TAGGED: This Or That

It feels awesome when people remember you! Isn't it? :) And well every time I am tagged by fellow beauty bloggers, I say a silent prayer of thanks cause a blogger is nothing without its readers :) A bit on the melodramatic side, is it? :P

This time Sheetal of MakeupAndFashionFreak very kindly tagged me in a This Or That Post :) Thanks so much Sheetal :)

So lemme get started...

♥MAKEUP♥ 

BLUSH OR BRONZER?

Blush.

LIPGLOSS OR LIPSTICK?
It was initially Lipstick but its recently become Lipgloss :)

CHAPSTICK OR LIPBALM?

LipBalm

MATTE OR SPARKLY EYESHADOW?
Matte.

GEL, LIQUID OR PENCIL EYELINER?

Gel eyeliner.

FOUNDATION OR CONCEALER?
Foundation.

LIQUID OR POWDER FOUNDATION?
Liquid.

NEUTRAL OR STATEMENT EYES?
Statement.

WINGED OR RIMMED LINER?
Both!

PRESSED OR LOOSE SHADOWS?
Loose.

WATERPROOF OR NON-WATERPROOF?
Waterproof

BRUSHES, SPONGES OR FINGERS?
Brush for Eye Makeup
Fingers for Foundation

♥NAILS♥

NEON, PASTELS OR GLITTER NAILS?
Neon!

LONG OR SHORT?
Long.

ACRYLIC OR NATURAL?
Natural.

MATTE OR SHINY?
Matte

GO FOR MANICURES OR MANICURE YOURSELF?
Both

♥BODY♥

PERFUME OR BODY SPLASH?
Perfume

LOTION OR BODY BUTTER?
Body Butter

BODY WASH OR SOAP?
Body wash.

FRUITY OR FLOWERY SCENTS?
Fruity

NATURAL OR SYNTHETIC PRODUCTS?
Natural.

♥FASHION♥

JEANS OR SWEATPANTS?
Jeans.

LONG SLEEVES OR SHORT?
Long.

DRESSES OR SKIRTS?
Dresses.

STRIPES OR PLAID?
Plaid

TUNICS OR T-SHIRTS?
T-Shirts

FLIPFLOPS OR SANDALS?
Both.

SCARVES OR HATS?
Scarves.

STUDS OR DANGLY EARRINGS?
Both!

NECKLACES OR BRACELETS?
Necklaces

HEELS OR FLATS?
Heels

JACKET OR HOODIE?
Neither

 ♥HAIR♥

CURLY OR STRAIGHT?
Straight.

BUN OR PONYTAIL?
Bun

BOBBY PINS OR BUTTERFLY CLIPS?
Bobby Pins

HAIR SPRAY OR GEL?
Spray

LONG OR SHORT?
Long.

LIGHT OR DARK?
Dark.

SIDE SWEEP BANGS OR FULL BANGS?
Full Bangs

UP OR DOWN?
Both.

♥RANDOM♥

RAIN OR SHINE?
Shine shine and more shine! :D

SUMMER OR WINTER?
Summer! I abhor Winters!

CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA?
Chocolate!

POOL OR BEACH?
Beach. For sure baby!

MALL OR ONLINE SHOPPING?
Mall!

COKE OR PEPSI?
Pepsi!

DONUTS OR PASTRY?
Both

Bloggers I would like to tag are:
1. Saumya of VanityBagDiaries
2. Ray of Ray-connect
3. Preetha of IndianBeautyJournal
4. Jinal of DazzlingBelle
5. Beena of BeautyAndEverythingElse
6. Bharati of CrazyPopLock
7. Awungshi of DrPoisonIvy
 

I Have Been Tagged: Makeup Collection & Storage

Like I told you all the last time I did a tag post, I totally love being tagged and doing tag posts... It makes me feel special, it makes me feel loved by you all and it makes me feel that you guys genuinely want to get to know me better :) So a lot of love and hugs to you all who tag me and also to those who read my tags :) <3

This time I have been tagged by Dipika of http://divassence.blogspot.in/ to show my makeup collection and their storage :) But a few pointers before that...

