Pamper Yourself With Truly Komal's Skin Care

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Obsessed with skin care since childhood, singer Komal Rizvi recently launched her own skin care brand Truly Komal. After meeting dermatological chemist in Canada, Rizvi decided to introduce skin products within a very reasonable price range.

Developed with the help of chemists, all the formulas are harmless and suitable for South Asian skin tone. The series is precisely created to give local skin a much better glowing effect. Right now, Rizvi has three products to take care look of skin's basic requirements; these include hydration, moisturization and sun rays protection.

Rizvi further added that she has plans to add more product to her new brand Truly Komal for example a face wash and scrub as these are much needed stuff by women of all ages. The launched products that suits all skin types include Moisturizing cream, glow serum and sunblock.

MOISTURIZING CREAM

This cream evens out skin tone effectively by reducing dark spots and provides deep hydration to give a satin-soft skin. Helps in brightening and hydration with rose and daisy extracts. It nourishes the skin with antioxidants and protects it from the environment. Corrects pigmentation, un-even skin tones and rejuvenates it.

GLOW SERUM

The serum contains essential glow-boosting ingredients to give a healthy-looking dewy skin. Based on advanced skin cell technology, first time ever in Pakistan, this serum will help in improving collagen production, prevents toxicity and fine lines. Works as an anti-aging, and firms the skin.

SUNBLOCK

All in one lightweight, fast-absorbing, moisturising SPF 50 provides protection against both UVA and UVB rays. Perfect for all skin-types even Children. It blocks 98% of the harmful UV rays, hydrates and protects one from pigmentation, early wrinkles and brightens complexion upon every application. Covering all your essential beauty requirements and giving you the glow you need in life.

Rizvi’s core agenda behind launching the brand is to make it an economical purchase possible for the consumers while serving the European quality and standard to everyone in Pakistan. Truly Komal’s series will cost between Rs1,800 - Rs3,000. 

Many renowned makeup artists, stylists, TV Film celebrities and beauty enthusiast attended the lunching event of Truly Komal.  

The series is available throughout Pakistan in stores and salons. You can place your order by visiting www.trulykomal.com.

Happy skin days to all of you!

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Review - Oriflame's Feet-up Advanced Foot Cream

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Almost everyone experiences dry cracked heels in winter season. Your overall dressing becomes zero as soon as people notice your cracked heels. It is really very embarrassing for any one to have rough feet. Women with damaged heels and dry feet feel always hesitant to wear open sandals or going out without wearing socks. So, they want to have a lasting solution for their this problem.

Many foot creams and lotions are available in market to heal dry cracked heels, but, usually these creams take a lot of time to repair the heels. However, Oriflame has come up with an advanced formula to take good care of your feet. 

The Brand Claims

Oriflame is a 70 years old trusted cosmetic brand among makeup junkies all over the world. We have already written reviews about different cosmetic products of Oriflame. You can read them in the following links.

Review - Oriflame Offers A Wide Range Of Lipsticks For Every Occasion

Review - Oriflame's Pure Colour Nail Polishes

Review - Oriflame's Milk & Honey Gold Nourishing Hand & Body Cream

Let's check out what we have to say about Oriflame's foot cream.

Our Verdict

Feet-up Advanced Foot Cream comes in 75 ml, light grey plastic tube with a tightly fitted green cap. The cream itself is in white colour and has a pleasant smell that would not bother you. 

The packaging is really travel friendly. You can carry it in your hand bag easily to use it time to time.

The texture of this foot cream is not very thin, but it is thicker than lotion consistency. Light massage can help it penetrate deep in to the cracks to heal them. You can apply it easily without any annoyance and this cream would not compel you to take a seat for hours to wait for complete foot cream absorption.

It works wonderfully if applied overnight. Due to long application period, it easily softens & moisturizes the foot by keeping the skin fully hydrated. Another good quality of this cream is that it’s not a greasy one like many other creams available in market.

The usage of Feet-up Advanced foot cream prevent the cracks from coming again. In the dry weather, it gives very good result as the dry rough feet remains completely moisturized. Daily usage provides a relieving and soothing effect for rough skin and cracked heel.

