Birthdays!

                                                                                        

Hello readers,
Luckily, both Sujata and my birthday falls in the same month. Its only a couple of days apart. I turned 22 on recently and Sujata is not far behind now. Wow 22, feel quite old almost matured.. OK maybe not, well how do you know you have matured? hmmm.. Lets leave it at that for now. So after the  daily early morning tasks and breakfast. I headed into town determined to find the perfect dress for the dinner later on the night. Looking around the high street shops I couldn't find anything suitable. I was looking for a maxi dress with an elegant look and not at all flashy. I found the perfect dress in House of Fraser under the label Jack . 

Right enough about the dress! I got the cake from Swinky's sweets . The cake was amazing.
This past year has gone by so quickly its ridiculous how time flies. So yeah, that's what I got up to on my birthday. I will do a few more posts soon. Thanks for reading!

Highlights of this week #1

1.Cute jewellery stand I bought in Bath 2.store in Bath 3.early bday present 4.baking attempt 5.new laptop 6. food food

Entering my final year of study is not easy!! Dissertation as well as coursework and who can forget the dreadful exams. Its all piling up but honestly I am really glad that it has kept me on my toes. This is what I have been up to in the past week. I really want to keep blogging but after watching other blogs, I just think that my life or purchases aren't as interesting. Being a student my budget for these extra items are quite low :( 

Anyhow, I will try my best to keep up atleast 1 post a week. That would be a good start, I reckon. Right, gotta stop rambling for now. Ciao 

Pratista 

The One with the Iconic Bordeaux

I've tried writing this post several times now and it was just not quite right. I've now decided to just write it and not over think things. Here goes.

In one of Lisa Eldridge's recent beauty videos on You Tube she used a coloured mascara on her model, Bip Ling. I have much more to say about her on future posts. It intrigued me so much that I did a little bit of research that is "googling" on it. At a whooping £31 it is one of the most expensive mascaras I've come across. Personally I prefer drugstore mascaras. They work better on my lashes compared to the higher end ones and are a fraction of the price. My all time favourite is falsies by Maybelline. Ever time I test out a different one I go running back to this!

But with coloured mascara drug stores don't really have a good range and so for the first time in a long time I browsed the YSL and Estee Lauder mascaras. The coloured variety to be specific. There was a burgundy one by YSL which I was very close to getting but I couldn't help but compare it to the one Lisa had used. Yes it was pricey but I thought I'd rather pay a bit more than the YSL one and get a product that I knew I wanted 100%. So I did buy the one Lisa used. And which one was that you say? I got the Iconic Bordeaux mascara by Terry. It's a relatively new makeup range and I believe you can only get it at Space NK. I got mine from their online store.

It is a beautiful deep reddish, plummy almost burgundy colour. It has growth boosting ingredients and such in it.  But I hear once you stop using a mascara that says it will help grow more lashes, that quality goes too. Although a few extra lashes would be grand, I was more into the colour of the mascara. You can tell it's quality and when the light hits it you can see its true colour. I'm not keen on taking pictures let alone zoomed in ones of my face. But here's one of the mascara one me. You have been warned. I think it's a very pretty mascara but one I'd wear say on a sunny day or something just so the colour shows up properly. I'm thinking of pairing it up with Avon's diamond glimmerstick eyeliner. It's a purple colour with silver specks in it and hopefully it'll pair up with the plummy colour in the mascara. We shall see whether it complements my eyes or makes me look like I've got a bruised eye. I joke!