Fall Inspired Eye makeup tutorial using H&M Aubergine Dream palette

Rose Gold and Purple are one of my most favorite shades when it comes to eyeshadows for Indian skin tone. They suit almost all types of skintones and give a glam yet subtle look. I had this new eyeshadow palette from H&M which had shades of aubergine, taupe and other mild brown shades and I wanted to create a look for FALL season although I do not experience this in the place I live. The palette is super affordable and the shades are so much like Urban Decay Naked 3 Palette.

Summery Vibes - Time to Go Bright - OOTD

Dressing up Bright for Summer

I know this post is quite late for those friends in India where some of them are experiencing monsoons and some, light showers but nevertheless, for Singapore, it is still summer. I love bright colors and sport them quite often especially shades like bright yellow and orange. You all know that I am a jewelry addict and had recently purchased some classic pieces from my favorite brand Lovisa and you can read about that here.Long Story Short - I had been eyeing a statement necklace for a long time and finally I bought it during the sale season but did not know how to style it since it was quite a chunky / funky one. You have to be very careful while styling a statement necklace as it can make or break an outfit depending on how you are styling it. After going through a lot of pictures on Instagram, Pinterest and not finding the right inspiration, I decided to trust my instincts and searched shops for the matching outfit. 

The BOHO in me - Boho Embroidery Top and Stacked Bangles - OOTD

Styling a Bohemian White Embroidered Top

If you had read my 'What I wore in Phuket' post, you would have known that I love Boho outfits and accessories. While pondering over my love for all things Boho, I just stumbled upon the fact that I had a white Bohemian top (that many of you requested to do an OOTD post about) lying around and decided to do a post for the readers who requested for it. I bought the white top during my visit to Bugis street and it was featured in the Budget Shopping in Bugis post here.

Now buying cosmetics from The US is so easy with EZBUY

ezbuy.com website

I have always had a fascination for cosmetics from the US because of their good quality and affordable nature like MakeupGeek eyeshadows, Colorpop cosmetics etc. Fearing the shipping charges & customs charges, I always quit at the Shopping Cart stage. Similar is the story with buying clothes from Chinese websites which are also much cheaper than ones found in Singapore. I have tried decoding taobao.com so many times and then finally given up hope because everything is in Chinese.To help resolve such issues and to also provide  very affordable shipping charges, we have EZBUY, which is a website that does the purchasing/shipping from USA, Taiwan, and China at a very affordable rate.

Birthday OOTD and how I spent my day

WforWoman Kurta from their new Unusuals Collection

Well, it was a great birthday weekend last week, with lots of new foods and restaurants that I got to try and parallelly enjoying my vacation at Phuket right now. After all the planning and dreaming that I did about my Birthday being spent in a particular way, I must tell you that things did not go as planned but it went really well in a different way. The original plan was to head out for lunch and go to Gardens By the Bay and see the Flower Dome on then the next day , which everybody has been praising and sadly we have not seen it yet. Things went a bit out of control since my husband had some work on my birthday but yes, I joined him for lunch in Fullerton Hotel and had a great simple, yet delicious lunch with him and headed back home. The next day we went to a speciality restaurant called Saha's which serves fusion Indian food and the food was mind blowing.

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Pedicure 

Gone are the days when you have to make a booking at the salon, go and wait there despite making a booking,and get treated badly if you say you wish to do just a simple cleanup facial. The one sitting next to you who is doing a Skin Lightening Facial will be offered a juice and you just get water that too upon request. I am not generalizing this with all salons, but you have to accept the basic fact that this happens in most places.

OOTD on a budget - Ft Forever 21 and H&M

How to style Printed Pants

Are you confused looking at the title and wondering how can she dress on a budget while she is uttering names like Forever 21 & H&M? It is just a preconception that these brands are expensive and that one cannot find a budget beauty in their stores. In fact, even I had one such assumption before I did really step into their stores & found some great stuff on a budget.

