August was a very long month of hot weather and hard work. The wait for payday stretches out in front of you and the weather sucks to such an extent that you sweat even in air conditioning. Have I made enough excuses for splurging on some new products yet? I did a little bit of travelling in August and the work load seemed to double up once I returned back home! I think now that the month has come to an end it does call for some treats up my sleeve and what better way to celebrate my payday time so I went shopping :D ! ;)

Bags

My first visit was to my beloved Flipkart.com to pick up a sling bag which I was in real need off . I’ll tell you the reason behind the purchase of this sling bag. I added a sling bag on my wish list ever since my previously loved and million times used E20 sling bag’s chain broke off :’( and I had to purchase a replacement asap to subside the pain of losing a fav sling bag :P . I bought this cute sling bag in pink color but the brand Lengloy sent me a damaged product for which I got a replacement in no time. So no complaints here, I am totally loving my new bag buy!

With the sale, and a cheeky extra discount on the Flipkart app I got this spoil baby for just INR 599! *Yay* 

Jewelry

My shopping is incomplete if I have not splurged on a beautiful pair of earrings and guess what I ended up buying two of them this time, blame the weather ! ha ! :p

Next I splurged upon some ethnic bling bangles! My favorite ethnic accessory ! The first set of bangles is a box of colorful plastic studded bangles to match with every rain and rainbow outfit of mine :P I already received a dozen compliments while they were on my slim wrists ;) So super yay to them! I bought them from a store in a place called Mohammadi near Lucknow city! Now you know why they are so pretty ! The other set of bangles in light pink and white were just a random buy and I can hardly wait to flaunt them !

Since I indulged in a lot of travelling in August I got the chance to pick up some finest products across the places I travelled. My next purchase was double linked two finger rings in gold and silver. They are a unique set of stretch rings and I can’t wait to flaunt them on a festive event! Every woman should own these pieces of statement jewellery in their style wardrobe!

My last buy in the jewellery sec included a beautiful bow shaped white stone studded hair holder clip from Lucknow ! It was love at first sight for this one. A jeweled hair accessory you are often going to see me flaunting :D

All of the jewellery I bought can be worn separately on simple occasions or even at weddings and parties !

Makeup

It’s the season of chapped lips hence my next purchase was two lip balms from my favorite lip balm brand Nivea ! These two (Pomegranate and Cherry) along with peach are my 3 favorite lip balms from Nivea’s #BFF new range of lip balms (reviews of the lip balms coming up in the next post)! I also bought a Maybelline Cheeky glow blush which was on my wish list from a very long time from now. My next buy in the makeup section was Lakme Shine Line Black Eyeliner from Lakme’s Absolute range. I had heard good reviews about it and bought it on a sale of 25% off on Amazon.in

Hair care

My next purchase was a roots comb as my previous roots comb accidentally broke and I had to replace it with a new one. I also bought a random comb to brush my wet hair after bathing.

Traditional trend accessory: Latkans

My purchases would be incomplete if I din’t splurge on a pair of latkans ! No guessing here, I ended up buying three pairs ! All so beautiful ! You can read more about latkans here.

The month of August was a promising one and I am happy to have shopped for some of the most blingy and lovely things ! Hopefully September turns out to be as good as August !

What about you ? Did you shop to your heart’s content the previous month? temme!

Until Next time

Love

Najmun Nissa

Women and shopping are two things that are inseparable ! Be it a happy occasion, a festive occasion, a party occasion, a celebrative occasion or even a breakup  wala occasion we always have reasons to shop!

I remember a time when shopping meant a BIG task for us. Not to forget the ‘What to wear ?’ syndrome that would hit us before we would jog out to shop at the mall or the streets. Then there was this carry cash and change ( or you might end up owning chocolates which you have no interest to eat!) , putting up with nakhra wala autos ! Finally we would reach our destination and end
up buying a product that will be on sale the next weekend. Blah ! I am not telling the shopping part was’t fun but hey dressing up every time I had to go out shopping was hellish !