Rating

Oriflame’s Feet-up Advanced foot cream should be in your next shopping list, if you really want to avoid cracked, damaged heels, dry skin and looking for a quick remedy to relax your tired achy feet.

We are giving this cream 5 out of 5.

Availability

Oriflame’s Feet-up Advanced Foot Cream is easily available online on their official Website: Oriflame. 

It can be ordered through Oriflame’s authorized consultants in your area as well.

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Review - Dove Silky Nourishment Body Cream

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Silky and soft skin is everyone’s dream but it becomes a difficult task to maintain the softness of skin in winters. Dove has come up with a brilliant formula to resolve the problems of dry skin especially in winters.

Dove’s Silky Nourishment Body Cream is the ultimate moisturising cream that leaves you with nourished and silky soft skin. It contains exclusive Deep-Care Complex with skin natural nutrients that comforts the dryness and gives you a more beautifully radiant soft skin.

The formula has Petrolatum, Paraffinum Liquidum, Glycerin, Stearic Acid, Glycol Stearate, Glyceryl Stearate, and rich essential oils, which gradually improve the condition of skin, by starting deep down moisturizing.

Our Verdict:

The Dove cream is oil free and its consistency is very much light in weight, means it does not feel heavy on skin. The consistency is neither too thick nor too thin. The cream is good for its deep absorbency quality. Once applied, the skin remains hydrated for approximately six to eight hours. It is an ideal product not only for winters but it also works wonderfully during summers.

For the maximum best results, use Dove cream on daily basis. The regular Dove skin care routine will leave you with a silky smooth skin. The mildly scented Dove cream is appropriate for all over body use.

Packaging:

The 300 ml white plastic container packaging is enough for a single person to use it for nearly two months. The tight lid packaging is not easy to carry in a hand bag, but as the result is enormously good, you can not leave it at your home. So, use a small makeup container to fill it with Dove cream and carry it with yourself where ever you are going.

Availability:

It is easily available every where and the price is very affordable.

Rating:

We recommend Dove’s Silky Nourishment Body Cream because of its good absorbency and non greasy formula. 

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Review - Oriflame's Milk & Honey Gold Nourishing Hand & Body Cream

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Milk and Honey are considered as the most effective ingredients to maintain the beauty of skin, and this is the reason women love to buy skin care products containing both milk and honey. However, not all skin care creams are as effective as they claim and this makes really difficult for women to find a truly useful cream.

Being a skin care conscious woman, I also prefer to use creams that are helpful in nourishing the skin in true sense. Me and my sister always go for those creams that have natural ingredients as they are less harmful. Recently, we tried Oriflame’s Milk & Honey Gold nourishing Hand & Body Cream and found it very promising product because of its organically sourced extracts. The result was astonishingly extraordinary and made us really happy.

Let’s take a look at the brand’s claim

The Brand Claims:

Oriflame is a Sweden based 50 years old organization with corporate offices in Switzerland, and covering more than 60 countries. It is a direct selling cosmetics company offering wide range of high quality beauty products. 

Oriflame has created a wide range of Milk & Honey Gold collection with rich formulations to nurture face, hair and body. The Milk & Honey Gold nourishing Hand & Body Cream has nourishing ingredients for example Glycerin, Triglyceride, Aqua, Cetyl alcohol, Paraffinum liquidum, Parfum, Butyylene Glycol, Stearic acid, Palmitic acid, Phenoxyethanol etc.

Our Verdict:

Honestly speaking, Oriflame’s Milk & Honey Gold nourishing Hand & Body Cream gave us 100 percent result that we were looking for in a skin care cream. The daily use of it gives a pampering effect due to its very light texture that feels pleasant on skin. It moisturizes the skin perfectly and deeply leaving it soft and smooth.

It blended well with our combination skin and gave a good coverage even with a very small quantity. It means, that a single jar is enough for a couple of months. Its non-greasy formula is the best thing we admire most about it. The cream has good absorbency quality without any sticky or oily effect.

One more thing that we would like to especially mention here is its refreshing fragrance. It is not very strong, yet it still uplifts your mood with the mild flowery fragrance.

