Step 1: The right way to Part hair
Using the pointed end of a rattail comb, create a deep side part in your hair, lining it up with the arch in your left or right eyebrow (depending on the side you prefer to part on).
Step 2: Adding Volume
Next, tease the crown section of your hair using your rattail comb. To create the most volume, comb toward the scalp (this is also known as backcombing or ratting). If you love the volume that the ‘60s bouffant hair trend was known for, keep teasing. It’s always easier to remove volume later than it is to add more.
Step 3: Smoothing It Out
Now, use a small boar bristle brush to smooth your hair back, creating a perfectly polished bouffant.
Step 4: Securing Your Bouffant
To make sure your bouffant stays put (and all your hard work doesn’t go to waste), use several bobby pins to keep it in place. Opt for bobby pins in the same color as your hair to easily disguise them.
Step 5: Setting it with Spray
Last but not least, spray your style with a setting hairspray for ultimate hold that lasts throughout the day.
Step 6: Dressing It Up
As an optional finishing touch, try adding a fun accessory to the bouffant hair trend. A jeweled headband or sweet and simple wrap makes for an eye-catching addition to your hairstyle.
The perfect way to rock this style with a closed collar Indian wear or you can even go deep neck traditional. Adding touch of bling and accessory to your newly achieved bouffant will give you the ease of glam and fab in no time. When it comes to Bouffant, the bigger is Better!
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Ok, so is there a different dimension to enter altogether?
More cookies for you, less for the DIABETIC!
Not sure which author reads our mind correctly?
We’ll just keep going in circles then ?
Mini..Jumbo? This is just cleverly stupid!
To go or not to go ? Someone help the boy out please
Praise the writer and his inspirational dialect.
It truly was Fresh at some point
This is just as brutal as the heat.
Good to know that infinity comes with a time limit
As soon as you see this sign, start running
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The currently running, highest followed series is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire. The series, set on the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos intertwines several plot lines with a broad ensemble cast. Game of Thrones has attracted record numbers of viewers on HBO and obtained an exceptionally broad and active international fan base.
Breaking Bad:
The acclaimed series tells the story of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a struggling high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, who, turns to a life of crime, producing and selling crystallized methamphetamine to secure his family’s financial future before he dies. Regarded as one of the greatest television series of all time, the series was among the most-watched cable shows on American television. In 2013, Breaking Bad entered the Guinness World Records as the highest rated show of all time.
The Walking Dead:
The Walking Dead is an American horror drama television series based on the comic book series of the same name. Andrew Lincoln plays the show’s lead character, sheriff’s deputy Rick Grimes, who awakens from a months-long coma to confront an apocalyptic world overrun by zombies.
Lost:
Lost is a drama series containing elements of science fiction and the supernatural. It follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet, on a mysterious tropical island somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean. Lost has been consistently ranked as the ten television series of all time. The first season garnered an estimated average of 16 million viewers per episode. During its sixth and final season, the show averaged over 11 million U.S. viewers per episode
The Office:
The series depicts everyday lives of office employees in Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. To simulate the look of an actual documentary, it is filmed in a single-camera setup, without a studio audience or a laugh track. The first season was met with mixed reviews, but the following four seasons received widespread acclaim from television critics, and were included on several critics’ year-end top TV series lists.
Seinfeld:
Set predominantly in an apartment block in Manhattan’s Upper West Side in New York City, the show features a handful of Jerry’s friends and acquaintances, particularly best friend George Costanza, former girlfriend Elaine Benes and neighbor across the hall Cosmo Kramer .A favorite among critics, the show led ratings in seasons six and nine, and finished among the top two every year from 1994 to 1998. In 2002, TV Guide named Seinfeld the greatest television program of all time.
Star Trek:
Set in the Milky Way galaxy, roughly during the 2260s. The series features a ship and crew led by Captain James T. Kirk, first officer and science officer Spock and chief medical officer Leonard McCoy. Less known fact- Star Trek was canceled after three seasons and 79 episodes. Several years later, the series became a bona fide hit in broadcast syndication, remaining so throughout the 1970s, achieving cult classic status and a developing influence on popular culture. The famous series eventually spawned a franchise, consisting of five additional television series, twelve feature films, numerous books, games, toys, and is now widely considered one of the most popular and influential television series of all time.
Which series are you following? Tell us in the comments below.
]]>The current beauty industry is going even further and beyond, creating and marketing what it calls “food based” products like coconut shampoo, grapefruit body scrub, mushroom anti-aging cream, pomegranate-pigmented lipstick and cucumber eye-makeup remover. The list and food items-so to speak-are endless. It’s no longer about the food you eat, but the food you are applying that effects your overall natural beauty. From organic ingredients to all natural scents, the brands and customers are embracing this fresh trend whole heartedly. Using food-grade ingredients circumvents potential consumer skepticism about a product’s naturalness, enabling manufacturers to take advantage of the known health and beauty benefits of fruits and vegetables.
The use of cocoa and sugar in products has been observed for centuries. The cocoa pod has around 800 complex molecules, out of which 30 are beneficial for the skin. The upcoming trends of food based cosmetics include rice, marula oil for scalp care. In a way, food has gloatingly made its way from tables to bathroom shelves. With products like Jessica Simpson’s Dessert, which aims at the young, fun set with “lickable, kissable” shampoos, moisturizers and lip glosses. Today’s edible offerings, however, are not designed to be shared and instead tap into one of the most powerful trends in cosmetics and toiletries: the demand for non-synthetic beauty ingredients. Food-based brands are readily targeting consumers with special dietary requirements. Besides the prevalent vegetarian formulations, there is also scope for developing halal or kosher products or ones entirely based on organic ingredients. They can also benefit from consumer fads for exotic “super foods”, such as antioxidant-rich pomegranates. Whatever your taste buds are craving, can easily be delivered in your daily beauty regimen.
