Month: July 2014

Structured, sturdy and sexy!

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Hi from the Structured Handbags Society (where the president, treasurer and secretary is all me >:D ). Managed to creep y’all well? 😛
Well, the creeping now being done and dusted, lets move on! I’ve had this recent love for these solid rectangular bags and I already have managed to add two to my never-gonna-end list 🙂
These bags give the perfect air of sophistication (which I otherwise seem to profusely lack) and manage to be uber-comfortable to carry around at the same time.
All this being said, I must add that these meanies are not a wise option if you are looking for roomy bags with lots of stuff to carry.
Leaving you with the images of both my lovely bags!

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Sexy right? What do u think? Do tell me 🙂

P.S. : You aren’t allowed to comment on the fact that my lunch bag is bigger than my handbag. Okthankyoubye! 😛

Denim + denim!

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A recent craze on which I over-binged was denim shirts. (Yes I bought three variations of the same frikkin trend :/ ) So my OOTD for the day is going to be the first of the many denim shirts to come 😛

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It was casual-friday at office and I went all out with this rock-punk star look 😛 The folks at work were taken aback by this “rowdy” look but they learnt to live with it (they had a choice?)
I chose to wear this denim shirt which is approximately 7.25 sizes bigger than my size, (no, really, I’m not kidding!.) (Ok maybe I’m kidding a little bit :3 ) with skinny black jeans. I completed the look with black pumps, a silver metal watch and long chain with a blue pendant. I tried to completely tone down the rest of my look because I knew the loose shirt by itself was going to take a bit of getting used to by colleagues.!

What do you think of the look? Do tell me! 🙂

One month, one award! :D

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Guess my excitement when I get nominated for a blogger award one day short of completing one month as a blogger! Mighty cool eh? 😀 The charming anumohan nominated me for this “very inspiring blogger” award! I feel honored and totally kicked that I have been so lovingly accepted into this blogging world, and so soon at that! 😀
Now for the proud moment. Displaying my award! Ha.!

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The rules of this award are:
• Thank and link the person who nominated you: Thank you Anuradha. Your enthusiasm and zeal is so contagious and inspiring 🙂
• List the rules and display the award : done and done 🙂
• Share seven facts about yourself
• Nominate fifteen other amazing blogs and remember to comment on their blogs to let them know you’ve nominated them and provide a link to your post.
• (Optional) You can proudly display the award logo anywhere on your blog e.g. on your sidebar and also follow the blogger that nominated you.

Now for 7 really random-ass facts about me:
1. I hate my foods touching or mixing in my plate. They can have a big socializing party in my tummy, NOT on my plate!
2. For an otherwise lazy girl, Im extremely particular about keeping my feet clean. I wash them a couple of gazillion times everyday
3. I’m a lime soda (salt) type of person. No meal at a cafe or restaurant is complete if I dont have lime soda :/
4. When I’m feeling down right mental at work I greet my colleagues like this

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Yes. Most of them have decided I’m borderline crazy. Teehee!
5. I’m extremely competitive. (Even if its something as basic as breathing I have to be able to breathe longer, steadier and deeper than others. :P) But that’s not the fact I want to highlight. The fact is that I act like winning or losing makes no difference to me. 😛 It does make a difference. Duh.
6. I love Calvin and Hobbes. Yes. I still do. I own the entire hardcover series 😀
7. I feel the reason for my existence in the world is to drink the perfect rasam (a soup like liquid made of tamarind stock) my mom makes. :’D

The list of blogs I loved reading in no particular order include:
1. whatwouldvwear
2. carascliche
3. fatfreefashion
4. felinecreatures
5. imserenel
6. idealism never goes out of fashion
7. littlebookoffashion
8. memoirsofmonisha
9. akviilee
10. fashionhuntress
11. xostylestalker
12. willfullyelegant
13. winwonderland
14. fashionfoodandflirts
15. chasingyellowcabs

While most of the above mentioned blogs know not of even my existence, I’ve been incessantly reading every one of their beautiful posts and this is a shout out to them that I really think they are kicking some ass! You’ve all been such an inspiration 🙂

Six yards of love!

