Beauty and Personal Grooming

Since very early times, women have been inventing ways and means of beautifying themselves, mehendi being just one of them. Stylish, sophisticated and spiritual, mehendi is definitely here to stay. Whether you choose to doodle a little or decorate yourself intricately, mehendi(henna) is one of the oldest and most promising ways to enhance your beauty. Though initially North Indians were the most ardent users of Mehendi, over the years, it has spread out to almost all the areas in India cutting across religious, regional and linguistic barriers. No ceremony, religious, festive or otherwise in India is complete nowadays without women adorning themselves with Mehendi. A relatively foreign concept to westerners, it recently found way to the masses when rock singers & Hollywood stars sported Mehendi designs on their hands and faces. Mehendi is now considered “cool” and the “in-thing”. It is also gaining popularity as a painless temporary tattoo.

People, especially youngsters feel insecure & self-conscious of wearing spectacles. But, science has, for some time now, been providing with an alternative to ugly disfiguring glasses- little transparent pieces of plastic, called contact lenses, inserted in the eye to sit over the iris. These lenses can be given the same power as spectacle lenses and can, therefore, correct a person’s sight. But is it safe to wear a bit of plastic in the eye? Is it comfortable? These are the two questions routinely asked by people agonizing about whether to go in for contact lenses or not.

Buttermilk is one of the commonest things that we find in the kitchen. How many of us know that it has a cosmetic value? Buttermilk is not only a nourishing drink; it can also be used as deep-cleansing milk. It nourishes and softens the skin. It is excellent in the treatment of severe sunburn.