• I love makeup and I buy them randomly. I dislike when people tell me that I am a "hoarder". I much prefer the term "collector" after all makeup is a piece of a art and the one who "collects" makeup products should be termed as a collector and the products as "collector's items" :P <Yes I tend to have my head in the clouds> :P
• I love my products to be all displayed, so I do not use a lot of drawers and tend to have        everything displayed on my dresser. Nope don't take me to be pretentious when I show you the pics ;)

I have a very pretty dresser gifted to me by my mom for my wedding. Yes of course I got a lot of gifts from my parents and relatives but my mom knew nothing would make me happier than a pretty dresser and well she got me one :) It was kind of a surprise for me cause she never told me about it... So obviously all my makeup is "displayed" on my dresser itself and well that is my favorite piece of furniture in my whole house :)

Now let me warn you all that I "do up" my dresser every Friday night (yup! its a ritual) and by next Thursday its all cluttered again. So I do it up again on the next Friday and well its a cycle now ;)

Below are the pics of my dresser on a Thursday and on a Friday :P

Cluttered Thursday

Organized Friday

Ok now about the storage...

Well I got this manicure set made of acrylic from Oriflame when I was an Oriflame agent. I now use it as a lipstick holder. Yup it is overflowing and I need to get myself another one ;) A part of the manicure set was an acrylic box, which I use to store my fluidlines and gel liners and I use the lid to store my glosses (yup i have very few glosses)...

Paint Pots, Fluidlines and Gel Liners

Lipsticks and Lip Glosses

My dresser has three shelves. I use the top shelf to store my mono and duo eye shadows and use the third shelf for my palettes. I use the middle shelf to store my compacts and foundations and face primers :)

My Foundations and Compacts

My Palettes :)

My Monos and Duos :)

My dresser also has two drawers, One drawer is used to store my hair bands, clips, hair ties and other accessories  while the other drawer stores my nail polishes :)

Hair and Beauty Accessories

Nail Accessories

Finally I store my blushes on one corner of my dresser, my creams and lotions on the other...

I keep my makeup brushes in a pink plastic box on the shelf next to my dresser....

In addition to all this, I have a teeny blue basket that stores my "in a hurry" products. I basically keep them apart cause when am in a rush, I needn't look for stuff and just reach out to the blue basket. I sometimes even carry it with me to the car ;)

Plus I keep my fragrances and other body lotions in the bathroom... Here they are:

Yup! Pati and I keep our fragrances together :)

I hope you all liked the post :)

Now I shall be tagging three of you and they are:

1. Ankita of Corallista.com

2. Tapaswini of http://realbeautywithtaps.blogspot.com/

3. Beena of http://beautyandeverythingelse.com/

I Have Been Tagged: 7 Deadly Sins of Beauty

Yay I have been tagged yet again :) I just loving being tagged cause this makes me feel that my blog is on your minds :) A bit narcissist? Yes I know :P

This time my very sweet friend, Jyotsna of http://beautyandmakeupstudio.blogspot.in/ has tagged me and here are my answers :)

Q. What is your most inexpensive beauty product you love and why?

A. The most inexpensive beauty product that I own and love is my Lakme Nail Polish remover... For obvious reasons ;)

Q. What is your most expensive beauty product you love and why?

A. It would be MAC Mineralize Foundation in the Compact Form... I love it cause it gives me a light coverage on good days and can be built up to give a heavier coverage on not so good days ;)

Q. Which beauty product you have love and hate relationship with? Name it.

A.Ha ha I have a love-hate relationship with Maybelline's BB Cream ;) I sometimes find it fabulous and sometimes just meh :P

 

Q. What is your most delicious beauty product?

A.This is an interesting question... The most delicious beauty product that I own has to be TBS Body Butter in Peach... It smells of real peaches and is so yummmm especially in the summers :)

Q. Which product do you neglect due to laziness?

A. Honestly? Though I am a very lazy person but I am somehow super diligent where makeup is concerned ;) But still, I sometimes do skip my Face primer... I have this fabulous MAC Prep+Prime Face primer but I quite often "forget" yo use it ;)

Q. What beauty product makes you feel confident?

A. Maybelline's Gel Liner is my HG makeup product. My life is not complete without it :)

Q. What traits you find attractive in opposite sex?

A.oooh love these sorts of questions... Traits that i find attractive in the opposite sex would be honestly (no fakes plz) and chivalry!

