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Feb 18

Which Shoe Are You?

Quizzes have gotten way out of fashion – so take this simple shoe-o-meter to better understand your own personality and figure out how you can be more…. ‘gloss’! All you have to do is pick which shoe you like the best out of the following…

 

Colorful flip-flops

Black pumps

Gold peep-toed stilettos

Brown sandals

 

You picked… Black pumps. You are a perfectionist.

 

Who you are: Things need to go according to plan, otherwise you might be risking a freak-out. Your desk is probably the most organized thing anyone has seen, and you rarely miss a detail or deadline.

 

Your go-to-accessory: the silver bracelet – a simple one, maybe with a carved pattern

 

How to be ‘Gloss’: It’s great that you’re a reliable woman, and it seems that people would trust you with their important work. But you need to be asking yourself if you are going overboard sometimes. Do things always need to be perfect? While your attitude certainly gets the job done, it might be time to delegate – so sit back, relax a while, and flaunt those pumps.

 

 

You picked… Gold peep-toes. You are edgy and daring.

 

Who you are: Fun and fierce are the two main words that come to mind while describing you. You’re never afraid of a challenge, and you survive on the thrill of achieving the impossible. Your ‘party-always’ motto in life makes you the life of any social gathering.

 

Your go-to-accessory: Fishnets stockings or metallic tights – perfect for a night on the town.

 

How to be ‘Gloss’: Though your daring outlook of life can garner a lot of respect from your peers, it might be wise to step back and look at whether your ‘risky’ decisions are always the right ones. Have you gone a little too far with a joke? Made someone uncomfortable with your outward personality? Maybe not, but it does merit a closer look. No doubt your fearlessness will get you far in life, but make sure your stilettos aren’t trampling a few too many hearts along the way.

 

You picked… Colorful Flip-flops. You are the happy tree-hugger.

 

Who you are: You’re that person who spends her time and the beach, reading poetry and playing your guitar. There’s a good chance that you’ll be the one telling your friends to chill out, and enjoy life. You just can’t understand people who won’t take time to smell the roses. You’ll be the fun one, always ready to go on an adventure.

 

Your go-to accessory: A big beach tote in many colours, and a comfortable tee shirt and shorts.

 

How to be ‘Gloss’: You may get complaints that you’re flighty and not always there. Maybe you could solve this by paying attention to what people are saying. I know, they talk about silly things, and I know you couldn’t really care less who’s seeing whom, but pay attention, don’t scoff at them, and I’ll guarantee you, you’d have won their hearts forever.

 

You picked…. Brown Sandals. You’re the girl next door.

Who you are: If I may hazard a guess, you’re the girl people came to with problems. You were the comforter when friends broke up, and you’ve got gratitude coming from all directions when you give people your notes in class. You took home lost puppies, and birds with broken wings and nursed them back to health. Chances are, you were class monitor, good little church girl, and when the teacher said, look you should be like, it was invariably followed by your name.

 

Your go to accessory: A nice little hairclip to put up your bangs, and some clear gloss for your lips – they’ll go perfectly with that big smile!

 

How to be ‘Gloss’: Don’t undersell yourself! You may be inclined to believe that you’re not special and people don’t need you. IT’S NOT TRUE. You’re special and lovely, and deserve the best! Don’t put up with that guy who friendzoned you, or the friend who only talks to you to ask you what the exam portions are. Grow a spine, and I can ensure you complete happiness!

 

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Feb 12

10 Romantic Valentine’s Day Date Ideas!

Typically, Valentine’s Day, unlike a birthday, is  a joint effort- both of you should have fun planning what you want to do, together, and also see if you can incorporate an element of surprise like a present.

Since it falls on a weekday this year, you may plan something simple (a sweet conversation, long walk, cards/flowers etc) to acknowledge the day, and celebrate more elaborately at a convenient time.

Romantic dates out or in, or a shared experience are all amazing ways to celebrate your relationship:

 

  • A park date or a picnic: Picnics are totally underrated. Be sure to pick a scenic place- a park or mountaintop where you can watch aiplanes take off maybe?-with good weather, carry a mat, your favourite food and drink, a game, guitar, or some poems if you wish, or just sit back and talk. Decorations like balloons, flowers, and bubble-blowers would only add to the ambiance.

  • A candlelight dinner: 
Cliche or classic, this is an ever popular choice. Pick an old favourite restaurant or one neither of you has tried. Make reservations in advance. Sometimes being in a formal, beautiful environment can be quite romantic. Pick some place with live music, or a cuisine neither one of you has tried before!
A meal  prepared by one or both of you:
Cooking for a lover can be an intimate experience. How about a homemade meal, by candle-light and flowers, with your favourite band in the background? Google your favourite recipies and be sure to buy the ingredients beforehand.
  • A Long Drive
Down your favourite part of  town! Most people prefer to have this as a part of a date, though it works if it’s a weekday, and you don’t have much time to spare.
  • Attend a live performance
Like a play, a musical, a concert or  a gig at your favourite night club.

