Happy Mother’s Day

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Hello Readers,

Did you celebrate Mother’s day? I certainly did :) . It certainly feels good to know that someone appreciates you, doesn’t it? My daughter got me a craft flower bouquet from her school :D on Friday. I know that her teacher  helped her with this project and it was so cute. And the main thing was she refused to give it to me :lol: because she liked it so much. And today morning she gave me a gift ;) and I loved it. She gave me a Nook Simple Touch Ereader :D .

If you are following my blog for a long time then you certainly know that I already got Nook Color in 2011 for my Birthday and it’s still going strong and I love it. I love that I can add a SD card because if you are like me, a book lover, then you will have a lot of books in your ereader like me. Let me count, at the moment I have about 2210 books in my Nook Color :D . Yup and I know it’s a lot but I always add a book if I want to read it. So it kept accumulating and at the moment I still have those 2210 unread ebooks :D . Ok, Does this make you understand how much I love reading books :) . Even though the Nook Color has web browser, mail, etc, I never use them. The one major con I would say is that because of the color and lot of other stuffs in the Nook, I have to charge them everyday :( .

And that is my new phone case in the reflection :D on my very much loved Nook Color.

So moving on, I kept telling hubby that I am going to buy the Nook Simple Touch just for reading books. I just want that to store all my favorite books which I like to read again and again :D . Nook color for all the unread ebooks and Nook Simple touch for favorite ebooks which I want to read again :D . I told hubby I want that as our anniversary gift but I got it as a Mother’s day gift :yay: .

Thank you Baby A and Hubby for my gift which I absolutely love :D . I know that It will be loved.

Product Review

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Today I am going to review 3 products which I am using almost every day.

Desert Essence Thoroughly Clean Face Wash

I got this from the Vitacost long time ago. I was looking for some face wash which has no harsh chemicals since I am using them everyday in my face. This product caught my eye since it has tea tree oil and sea kelp. I was drawn to it and decided to get them and try it. I think the price was under $6 and I don’t mind paying that money if its going to protect my skin :) .

The pump bottle is easy to use and all it needs is one pump to wash your face. It smells like tea tree oil which I love. It does say that it’s for normal skin but I have a dry skin. I do feel that it slightly makes my skin dry but since I use my moisturizer as soon as I wash my face, it doesn’t bother me :) . I have used this for almost 2 months and I do like this one. But will I buy this again? Don’t know since I like to try different face wash all the time.

Naturally Fresh Deodorant

I saw this in my local grocery store and decided to try it since it says it doesn’t have any parabens and its hypoallergenic. I always had a bad reaction to deodorant. Since my college days I used the spray deodorants and within 6 months, I realized that I was having a bad reaction to it. My underarms started getting dark and itchy. And the skin will become raw from itching that I have to put non-itching lotion on them :( . It’s always a problem during summer because you don’t want to stink of sweat but you can’t do anything unless you apply deodorant. So when I read hypoallergenic, I decided to try this and see if it suits me. I got them in lavender and I think it was about $3 or so.

The smell is amazing and I love lavender smell. It is a roll on and I like it. It doesn’t make me itch and I loved it until I realized that it doesn’t last long. I think it will be better for just 2-3 hrs and then you start to sweat and ultimately stink :( . But I use this for my short trips to groceries or shops etc. I do like the product but it’s not long-lasting.

EB Crop Organic Chocolate Shampoo

I saw this product on one of my trip to TJ Maxx. The word Chocolate caught my eye and I decided to smell it and it smells amazing. Not exactly like chocolate but something spicy :D . I always have a problem with shampoo until I found that the paraben and sls free shampoo are better :) . And this is one of those all FREE shampoo for darker coloured hair and of course I had to try it :D . It retailed for about $7 and I think this is the most I paid for a shampoo.

It is a pump bottle and easy to use. I also loved the smell. The surprising note was that my hair was not problematic and even my scalp was clean :) . I loved the effect of it on my hair. I just went to the TJ Maxx next day and stocked up this for my future since I was sure it won’t be always available in that shop. It’s definitely worth trying this product my readers :D .