Packaging:

Oriflame’s Milk & Honey Gold nourishing Hand & Body Cream comes in 250 ml plastic round jar with golden color seal. Since, it is big in size, so it is not a travel friendly. However, it is beautiful enough to keep on dressing table.

Availability:

Oriflame’s cosmetics and Milk & Honey Gold nourishing Hand and Body Cream is easily available online on their official Website: Oriflame. 

It can be ordered through Oriflame’s authorized consultants in your area as well.

Rating:

This is our first ever experience with Oriflame’s Milk & Honey Gold nourishing Hand & Body Cream and we can conclude our review with these words that all of you would love to use it because of its non-greasy formula. Our rating is 5/5. 

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Review - Fair & Lovely BB Foundation + Fairness Cream

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Last week we came across a small Fair & Lovely stall in a shopping mall. The representative girls asked us to try a new product by the same brand. They showed us the Fair & Lovely BB cream. The price was so cheap that it tempted us badly and we instantly decided to buy it.

We used this BB cream for few days and today we will share our review about it. Let's have a look at the brand's claim.

The Brand Claims:

New fair & Lovely BB cream is an expert product that brings together foundation and advanced multi-vitamin fairness cream, for instant fair look, coverage of dark spots and blemishes. It evens skin tone and gives sun protection because of its SPF 15. It has a matte and non-oily feel.

Packaging:

The packaging is a small tidy tube with a white color cap. Due to its small size, it can be labelled as travel friendly. You can even carry it in your shoulder handbag without any problem. It doesn’t leak in my bag, so I can say that it is safe to carry it in your bag.

It contains 18 gm of Fair & Lovely BB foundation + fairness cream.

Our Verdict:

This BB cream gives natural look with non-oily effect. The texture is neither very thick nor thin, and due to this balanced consistency it gives a nice smooth look. The texture is awesome to hide skin blemishes and dark spots. The foundation + fairness BB cream provides sun protection because of the presence of sunscreens SPF 15. There is a specific strong smell or fragrance like some fruity thing with a touch of a rose.

The fair & Lovely BB cream has matte finish and upon applying with finger tips, it gives an even blended look without shine. The matte formula is not very favorable for dry skin tone as it is not helpful in moisturizing the dry skin. However, for normal to oily skin, it is a good combination BB cream.

There are no shade options available in this BB cream. The only one shade available is workable for medium complexion. Its shade looks extra whitish on dark skin types, while for fair ones; this nude shade BB cream is a little bit darker.

It is a product that can be suitable for women who love to have non-oily textured BB cream with strong fragrance. It will be highly suitable for them. But, for those women who like to have some extra moisturizing effect, will not like it to use it. 

However, for normal / combination skin, the non-greasy effect and long lasting moisturising effect can be very helpful in the winter weather.

Availability:

Fair & Lovely BB Cream is easily available in shopping malls.

Rating:

This is our first ever experience with any Fair & Lovely product. We can conclude our review with these words that some women would love to use this Fair & Lovely BB Cream while there will be some women who would be hesitant to use it because of its single shade with matte formula.

It can be said that it is tricky product with a complex results depending on user’s experience. For combination skin, Fair & Lovely BB cream is a nice option. 

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Review - Mustela Is A Perfect Solution For Baby's Skin

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A couple of weeks back, Mustela sent us their products for the purpose of review. We are really Thankful to the brand Mustela for this kind gesture.

The products seemed very promising so we decided to share all of the Mustela products with one of our lovely friend who recently blessed with a new-born cute baby boy. She agreed to use products after consultation with her doctor; because like every mother, she is also very careful and critical of using new products for her new-born. Our friend’s doctor told her that she can use Mustela products as they are made of natural ingredients and are mostly suitable for infants and mothers. The doctor also advised her to immediately stop the use in case of any reaction. But, the result was excellent as there was no reaction at all.

In fact, the baby’s skin reacted very well to these products and after daily use, the outcome was a soothing effect without any allergies. Now, our friend plans to buy some more Mustela products for her baby and for her own use because this brand has satisfied her very well.

The Brand Claims:

For more than 60 years, Mustela products are taking care of little babies and mothers. Developed in partnership with reputed researchers and dermatologists, Mustela Skin Care is perfectly suitable for the specific needs of babies and mothers to-be skin.