When you find The Perfect Black Lace Top - The Hunt Ends - OOTD

Styling a Black Lace Top

I have been driving my husband and friends crazy trying to find a perfect black lace top because lace tops are my favorites and they are timeless classics. I do not mind buying lace tops in all possible colors because I just love them so much and they make you look so sophisticated. After kind of finding a black lace top and failing in it due to bad fit, I was still on the hunt for the perfect black lace top.My husband had gone to the extent of asking his female colleagues who wore lace tops as to where they had bought it(Such was the desperation & situation at home). 

Minty OOTD for a Bright, Sunny Day

Mint and White OOTD

I love going to the theaters often and watching movies and I am so lucky to get a husband who also enjoys watching movies in the theater. I watch a lot of tamil films, which is my mother tongue and recently there has been some really mazing movies with fresh scripts.

On such a recent visit to the theater on a hot, bright and sunny day, I chose to wear my new H&M white shirt which I have been raving about here & here along with some mint shaded accessories & pants to beat the heat.I went in for pastel shades on my nails too and wore Essence Gel nail paint in the shade Sweet As a Candy.

Easy & Quick Fashion Hacks

How many times have you simply stood in front of your wardrobe & wondered what to wear in spite of having your wardrobe full of clothes? It is because we are not sometimes organized or prepared for the upcoming days. I have here in this video, some tips that could help you solve such issues and also save some money by not buying things unnecessarily.

We sometimes do not keep a check on what we have purchased earlier and buy some things which might be similar to what you have already. You can save some good money by investing in staple clothes and also regularly checking all the dresses in your wardrobe and use them in proper ways.Do show some love by subscribing to my channel and liking the videos.

So now enough of talking and let us get straight there to the video:

All Time Ethnic Favorites - in Collaboration with Ishtyleawhile - Video Alert

I am an ardent fan of Ethnic Accessories & feel they make me look better than any other Western outfit or accessories. It is completely agreed by Krupa too and so we happen to be the Best of Buddies. Krupa was here in Singapore a month ago & we made some Youtube Videos of which one went up on her channel already. If you have not seen that, do not forget to see the video and the link will be given in the description box of this video.

So in this video, Krupa & I have discussed about what are the Ethnic Products that we often reach for & cannot live without. Do watch the video fully and leave your comments so that we can improve our videos next time.

I would like to announce that I am planning to make an 

ASK ME ANYTHING video 

and would love to hear questions from you people & would be really happy to answer them. 

Featuring the perfect Knitted Asymmetrical Top - My first Zara Purchase

Winter dressing is kind of fun because you get to go bold with your makeup since the outfit is mostly monochrome & typically dark colored , unlike summers where your outfits do most of the talking.Singapore is kind of warm throughout the year like Chennai , so I do not get to experiment with winter clothing much. But however the month of December was pretty good with rains everyday & the weather was pleasant, which gave me an opportunity to experiment a little with my clothing & hence I got an awesome asymmetrical top from Zara.The advantage of living in a country like Singapore is that, we get to celebrate various festivals one after the other & the Sale Season too keeps coming more frequently.

The Sale started with Diwali, then Christmas, followed by New Year & now Chinese New Year and what stops you when there is a Sale at H&M, Zara & so on ?

I have never purchased anything from Zara till now,  because in India there were options like Lifestyle (which is like a one stop shop for me), and I have never felt the need to go to Zara.

Styling a Silver Layered Statement Necklace - Bohemian Way

Some things in life, that you have always wanted and wished for, would just find its way and reach you - My way of explaining the Law of Attraction. One of the online fashion Accessories company had approached me a few weeks back, asking if I would review their product. Initially I was very interested , but later on I found out that there was a big catch as I had to pay for the shipping & delivery charges,  which amounted to a huge sum of money ( upwards of USD 50 ). Though I did not have any issues for paying  and I finally decided to refuse to do it thinking that the product was not really worth that money I was going to pay for the shipping and weight. 