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I present to you all the Indian tradional attire – The Saree. Six yards of fabric, one fabulous look 🙂
The typical Indian girl starts wearing a saree in her late teens and as she ages the saree becomes a wardrobe staple. Traditional or not, I’m of the opinion that the saree is the perfect cloth for a woman of any body shape or size simply because it so beautifully lends itself to any type of styling and it can be tied and worn in a completely sensuous way such as these actresses :

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Or in simple modest ways like me 😛

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Material: A saree can be made of pretty much any material with their prices varying with it. Right from silk to jute to fruit fibers (I once gifted my mom a banana fiber saree, it looked gorgeous btw 😛 ) the variety is abundant. That being said, we often stick to silk for occasions due to its grandeur.

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That would be me in a silk saree for a wedding

Parts of a saree: A saree is worn with a blouse which covers the torso. It is wrapped around the waist and tucked into an body hugging skirt. While the lower half of the saree is called the pleats, the portion which comes above the blouse is known as the pallu or the pallav. Funnily, the pallu is, in most cases pleated and pinned up too.

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That would be me with my sister and granddad at my cousin’s wedding 🙂

While I ve described how a saree would look when tied in a prim and proper sort of way, I’ve at times experimented quite a bit, be it by stitching fun blouses or by going all out and decking myself up in a very 70s heroine sort of way.
I’ll leave you with a few images of some of my other looks in sarees. 😀

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By now you might have gotten a drift of my mad love for this attire. Before you get bored let me stop.! 😛
What did you think about this attire? Liked it? Do tell me 🙂

Thought for the day!

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The fact that I used to be among the top five ranks in my class never used to please my parents the way it should have. What actually pleased them was when I had outperformed my own previous performance. While I found this a bit annoying back then when all the other parents used to shower hugs and kisses to those other topper kids I now realize and am so proud that it was established to me at such a young age that one’s main competition is oneself! 🙂
Compete with yourself, ensure you are a better at work today than yesterday;
ensure you are better behaved with your family today than yesterday;
ensure you are a better person today than yesterday. 😀

I spy!

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I see an increasing trend in India and I dont like it. :/ transparent bags!
Its probably already hit the USA and slowly making its way to my country but its time for me to run the other way because those bags are so not my type. 😐 A definite member of my want-not list!

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Do people always carry around stuff they dont mind showing off to the world in their bags? I have anything ranging from socks to sanitary napkins floating around in my bag 😛 . Besides, these transparent bags definitely are a strict no for clumsy folks like me who give a damn about  compartmentalizing or clearing their bags every once in a while 😛

Do any of you have these bags? Are you comfortable with them? Do tell me! 🙂

Pulled it off!

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I love experimenting with the almost non existent hair of mine. Be it hair styles or hair cuts. While I’m planning to do a post on the various hairstyles I’ve tried so far in a while, I dedicate this post to a rather easy inverse ponytail I tried to work today.

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Its a simple case of tying a loose ponytail, dividing the hair above your ponytail into two and popping the ponytail into this cavity and pulling it it down. Tada!!!
A step by step process can be found here!

What do you think of this hairdo? Do tell me!! 🙂

Do it anyway!

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This was one quote which blew me away the moment I read it a couple of years back. So much so that I know it by-heart now.
While mother Teresa was the embodiment of goodness, what she asks of us through this quote is not all that. We must learn to take that extra mile to be a bit more tolerant than we already are, a bit more selfless than we already are and accept people for what they already are, for your account is not with the people you deal with here, it all between you and God. 🙂
I know this is a pretty famous quote. But it impacts me every time I read it, especially the last line (gives me goosebumps every time) . Hope it does that to you too 🙂
Have a happy weekend!

Bring on the bling :D

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After a long vacation from work and a brief hiatus from blogging I’m back with my next fashion staple – “the gold chain”. I recently got this beautiful link gold chain from the US as a gift and it has quickly escalated to being very important person of my wardrobe. 😀
I am finding ways to wear it with any type of clothing. So much so that in my limited number of posts here it has already appeared twice 😛 . (See here and here)
It goes really well with formals

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(That happened to be my OOTD too 😀 a vero moda blouse and a Marks and Spencers trousers 🙂 )
I simply loved pairing the chain with a casual top too.

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And of course it goes pretty well with dresses as shown in my previous post.
One tip while selecting these chains is to ensure you know exactly the length you require them to be based on the usual depth of your neckline. Also, most chains come with adjustable lengths. So make sure you buy ones where such adjustments are possible.
Do you guys have such accessories which you pair madly with any type of dress? Do tell me 😀