Birthday Gifts

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Hello Readers,

Its my Birthday Today :D . For the past few years, I have shown you guys what I got for my b’day so I decided to do the same this year as well. Every year I shop in Sephora on my birth month so that I will get my free b’day gift :D and I did the same this year as well. For the past 2 years, I have got perfumes but this year, I think I have all the perfumes I want and decided to look for other stuffs :) .

I couldn’t decide what to get and after lot of research, I finally decided to get the Benefit value set. I LOVE the value sets in Sephora. They have small sizes of lot of products and that’s all I need :) . I still have the Benefit value eye kit I got last year and I use them occasionally. It still has a lot of products and I will never end up using the full product anyway. I always throw the products away after I had them for 2 years or so and most of the time, It still has a lot of products in them. And that’s why I love this small-sized ones :D .

Anywhoo, this year I wanted to go to Sephora shop and not order online because I have to buy for $50 to get a free shipping and I know that I don’t want to do that. So Hubby took me to the nearest mall where they had Sephora. This mall has 2 Sephora and one was inside the JCPenny. So in the first shop I was browsing, I saw the clearance section and of course, I wanted to go and see what they had :) . They had a lot of Sephora’s own brand products mostly lip, skin, nail and eye products. So I got the Smoky Kohl in Copper, Lip pencil in Gorgeous Peach, Eye shadow in Sun Kissed and finally, Lavanilla deodorant.

And the Benefit set you see is the B’day Gift :D (yayy). It has a small mascara and a highlighter. I love their birthday gifts. Last year I got the Sugar lip product which had the original lip balm and the rose lip balm. After using them, I can actually understand why people spend about $22 for a lip balm. They are AMAZING. I have them in my hand bag and use them mostly during travel.

Moving on, then I went to the Sephora inside the JCPenny and was searching for the clearance section :D and what do I see? They have the Cover FX products on sale. OMG, I was beyond excited because I know that they are crazy pricey. After much debate with myself ;) , I finally got the skin tint and the mineral powder. I did swatch them on my hands and it was pretty accurate. So decided to go for these colors. The skin tint alone has the original price of about $42 and the pressed mineral powder was about $32 . And the clearance price was about $17 and $14 respectively. I was just doing boogie in my mind :lol: .

And you want to know the best thing of all :D . I got the 15% off on all products for the Beauty Insider sale :yay: . I was totally excited after these buy and I can say that this is the best bargain birthday gift ever :D .

I also got another gift from my hubby ;) . I had my eye on an online jewellery designer for a few months and I finally decided to order them. Its calle Hues Design by Ashwini. She doesn’t have a website but she does have facebook page and I ordered them after looking at some designs. They are amazing. I love her designs. They are mostly Indian designs and wanted to have one of her earrings :) . I finally decided to get one. I loved this design and it has pearls in it. I chose this because I could wear it with any colored dress. I still haven’t worn them.

Thank you hubby for all these gifts :D .

Update…

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Sorry Reader for not updating my blog for about 2 weeks. We were sick most of the time. I was horribly sick with head cold during 3rd week of March and it lasted for almost 2 weeks. I had a bad nose block and I was using the spray every 3 hrs. I wasn’t sleeping properly and was horribly cranky :roll: . Then after I got better, my daughter got sick with Gastroenteritis which is diarrhea and vomiting. It lasted for 5 days and I was exhausted after this. She was still recovering and clingy after she got better. Being sick is not good for my blog thinking/writing process :D .

Moving on, updates from our life. My daughter is going to the day care for 3 hrs everyday :cool: and I am so happy that I am having some free time. But somehow this free times ends up doing housework or cooking etc. I realized it was not a lot of time :) but I am feeling better and most importantly she loves going to the day care. I think she was so bored at home and was feeling cranky. She loves it there ;) .

Anyhoo, Did I tell you about our Vacation during March? We went to Hawaii :D . We went to the Kauai Island and it was such fun out there. Baby A loved the beaches and her swimming costume ;) . We went to the Luau and they had varieties of live animals in the farm which she absolutely loved. She had her dad and uncle with her and she was content :D .

I will try to update more in the future but it is difficult with a toddler. And on the last note, It is “your truly’s” birthday this week and I got fantastic early gifts from hubby. It’s more like we can buy whatever we want gift ;) . Will post the pictures soon.

Peacock in Kauai Island