Friday, 10 January 2014

Graduation Dinner Look, 2014.

Hey there gorgeous ladies. How have you all been? We had our graduation dinner last night. Five years of medical school finally coming to an end. Faryum will be graduating this year, insha Allah! We decided to do a blog post from last night's graduation dinner. Hope you guys like it! 

Faryums decided to wear Jumpsuits to their Graduation Dinner Night. 



                              

                                                                                                                                                                                                                     




Faryal Pechuho's Outfit:
Faryal is wearing a gold coloured astounding Jumpsuit with a blue velvet lace on the boat-shaped neck and the front of the top. On the front, the blue velvet is decorated with diamante buttons. The gold coloured jumpsuit has been paired with a net material, blue and gold coloured ankle length gown. (Note: This outfit is not from some outlet/designer/brand. It's a self-designed outfit). She paired her Jumpsuit with off white and Black coloured peep-toe-heels. She complimented her entire look with M.A.C Brave Red Lipstick.


Maryam Amin's Outfit:
Maryam Amin is wearing a daunting, silvery-gold coloured Jumpsuit. It has a sherwani-cut collar. A maroon coloured embroidered patch has been sewn to the front of the top. Plain maroon velvet lace and maroon jamawar lace has been sewn to the three-quarter length sleeves. She paired her jumpsuit with a silvery-gold ankle length gown with thread embroidery all over the gown. She paired her Jumpsuit with Pump-heels from Debenhams. She matched her entire look with Chanel La Fascinate Lipstick. 






Thursday, 9 January 2014

Shoe Haul.


Hey gorgeous readers! How have you all been? Lately we have been really busy with other commitments and so we don't get to write blogs often and we're extremely sorry for that.
Today's blog post is on a Shoe Haul. This is our first ever Shoe Haul post on this blog.





 Peep Toe Heels are  our favourites! Faryal wanted peep toe heels in nude or black and this is what she spotted and fell in love with these! These heels have a combination of black and off-white. Good for formal wear, parties, weddings etc. 

Pricing and Availability: I bought these shoes from this shop Red Rock, situated at the main Zamzama road, Karachi. Worth 2985Pkr. It's a new shop, opened lately. Do visit this shop for different variety of heels, flats and also handbags. 






Saturday, 4 January 2014

MAC Strobe Cream

Hello beautiful readers! How are winters coming along? They're pretty chilly and lazy for us hehe. Today this blog post is about a product "most-asked-about". In a lot of beauty forums I see questions being asked about this product and a lot of people seem to be clueless about it's purpose and function. And that is when I decided to review this product for my readers. 

Today's blog post is about "M.A.C Strobe Cream."






What does M.A.C say about this product?
The ultimate quick fix for the skin. Super-powered with potent botanical; de-snoozes, de-stresses, moistens, freshens and boosts the look of dull, flat or tired-looking skin with a fully loaded vitamin zap and a mega dose of green tea. Brightens and clarifies with iridescent particles and antioxidants. Enhances the effects of light on all skin and in all lighting conditions from sunlight to spotlight.


Review:
I love this cream, and I don’t think I will stop buying this. It makes my skin super smooth and silk like. My foundation or powder glides on my skin because it gets so smooth, and the application looks flawless. It also hides my pores.
 I use this everyday, some people might be confused because it has a little bit of shine, but don’t be afraid, it just has the right amount of shine to give that wake-up feeling to the face, it is not shimmery or glittery, it has this pearly essence kind of thing which gives this amazing glow and radiance to the face and actually also makes your skin look healthy and young. It has a moisturising effect on my dry skin too, like a hydrant for my skin with all the botanical and vitamins and green tea benefits.  

The plus point is this comes out great on face in flash photography too, maybe because of the sheen it reflects just the right amount of light? Who knows and who cares, as long as it makes me look good =P
Moisturising but not greasy or oily is the catch! I usually use this before my evening or night makeup, because I use sunblock in the day. It hasn’t broken me out even once in the two years period. After I use this I just lightly dust studio fix powder on my face and I am good to go, because I get this amazing natural glow which I really like, makes me look like I have a naturally healthy skin and no makeup face which is the look I am going for most of the time. On my heavy makeup days I finish with a proper foundation and all routine and it is just used as a makeup base.
I love the packaging, it’s a very sleek, expensive looking pearly white cream bottle to squeeze product out in a very hygienic way with a black matte cap. It has a mild scent to it which I adore and it is not bothersome in any way.






How I use: I take very little about 2 hazelnut size drops and lightly pat on my skin. I do not rub it in. Just lightly pat is the key to make the maximum out of its benefits.
The other way is to mix this with your foundation and then apply, to make your foundation have moisturising effect and that would certainly tone down the shine too.






Points in favour:

  • Does not break me out.
  • Moisturises my skin.
  • It is healthy for my skin.
  • Makes me put less layers on my skin.
  • Gives a very natural glow.

Points not in favour:

  • It is a bit pricey.
  • Oily-skin people might not like the shine.


Availability and Pricing:
I got mine from Mac store in Dubai mall for 157dhs. But I am sure makeup pages on facebook can arrange one for you =)

Rating: I would rate this product 4.9/5

Sunday, 29 December 2013

How To Organise The Make-Up Dresser!