Well that was the past but now thanks to online shopping I shop to my hearts content, compare prices, get cash back  *cheeky grin* , use coupons and shop at the best prices , right from my bed ! No dressing up , no getting up *Mini happy dance* :P

So yes lets give it up for the incredible changes in shopping online ! hail internet! Hail Comfort ! Hail She-commerce !

2015 has been a shoppers paradise for me , with increase in competition among e-commerce portals , customers ie us are the ones  benefit the most ! Either Flipkart is coming up with Big  app shopping Days or Snapdeal is coming up with Dil ki deal. Or be it  amazon winning hearts with its super value days and ebay with its lowest price sale !

I have been shopping like crazy lately and in the past few months it has been a heavy courier affair at my doorstep ! Sharing with you a few purchases of mine from different e-com portals and how much I have been wanting to splurge again :D

Myntra :

Shopping tip for Myntra: Keep an eye for their flash sales ! You can get everything you want at half rates ! Also ever since Myntra went the app way I never got the time shop from it, I look forward to shop from their app :D

Amazon:

Shopping tip for Amazon: Amazon has great offers along with cashback ! They have these secret sales ( that’s because they hardly advertise these sales!) where you might end up shopping everything on clothing and footwear for flat 80% off ! YES ! Plus they have super value days on every 1st and 2nd of the month where you get amazon giftcards if you shop from their super value sec! Awesome isn’t it?

Flipkart:

Shopping tip for Flipkart : APP ! Download the app and keep a lookout for the ‘Deal of the day’ ! Gone are the days where you bought things from WS Retail because they gave you free shipping on orders above INR 500. Flipkart now has thousands of sellers who offer excellent products with reasonable shipping and lowest prices ! LOVE LOVE LOVE FLIPKART :*

And no its better to shop on Flipkart when don’t have these sales running because as far as I have experienced they have far more better prices when they don’t have the advertised sales !

Homeshop18:

Shopping tip:  Follow them on twitter to keep up with their offers and discounts !

Ebay :

Shopping tip for Ebay : Anything unique you were on the look will be available on ebay ! Everything ! Best to splurge here when you want buy gifts !

Limeroad :

Shopping tip for Limeroad: Keep a lookout for their buy 1 get 1 free sales !

Snapdeal:

Shopping tip for Snapdeal: Sellers ! Always see the price offered by other sellers in the same product ! If a product is selling for INR 5999 , the same product from another seller is up for INR 1999 ! Careful!

Psssst: Detailed posts of al the shopping hauls coming up soon on the blog ! keep a lookout for them ! \:D/

until next time

Love

Najm

The best thing about online shopping is that they have sales running on them every now and then! I was looking for a few jewelled hairbands which I had on my wish list since long and I went window shopping on ebay as it’s the only website where we get every damn thing , yes , I mean it ! Every single thing which you might not get on Flipkart or amazon you’ll find it on ebay ! Ebay is a site where you’ll find things you simply can’t resist ! The best thing about it are the sweet sellers who send cute message cards along with the product which make me happy ^_^ Hence when ebay had a sale going on I hogged the moment and hauled up a few things..

I bought a necklace set which I intended to gift to one of my cousin. While I was browsing I stumbled upon an irresistible pair of ear cuffs in gold and a cheaper one in silver. I also bought a powder blush from Anne Andrea in peach which I am yet to try!

These gold plated ear cuffs are pretty to look at and lightweight when you wear them and cost me around 500 bucks . The only con about them is that they tend to hurt your ears after a period of 1 hour . My ears turned red and it was quite painful :/ I think the fault is with the designing. I recommend you to avoid buying these, its painful!

The same goes for the silver ones, they were as painful as the gold ones :(

The hairbands where love at first sight ! The gold studded floral hairband is now my favorite ! I have worn it more than 25 times ! *Happy face* The silver is yet to be worn. the material of the hairband is good but the satin at the ends tend to come out , I had to stick them back with fevikwik. Other than that they are a nice buy at a reasonable price.

The necklace came in a delicate package and I am glad there was no damage done to it. It’s a sweet light silver color studded necklace with earrings.

I loved the cards each seller sent with their respective products. they had a sweet message for me along with their website address. So that was my small haul from ebay. Have you shopped for jewellery from ebay? How was your experience?