Braided all the way...!!

Hello readers!!

Braiding your hair has become an instant style statement this season, don't you agree?? And there are so many different ways to tie a plait! You don't even need to go to a stylist or someone else to braid your hair when you can do it all on your own...!! ;) Hence, I have posted below videos of various types of braids to help you look stylish like never before! 


1. The Classic French Braid

2. Fishtail Braid

3. French Fishtail Braid

4. Waterfall Braid

5.  Reverse Braid

6. Dutch Braid

7. Katniss Braid

I hope you like'em! Do try 'em, they are simple and gorgeous!! :)


P.S. Beauty is within YOU! :)

Monsoon Drama...!!

Hello readers!!

Monsoon is here!!  Why should anyone stop looking gorgeous just because the weather looks dull? Make the most of it by wearing beautiful bright colors and be the sunshine  in the rains..! :)

This is the perfect Indian Monsoon look…just like a peacock!

I have applied the indian blue and green eyeshadow with a dash of gold to add spark to my eyes. I have highlighted my lower lid with green under kaajal. Also I have used bold liner for a dramatic effect! ;)

A simple look to brighten your look at any time of the day. Mixture of purple and copper looks best while walking in the rain. Copper liner on your lower lid makes the eye look bright and bold.

Tip: For long lasting make-up during monsoon, use cream based cosmetic products. :)

P.S. Beauty is within YOU! :)

VOGUE to the rescue!! Eyes & Lips

Hello readers!!


In this last part of Vogue tip series I'm going to share with you some awesome secrets! :) 
Happy reading!


Eyes

• To prevent clumpy lashes, wipe your mascara brush with a tissue before you use it. You may think you're wasting it but at least you'll look gorgeous.
• A great way to give a fuller look to sparse lashes: eyeliner may be back on the inner lower lid but its also very effective on the inner upper one. Apply pencil from below the lashes and work lightly along the roots so that it gives a natural shadow.
• If you've got pale lashes and can't reach the lash base with your mascara wand, use liquid liner to dab at and cover them.
• Buy a mascara, get a brush free. When you finish a tube of mascara, don't just throw the brush away, recycle it. Once it has been washed, the wand makes a perfect eyelash brush: use it to weed out clumpy mascara. It also makes a useful tamer for unruly eyebrows.
• For super sharp eyebrows, snip off the straggly tops of your eyebrows. You have to go very carefully, one hair at a time and just trim off the tip of the brow hair right where it reaches the outer line of your brow.
• To help low eyebrows appear higher, brush eyebrows downwards so you can see exactly where the uppermost hairs emerge from the skin. With a pencil or eyeshadow and brush, trace along the upper limit, emphasizing the highest part of your brow line, and then when you brush the hair up you'll neatly hide the pencilled line.
• If you're not an expert with eyebrow pencil, draw brow colour on your hand rather than straight on to your brow, then rub an eyebrow brush over the pencil mark. The brush will pick up a tiny amount of the colour which you then brush through your brow.
• For the just woken up puffy eyes, wrap an ice cube in a flannel, run it under the tap quickly and dab it on to each eye alternately. The puffiness will go down in minutes.
• For longer-lasting crease proof eyeshadow, put powder eyeshadow on with a damp brush. The eyeshadow will dry into the skin as you blend it and because it clings to the wet brush you'll avoid the problem of dry eyeshadow crumbling on to your cheek below.
• To create the illusion of deeper set eyes, keep your eyes open and brush on a deep taupe shadow just above your natural crease. Blend well. And as the shadow isn't actually in the crease it can't, well, crease.
• To brighten and widen narrow-set eyes: a well blended smudge of ivory cream colour in the inner inner corner of your eye will brighten an area which often looks bluish, makes whites of eyes whiter and create the illusion of width.
• To help small eyes appear larger, use white pencil on the lower inner lid- this will give the impression of larger whites of the eye, and help make your eyes look brighter.

Lips

• Lipstick primer extraordinaire. Foundation as a base for lipstick will help it last longer and keep colours truer, but concealer goes one better. It's more matt and thick enough to fill in lip creases for a fuller look.  
• Make any lipstick matt. After applying lipstick, peel a tissue down to it's thinnest layer. Hold it over the lips and then ''blot'' face powder all over it with the aid of a puff. This will diffuse the powder evenly, creating a perfect matt finish, and make your lipstick last much longer.
• For a really natural lip colour which won't slide off, rub on a little rosy blusher, or some pinky eyeshadow, then seal in with lip balm.
• Forget the back of your hand for lipstick testing. Use your index finger. Different skin types alter the shade but the way it looks on your index finger will be closest to what it will look like on your lips.
• Put make-up in the most hardest and unflattering light you can find. If you look good there, you'll look great anywhere.
• An easier way to blot your lipstick: fold a tissue, insert it into the corners of your mouth and then press your lips together rather than trying to blot the entire mouth at once.
• To ensure you don't flash your best smile only to reveal lipstick on your teeth, once lipstick is in place stick your index finger in your mouth, close your lips around it and pull finger out. The lipstick which was on the inside of your lips will now be on your finger.
• When you need your lipstick to last... apply it as normal and rub it in, then blot, blot and blot again until only the colour, and none of the moisture is left. Repeat, then go over with a lip pencil and blend it all in. The liner will have''sealed'' the lipstick colour.
• If your only option for a full looking mouth is to cheat, don't do it with lipstick. A creamy lipstick has a sheen which will only highlight your lip line. Use a matt liner instead which will dull and hide it. Simply push the pencil to the outer limits of your lip. Colour in a with a slicker colour,a dot of gloss or leave the centre of your lower lips a shade lighter. You'll get a realistic looking fuller mouth.

P.S. Beauty is within YOU! :)