Hey gorgeous girls. How is the weekend coming along? Sundays have been lazy and slow and boring for me. While I sit here and write down this blog post I'm very cold and my hands are totally freezing! The lowest predicted for today is 7 degrees! That's very low! 


Today this blog post is a different one. Not really some review on any product nor any tutorial. Today I am going to write about how I set up my make-up dresser and how do I store my make-up stuff and other related things. Not that I have really enormous collection or something but the little I have it has to be stored in a proper decent way. Messed up dressers literally turn off everyone I'm sure. Like our wardrobes, bookshelves even our dressers have to be organised! 

So here I am today, writing a post on How to organise make-up dresser. 


Below is a picture showing my make-up dresser:


Things needed: 

  • Make-up dresser (Obviously :p)
  • Few plastic containers/boxes
  • Pencil holders/ Spare mugs
  • Table mat/ table cloth.


How to set up your dresser table:

 As you can see my dresser in the picture above. It has a glass table with three drawers. 
I have covered my dresser table with a table mat. Obviously it's not necessary but to give it a clean, decent look I covered my table. It also helps prevent the glass underneath from getting dusty and dirty often. So it's up to you if you want to cover your dresser table or not. As you can appreciate from the picture above I have just kept three things on the top of the table. Usually people fill up the entire top table with all their make up stuff which is not really bad but this way your dresser looks more neat and gives a sophisticated look. Which is why I have kept my entire make-up and stuff inside the drawers. On the top of the table I have just set up tow mugs one for holding my make-up brushes and the other for holding my comb and hair brush. Also, I have kept my moisturiser bottle on the table for instant use. Since our skin is prone to dryness in this cold chilly weather I decided to keep a moisturiser bottle on top of the table for easy and quick access. 

The idea behind keeping minimal things on the dresser table is to protect your make-up products from environmental dust and to avoid cleaning your stuff very often. 

How to set up the make-up drawers:





As you all can see in the picture above I have used plastic containers/ boxes to store my make-up. You don't have to go buy these containers, I'm sure all of you would have these at your home. The right place to find these containers is your kitchen! Hehe. These containers shown in the picture are basically the food boxes we get usually during take-aways and deliveries. My mother usually gets them washed and stores them for later use. And that is when I decided to utilise these as storage boxes for my make-up. I picked up around 8-9 small sized plastic containers. You can pick up more if you have a huge make up collection, mine ain't that big :p 
Then I categorised the boxes for different purposes;

Box 1: All lip care products like my lip balms.
Box 2: eye cream, night cream, protective body balms
Box 3: lip pencils, eye pencils, eye liners, brow definer pencils, concealers, eye primer, mascaras.
Box 4: make-up sponges, beauty blender.
Box 5: nail colours, hand sanitisers.
Box 6: face primer, foundation, BB creams, tinted moisturisers.
Box 7: necklaces, neck beads, lockets.
Box 8: bobby pins, coloured hair pins, 
Box 9: eyeshadow palettes, single eye shadows
Box 10: hand creams, foot creams, foot gel.
Box 11: finger rings, hair clips, other small hair accessories.
Box 12: it's a huge jewellery box. Where I store all my bangles and other jewellery and hair accessories.


Here's a picture of the second drawer of my dresser:




In this half of the second drawer I have stored things bigger in size like my body shop gift boxes, perfumes, body mists, foot spray, body roll on, my sunblock, my watch (contained in the red coloured watch box).


In this half of my second drawer I have stored my entire lipstick collection. I bought this lipstick holder/container for storing my lipsticks, as you can see in the picture above. It's a hard plastic container, easily available in the market everywhere. If you do not want to buy a separate lipstick holder/container that's fine too as you can use a plastic box for storing lipsticks and lip glosses etc. 
Also, I have stored my compact powders, highlighters, blushers in a plastic container/box. Also I have kept few of my acne related medical ointments in a corner of this drawer. Also I use a body talc which is stored in this half of my drawer as seen in the picture above. 

That's all about my make-up storage and make-up dresser! Hope you guys like the post. (:







Saturday, 28 December 2013

Christmas Haul.

Hey gorgeous readers! How have you all been? We're great and totally freezing in here, hehe! Winter is the best time of the year for us. Although it has it's own cons but then again we prefer it over other seasons.

Today this blog post is about another exciting The Body Shop Haul. 

There was a 40% sale going on at The body Shop UK website few months back and that is when I decided to treat myself with some TBS goodies and avail the sale. TBS sales are literally to die for. We wait all year round for these sales and then make the most of them. 







This haul consists of:
  •  Hemp foot, hand and body trio. Worth 1750Pkr.
  • Peppermint Intensive Foot Rescue. Worth 999Pkr.
  • Peppermint Soothing Foot Scrub. Worth 735Pkr.
  • Mini Hairbrush. Worth 350Pkr.
  • Strawberry shower, scrub, soften collection. Worth 1900Pkr. 


I bought all these things online from a Facebook page Lush Grooming Bargains. Faryum's Beauty Blog would recommend all it's readers to visit the page here. This page has one of the finest deals online that too with wonderful bargains! Lush Grooming Bargains Deals in a lot of high-end to drug store brands. The quality of the service they provide is superb. The page also offers services like COD. Do check out their page and keep visiting for amazing offers! :)