Brides of today are gaga about circular hair ornaments that either go all around the bun or grace their foreheads. Matches are made in heaven and marriages culminate on earth. To every eligible bachelor and spinster his or her wedding day is a day much awaited for, as it is a day to remember.

The word that is doing the rounds in the beauty, health, food and fitness world is - spa. Every living soul on the face of the planet today, will agree that the so called 'comfortable' lives that we live is actually a double edged sword. In fact, the much sort after concept of lifestyle is the cause of what is popularly known as "lifestyle disease."

Like every other bad habit, biting your nails is easy to form but a tough one to stop. For many, nail biting is so well established that they barely realize they are doing it. In this germ-conscious world, no one wants to shake hands with a guy who's just put his fingers in his mouth.

Natural herbal skin care has been the choice of beautiful women the world over for thousands of years. That's why so many have returned to the natural herbal skin care routines that are based on some of the same key ingredients that might have been used by legendary beauties like Cleopatra or Marie Antoinette.

Looking into a cupboard packed to the brim with clothes and wondering what to wear is a typical female dilemma. Men, too, must be suffering such moments, but enough has been said about the classic woman's wail, 'There's nothing to wear!' This is, of course, because what a woman may be searching for at the moment of looking into her cupboard is the perfect garment - in terms of fit, mood, colour and style, and what she may be seeing instead is things that the people she is going to meet have seen before, things that make her appear fat, things that are the wrong colour, or the slightest tear or stain has marred.

Looking smart is the way you choose your dress pertinently that compliments your body shape, so anybody and everybody can do this with a little bit of care and practice. We often make terrible mistakes wearing clothes that are trendy but can look either shabby or vulgar. Women often make big blunders by wearing clothes that do not suit their body type.

Nature has strange ways of creating the magnificent and priceless. Just imagine a bit of carbon gets crystallized somewhere deep down in the earth under extreme pressure and temperature conditions and metamorphosises into one of the most coveted possessions of mankind-  diamonds. This stone has fascinated human beings since time immemorial.

Flaunting heirloom jewellery and regular trips to the branded shop specializing in gold and diamonds might be the right thing to do once in a while. The rest of the time, a stroll through the by lanes of any swanky market of a metro or mini-metro or a trip to the near by local market is good to jazz up your jewellery box with a range of interesting imitation ornaments.

My bag can be termed as colossal. It represents a personal revolution in the sense of being made of leather - something I had avoided using completely for close to eight years. It is also embellished with many pockets and shiny buttons, the whole tough buffalo skin exterior giving off an air of hard working professionalism (even when I am napping in the afternoon!).

Even till the time I entered college, the saree was considered an important symbol of 'growing up' or entering the more mysterious regions of womanhood. Since our childhood was spent with many references to the 'Six yards of feminine allure/mystery/beauty', women of my generation grew up with at least a few representative members of this traditional garment, that had defined Indianness to the outside world for so long.