  • Sightseeing 

Sometimes, when we stay in a place for too long, we lose sight of its beauty and the possibilities it has to offer. Be tourists all over again. Rediscover a new part of the city, visit a place you’ve never been to or check out an art exhibition.

  • Amusement Park

Not only are you guaranteed to have FUN, research shows that an adrenalin rush increases mutual attraction. ‘Nuff Said.

  • A “shared experience”

Sign up for a salsa class, an adventure sport, wine-tasting or  psychic reading. Something totally out of the blue or that you’ve always wanted to try together.  For best results, try something you wouldn’t ordinarily do. A new and shared experience will help you rediscover things in each other you may not have known, or have forgotten, especially if you’ve been dating a while!
  • A laid-back night at home 

We all need a break sometimes, but who says staying home needs to be boring? Order in, watch movies or play a board game (Twister?;) and cuddle!

  • A Beach Date

Whether you’re planning on a day date, or an evening date, the beach is a wonderful idea. A seaside picnic is something you might want to consider. A walk by the sea by sunset or starlight can be super romantic. Plan ahead if you want to take a dip in the water, but even if it happens spontaneously,  make sure you stay safe.

 

  • We know we said 10 ideas, this one’s for good luck!

Get Nostalgic!


Especially convenient if you’re doing the whole laid back evening at home thing, and if you’ve been dating a while . Pull out your old photos, letters, etc and reminisce about how far you’ve come and what a great love story you make. If you want, you can even make a scrapbook  (or two! )of the same.

Regardless of what your plans, have fun getting dolled up for the occasion and make sure to surprise your date with a present - who doesn’t like one?

Picture sources: 1 ,  2 , 3, 4, 5 , 6, 7, 8 , 9 , 10 , 11

 

What are you planning to do this V-day? Comment below! Share!

 

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Feb 10

Happy Teddy Day!

After Rose Day and Chocolate Day, Teddy Day is the latest mushy run-up to Valentine’s Day to be trending on Twitter!

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Teddy Day is celebrated on February 10 in honour of teddy bears.  A relatively late creation, the teddy bear was invented in Germany the 20th century in honor of the US President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt.

The toy grew immediately popular, and is often gifted to both children and adults to signify love, congratulations or sympathy.

It’s so popular, in fact, that research shows that 25% of adult men take a stuffed toy, most often a  teddy bear, with them on business trips!

Aur tu? Do you have, or have you had, a stuffed toy you love? Is it a teddy bear?

 

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Feb 06

10 Signs to know you’re Jinxed in College

Just when you think that your life cannot get worse, it does. I happen to notice a pattern in everything that troubles us and BINGO here are 10 findings:

  1. All the important tests always happen on the same day and not only that, that day would be after one of your most hectic day of the week.
  2. You always land up with the strictest teacher in a subject you know you won’t perform well in.
  3. The guy you do not share a cordial understanding with will always have teachers who throw marks.
  4.  It is only in the morning while brushing that you realize you have an assignment due that day and no free hours to your credit.
  5. The day you miss breakfast, hours drag on till 12 ’o’ clock and the mess would serve something you never liked .
  6. You will suddenly land up with loads of work just when you retire to watch your favourite TV show.
  7. The queue at any Xerox shop is inversely proportional to days left for the exams.
  8. The day you enter late in class the professor’s temper would be at its peak.
  9. You always end up messing up that exam whose teacher is your favourite.
  10. The report card always arrives on the day when your parents had planned for an outing or a movie. What happens to those plans…well I needn’t elaborate on that!

All those suffering from the above fates, well I am sorry to say that there is no hope. Our luck runs out just when we need it the most!

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Feb 05

Confessions of a chickflick / sitcom junkie

What do I do after a day when I want to shut out the rest of the world? I curl up on my sofa to watch TV shows, to be specific,  feel good tv shows. Starting from The OC , Gossip Girl, Friends ,One Tree Hill, Pretty Little Liars….the list is endless.  My guy friend jokes that I’m a chick-flick sitcom junkie.

There is a common theme in all these shows. You could be a person from any walk of life. You still have to face problems ,however big or small.

 

FRIENDS  is one  show which never fails to lifts my spirits. I love watching the friends in FRIENDS having their cup of coffee hanging out in their coffee shop. Aria’s parents being against her relationship with Ezra as he was her teacher and then her mum supporting it (in Pretty Little Liars) gives me hope. Seeing  the ever so perfect Blair Waldorf in Gossip Girl grapple with her love life or her quest to become an independent woman before she re-unites with the love of her life, Chuck Bass, is another case in point.

