Expensive skincare products aside, sometimes I feel that the most effective products are to be found in one’s kitchen! Each girl has sometime or the other, experimented with food to create face masks or scrubs etc. I too, used to love doing that – and still do! The ones I am talking about today are […]
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DIY – Make Your Own Air Cushion Foundation / Serum Foundation – Video
One of the best Korean beauty inventions is the “Cushion Foundation” – a sponge soaked with liquid foundation or BB cream and put into a compact case. It is very convenient and travel-friendly and drastically reduces your “makeup time” especially when you’re on a holiday. However, these cushion foundations, or air cushion foundation as they […]
Tutorial – How To Repair A Broken Eyeshadow
Last month, when I received the welcome kit from Sigma Beauty, the eyeshadow in it came broken. I was really upset but then I decided to check online how broken eyeshadows can be fixed and realised that it was ridiculously simple! So I decided to do this little basic tutorial for you incase any of […]
Chocoholics Rejoice…A Gentle, Nourishing, DIY Face and Body Chocolate Scrub.
Ok, so we had quite a disappointing chocolate scrub with big sugar crystals (albeit a nice fragrance). But don’t be disheartened Shringaristas, coz I have something better for you, something that is gentle enough to be used on your face a well as your body, something that is nourishing for the skin, something that you […]
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Vicks Vaporub For Clear Nose and Soft Feet This Winter
As much as I love winters (though we hardly have any winter in Bombay) the two things I really dont like are my feet getting really dry, especially the heels, and getting a blocked nose. I discovered a one-step solution for this when I had gone to Switzerland. I could feel the cold coming […]
DIY Make Your Own Coloured “Lip Butter”
You know, when I was in school, I used to love chemistry practicals….fiddling around with different acids and chemicals, tungsten burners, pipettes, watching the chemical reactions and seeing the colours change…. My current fave red lippie is MAC Ruby Woo which is a really dry matte and winter doesnt really help it. So I thought […]
DIY Relaxing Body Scrub
From sandpaper to silk…that’s what my skin feels like after my ritual Sunday pampering body scrub. Depending on my mood, I add a fragrant element which is either relaxing, energizing or invigorating. My body scrub is really simple and needs very few ingredients, mostly from the kitchen itself (there are no fixed quantities, I just […]