What To Wear: To A Euro2012 Match at a Sports Bar :)

Hello everyone :) You all know that I am not a cricket fan... Rather my love and loyalty lies towards football and with the Euro2012 going on, the pati and I have our lives revolving around football mostly :) And so it was very logical to have our pre-anniversary celebrations at a Sports Bar watching the historical England-France match :) Now the match turned out to be quite a dud with it ending as a draw but it was fun nonetheless especially after a couple of Tequila shots ;) Have I ever told you guys how much I abhor Vodka and worship Tequila? Nope I don't think so :P

So anyways, this is what I wore... I finally got to wear my Mango dress and it seemed quite apt too as I was rooting for France and Blue is France's color :D he he ha ha ;)

Dress: Mango
Peep Toes: Local Shoe Boutique

Make-up wise I did a crease cut look with a hint of blue in the crease and kept my lips nude since a sports bar isn't the place to wear a face of full makeup now is it? ;)

Eye-shadows: MAC Ricepaper, MAC Folie and L'Oreal Azure Blonde Blue Eye shadow
Lipstick: MAC Taupe
Liner: Maybelline Gel Liner
Mascara: MAC Zoom Lash Mascara
Blush: Colorbar Blush in Floral Fucsia

I loved the overall minimalistic look :) Pati said I look like a kid with very hot legs :P Then he drew a similarity between the lethal Japanese chick in school uniform in Kill Bill and moi ;) But then I don't believe him, I know he was just trying to earn some brownie points ;)


P.S. Stay tuned for Anniversary outfit and my cake pics ;)

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MAC Lipstick in 'Ruby Woo' & An Attempt at The Pin-Up Girl Look

I have been itching to wear my Ruby Woo since the day I got it and well even though I haven't been getting an opportunity to wear anywhere outside, I just keep applying it on me at home... So it was natural that I would want to do a post about it. Now the thing with MAC Ruby Woo is that it is no ordinary Red lipstick. It is a cult Red Lipstick and in order to honor the "Retro Matte" part of it, I had to a special look... and well what better than an all American Pin-Up girl look ;)

Yeah yeah I am no model-shodel but then a girl can dream can't she? Especially in the confines of her own home? ;) Ha ha! So anyways without much ado, ladies and gentlemen I present you THE look :D

For those who keep asking me to post the "other" side of my face ;)

I have Asian eyes with an almost absent crease and hence I have done a "cut-crease" technique here in order give some depth to my eyes and give an illusion of a crease...

Products Used:
Eyes
1. MAC Ricepaper on the inner half of the lid
2. MAC Cork on the outer half of the lid
3. MAC Carbon on the crease
4. MAC Folie on the crease to soften the black eye shadow.
5. MAC Honesty as a highlighter on the brow bone.

Lips
1. MAC Retro Matte Lipstick in Ruby Woo

Cheeks
1. Colorbar Blush in Floral Fucsia
2. Lakme Highlighter

Now just a bit about Ruby Woo. It is not a "matte" lipstick but a "retro matte" lippy from MAC. Thus it is a tad bit more drying than the regular MAC matte lippies... Yup the lipstick itself is very dry and you do end up tugging your lips a bit... Which is why I like applying it with a lip bush :) It is dry to the point that there is 0 transfer. Yes I promise... 0 transfer! and no it does not highlight the fine lines on my lips and neither does it feel dry. Its the best matte lippy I have worn in a long time! and by far the best Red lippy ever.

If you are not scared of Red lipsticks then go and get it woman! :P

P.S. Don't you think my hair is shining and looking glossy all of a sudden? :) Secret! Will be revealed soon :) 

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Reader Request: Anushka Sharma's MakeUp in the Canon Ad

Basically, importantly, fundamentally many beauty bloggers have already done this tute like Sukanya and Bidisha but Pranali has been asking me to do this since two weeks now and she kinda gave me an ultimatum to do it on Sunday during our blogger's meet and well I had to oblige :)

Sukanya and Bids you did some awesome work on it and I totally "dig" both your tutes... I hope my doing this tute isn't gonna step on any toes :) I will be doing my interpretation of the look :)

Honestly? I have taken the picture quadrant from Sukanya's blog "A Few Unnecessary Stuff" :D

My Interpretation
Anushka's look is actually a very simple, everyday look with well defined eyes and peachy lips. The overall look is crisp and can be worn almost everyday. I am even wearing it to office today :)


1. Let us analyse the eyes first...
The eyes as you can see is well defined with kohl in the waterline and no fuss with any nude or white liner to make the eyes seem bigger and stuff. If you notice her eyes in the first three quadrants, you'll feel like she has applied a lot of black smudged liner on her upper lids but if you see her profile which is the fourth quadrant you'll notice that her upper lids are actually quite crisp and thinly lined. The kohl on the lower lashline on the other hand has been smudged with a brown eye shadow.
Also her crease has been defined using a nude shade of brown eye shadow.

