DIY Lip Scrub with Plumping Action

Hello Everybody!! Hope everyone is enjoying life as much as we are....sure we have our own stuff going on but through it all, we must be the best of ourselves.

Anyhooo.... today's post is about a lip scrub that I live by. The mere simplicity in the making and application of it makes it so awesome that off late I try and do it before I apply any lip makeup. It is made of the two most simplest ingredients easily available in our kitchens - sugar and the mighty olive oil.

To make it, all you have to do is, mix sugar & olive oil in the ratio of 3:1. Always remember that the amount of sugar should be more than olive oil and the end product should look like a good scrub. For some fragrance and extra smoothness you can add a couple of drops of vanilla essence. And it is best if you use coarse white sugar and not the fine white sugar.

Just apply generous amounts of your homemade scrub on your lips. Massage your lips gently for a good 5-10 minutes making sure you are scrubbing with sugar and not just olive oil. After scrubbing keep it on for another 5-10 minutes. Then gently wipe off all the sugar crystals but let the olive oil remain on your lips. Now you can proceed normally with applying your favourite lipstick.

All that scrubbing with the sugar crystals is gonna activate the circulation of your blood in the lips and give them an instant rush of blood and that is why they plump up and get a good rosy color. All natural and beautiful. No need of those harsh lip plumpers loaded with harmful chemicals. And the massaging with the olive oil makes your lip soft supple and extra moist. So there you go. A very natural home made chemical-free lip scrub. For a short video about it and my purple pink ombre lips, click on the link below which is uploaded on our instagram page

https://www.instagram.com/p/BLGLZNOg2uw/

Do try this and let us know what you guys think about it...

Till then ...enjoy life...be happy
Loadsa love,
Maria & Gazy 

First Fitness Post - Leg workout

Hey Everybody!! This is Gazy here. First of all Eid Mubarak to all of you :) :)

And today we are posting our first fitness post for you guys. It's my workout session post. It was my leg day, which apparently is my favorite workout and so the first fitness post had to be about legs legs and legs. Many people do not pay much attention to leg, but they also do not know that working on legs is a very important part of our body as it carries our entire body weight and has big muscles. So, working on them regularly and properly gives a beautiful shape to our body and increases our strength along with making the bones stronger.

A few tips before starting off with any work out is

• Please do not carry out these exercises without some proper supervision
• A proper warm up before beginning of any exercises is necessary
• So is a good stretching after you are done with your workout
• Pay attention to the posture, wrong posture can hurt your back and lead to an injury

In the above video, the name of the exercise is single leg reverse leg press on leg machine. This is an advanced type of workout so please again, go through the pointers mentioned above, we are not responsible for any injuries. 

This workout works on the muscles glutes, hamstrings, quadriceps and lower abs.
If you want to go that extra mile, try increasing the weight.

So yes that's me signing off for now with this workout post, because yes I also am battling with this terrible flu. But flu or no flu, nothing can stop me from working out on my body I take it too danm serious !!!

Don't forget to visit us on Instagram too. Thepowerchicgirls - that's our page name on instagram.

Till then, happy living life and be happy :)

Chicken Lemon Coriander Soup

Hey Everybody !!!

Today's post is about this power packed healthy soup - The Chicken and Lemon Coriander soup. It's so delicious that you will forget it is so healthy as well. So rich in fibre makes it completely filling and a full meal in itself. Here's how I made it.

Firstly, make the base of the soup by preparing the stock. For that you will need, chicken preferably with bones because bones is where all the real deal is stored, all that nutrition and yumminess so avoid boneless for the stock. Then some of garlic, bay leaves, black peppercorns, the stalk of one broccoli, or cauliflower or parsley. Add sufficient water and salt. Cook till the water has reduced to half. 

In a separate pan, heat some olive oil. Add in some grated or finely chopped garlic and the some vegetables of your choice. Add to it shredded chicken from the stock and mix well. Once the chicken is caramalised a bit, add the strained stock to this pan and let everything simmer for a while. Season it well, adjusting the salt and pepper. If you want this soup to be a clear soup then leave it so or if you want it to be thick you can add some cornflour paste in it at this stage. 

Lastly add some lemon to bring some freshness and its done. While serving serve with some freshly chopped parsley or coriander and a dollop of cream.

Try it, enjoy it and have fun being healthy.

Lots of love,
GazyMaria

I Love Everything Chocolate !!!

Hey Guys,

Its me Gazy here and hope everyones doing fine. Dont let the topic of this post mislead you, its not a food post.

I have attempted at doing one of those smokey eye looks and since we absolutely love chocolate, so instead of the black smokey I went for a chocolate smokey look and to glam it up more instead of a black or a brown eye liner I have used golden eye liner so its an all out and out party smokey look perfect for any night party but then if you want to be all guns blazing why not wear this look during the daytime also. No rules remember wink wink !