Mustela’s eco-friendly products pay special attention to the development of textures and gentle olfactory notes for pleasure of use. The brand’s products contain Glycerin, Avocado oil, Sunflower seed oil, Jojoba Oil, Castor Oil, fruit extract etc.

Mustela products are hypoallergenic, high tolerance from birth-on and are free of paraben, phenoxyethanol, phthalates and alcohol.

Verdict:

Due to the presence of natural ingredients, Mustela products are suitable and highly effective for both baby and mother. For baby’s delicate skin, Mustela products provide harmless, risk-free solutions for all kind of skin itchiness and allergies.

Following are some Mustela products that our friend used for her baby and found them very helpful. Her baby loved these products as these provide refreshing calmness and undamaging results.

Crème Change

Mustela Crème Change Vitamin Barrier Cream is best for babies as it prevents, relieves and repairs irritations and redness after each diaper change. It is formulated to minimize the risk of allergic reactions.

The 98% of ingredients are from natural origin with zero percent perfume and zero percent preservatives and have no harmful effects.

Tip: Do not use it on an oozing skin.

Stelatopia

The emollient properties in this cream provides immediate relief and an effective lipid replenishing. Stelatopia treats baby eczema and improve the soft skin due to its Sunflower Oil Distillate. It also nourishes baby’s delicate skin by relieving irritation speedily and helps bring back flexibility to the skin.

Hydra Bebe

Mustela’s Hydra Bebe really moisturizes baby's facial skin very well. It leaves the new-born’s skin soft and smooth. It is specially formulated to reduce the risk of all allergic reactions.

PhysiObebe

Mustela’s PhysiObebe is no-rinse cleansing fluid which is formulated to fight the risk of any allergic reaction. It is ideal for daily use. It is highly tolerant to baby’s eyes. It is best to use for face and diaper area, as it cleans well and leaves the skin soft.

Rating:

We would like to rate Mustela 5 out of 5.

Availability:

You can get all information by contacting Mustela Pakistan on their Facebook page Mustelapk.





Disclaimer: It is advised to use any products only with your doctor's consultation. 
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Recipe - Aromatic Butter Chicken

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Last week we went to a restaurant for family dinner. The restaurant is famous for its Pakistani Cuisine. We ordered our food including different gravy based dishes and rice. One particular dish was extra ordinary tasty and it became an instant hit. It was the Butter Chicken that attracted us most.

Upon our family's demand, we tried Butter Chicken recipe at home and it turned out very delicious and aromatic dish. So, we are sharing our own recipe with you all.

Let's start our recipe:

Ingredients

Chicken boneless 750 gms
Lemon juice 2tbsp
Garlic paste 1tsp
Red chili powder 1tsp
Turmeric powder 1/2 tsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Oil 1tsp

Onion chopped 1 medium
Ginger garlic paste 1tbsp
Tomato puree 1 cup
Yogurt 4tbsp
Red chili powder 2tsp
Turmeric powder 1/2 tsp
Garam masala powder 1tsp
Cumin powder 1/2tsp
Fenugreek dried leaves 1tsp
Salt (according to your taste)
Fresh cream 1cup
Butter 2tbsp
Coriander chopped 4tbsp

Method

Marinate boneless chicken pieces with lemon juice, garlic, red chili powder, turmeric powder, salt and oil. Keep it in fridge for 2 hours.

After 2 hours, fry above marinated chicken in 2tbsp oil. The color should not be dark nor white but light golden. Remove on to a plate.

In a pot, heat butter and add onions, fry till light golden color.

Add ginger garlic paste, cook 1 minute. Add tomato puree and cook till water dries.

Add all the remaining dry spices and keep stirring for 5 minutes.

Add yogurt in it, cook 4 minutes.

Now add above cooked chicken pieces. Cook 2 minutes.

Add fresh cream, coriander leaves and mix it in the gravy and chicken, cook for 2 minutes.

Delicious Aromatic Butter Chicken is ready to dish out. Garnish it with chopped coriander leaves and ginger.

Serve it with naan or rice.



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