Q. What items you would like to receive as a gift?

A. Awesome! I think I'll make the pati read it... Items I would love receive as gifts would be diamond jewellery, bunch of colorful flowers (not a bunch of same colored roses) and sarees. Yes its weird but I love to be gifted sarees :)

Now I get to tag 7 of you :) Yay! :D So I tag:

1. Beena of http://www.beautyandeverythingelse.com/

2. Sukanya of http://fewunnecessarystuff.blogspot.in/ 

3. Parul of http://aboutlipsticksandblushes.blogspot.in/

4. Neeraj of http://beautytraveller.blogspot.in/ 

5. Tanveer of http://addictedtoblush.blogspot.in

6. Dimpal of http://crazypolishes.blogspot.in/

7. Saumya of http://thevanitybagdiaries.blogspot.in/

I Have Been Tagged: Tag-O-Mania [Updated with Answers to Deepika Mohan's Questions]

Indu from indgallovesshopping tagged me and I have been itching to do this post since the past two days now. Finally got a chance :)
P.S. Deepika Mohan of Divassence tagged me too and hence I am answering her questions as well :)

The rules of this tag are as follows:
Rule#1: Put the rules on your blog.
Rule#2: Every person who is tagged in this activity should tell 11 things about themselves, then answer the questions asked by the person who tagged you, then tag 11 other people and ask them 11 different questions.
Rule#3: Let the people whom you tagged know you've done so.
Rule#4: Don't tag anyone who's been tagged before.
Rule#5: Really do tag 11 others, don't go all ''if you want to take this tag''

11 Things About Me
1. I love meeting new people and making new friends (I think it's obvious from my Meet The Bloggers and Blogger's Meet initiatives :P)
2. I love love love Sea Food. One reason why I love Bombay! :)
3. My favorite lip color is Red with Fuchsia a close second :)
4. I simply love using "smileys" in my posts, texts, mails and messages! Just can't help it :P
5. I love make-up, well who doesn't! But I love make-up as my favorite hobby than a necessity :) I do make-up when I am bored, I do make-up when I want to cheer myself up and I do make-up when I want to feel confident :)
6. I am a software engineer by profession working with Symantec, but take out at least 2 hours in a day for make-up after I come back from office, cook for my "pati" and clean the house :P How do I do it? I have no freaking idea! *blowing my own trumpet* ;)
7. I never liked wearing foundations and I still try to avoid it as much as I can :P Why? Cause I have this fear that it will start peeling and everyone would laugh at me :P Yup very akin to a "foundation phobia" :D
8. My idol and my inspiration is Jennifer Lopez... For make-up, for fitness, for fashion, for style, for hair styles... For everything!
9. Though I am not really into kids but I have HUGE respect for women who handle everything smoothly with children, career and harmony at home. Don't know if I will ever be able to do it.
10. I prefer to buy make-up than clothes and shoes and BAGS! :( So, my wardrobe is limited but my vanity extensive :P
11. I am seriously very proud of my half-Asian eyes. Love them and love the fact that it suits dramatic smokey eyes so well :)

Now answering 11 questions from Indu
1. Do you shop on a budget? - No. I try to but get tempted very easily!

2. Do you feel guilty on the amount of beauty products you have? Very Rarely :P

3. What do you think is your best purchase in regards to makeup? MAC Mineralize Compact Foundation with SPF 15 for my mom :) She was delighted! But if you are asking make-up for me then it has to be my recently purchased MUFE Rouge Artist Intense Lipstick in shade 34

4. What is your favorite language and why? My favorite language would be my father's language that is MANIPURI (mei-tei-lon) cause it sounds very unique and exitoc! In foreign languages my favorite is SPANISH cause the pronunciation and the accent is very s*xy

5. Are you brand crazy when it comes to accessories like handbags and shoes?? It might sound pretentious but I am brand conscious! I prefer to have two good branded bags than have 7 unbranded ones. Is that too pretentious? :(

