Being brave has nothing to do with being unafraid !
~Northern Borders
~Northern Borders
Sunday, June 07, 2015
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Of Paper parfum and anti-aging creams
When a woman has a cozy fall afternoon to spare all curled up in her bed and nothing to do, nothing could be more fun than flipping through a Vogue magazine if you love fashion.So recently my husband got me a Vogue subscription since I am the only person he knows who can run a shopathon for more than 12 hours (clocked in at almost 14 hours with a minor coffee break last Thanksgiving) for latest styles next to his cousin sisters. I heart them. God bless their shopping loving souls ! So I was saying that while I was enjoying flipping and already imagining how I could imitate those classic styles; if not the perfect cut and design from the affordable retail stores, I was also getting absorbed in the beautiful themes that Vogue ran. From Victorian to Gatsby, Medieval to pop, pages after pages Miranda Kerr and Sasha Pivovarova -esque models transported me to a happy place. It made me feel suave, urban chic, Victorian prim and modern hip. And ah ! Those paper parfums they run inside the magazine. Just slit and smell. After reading a few issues, I started rating the parfum as if by doing so in some parallel universe I am BFFs with the beautiful ladies they feature in the magazine and we have tea and discuss world issues and fashion.So were these fragrances for me or not for me ? Floral or fruity ? Strong or subtle ? Fendi L'Acquarossa - Strong but just very attractive. It would make you keep coming back for more. Modern Muse by Estee Lauder - Love it. For me.Narciso Rodriguez for her ? Made me feel like I was already in a very upmarket expensive store where whenever the ladies pass by, you always get a whiff of whatever you wish for and money can buy. Tory Burch claimed to be effortless chic but I wish there was little bit of effort because it was too faint. Sorry Torry and Viktor & Rolf sorry you are too fruity for my taste. But Coco Chanel Mademoiselle you will always hold the key to my longing heart.So I was flipping through the Nov issue featuring Kate Winslet and I was doing my rating when I came across not a parfum but a popular anti aging cream sample attached to a page. Well for a woman in her thirties you just dont flip by and move on to other pages. It just makes you step back from your vivid beautiful lovely smelling world and go - Let's try this. Tried I did and sorry anti aging cream I didn't feel anything more coarse and sand paper-ish on my face before. I give it a skip ! Maybe my skin is still too soft and baby supple (transferred back to my alternate universe I guess!) for it. I cuddle up a bit more in the cozy bed. I will think of anti aging creams just another day. Till then I will just stick to parfum and couture.
~ A, loves Vogue
When a woman has a cozy fall afternoon to spare all curled up in her bed and nothing to do, nothing could be more fun than flipping through a Vogue magazine if you love fashion.So recently my husband got me a Vogue subscription since I am the only person he knows who can run a shopathon for more than 12 hours (clocked in at almost 14 hours with a minor coffee break last Thanksgiving) for latest styles next to his cousin sisters. I heart them. God bless their shopping loving souls ! So I was saying that while I was enjoying flipping and already imagining how I could imitate those classic styles; if not the perfect cut and design from the affordable retail stores, I was also getting absorbed in the beautiful themes that Vogue ran. From Victorian to Gatsby, Medieval to pop, pages after pages Miranda Kerr and Sasha Pivovarova -esque models transported me to a happy place. It made me feel suave, urban chic, Victorian prim and modern hip. And ah ! Those paper parfums they run inside the magazine. Just slit and smell. After reading a few issues, I started rating the parfum as if by doing so in some parallel universe I am BFFs with the beautiful ladies they feature in the magazine and we have tea and discuss world issues and fashion.So were these fragrances for me or not for me ? Floral or fruity ? Strong or subtle ? Fendi L'Acquarossa - Strong but just very attractive. It would make you keep coming back for more. Modern Muse by Estee Lauder - Love it. For me.Narciso Rodriguez for her ? Made me feel like I was already in a very upmarket expensive store where whenever the ladies pass by, you always get a whiff of whatever you wish for and money can buy. Tory Burch claimed to be effortless chic but I wish there was little bit of effort because it was too faint. Sorry Torry and Viktor & Rolf sorry you are too fruity for my taste. But Coco Chanel Mademoiselle you will always hold the key to my longing heart.So I was flipping through the Nov issue featuring Kate Winslet and I was doing my rating when I came across not a parfum but a popular anti aging cream sample attached to a page. Well for a woman in her thirties you just dont flip by and move on to other pages. It just makes you step back from your vivid beautiful lovely smelling world and go - Let's try this. Tried I did and sorry anti aging cream I didn't feel anything more coarse and sand paper-ish on my face before. I give it a skip ! Maybe my skin is still too soft and baby supple (transferred back to my alternate universe I guess!) for it. I cuddle up a bit more in the cozy bed. I will think of anti aging creams just another day. Till then I will just stick to parfum and couture.
~ A, loves Vogue
Sunday, October 13, 2013
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart
will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure
of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to
an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries;
avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your
selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it
will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable,
impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to
the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven
where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations
of love is Hell.”
- In C.S. Lewis's words from The Four Loves
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Friday, April 27, 2012
You are
"You are just your intelligence" - Late Kalpana Chawla, NASA astronaut, while in space.
How profound ! While we go through life obsessing over a perfect body size , in space it literally doesn't matter. You are just your intelligence. It's not easy to rid the earthly life of its eartly miseries.But once in a while the real self deserves to take a step back and appreciate the real you.
How profound ! While we go through life obsessing over a perfect body size , in space it literally doesn't matter. You are just your intelligence. It's not easy to rid the earthly life of its eartly miseries.But once in a while the real self deserves to take a step back and appreciate the real you.
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