I am not a New Year party fan. Its always too much pressure, too much expectation and uncomfortable, boring clothes. I think I wore a black dress for pretty much every New Year party I attended in my teenage years. I really wish I could go back in time and change that – I think…
Holiday Gift Guide: Technology and Gadgets
It got really difficult to get technology and gadgets related gifts for the budget we set for the holiday gift guide series. But I powered on! I know there are people who love gadgets and love technology – for them it’s a fun puzzle to solve. These are people who would be happy with any…
Holiday gift guide: Stationery
We are back with our Holiday Gift Guide and time its all about stationery. And I’m not talking about your ordinary run of the mill pens and pencils. Think unique and different journals, and back to school supplies that look like a million bucks but really aren’t, and very on trend metallic office accesories. Personalized…
Holiday Gift Guide: Fashion
Like we promised, we are back with our fashion gift guide. And don’t miss yesterday’s beauty gift guide. I wanted some variety and wanted to ensure there was something for everyone. But above everything else, my main gift giving philosophy is to give something which the person would like but never buy themselves. Something unnecessary…
Holiday Gift Guide: Budget Gifts under £50/INR 5000
I am going home to India for the holidays and have been doing quite a bit of shopping lately. And this shopping involves quite a bit of research as well. This has led to the holiday gift guide! Budget gifts for the beauty lover, fashion lover, food lover, tech lover and so on (and stationery!)…
7 Inexpensive Everyday Perfumes to beat the Designer Brands
Perfumes is something I have tried to avoid talking about. I feel its too personal and the over the top packaging and publicity usually makes sure that most designer perfumes get more attention than they are worth. Which is why I thought talking about the less expensive brands which have some just-as-amazing fragrances would be…
Autumn Accessories with Accessorize
As a stylist whenever I am asked for style advice, I always tell people to use accessories – even the simplest and most basic of outfits can be made better and dressier with the right accessories. (Although I do tell people to not overdo it). The type of bag you carry, the headband on your…
2015 Fashion Trends: Runway to High Street
Since we have been hearing and seeing and reading about the New York and London Fashion Week constantly, I thought this was a good time for a runway trend alert. The runways bring up a lot of trends and most of them are great to see on the runway. But I usually want to leave…
My Shopping Bag: Forever21
It’s been ages since I went shopping. But when a new Forever 21 store opened up 2 blocks from me, I took that as a sign from the heavens and went for it! It’s one of my favorite stores to shop in. They always seem to have fun new stuff, and most importantly its really…
My Shopping Bag: Flea Market, Soul Sante
Soul Sante was filled to the brim with unique, one of a kind, hand made things. I wanted to buy one of everything! But a lot of the stuff especially the flower headbands and things like that, I realized would be novelty items for me. Something that I would end up not getting that much…