So to achieve this look, I have used the Sivanna eye palette in the number 3. This palette has all the colors of brown and brown related and also some good golden shimmers. This is not a matte palette but a slight shimmery one.

Other than the eye palette I have used Incolor's primer to prime my eyes. It's SPF 15 and oil free long lasting base. The golden eye liner is from Meilin original glamshine eye liner. And ofcourse any good extra volume mascara. 

I loved how the gold eye liner looks. I was a bit apprehensive if it will look really good or tacky but I was fancy pleased with it.

And below is the final look, pair the look with some nude lipstick or even a faint blush colored one but you can also try wearing the extreme dark lips, whatever suits your fancy.

Try it out and you will know you can play a lot with different colors and color palettes.

Go crazy, be happy !!

Till then ....

Bye

Sheer - The Traditional Indian Dessert

Hi people !!

So today's post is about food. Yes, because food is such an important part of our lives and food alone has the power to destroy or uplift a mood :)

The food for today is Sheer, a traditional indian dessert cooked whennever there is a joyous occasion or just whenever you feel like having it. Simple! as simple as making this dessert. Here goes the recipe. Gather the below ingredients.

• 1 Litre milk
• 1 cup vermicelli
• half cup brown sugar
• few raisins and sliced almonds and chopped cashews
• thinly sliced coconut
• 2 tbsp custard powder
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• a few drops of kewra essence
• silver foil for garnishing

Boil milk till it is reduced a little. Then add in the brown sugar along with all the dry fruits. Cook well till all the sugar is dissolved completely. Then add in the custard powder mixed with a little milk. Cook and in a few minutes you will see that the milk starts thickening. At this point add the vermicelli in it. Also keep in mind that once this dessert is cooled it will thicken more so keep that in mind and cook till it reaches your desired consistency. After this, turn off the gas take it off the stove and add in the vanilla and the kewra. You can skip either one of the essence. It's upto you. Let it sit at room temperature for a while and then garnish with the silver foil, additional nuts and the coconut slices. Refrigerate and serve chilled.

And this is what you get out of your hard work.

Go ahead, try it and do let is know how it turned out for you.

Till Then...

Much Love

Gazy and Maria

The Girl with the Red Sparkly Lips

So here we are with our first post and since we love everything sparkly and shiny and bling, this one is all about bling!!

I tried to do those sparkly lips we see so often on the internet. I always thought how do they even do it and it must be so difficult. But actually, if you have the right products with you, this is very much doable. I have tried the red sparkly lips and the products that I have used are as below:
Miss Claire long lasting matte lipstick shade is Solid Red
Mac loose shimmer dust in the shade red
A clear lip gloss
A mineral powder in the shade closest to your skin tone. I used the loose mineral powder from Loreal. But then this step is optional which means you can totally skip this product. Its just when you use a base on your lips, the shade of the lipstick just pops up on your lips.

So, basically its just base foundation first then the lipstick and then the gloss. Then very carefully apply the shimmer with a brush as loose shimmers are very tricky and can get all over your face so one important tip - do not use shimmer with open windows or under a fan!!! There, I saved you guys a lot of shimmer-cleaning from your face wink :)

So, after all that hard work, this is the end result -----

I am quite happy with the end result considering it was my first time yayyy

Do tell us what you think about it guys, we would love to hear from you :) :)

Love, 
Maria & Gazy 

Just another lifestyle blog??

Hello everybody !!!

A warm welcome to everybody out there (that is whoever cares to visit our blog)
Well, many of you might be thinking oh heres another one of those lifestyle blog, where makeup and dressup stuff will be uploaded. Guess what, yes we are another 'one of those' blogs wink wink. But to be honest we arent any pros at that and are very nervous to put ourselves out there in the big wide world of social media, and its quite scary. Okay I keep on saying we doing this we doing that. So, we are two friends who got a bit bored with our mundane lives and thought that this might bring some spark in our lives, hell yeah!
And though we live in different cities, we are trying to make this long-distance blogging thing work. Yeah, all the best to us with that!!

All we want to say is that we can do whatever we want to do as long as it keeps us happy and content. Because thats what is more important than anything, keeping ourselves happy. We feel that we should be able to do things without the fear of being judged, without the fear of following and breaking any rules. Who made these stupid rules anyway? If you want to wear red lipstick and also heavy eyes just do it, there should be no rules saying that we cant sport red lips with a heavy eye makeup just because we would look over the top!!! Define over the top puhlease !!! 

So in a nutshell, we hate being judged so please dont judge us for what we do here :)

Ta-Ta See you all soon !!