Ok let me make no secret of it, but I was like down in the dumps over this weekend. For no particular reason I just wasn’t very happy with everything around and was maybe for the first time suffering from Weekend-Blues (if anything like that exists at all!).
Now honestly, nothing really perks me up as does shopping for make-up and so I tagged along with this friend of mine who is getting married next month. She had to buy these cosmetics as a part of her wedding trousseau and so I was actually looking forward to being pampered by the SAs. You see here in India, when you announce in a shop that you are getting married and have come for your wedding shopping, you are pampered to the fullest by the Sales staff. It is a one of a kind experience (also depending on the number of times you plan to marry in your life. LOLZ).
So anyways, we go to this store called Dorabjee’s in Pune, which has a newly opened cosmetics section and well well well, is it awesome or what?! All major cosmetic brands have outlets there, except for maybe “maXfactor”… Now you see my to-be married friend Sucharita already had a list ready with her, so she knew what she wanted to buy, my other friend Manu is the practical one who is sometimes skeptical of newly launched cosmetics and I am someone who resembles a kid left unattended in a candy store. So you see, all three of us exhibiting varied traits have come cosmetic shopping wanting to have a good time! :D
Sucharita went about buying her listed items ticking off stuff from her list. Manu was trying out the new products and was especially tickled by Maybelline’s new gel liner. Well you see Maybelline has come out with this gel based eyeliner. It is actually nothing but a glorified “desi kajal” with a super soft brush as an applicator. I loved the jar of the kajal and the brush was of a really good quality! Did I buy it? No… Did Manu buy it? No… Did Sucharta buy it? YES! :D The SA tried it out on Manu’s eyes and I have to give it to you that it looked fabulous. Plus the carton claimed it to be water resistant and smudge proof!! What else does a girl need out of her kajal/eyeliner?Sucharita also purchased a blush from Maybelline and a few colored eyeliner pencils. On buying these Maybelline products, Sucharita won a free Vanity Pouch of Fuschia Satin with black polka dots :)
Next we took on the Lakme counter by storm… With the launch of the new Gypsy collection, we wanted to try out a few products and if satisfied then buy them as well ;) We were already armed with crashing reviews of the gypsy collection’s kajal and lip gloss, so were more interested in trying out the Lip Palette and the eye shadow palette. The swatches of the lip palette that the SA showed us on Sucharita’s hand made us really really fall for it and Sucharita was so thrilled to get 5 shades in one case for 600 bucks that she immediately bought it! My only crib… There was only one shade of palette available :( 
We also ended buying lakme eye quartet in Tanjore Rush! Really interesting and warm colors that suit the Indian skin tone. Sucharita also got a Golden colored clutch purse free with the Lakme products that she bought :) Yay!Finally we hit the Revlon counter. We already knew what we wanted and this purchase was my favorite purchase of the day. We bought a Revlon Skinlights Face Illuminator. I had used this in the past and had been introduced to it by my mom. We both swear by it and now Sucharita loves it too :)
These were the highlights of out cosmetics shopping spree. I have left out the smaller purchases like nail paints and deos and stuff.. All in all it was a day well spent and we all came home tired yet happy and content!
Did I purchase anything? Yes I did! But that’s for another post :)