I was just roaming around in a mall recently on the eve of Christmas,  when I saw this huge board saying upto 70 % off in one of my favorite jewelry shops here in Singapore - Lovisa. You can read more about what I have previously bought from Lovisa here.

I found a very similar neck piece that "The Company " had offered me at about just 1/3 rd of the Shipping charges that I had to pay. The original price was about SGD 59 and I got it for SGD 20 and I felt it was totally worth it. There was no looking back and I wanted to grab it immediately along with 2 other earrings which also had great discounts.

So when such a beautiful necklace is in your collection, how long can you wait to style it and flaunt it. There is this beautiful lane in Singapore called Haji Lane , which is rated as one of the best spots for photo shoots. Haji lane is situated in the Arab quarter of the city containing the age old buildings which have been modified to house quirky, quaint coffee shops as well as boutique shops.

I dressed up well, grabbed the camera and my husband and headed there last weekend.So enough of talking and let us get to the Outfit, "The Statement Necklace " and the styling details.

Haji lane was supposed to be really colorful with wall murals and interesting buildings and hence I decided to dress in light colors and I chose white so that it would look great against the colorful background.

The Necklace says : Get to Know me in Detail

Silver layered bohemian necklace from Lovisa

Christmas Day - Outfit and Accessories

Year end is always fun because work kind of takes a back seat and it is time for relaxing, partying and enjoying with family and friends. Of course, both my husband and me neither have many friends nor go for any parties, but we do like to spend time by going for a dinner or exploring new places here in Singapore. This year, we are away from our families which is kind of different for us but this is reality and we have to handle it. 

We headed out to The Gardens by the Bay on Christmas, in order to explore the place and enjoy their light show. I have earlier been to the Gardens with my friends and you can read about it here. We reached the Gardens at around 5 pm ,so that we could have a relaxed evening by the river side and click good pictures of the light show. 

We explored The Cloud Forest Dome and then went on to see the light show at 8 45 pm. More details of the Gardens by the Bay would be given in a separate post.

Outfit of the Day Details & Pictures :

Now moving on the outfit I wore , I chose a simple plain red top with a blue jeggings. I added some bling with my accessories and went in for a beautiful red stone earring that I got recently from a sale.

Red Top : iSetan, Kuala Lumpur, read more about my Malaysia Shopping here

Blue Jeggings : Lifestyle, Chennai

White Bag : Charles & Keith, Malaysia - A separate post is coming up

Earrings : Lovisa, Singapore - SGD 4

Red top from iSetan, Kuala Lumpur

Retro Round - Love for Polka Dots

After a recent trip to Bali and Malacca in Malaysia(during our KL trip) we have been going crazy about Vintage & Retro stuffs. We have collected quite a lot of home decor stuff too which has a vintage charm to it.That is when it struck to my husband that I could create a retro based look on my blog. 
So what is the first thing that comes to our mind when you think of retro or vintage ? For me it is polka dots and so here are a number of polka dot items that I picked & used to create various retro looks. I took inspiration from the internet especially concentrating on Bollywood looks and here I have recreated some of them. I went on a crazy search for inspirations on Pinterest, Google images & magazines & finally decided on 3 looks that I would come up with.

I then started collecting all the required things like dresses, hair accessories, scarves and retro glasses. Some of them were already there with me but I did not know how to work with them. The internet did help me with ideas on how to style polka dot dresses & accessories.

Look No 1 : The Polka Dot top & plain pants , inspired by Priyanka Chopra's outfit

Retro look inspired from Priyanka Chopra

Styling Pleated AKS Kurti for a casual evening outing

Visuals of My Chennai drowning in water was so haunting. When I kept talking to everyone about it, people were ridiculing me that I am just talking & not taking any action. No one knew I was gathering all information from my facebook posts and passing it on to my friend back in Chennai who had lot of Volunteer friends. Something that I could do sitting here 2900 km away from home was just this. 

