Opinions and Rants. Opinionated Rants.

So recently Harvest Tree has gotten somewhat popular in the world of online skin care retailing. A friend recommended it to me and I thought I would give it a try. The page boasted organic, handmade products. Honestly just reading the product names made my skin feel nicer. And oh, they did not pay me to write this, in case you were wondering.  It was Eid-ul-Fitr (July 2016, if you’re having trouble remembering). Anywho, they had a deal going on 4 products in PKR 1000 so it was a STEAL. Considering my sister bought the other two products. I only spent 600 in total for two products. They charge 200 for delivery. I ordered the stuff on the first night of Eid and didn’t hear back until three whole days after. Totally understandable, not everyone is as waila as me to be online all the time specially on Eid. Anyway, I got a response, and was told that I was still eligible for the 4 for 1000 deal. My cheapskate heart skipped a beat. I asked them about what face mask-soap com...

So it is unanimous (between all four of my personalities) that coffee is the best. Having said that, I didn’t always drink coffee, nope, I was under the impression that coffee lead to pimples. And that made me keep it an arm’s length cause I didn’t want pimples, hell no. I don’t think anyone WANTS pimples to be honest. But if you do, it's cool. No judgement.  So when Nescafe’s new ad  starring my woman crush Sajjal Ali aired my hankering for a nice steaming cup of joe became more persistent. So I cracked my knuckles and went on the good old internet to do a little research. And guess what, there is no study out there that has made a causal or correlational link between coffee and pimples! I was furious, I lost prime coffee drinking time but I also felt elated because, hey I could enjoy a nice cup of coffee without any worries. You can look at Sajjal's pretty face here: However, let me tell you why it is popularly believed that coffee causes pimples; because of s...

I am a student and thus I usually have too much month at the end of my money.  BeautyHooked Logo from beautyhooked.com And to make that money stretch out, I am always, ALWAYS on the look out for good deals. I came across BeautyHooked earlier this year and checked it out, it had all the A-list mehengoolay salons on it and I scoured the deals to find something which would fit my pocket but I found nothing that I could afford.  So two weeks ago, after my mom mistook my hair for the jharoo, I decided I  really  needed a haircut. I crossed my fingers and went to look at deals on BeautyHooked again. Just awein, in case something came up.  I went to the deals page and pressed crtl+f and wrote down the MOST I wanted to pay which was PKR 1,500. I have to say I found some pretty great deals. The one I chose was from Depilex DHA called Pumpkin Spice. The white girl inside me was squealing.  That being said, I wish the website gave you an option to list t...

There are a lot of things in society we blindly accept without question. Most of these things might even be harming us yet we still take part in them in the name of 'culture'. One such societal norm is dowry. The concept of dowry entails a bride to bring with her a truck load of items for her new home. Furniture, appliances, cars or sometimes even a home! The more your bride brings the more your relatives burn with envy, I hear. Sounds like a great deal, doesn't it? Get a wife AND a ton of stuff for free! What a bargain. But let's look at it from the bride and her family's perspective. Exercise our almost never used muscle of empathy. Remember empathy? That little thing that makes us human. Helps us think of what the other person might be going through.  Let's cut to the chase, most people in Pakistan aren't very rich. We're still a developing nation, right? Well, now imagine all these families living in these financially tough times, just g...

On this Friday, the 18th of December, 2015, I went to Kapray's store launch in Lahore. I love clothes, I adore them but I am very specific about what I like and I factor in a lot of things together before I decide if something is worth buying or not. The colors, the quality, the cloth and of course the price! If you're on Twitter or Facebook, you'd know that Kapray has launched stores nationwide this week, from Hyderabad, to Lahore to Islamabad and a store already in Karachi that has been operating since July. Now the brand is setting up to launch their online store at www.KaprayOnline.com When I got to the outlet in Defence, Y Block, Jugun Kazim was already hosting the red carpet and interviewing the brand manager. Jugun looked stunning and jbtw, her outfit? It was from Kapray. So I had thought that Kapray would be super expensive but I was pleasantly surprised to see that all their casual kurtas we're within PKR 2600! The ground floor was filled with stit...

Being a Psychology major, I am very passionate about proper child development and people leading healthy lives, both mentally and physically.  So when I heard 'The Digital Factory' was hosting an event with Nestle on the importance of the 1000 first days of a child's life, I jumped at the opportunity to be a part of it.  So I went to the event, held at PC Lahore, on October 17th, 2015 and learned what my course books have failed to teach me.  And I realized, I was not alone, a lot of people don't know the crucial importance of the first thousand days in a child's life.  Being a bloggers event, a lot of people with a big social media presence were in attendance. We we're only asked to do one thing; to share the information we received with everyone else and that is exactly what I intend to do with this post.  I learned a lot of valuable lessons that people in Pakistan are unaware of. Dr Huma Fahim, Medical Adviser at Nestle, delivered a very in...

I recently read a status on one of those idiotic university gossip pages saying, ‘ If you cant cover your body well, then dont blame him for staring you   J ’. Now what does covering your body ‘well’ mean? I am perplexed by this question. Because I have worn shalwar kameez and I have worn jeans but I still see men leering at me. And this is not just my observation. Ask any girl and the answer will be the same. All the women in Pakistan could don burkas and still be subjected to the perverted gazes of some men. Which brings me to my main point; it is not women who need to change the way they dress, it is men who need to change their thinking. Blaming women for making you stare at them is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.   I see a plethora of men wearing shorts, tank tops or even roaming around shirtless in the summers (just go to Lahore’s canal on a sunny summer afternoon!) and what I don’t see is women gawping at these men. But how can that be? T...