Fashion & Style Quotes

A delightful collection of Fashion and Style Quotes. Enjoy!

There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.

- Denise Klahn

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

- Lord Chesterfield

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things

- Jean Cocteau

Style is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma. Fashion is something that comes after style.

- John Fairchild

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

- Yves Saint Laurent

Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

- Oscar Wilde

Style is the dress of thoughts

- Lord Chesterfield

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

- George Bernard Shaw

Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes,--the vulgar

- Leigh Hunt

I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God - never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It's a pain in the ass.

- Jennifer Aniston

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

- Henry David Thoreau

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

- Quentin Crisp

The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.

Hubert de Givenchy

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

- George Santayana

Today, fashion is really about sensuality-how a woman feels on the inside. In the '80s women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies-they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.

- Donna Karan

Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

What a deformed thief this fashion is.

- William Shakespeare

The difference between style and fashion is quality.

- Giorgio Armani

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

- John Locke

Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary.

- Achille Maramotti

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

- Henri B. Stendhal

Style is the dress of thoughts.

- Philip Dormer Stanhope

Garnier Light Fairness Face Wash : Review

I’ve never had an obsession for fair complexion but as my skin tends to become dull and lifeless at the end of the day, I went ahead and purchased Garnier Skin Naturals Light Fairness Face Wash.

How it works?

Enriched with exfoliating pure lemon essence, its formula cleanses and clarifies the skin thoroughly and removes impurities that make skin dull.

How to use?

• With moist hands, work a small amount of product into a lather and apply to face.
• Gently massage onto moist skin with fingertips. Rinse thoroughly.

My review:

It’s creamy and has a nice fragrance. Just a little of it goes a long way. It doesn’t work up too much lather. After washing, the face feels radiant and bright and it doesn’t dry the skin. For Rs 65, it’s good value for money. I would love to buy it again and again.

Dove Nutrium Moisture Body Wash: Review

I have used quite a few Dove products ( Dove Beauty Bar Pink/Rosa & Dove Gentle Exfoliating Body Wash) before and really liked them. Currently I am using their Hair Fall Therapy Shampoo and Conditioner. Will post a review on that soon.

So when 3 bottles of Dove Body Wash with NutriumMoisture™ – Deep Moisture, Sensitive Skin, and Gentle Exfoliating arrived at my doorstep all the way from US, I was thrilled.(The folks from Dove sent it.) It was all the more exciting for me as I was getting a chance to try a product that has won one of Allure magazine’s 2009 Best of Beauty Breakthrough awards.

How it works:

All regular body washes cause skin damage as they actually damage proteins and lipids in the skin’s outer layer (called the stratum corneum) during the cleansing process, which leads to critical moisture loss. Even the heavy moisturizers that are often added to compensate for this loss just tend to sit on the surface of the skin without getting fully absorbed as they aren't identical to the skin's natural moisture. 

But the Dove Body Wash collection with NutriumMoisture™ technology takes a dual approach to healthy, nourished skin by preserving both proteins and lipids during cleansing and cares for surface skin ten layers deep. NutriumMoisture™ is a breakthrough formula of soybean oil and natural lipids that nourishes the skin deep down.

My experience:

I've been using all the 3 Dove Body Washes for over a month, and I have begun to notice a difference in my skin. In winter, I normally used to slather a body lotion at least twice a day, but now I no longer have to as my skin feels quite moisturized. 

All the body washes are of a very creamy consistency almost akin to a body lotion. But when you slather them on your body they spread quite easily, cleanse well and make you feel refreshed and clean. My favourites are Deep Moisture and Gentle Exfoliating. 

Both these have a pleasant scent which isn't too overpowering. You can feel those tiny blue beads gently caressing your skin when you use the Gentle Exfoliating Body Wash, but I have to admit that it's quite mild and could suit sensitive skin as well.  

Deep Moisturizing is the thickest and creamiest of all, lathers up well and is highly moisturizing -- most suited during winters.  

Sensitive skin Body Wash isn't bad per se and is almost as good as Deep Nourishing. But the slight downside is there is a small hint of a clinical smell (which I didn't like) even though it is mentioned that it has no fragrance. 

Apart from that I think it's a wonderful body wash for sensitive skin as it is hypo-allergenic and dermatologist tested product.

5 Beauty tips that are amazing for your beauty issues

The following beauty tips from my mother helped discover a new ‘me’!

Homemade Facial Masks with ingredients from your kitchen

Here, reader Vibha, shares with you some of her favorite homemade face masks. All these can be prepared from the lowly vegetables and fruits from your kitchen. Perfect for those who want to achieve a glowing complexion on a shoe-string budget.

Yana Gupta’s health and fitness secrets

Yana Gupta, the stunning Czech beauty with her piercing grey eyes and well-toned body has got herself quite a fan following in India. Did you know that this model turned actress whose hot item numbers in several Bollywood movies won her many accolades as well as brickbats, is also a fitness freak and a pure vegetarian? Well, here she shares her health and fitness secrets:
Day begins with
I drink one liter of water as soon as I get up, to clear all the toxins from the body. I usually eat an apple and a pear in the morning.
Daily Diet
I eat almost five to six times a day in small quantities, depending on my hunger. I drink lots of water and fruit juices including coconut water. I am a pure vegetarian. I eat brown rice with lots of green salads during the day and night and maintain a low oil cuisine. My favorite is coconut chutney with idlis and fruits. I used to fast, but now I have stopped. Once in a week, I just live on fruits and fresh fruit juices.
Binge
Of course I do! Once in two weeks. I am just crazy about pizza! However after the bingeing, one must maintain the diet strictly.
Workout schedule
I exercise six days a week for an hour. My daily routine consists of 20 minutes – jogging, 20 minutes – cardio, and 20 minutes – weights. I also meditate and practice yoga, whenever I get time and feel stressed out.
Tips on healthy living
Begin healthy is the in-thing today. One must workout six times a week and drink plenty of water to release all the body toxins from the system. Eat only when you are hungry. Treat your body sensitively and try to understand it. If you are healthy, you feel good. Pick up the good things in life and stay happy all the time!
(Guest Post By Smitha)

Maybelline Whitestay UV compact: Review

Sometime back, Maybelline, New York introduced a new Whitestay UV compact with SPF 18 in India. It comes in five amazing shades – White Ivory, Light Ivory, Natural, Nude and fawn – to suit the variety of Indian skin tones. The compact also has vitamin C which supposedly brightens the skin tone instantly to give visible fairness all day long. The composition is also supposed to keep the oil away from your face leaving it fresh for the day.