many fancy named cosmetics you apply on your face, the effect is not going to show up!
Keeping all this in mind, today, I have come up with a DIY drink which has helped me in combating my pimples and their marks and at the same time, adding a glow to the face without off course creating a huge hole in my tiny college-student sized pocket!
So, for today’s DIY, our hero is ‘turmeric’ or ‘haldi’ which forms an indispensable part of our Indian cuisine, holds a very special place in every ritual and not to forget, holds an irreplaceable position in our beloved DIYs!
I have already mentioned the paramount importance of henna in my hair care routine. Dried and grounded henna is indeed the best because it is absolutely free from all kinds of preservatives and colorants, but for a lazy soul like me, drying the henna leaves and grinding them is indeed a monotonous task and that is where these ready-made henna powders come to rescue.
I have been using Nupur henna powder since the time I started applying henna to my hair and it has never given me a chance to complain. I use henna solely for conditioning and Nupur henna has never disappointed me in that respect! It makes my hair very silky.
I picked Patanjali henna just for the sake of trying it as the indigenous brand has never disappointed me. And they are so economical that you can pick lots and lots of products and the price would hardly hurt your pocket.
Price : Rs 35 for 100 g; Buy : Amazon.in
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This henna powder comes in a simple plastic packaging with ingredients, manufacturing date and directions of usage printed on it. It claims to contain around 9 herbs besides henna which include neem, gooseberry, tea leaves etc.
The powder is fine textured, dark green in color and smells like dried henna leaves, a bit different from the Nupur henna powder. Nupur henna has a slight pleasant smell than this one. It is also stated on the pack that you have to use it within 180 days once you have opened the pack.
Today I am going to share with you a homemade toner recipe combining two of the most basic ingredients available in each household. Well, needless to say, how crucial is the basic CTM routine for each skin type. And finding a toner which suits you is indeed a difficult task as most of the toners available in the market are brimming with all sorts of alcohols and other chemicals. There are some alcohol – free ones too, but either they are too pricey or of limited reach to the masses.
Hope each one of you is in complete pink of health and is enjoying the romance – filled monsoons to the fullest. So, coming to the today’s product, I have picked an Elle 18 lippie in the shade Wow Pink for review which is a pretty pink appropriate for college wear. Elle 18 products are omnipresent. Even in a small town like mine where Maybelline stands for only baby lips and the Colossal Kajal and people have hardly heard of brands like Colorbar etc, brands like Elle 18 manage to find their place.
Let me start off this post with a small story. There was a girl around 4 years old who had bob cut hair. She longed for long hair just like she saw in those movies, beautiful black long hair of those actresses fluttering in the air! if not long, at least a length which can be tied in the form… Read More »How I Grew My Hair Soft and Shiny? – Oshin’s Hair Story and Routine
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