2. Zero or negligible blush
I have applied quite a bit of blush as I dp not have a long face like Anushka. I have more of a round face and so to make it look longer I had to apply a blush :)

3. Warm Peach lips...
Since I have pigmented lips and a lot of "yellow" undertone,Peach lippies kinda look Pink on me. So I have a darker Orange gloss to create the "warm" effect.

Tutorial
1. Take a nude/neutral brown eye shadow and using a stiff blending brush apply it in the crease area to deepen your crease. I have used MAC Texture eye shadow with MAC 226 brush.

2. Next take a very natural looking highlighter shade and apply it on your browbone area. I have used MAC RicePaper.

3. Then apply kajal on your lower waterline. Re-apply to make it really dark. I have used my Maybelline Gel Liner.

4. Then taking the same neutral brown shadow used in step 1 using a flat smudger brush, smudge the kajal in the waterline with the shadow on the lower lashline. I am using COlorbar's brush number 122.

5. Finally apply a liquid liner (no a pencil liner or gel liner not allowed :P) on the upper lashline very thinly. Finish your look with a mascara :D

6. For the cheeks I have used a bronzer and Colorbar Star Metallics Lip Gloss in Astral for the lips :)

Hope you like the tutorial :)

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What To Wear: To A Sunday Brunch

A Girl Should Be Two Things: Classy & Fabulous

                                                                                                                 --- Coco Chanel

And that is exactly what I always try to be whenever I either go shopping for clothes or whenever I have to dress for any occasion...

This Saturday I went out to lunch with one of my besties' "Manu Sharma" to this really classy Italian Restaurant called Little Italy and it did call for some fabulous dressing... 

I paired a champagne colored satin pencil skirt with a black sleeveless top that had rosettes around the neckline :) I wore black suede peep toe slingbacks with the outfit :) With it I took a velvet maroon pouch with another pretty rosette on it :)

My Look...

I tried keeping the makeup simple, nude and subtle and this is what I did...

Please ignore the "idiotic" expression :P

I applied:

1. Maxfactor Second Skin Liquid Foundation in "Golden"

2. MUFE star powder shade 940 wet on my eye lids 

3. Blended it with MAC Texture in the crease 

4. MAC ricepaper on the brow bone.

5. Colorbar Blush in Floral Fucsia on the cheeks

6. MAC Matte Lipstick in "Taupe"

7. Colorbar Star Shine Lip Gloss in "Chai"

Hope you guys liked my look :)

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Weekend HAUL: MAC Cosmetics...

It had been a while I had shopped at MAC (1.25 months to be precise) and well I was waiting for my new salary so that I could just go and raid MAC ;) And well, since I do not like to waste time, I was at MAC on 31st March i.e. yesterday ;) Best part? Apart from the haul of course was that my bestie was with me (I finally bullied her into buying a MAC) and then I met fellow bloggers, Zara and Parul there too :) What a way to start a weekend right? :P

So what did I buy? Well the first thing I wanted was the MAC Lip Erase thingy... But was greatly disappointed :( The MUA applied it on me and then whichever lippy I tried over it would invariably settle into the lines :( She did say that it would need a prior exfoliation of my lips to give best results... But then I wasn't paying a huge amount for something that I wasn't really sure if it would work on me :( So... I did not buy it! :P

Then I moved onto the quest of finding the perfect nude lippy for me :P Yes those who are with me on FB and Twitter would recollect that I was taking suggestions from you all on your fav MAC nude lippy... Well I tried out all of them... Hug Me, Half N Half, Cream In Your Coffee, Teddy etc but alas they all made me look so pale and washed out sighhhh... So I finally tried out "Taupe"... Now if you have seen my wish list on the right side of this page, you will see that I had listed "Taupe" in it and well when I put it on, it was my MLBB lippy... Never knew my lips were so pigmented! :P

So anyways, enough of my rambling and here are the pics :)

My MAC Haul

MAC Blending Brush 226

 

MAC Eye Shadow in Rice Paper

MAC Eye Shadow in Antiqued

 

MAC Matte Lipstick in Taupe

MAC Paint Pot in Genuine Treasure

 

Swatch: MAC Paint Pot in Genuine Treasure

A short list:
1. MAC Matte Lipstick in Taupe
2. MAC Antiqued Eye Shadow
3. MAC Rice Paper Eye Shadow
4. MAC Paint Pot in Genuine Treasure
5. MAC Blending Brush in 226

Btw, the MAC MUA "Deenika" was quite taken with my eyes ;) Hehe *happy me*... She tried a couple of eye makeup tricks on my eyes and then finally asked me if I would be willing to come around to the store when free and she would like trying a few strokes on my eyes ;) Can you even imagine how flattered I felt?! ;) Hehehehehe... Neeraj Navare also told me that he would love to do some makeup on my eyes and now Deenika said it too... I am Cloud 9 *obviously* ;) *giggle giggle*

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