So, food-based or newly termed Nutri-cosmetics are on the rise, taking a major part in growing the cosmetic industry. This trend will eventually lead to the popularity of products like, organic chocolate, hemp and extracted exotic plants and fruits in our cosmetic bag.
Edible cosmetics are appearing at a time when homemade beauty remedies are growing in popularity as a natural and cost-effective alternative to expensive, synthetic cosmetics. Although, the segment does not offer the equivalent cost efficiency, food-based beauty brands do have the advantage of convenience and a longer shelf-life.
What are you in mood for today ?
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Jewelry brand Phyllis+Rosie’s exclusive capsule collection for Calypso St. Barth is the perfect answer to layering-up idyllic summertime jewelry pieces. Launched in 2014 by designer Alana Blank, Phyllis+Rosie is a fresh new jewelry design company that pioneers in beautiful and easy-to-wear pieces. The timeless yet edgy aesthetic makes this brand the cool “It girl” of versatile jewelry, sealing its status as the quintessential partner for the high-end, bohemian-luxe Calypso.
It was fishy business at the maison of Van Cleef & Arpels who showed off their Carpe Koi high jewellery bracelet at this year’s launch. Set with 8,000 stones, including diamonds, tourmalines, yellow sapphires and juicy garnets, this one-of-a-kind bejeweled fish wraps around the wrist. The Carpe Koï bracelet combines all of the strengths of the Parisian jewelry—design, craftsmanship, the use rare gems in unique combinations, and magnificent storytelling.
The latest collection by Boucheron, called Bleu de Jodhpur, is a tribute to the Blue City created under the high patronage of the Maharaja Gaj Singh II of Marwar-Jodhpur, the first offering of its kind for the house. Combining traditional Indian techniques and materials with the house’s own heritage, The collection offered up several remarkable pieces, such as the Mendhi brooch-necklace and a reversible necklace of diamond-set Makrana marble—the same as was used to build the Taj Mahal—on one side and crystal inlaid with diamonds and sapphires on the other.
Chopard has the honor and laurel of having recently been made an official haute joaillerie member of the very French, very official Fédération Française de la Couture, joining just eight other high jewelry maisons who can claim such a position. Well deserved too, as the extraordinary Peacock earrings from the Animal World collection prove. Set in white gold and titanium, this feathered pair boasts in full glory, bursts of diamond beads, sapphires and amethysts, with brilliant Paraiba tourmaline drops suspended from their tails. You could wear a potato sac for a dress and still look the part when wearing them, they’re that glamorous.
Chanel makes no bones about its legacy, endlessly
reinventing the symbols beloved of Coco Chanel, and the new collection is a sweetly concise riff
on the foursome amalgamation of these. Drawing immense inhalation for nature, Les Intemporels de
Chanel takes the comet, the lion, the camelia and the ribbon as its inspiration, and sticks to
color palette of near uniform black and white, except for a splash of color via two
ribbon-inspired cocktail rings sporting a blue and a pink sapphire. But the camelia pieces make
the best use of the monochromatic look, with bold black spinels standing out against white
diamonds and pearls as they outline the flowers’ petals.
The well known French company, Cartier released a new jewelry collection, with extreme focus on sophistication. The immediate inspiration coming from oriental sources. Collection L’Odyssee de Cartier was envisioned to create motives from Indian, Chinese and African cultures. Ethnic motives were created by the brand by creatively incorporating golden topazes, pearls and orange tourmalines, all throughout its collection.
In addition to its major launch for Fall, the Opéra line, which was unveiled during couture week, Buccellati presented a white gold rigato-engraved cuff with a nearly 114-carat moonstone, one of the last pieces designed by the late Gianmaria Buccellati. The house also showed 50 band rings, all different, with colorful center stones. Meanwhile, the Pegasus-inspired wing-shaped earrings that hook over the ear demonstrated the emerging creative influence of Lucrezia Buccellati, Gianmaria’s granddaughter and the house’s fourth-generation designer.
The 29-piece Secrets by Harry Winston collection packs a few surprises. The flexible and very diverse Secret Combination necklace can be worn seven different ways, for example, while the pieces in the Secret Wonder collection have two faces: one in diamonds, the other in sapphires, diamonds, and aquamarines.
Pre-Autumn 2015,The main inspiration brain wave behind, the magnificent jewelry collection from Pandora. This season’s ode made to nature’s sculptural forms, motifs and contrasting textures is lit up with luminous iridescence, golden glows and monochrome playfulness.
Piaget takes its inspiration from this great diversity for its new high jewelry collection: “Secrets & Lights – A Mythical Journey by Piaget.”The collection was revealed a week ago during the haute couture shows in Paris. The Swiss luxury brand created 94 jewels using an assortment of colorful gems combined with diamonds and gold to once again bring back this cultural mix. However, the most talked about and demanding attention was perhaps two of the most legendary cities along the 4,000-mile trade route: Venice and Samarkand.
We will not blame you, if you come again and again to marvel at these beauties. We promise to keep you updated with more recent collections for you to ogle at.
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