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Maharani Look A-Z Okay so this is my first lookbook on my blog. To be true, I’ve never been comfortable in creating one, perhaps because this is not the usual topic I deal with. If you’ve been reading my blog for some time, you’d know I’m more of a skincare person, dealing with the nuts & bolts of science behind skin treatments rather than flaunting my fashion sense of which I’m not exactly sure of. But anyway, when I decided to do this finally, let me tell you it was not an easy decision. So, I’d pick up a look I think I know much better than any other style; here it is the Traditional Indian Look or as I’d call it ‘The Maharani Look’ . ‘Maharani’ is the Hindi/Bengali word for Queen. With the word Maharani, the first thing that comes to your mind is a lady moving around with a lot of heavy jewelry & an extravagant saree or lehenga. It is true to a certain extent but it’s not all. A woman can look like a Maharani even without all that extravagance, armed wit...

Get A Glowing Complexion Now!!!! As promised earlier, today I’d continue with a few of my easy to make at home DIY face scrub. However, please be aware that these scrubs can also be used as body scrubs, so you can make them in larger batches. Usually homemade body scrubs aren’t suitable for face bcause either they have more oil or they contain harsher exfoliating particles which render them unsuitable for use on thinner sensitive skin on face but not the otherwise. If you keep the oil content in check & also ‘tone down’ the scrubbing particles a little bit, such scrubs will multitask as both: face & body scrub well. This is the tricky part because there are some scrubbing particles that can’t be toned down like baking soda. In that case, add them in a smaller quantity & rub less on sensitive body parts. While some may not agree, but I’ve seen some finer particle compounds working as well as granulated sugar or baking soda such as Bengal Gram F...

Let's Talk About Exfoliation Let’s talk about exfoliation. I’ve not been around the beauty & makeup scene for real long but I’ve heard most misconceptions in this topic only, which made me write the ultimate #blogpost on this subject to finally clear all the doubts regarding the same. Although used synonymously by some, exfoliation & scrubbing have subtle differences. Scrubbing is a kind of exfoliation while exfoliation is not all about scrubbing because it can be achieved in various ways. Scrubbing exfoliates the skin mechanically but exfoliation can be done by both techniques: mechanically & chemically. Scrubbing is literally mechanical exfoliation. By definition, scrubbing refers to the technique in which coarse particles are rubbed against the skin to mobilize the dead cells on the upper layer of the skin, called the stratum corneum of the epidermis to reveal fresh inner skin. But scrubbing, is a very superficial procedure, whereas exfoliation...

Let's Talk About Oily Skin So far managing my super oily skin has been the biggest concern. As I was struggling with this, I was also facing a few pimples here & there. Luckily I’ve never had massive acne to deal with but as usual, day by day, due to hormonal reasons (as I was on pills due to PCOS) it was getting harder & harder to manage the excessive sebum secretion which indirectly led me to research a bit about managing oily skin. No matter how meticulously I’d cleanse my skin, oil comes back after an hour & it’s the same again. For a person like me, who was blessed with a rather non problematic skin during her teenage years & thought it was over, had to face a nasty oily skin in adulthood. I was searching for my answers to doctor google & to people I thought was qualified enough but I didn’t realize the thing before I took up biotechnology as my major in graduation. This new era slowly introduced me to the life sys...