Thou art beautiful

Somedays back we had this long long discussion or rather sort of an argument in our class regarding the whole idea of "beauty" while reading Keats. Remember his most famous line from "Ode on a Grecian Urn"-

" Beauty is truth,truth beauty " 

Honestly I never understood what it precisely meant,but this line has always puzzled,fascinated and mystified me. Does it mean beauty lies in the truth in everything and anything true to itself is beautiful?? I know not but that is what I choose to believe. I would love if anybody could help me find a different explanation to this line.


What is it that makes something or rather someone beautiful?? Does having a fair complexion or a good figure or a pretty face makes you beautiful?? Well this might be the definition of beauty to many but not for me. I believe beauty is what you are inside. Your outside is not what you chose to be,you were born that way but its your choices and the honesty of your soul that makes you beautiful.


Reminds me of these lines said by Helen Keller-

“ The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart ” 

I couldn't agree more!! Beauty goes beyond sight or rather anything sensory,its always what your heart feels or perceives it,that makes it beautiful.  Beauty definitely lies in the eyes of the beholder,it is not a concept or a concrete thing, its what you want it to be that makes it beautiful to you. A beautiful mind can always find beauty around itself,be it a bunch of flowers that all find beautiful or in a garbage heap which most would find distasteful, it all depends on what and how you choose to look at things.


Do you remember that scene from the movie "American Beauty" where there is this video in which a polythene bag is swayed and tossed from side to side??? I don't know if anybody noticed or found anything good about that part but it happens to be the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in my life (on screen). It defies the age old idea of beauty , but the question is who is it who decides what is beautiful and whats not??


This is for all those lovely people who don't find themselves beautiful just because nobody ever told them they are good looking - accept and love yourselves because at the end of the day,its only you who can truly love yourself inspite of all your faults,others love you for what you portray yourself as!!


On an ending note here are the lines from Selena Gomez's song "Who Says" that I heard sometime back and instantly loved the lyrics-
"I'm no beauty queen, I'm just beautiful me"...


Goodbye till next..


Loads of Love


Swarnali
P.S-this post was inspired by this post by Lazygulrox....sorry darling I forgot to tag you here earlier.

open tag :D

Happened to see this open tagged questions at Tanvi's of The Fabulous Life of Not-So-Rich and Infamous and couldn't resist posting this :P
So here we go-
1)What was your favorite back to school item to buy?
   I was crazy (and still am) about pens...I just can't get enough of them...and  cute pencils..I loved sparkle pens <3

2)What was your favorite subject in school?
   There were so many of them and I liked almost all of them!! Top 3 favorites would be Genetics, English, Maths.

3)Did you ride the bus or get a ride from Mom/Carpool?
   I changed school thrice. The first one was around 5 km away,so took the school bus. Other two were really   close,just 5 minutes by walk,so I walked to school with my kid sis.

4)Did you have a sack lunch or cafeteria food?
  Mum always packed food for us,but we did eat from the cafeteria occasionally.

5)What is your favorite memory from your schooldays?
   There are so many memories that I just can't think of  a single one right now. I distinctly remember my Farewell but thats not my favorite.

I follow Tanvi's example and keep this open,anyone can tag themselves .. :D
Bubbye till next :D

Post Puja

 Its just 4 days past Durga Puja & my wait for the next puja begins.... Well one good part is Diwali is yet to come... :D

So as I had promised that I would come back with some puja snaps...
 The puja in Kolkata is celebrated with diffrent themes varying from real places like Kashmir and Sanchi to imaginary lands like Hogwarts oand the Garden of Eden,Unique styles of Decorating ranging from Jute,Used bottles,CDs,Bamboo,small mirrors,cane baskets etc etc. The idol of the Goddess in these pandals (tents where the idols are worshiped during the Puja) often are modeled according to their respective themes. Take a look how the Goddess looked at different pandals-

Now lets have a look how the pandals looked like from outside-

                                                A trip to the beautiful valleys of Kashmir.

                                                                    Lets go to Space :D

                                        This pandal was made and decorated with colored bamboos.

                          This was based on France's Louvre Museum,you can see the glass pyramid in front.

         The highest Durga pratima (idol) this year in Kolkata, this one measured a huge 14.5 mtrs!!

                              Pandal modeled on the Buddhist Stupa of  Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh

 This pandal was modeled based on a temple in Bishnupur (a place in Bengal,the puja there is as old as  1013 yrs!!)

                                           This one was made out of flutes and hand cymbals !!

                          Used circuit items and motherboards were used to make these robots!!

 This artificial tree at a pandal was modeled out of synthetic ropes for the trunk and slightly inflated surgical gloves painted green and yellow for the leaves.

                                      This was made entirely from whiskey,wine and beer bottles.

                                                                       Entrance to Eden

                                                                 The Garden Of Eden

                                                Land of Fairies & Butterflies for the tiny tots

                                                This one was made entirely from tiny bits of mirrors.

This one was based on Kashmir(a state in India)

The puja is not just about pandal hopping,its also about new clothes,pre puja shopping and wonderful food...

That is all for now...bubbye till next ....have a great day ahead :)

& Subho Bijoya to all  :D

mix n (don't) match

Back with another nail color post...you know how obsessed I am about nail colors!! ;)
Some months back I had this newly found love for blue nail colors...I wanted nail colors in all shades of blue particularly this one below(which I couldn't find in any store & the search continues)-

My pal at college had this somewhat glittery turquoise blue(from Lakme) that I tried...loved the color....but wasn't satisfied....here is a pic that we took-

This pic is not a great one...but its evident that this is not the exact blue I was in search of...
Then one fine day I saw a new color launched by Avon-Matt Inky Blue...the color looked exactly ink blue in the brochure and since the actual colors happen to be one shade lighter than the color displayed, I thought "my search ends here!!"...unfortunately it didn't...I was really disappointed when the color bottle arrived...it looked "pathetic" on my nails especially with the Matt effect...now what to do?? :(
This is how the color looked-

I had learnt from my previous experiences that unlike lipsticks(which I don't apply) , no nail color is ever wrong. You always have the option of mixing or teaming it up with another color and giving it a completely different look.
So the other day when two of my best pals came up with two new colors from Elle 18 nail color pops,I just thought of adding a dash of my Inky blue to them & viola...the result was superb (tell me what you think)...here take a look at the two combinations..

there are some other double combinations that I tried & many loved them...
Avon's Champagne Shimmer + Avon's Brown Bliss
Avon's Pretty Plum + Elle 18 no.1 nail pops
Any Glossy Black (I used Elle 18) + Shocking Pink
tell me what else you tried ....
Bubbye!!!