Life As I Know It

Mothers love telling their daughters the 3 step rule to maintain healthy skin – Cleanse, tone and moisturise. I have always skipped the second step. As it happened, I was whining to Lulu about the monthly acne issue and she mentioned using the Biotique Cucumber – Pore Tightening Toner and the Pineapple face cleanse r. I immediately went and got these and started using them. After I had finished an entire bottle of both the cleanser and toner I realised that it had certainly helped me. Not so much in completely doing away with acne but at least as means of containing it. I used to have acne on my cheeks and jaw line but it has now considerably reduced and I just arm myself before my cycle with Vicco turmeric (The one without the sandalwood oil) and generously apply it on any bump that appears and let 7 days pass before I feel safe enough to proclaim said alien-being on my face dead. Now the reason why I have come to love toners is because they actually help over time. Again, please no...

I share my destiny with something that has been present in my life and has been a part of my earliest memories. It has found its way into my life and tangled into my daily routine. I first found out that I am susceptible to migraines when I was in 9 th Standard. Back then I was unaware of what a pain it would be in my life. Once I hit puberty, migraines became an annual thing. By the time I was in college, I had formed one of the worst habits many youngsters have today – My love for black coffee without milk or sugar. Little did I know then that this habit would further trigger my migraines. In 2006, when my doctor found out about my coffee habit she gave me an ultimatum. She asked me to pick one of the two – Coffee Vs. Chocolates. I decided to keep coffee in my life and kicked chocolates to the curb.* 01.05.2018 will mark my four year separation from coffee. Chocolate, knowing that I hadn’t even glanced at my mother’s homemade filter kaapi in the past three years decided to slowly bu...