6. Ice Creams or Chocolates? Earlier it was chocolates but nowadays it is ice-creams :P

7. Whats your favorite high end brand and drug store brand for cosmetics? MAC. Drugstore: Colorbar and Faces

8. Whats the best brand for skincare? Hmmm surprisingly I am not brand conscious where skin care is concerned. I like whatever best suits me. As of now I swear my Garnier Body Cocoon (as my Daytime moisturiser), Extra Virgin Olive Oil (as my night cream) and Pond's Whitening face wash. I have recently started using Kiehl's Ultra Facial Cream. But its too early to say if I like it or not :)

9. Can you go out of your house without any makeup? (Not even tinted lip balms) I refuse to leave the house without kajal, lipstick/gloss and blush. Eye liners have now become optional :) I try to be regular with mascara but I tend to forget to apply it :P

10. One product that you cant live without? Maybelline Gel Liner and moisturiser!

11. How much time do you spend for blogging? I spend around 3-4 hours everyday on blogging!

Answering questions from Deepika

1. What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of the color Black? Kajal!
2. What is the happiest moment in your life till now? When I got my first job through campus placement before I even finished my engineering :)
3. Do your parents/husband/boyfriend know that you are a blogger? What was their initial reaction like? Mom: I am proud of you; Dad: Ha ha ha Good Time Pass; Boyfriend: Oooh your pics look Hot! Can I save them on my phone? :P Sister: I love you Deedee :)
4. On an average, how many makeup products do you use on an everyday basis? Minimum 6. Kajal, Liquid Liner, Eye Primer, Lipstick, Mascara and Blush
5. What is the weirdest thing you've ever come across in life? Oooh now this has got me thinking! Weirdest I guess would be when a journalist wrote in Mumbai Mid-day about Agatha Christie very confidently stating that her detective was never a woman (he forgot about Miss Marple) and referred to Hercule Poirot as the "French Man" :P
6. Who is "THE ONE" person who can make you smile when you are in a terrible mood? ok hold your "awwwwwsss" but it is the PATI!
7. What is the first thought that comes to your mind when you see yourself in the mirror everyday? Have I become fat overnight. But lately since I am gyming, I hold up my Tee and think oooh the stomach is going in. I guess the treadmill is your best friend after all :P
8. If you had a free lifetime supply of makeup, which brand would you chose (only one!) MAC MAC MAC MAC MAC MAC
9. What according to you is something all bloggers should follow? (like a code of conduct etc) Do not copy from ANYWHERE. Copying and not giving is PLAGIARISM people! Its not only shameful, it is unethical and proves that you are a liar deep inside! Sorry but it gets to me real BAD!
10. Have you ever given away a makeup product which you really liked but had no choice but to give it away? NO! I am ultra possessive about my make-up. Yes I am selfish where make-up is concerned! :P
11. If you were on an deserted island and granted one wish what would it be? Lifetime supply of Green-Tea/Lemon Iced Tea. Yeah ok! Its an addiction! :P

My 11 questions to be answered by whom I have tagged
1. What do you like about ISimplyLoveMakeup the most (I am assuming that you read my blog :P)
2. Top three make-up products on your immediate wishlist
3. Foundation or BB cream? Whats your choice?
4. Eyeliner or Eye shadow? Take your pick!
5. One make-up product you prefer to stay away from!
6. You favorite color?
7. Would you wear your favorite color on your lips? :P
8. Manicure or Pedicure? You are regular with?
9. Fancy nail art or simple French Manicure?
10. Stiletto heels or wedge heels?
11. Skirts or Dresses?


My Tags
1. Ankita from NoviceMakeup
2. Beena from BeautyAndEverythingElse
3. Bidisha from GlisteningKaleidoscopicEyes
4. Ankita from Corallista
5. Rakshanda from ChamberOfBeauty
6. Kannu from CookDoKoo
7. Parul from AboutLipsticksAndBlushes
8. Bhumika from NewLove-Makeup
9. Neeraj from BeautyTraveller
10. Anuradha from GoldenSequinns
11. Jyotsna from BeautyAndMakeupStudio

There! I think I am finally done! :D