We had earlier booked tickets to a Vijay TV show in Singapore , which was scheduled on Nov 27th but had got postponed to Dec 11 th , due to the Chennai rains. The Channel suddenly announced that the funds collected would go towards rehabilitation of Chennai and I was so happy so that I could contribute something to the relief work. 

The show that we attended was a program that had all the reality show artists performing live and it was worth every single penny we paid. I wanted to wear something unusual and decided to dress up in one of my recent purchases from Jabong.com. I have always wanted something different & loved the Dhoti style pants or Kurtis.

Interestingly I found this Kurti by the brand called AKS on Jabong and ordered it. This is the first ever time I am ordering a dress online and I was quite apprehensive about the size. I chose XL and to my surprise I found it to be just perfect for me. I am in love with the Kurti and I wore a black legging to match it. I kept the accessories simple with elegant earrings & bracelet from Confusions FA.

Accessories : Confusion FA

Eyeshadow : MAC Amberlights

Lipstick : Inglot shade 103

Here are the pictures of the OOTD :

Styling Indo Western Wear

OOTD for Orchard Road Outing - Oh My God . How many O's ?

Posing for Outfit posts , hmmmm, been a long time ! It is a difficult task to get everything into working for an OOTD Post -- lighting, my makeup, my outfit and of course my husband for some clicking.
P.S : I fail in front of the tripod & camera.

So finally that happened after a long long time and I managed to click few pictures before I headed out to Orchard road last weekend. 

Orchard road is such a bustling shopping district with so many malls and so many brands that I have always wanted to lay my hands on. But this time, I did not pick up anything because I just wanted to have an idea of what are the various shops. I have been to Orchard earlier as a tourist and was there for about 3 hours only. I wanted to explore more and walked the entire stretch of this happening street.

Orchard Road, Gucci 

Summer Outfit LookBook and Ideas

Apart from the scorching sun that totally drains during summer, everything else is nice & bright about it. Summers are when ripe yellow mangoes and the fragrant jasmine flowers are found everywhere adding some sort of a vibrancy to the day.I love dressing up in bright shades in summers and I have here some tips and ideas for you in collaboration with Krupa from ishtyleawhile. She loves to sport all kinds of outfits and she is a great poser(My Guru too).

Tips for Summer Outfits :

1 : Go for bright colored outfits.

Bright green shirt from AND

Styling a Sari - Tips and 3 Looks

Accessories can either make your outfit pop or let you down depending on how you use them wisely along with your outfit.A saree can be a tricky outfit because it really needs accessories to look complete and at the same time you cannot go overboard, due to the richness of the saree itself. So here I have compiled 3 different looks for you using the same saree , but with different set of accessories,  which can definitely make you look confident & gorgeous.

My outfit details : 

Look 1 with Saree : Tracing Traditions with Terracotta

Saree : Kora Silk Saffron Color saree from Tulsi Silks, Chennai

Terracotta Jewelry Set : Bought from a seller in Coimbatore (Read More Here )

Bracelet : ConfusionsFA (Read More Here )

Footwear : Metro

Eyemakeup Details :

Faces Canada Long wear eye pencil in Solid Black on upper lash line (Review coming soon)

Plum Goodness Khol on lower lash line (Reviewed here)

Faces Canada Glam on Mascara(Review coming soon)

Lips : Inglot Lipstick shade 103 (Reviewed here)

Tips to style a saree

Featuring my new Charles & Keith Clutch

When it comes to choosing anything, my hands involuntarily picks up the one in blue shade,though I might already possess a lot in blue shades. I then have to convince people around telling it is #0000CC th blue shade and the one I already have is #0033CC and then I pick it up (Villainous Smile).

Today's post is about my new Charles & Keith Clutch that I got as a gift from a friend in Singapore. Charles & Keith is a Singapore based brand that has amazing handbags, footwear, totes, clutches and a lot more. They have their outlets even across many cities in India.

Pictures of the Charles & Keith Clutch :

Charles and Keith Clutch