 

Things do go against you in real life and reel life but everything works out well at the end. Problems which might look big in foresight look like you made a mountain out of a molehill. I think most of us went through being a problem child in our adolescence like Marissa Cooper in The OC and our parents just not getting us. Today, well things are different now that we are mature. Like the Gavin DeGraw song goes in One Tree Hill  :

I don’t want to be
Anything other than what I’ve been trying to be lately
All I have to do
Is think of me and I have peace of mind
I’m tired of looking ’round rooms
Wondering what I’ve got to do
Or who I’m supposed to be
I don’t want to be anything other than me.

Chick flick-sitcoms  = peace of mind. Seriously. Give it a go.

 

Shilpa Dinavahi is a Law student senior from Mumbai.

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Jan 18

Looking at cute animals improves productivity

A recent study by Japanese researchers shows that looking at pictures of cute, furry and cuddly animals helps increase your productivity!

This holds true for adult animals, but the effects are even better with baby animal pictures.

Apparently, the cuteness triggers positive emotions that increases your motivation levels and ability to process information,  which thus “promotes a careful behavior and narrows attentional focus”

Next time your boss/professor/parent catches you surfing cute animal pictures, tell them you’re just being productive!;)

 

 

Resources you’ll love: zooborns.com, cuteattack.com, weheartit.com

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Dec 24

Grumpy Cat Meme!: Christmas Edition

After LOLCats, say hello to Grumpy Cat! If everyone else’s holiday high has getting you down, and you’ve been going “No, it’s a Crappy Christmas” and “HoHoNO”you can probably relate to this cute, gloomy meme.

 

 

 

 

Picture Sources: Mashable, Smosh, weknowmemes.com

 

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Dec 24

Wrap it right: Wrapping presents is an art too!

 

So much of the joy of getting a present lies in the mystery and anticipation of what it is.  Thoughtful wrapping can make the occasion as special and memorable as the present itself. With so many options, creative and in/expensive, this is That’s So Gloss’ go-to guide for wrapping it right, and well, beautifully.

 1.       If the store offers to wrap your presents free of charge, go for it!  They often let you choose the paper from their range. Ask you can get free sheets of wrapping paper complementary, if you’ve made a purchase and wish to wrap it yourself. But be prepared for a “no” too. Either way, you should personalize it at least a little bit- with an accessory or card.

2.       If you don’t have wrapping paper, get some! They come in handy all year round. Cupcakes and Cashmere has an interesting post on making your own DIY wrapping station.

3.      Make your own wrapping paper!  Brown paper, old  (but clean) newspaper, maps, aluminium foil (we know!) and pretty handmade paper, when combined with the right ribbons, stickers, pretty  buttons, old jewellery and other creative embellishments, make for the most beautiful wrapping.

4. Make a cute gift bag- you can use your DIY gift bag instead of the wrapping paper. Fill it with lovely, colourful tissues.

5. Finish with a handmade card- for that personal touch. No matter who the gift is for, a sweet, sincere message celebrating the occasion and your relationship is always appreciated.

 

Picture Courtesy: www.telegraph.co.uk

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Dec 23

21CG Pilot: The 5Ws

In English class, we were always taught to answer the 5 W’s of any good writing – who, what, when, where and why. So it seems only fair that I should debut my column by doing the same…. happy reading!

Who: The fun and fabulous Samvitha Ram. Just kidding! The ‘who’ of this column, I would say, is who this is targeted towards – young, ambitious, inspired women… and maybe the not-so-inspired, but equally amazing ones as well.

What: 21 C.G. – you’re probably already dying of curiosity. What does it stand for? If you think about the ‘Who’, it seems to be a pretty obvious answer – 21st Century Girl.

 

Okay, not the Willow Smith version (though I have to admit, she did a pretty great job of describing the term). I think the column is just a means for all of us 21CG’s out there to bond over our shared vision and ideas for, as my dad likes to put it, “the Connected age”.

 

When: When does this column come out? Every chance I get to write about these common situations and ‘growing-up’ themes we all face, and my own thoughts on them (feel free to disagree at any time!).

 

Where: This is the easiest one – right here, on That’s So Gloss. But, I welcome the chance to interact with some of you amazing readers and young women out there – so feel free to reach me at my email address, samvitha.s.ram@gmail.com at any time, and just let me know what you think.

 

Why: A tricky question, I suppose, and usually the one that we all groan and mumble about in English class as well. To me, 21CG is a means to answer the bigger questions of the ‘Girl Kingdom’ – How do we live our lives? What’s with the double and more layers of meaning in the words we use? And of course, why is it these feet-torturing heels never go out of style?

In all seriousness, the answer to these questions might be something we never figure out, but along the way, I promise to use plenty of quotes and pop-song references, to keep the journey entertaining.

 

Have any ideas for posts you’d like to see for 21CG? Comment below to share your ideas!

 

 

 

 

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Dec 19

That awkward moment when your country’s currency reminds you of Facebook

An obser

First published in: fromfluff.blogspot.in

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