Showing posts with label styling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label styling. Show all posts

Monday, 13 August 2007

fashionably sexy

Despite the growing awareness in fashion,women often tend to be at a total loss where dressing is concerned. They are often so intent on following fashion that they overlook the fact that there is a certain body type and each one needs to define his own style according to it.

Its apalling to see women these days wearing skin tight tees and bra tops that do nothing to hide the swollen abs as well as arms and shoulders that are in desperate need of toning..
Baby doll tops make women look shorter and they must be worn with fitted pants.
Also, accessorize if you must, since it is what accentuates the outfit but its important to know how much to accessorize. It really doesnt help if you have a flashy, sequinned outfit with long chandelier earrings AND a heavy neck piece with bangles to match. You just dont know where to look.

It would help if heavy earrings were worn with a plain dress with no other accessory and especially NOT a bling bag, please.
Accesorising is a very special skill. One that not many possess. The personal style is something that should never be tampered with. Too many rings on the figers with a large dialled watch worn with loud and heavy make up and a sequinned bag and footwear speaks of a person who is crying out for attention.
Also, unnecessary skin show only makes one look as if she has a point to make. In fact a flattering, curvaceous, toned figur- one to die for, would only be more sensuous and enticing if one wears an absolutely tight fitted full sleeved v necked shirt in a pale color with a very fitted form and a delicate stylish small diamond solitaire with very light nude make up would make a woman look sexy and feminine as well.

Slightly flared trousers tend to balance hips, with elongating seams down the legs. This teamed with a slim cut blouse with vertically organized embroidery on a dark color helps a lady slightly on the heavier side who is short as well look taller and slimmer.
Silver grey hair needs the right darkish colors to lend the right kind of dignity with nude or light, pale colored footwear that make one look slim and tall with silver hair that anyone takes all the attention. Vivid bright colors in clothes and footwear will only be a garish contrast.
A flimsy, low-waisted skirt with all sorts of gaps and gathers doesn't the torso seem leaner; it merely calls attention to the flab around the abs.
A streamlined black pencil skirt plays up the curves and shows the legs stylishly.
A shot of bright color on top, softened with white against the face like a shirt say with a colorful neckpiece or scarf or jacket over a pale beige or white shirt diverts the focus from a heavier lower body.

Tight, cropped, light khakis with a tucked-in shirt, doesn’t exactly flatter a lady with heavy hips and a pot belly.
You need to minimize the middle…
A dark shade like navy or chocolate brown on the wide-leg pants and at the straps and neckline of the top makes the paler areas in between (like that problematic midsection) fade away making the waist and the hip look smaller.

A mistake that most heavy women often make is to wear horizontal striped shirts or dresses which end up making them look shorter and heavier.
Women with a heavy bust need to wear clothes that have dark colored bands down the front, minimizing the form , making it look slimmer. Also, sometimes a delicate neckpiece as opposed to a large chunky overdone neckpiece might draw the attention away from the heaviness.

Churidars also help one look slim…
For women dealing with post pregnancy weight, dresses with an Aline cut help them look leaner.

Saturday, 28 April 2007

TA RA RUM PUM PUM

TA RA RUM PUM was just what I expected… a lesson in boredom… lousy music, bad screenplay and horrid styling…
However, it was heartening to see the couple stand by each other regardless of the bad times. For once, there were no dramatic outbursts and fights.

Also, what I want all you guys out there reading this to know is that the movie inspires us to fight for what we want in life. To take risks.


It tells a story about this racer who is a winner all the way and suddenly finds himself out of work thanks to a freak accident on the tracks. His fear of failing gets the better of him and he soon finds himself out of work and living in the dumps with his wife and two kids.
But what brings him back his lost glory is when he realizes he could lose his loved one and he decides to fight his fears and win because there is no other option left but to win.

That set me thinking. Life could be a winning game for us all if we gave ourselves no options.

Every person on earth has a gift, in some, the gift manifests itself spontaneously; others have to work to discover what it is.

There are moments when you have to take a risk, to do crazy things. Sure there are sufferings and defeats ..we cant avoid them. But its better to lose some of the battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you’re fighting for...

And the one thing that gives us the courage to fight for our dreams, take risks, is… love.

It makes us grow, slowly transforming us, helping us to have faith in god, in ourselves, in our dreams…
But we need to look for it courageously, and soon enough we begin to attract love of many kinds in ways unimaginable. Yes, love does conquer all but only when all oor inner battles have been fought and won.

To fear, is the easiest …but I have never believed or wanted the easy way out in life because ease brings with it a lack of hope, a dull acceptance and a laid back, selfish attitude that only teaches you to live for yourself, to love only yourself .

I’ve often wondered at the age of 17, where I had the energy and the drive to pursue so many things?
At a time when a financial crisis had hit the family, with ailing parents and a directionless life… what made me try harder… with each fall being harder, each attempt bringing with it more loss, rejection and humiliation?
All I had with me were my dreams, - a dream of making it big, a dream of giving my parents all that they deserved, a dream of having a loving home, of nurturing all the strays that my heart went out to…
Of being able to reach out to the millions who needed love…

Of making a difference…

… and all this when I had no idea where and how to begin… I had no guidance but just a strong desire ... to live life passionately and fully…
I recall, when it seemed that the darkness would never end, I only had to retreat into my land of dreams… of the life I so badly wanted for myself and my loved ones.. of never wanting to settle for anything but the best….

I wanted to be happy, curious, joyous, living every moment intensely, drinking the water of life thirstily.

‘Dreams mean work’ said a writer once.
Work at loving passionately, love yourself, love life, love your work, and allow it to give you the courage to work at your dreams!