Beauty Diaries by Kimi

Green Net Saree: Ethnic outfit Hi friends, Its been a long time since I posted anything on my blog. I wasn't keeping well earlier, and then my son got viral fever. Its been really crazy for a while and today, finally I got some rest and peace of mind to write on my blog. It feels liberating, spending sometime here, expressing my thoughts and let a bit of my creativity do its work. And I can't thank you guys enough for being a part of this blog. Its always wonderful to see your amazing comments and feedback.Today, I thought of posting an ethnic outifit of the day. Its wedding season full on, and I will be going to attend one of my cousins' wedding next week. So, the timing is apt to do an ethnic outfit post of the day. It is just a regular saree, but I wore it in lehenga saree style. There is an excellent video by Utsavsarees on youtube, that showcases a Do-it-yourself way of wearing saree lehenga style.

The Fight Against Tarnish: How to Keep Your Silver Shining I have always loved silver jewellery, I prefer it to gold because it ages so well, as long as you're wearing it. So what happens when you don't wear it? Well it develops a patina and then begins to tarnish, which isn't the look you're usually going for when you wear silver jewellery. So How does Tarnishing happen and how can we prevent it? A Chain Reaction Most people think that tarnishing occurs due to the oxidisation process that happens when silver is exposed to oxygen in the air over a long period of time. But tarnishing actually occurs when the silver reacts with the sulphur or hydrogen sulphide in the air, however it will also react to other chemicals over a long time span. So wearing your jewellery in pools, baths, doing the washing up, most activities where all or part of your jewellery will be submerged in a mild chemical environment is going to have some effect on the silver. A Little...

Chewing gum is a wonderful thing, a great pick me up with its bright minty flavour, a supposed mental stimulator and it freshens your breath too. We've all had a moment where gum has accidentally fallen from our mouths, usually we just sigh and pop the piece in a bin if we're at home, but if its on the streets nine times out of ten it'll be left where it fell. But what do we do when we have a minor accident and that piece of gum you were chewing gets stuck in your hair? Or your clothes? I've seen it happen when people have accidentally fallen asleep chewing gum. Well, I'm going to go through a few different places where gum can get stuck and how you can remove it. A Hairy Situation Hands down hair is the worst place to have chewing gum get stuck. It's sticky, messy and if it happened while you were asleep its had a good chance to get tangled into more of your hair. You may have head lots of ways to remove chewing gum from your hair, here are a few tha...

Every girl has her jewelry and every girl knows how precious and unique each piece is. You may not know this but a lot of commercial silver cleaners out there are made up of very strong chemicals that can actually do serious damage to jewelry. Not to mention the cost of some of these cleaners can be outrageous. Luckily there are many ways that you can protect your jewelry from tarnishing and becoming dull. These tips are easy and chances are, you have everything you need lying around the house. So here are some easy tips for making sure you get a long life out of your jewelry. Image source Clean Promptly and Often Unfortunately, the same hands we decorate with jewelry, we eat with. Silver can easily tarnish when exposed to foods that are acidic or contain sulfur. Unfortunately, a lot of common foods such as eggs, onions, mayonnaise, vinegar, table salt and some fruits contain these harmful properties. So, when you know your silver jewelry has been exposed, make sure you wash ...

I usually don't throw cardboard boxes of various day-to-day things I use. I feel that they can be reused for lots of other things. You can recycle them in various ways, which Rads posted here very nicely on her blog . However, today while emptying a big box of Kelloggs cornflakes, I got an idea to make it work for storing some stuffs, which usually keep spreading on my table and give me quite cluttered feeling. I tried making a storage box out of it and was pretty happy with the end result. Since I was just experimenting, I didn't spend much efforts in making it look nice. I think next time, I'll stick tissue paper around the cardboard to hide all the print marks, and then the finishing would be pretty nice. It took me just 30 minutes to make this. I've used pearl white shade, which is not coming properly in the camera. It looks really pretty white, but in camera it is looking quite opaque. Check the pics below and let me know how you find it? That Kellogs wou...