Guess what’s the latest in spa pampering? Fish Pedicures!!!

Would you ever put your foot in to a fish bowl and let the fish nibble on your toes and skin?

The sensible answer to this, one might wonder, would be NO but hold up; fish pedicure is the most recent addition to spa treatments and is gaining massive popularity! No this is no joke. I’m serious! Dead serious!

What a unique alternative to the razors used for scraping away dead skin is this! And the way it works is simple. You put your foot in the water and the little fish called garra rufa aka Doctor Fish get to work. They nibble on the dead skin, cleaning it all away as that is their food source so to speak. Do they bite? Not at all. They got no teeth you see so its perfectly safe and all who have tried it have loved it stating the experience to be slightly ticklish.

Wonder if this would come over to Pakistan!

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Health & Diet! Common Questions Answered Here

Follow these instructions and you will NEVER have to worry about the future again!

Q: I’ve heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life; is this true?

A: Your heart is only good for so many beats, and that’s it… don’t waste them on exercise. Everything wears out eventually. Speeding up your heart will not make you live longer; that’s like saying you can extend the life of your car by driving it faster. Want to live longer? Take a nap.

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Q: Should I cut down on meat and eat more fruits and vegetables?

A: You must grasp logistical efficiencies. What does a cow eat? Hay and corn. And what are these?  Vegetables. So a steak is nothing more than an efficient mechanism of delivering vegetables to your system. Need grain? Eat chicken. Beef is also a good source of field grass (green leafy vegetable). And a pork chop can give you 100% of your recommended daily allowance of vegetable products.

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Q: Should I reduce my alcohol intake?

A: No, not at all. Wine is made from fruit. Brandy is distilled wine, that means they take the water out of the fruity bit so you get even more of the goodness that way. Beer is also made out of grain. Bottoms up!

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Q: How can I calculate my body/fat ratio?

A: Well, if you have a body and you have fat, your ratio is one to one. If you have two bodies, your ratio is two to one, etc.

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Q: Aren’t fried foods bad for you?

A: YOU’RE NOT LISTENING!!! … Foods are fried these days in vegetable oil. In fact, they’re permeated in it. How could getting more vegetables be bad for you?

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Q: Will sit-ups help prevent me from getting a little soft around the middle?

A: Definitely not! When you exercise a muscle, it gets bigger. You should only be doing sit-ups if you want a bigger stomach.

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Q: Is chocolate bad for me?

A: Are you crazy? HELLO Cocoa beans! Another vegetable!!! It’s the best feel-good food around!

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Q: Is swimming good for your figure?

A: If swimming is good for your figure, explain whales to me.

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Q: Is getting in-shape important for my lifestyle?

A: Hey! ‘Round’ is a shape!

Alison Nelson :: The Fashionable Chocolate!

Image courtesy of Alison Nelson Website

You might never taste chocolate in the same light after savoring an Alison Nelson Chocolate Bar, a chain of gourmet cocoa emporiums!

Make way for the utterly fashionable trend in the luxurious chocolate market today for Alison Nelson is coming to town!

The venture is being set up in India and Pakistan thanks to a partnership with Dubai based HFK General Trading.

The Alison Nelson chocolate bar is an amazing brand and a unique concept that offers no only a chocolate cafe, but also a fresh, vibrant blend of fashion and art, which is exactly what our customer is looking for. I am sure it is going to be an unprecedented success.

Hassan Khan, CEO: HFK General Trading

Known for its cocoa and unusual flavor combinations such as ‘salty pretzel’ and ‘malted milk’, Chocolate Bar employs an artful approach, using graffiti-influenced chocolate-bar wrappers designed by iconic New York-based artists.

Consumers will join Chocolate Bar’s A-list fans such as celebrity Sarah Jessica Parker, Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Roberts, Scarlett Johanson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Uma Thurman, who all rave about the presentation and most of all the adventurous flavor combinations: Nelson’s boutiques prove that the
world’s favorite sweet goes with everything: at the sleek outlet in New York’s upscale Henri Bendel store, a typical sandwich is made from a melted dark 72% chocolate bar dabbed with olive oil and sea salt. Gourmet chocolate from high-quality cocoa beans can be eaten, drunk, or even used in the
store’s own line of cocoa-based beauty products.

Yummylicious!

So will the new trend in the chocolate market jolt already present icons like Patchi and the Chocolate Fondue Fountain in Karachi?

Only time will tell!

Related Links:

Alison Nelson’s Chocolate Bar to Open First Gourmet Concept Stores in Pakistan [ Pakistan Daily ]

Alison Nelson Official Site [ Alison Nelson Chocolate Bar ]

Fragrance Launches 2008

A while back Fauzan and Selina compiled a list of events that will happen in the future till the 23rd century. Well I am not going to make any such claims but what I will share with you is an article on one of my fav websites ALL ABOUT THE PRETTY that lists down all the fragrances that are set to make their name in the market this year. It’s a long but mouthwatering list nonetheless so as the website says: II suggest you get a fabulous journal, a beautiful pen, a great cup of tea, start making your list, and checking it twice.

There are separate lists for pour homme and pour femme launches as well as unisex fragrances. I am putting in the list for the current month of July while you can check out the rest at the link here.

July 2008

Women’s Launches

B-spot by Benefit
Covet Pure Bloom by Sarah Jessica Parker

David Yurman by Clarins,

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Fig by Marc Jacobs

Gardenia by Marc Jacobs

Geisha Blanche Eau de Parfum from Aroma M Perfumes

Jeanne Lanvin by Lanvin

Lavender Joyful Mood Touch by L’Occitane.

Roses des 4 Reines Fragrance Touch by L’Occitane.

Sensuous by Estée Lauder

Men’s Launches

undefined Black Diamond

Carolina Herrera 212 Sexy Men

Unisex

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WeCite Link-fest

New Yorker cover shows Muslims, US flag burning, Osama-loving, Fist-bumping Obama! [ Huffington Post ]

iPhone 3G: great for new buyers, but upgraders beware! [ About.Electronics ]

Miley Cyrus Caught Up In Snap Scandal – Again! [ Female First ]

Fashion’s gone bulletproof for the super rich! [ The Economic Times ]

This Week’s Fab Favorite: Anne Hathaway Does Black and White Just Right! [ Fabsugar ]

Sex curse found at ancient Cyprus site [ ABC News ]

Aisam enters doubles final in US! [ Dawn ]

Salman Rushdie sets his sights on the ‘Bollywood Jordan’ [ This is London ]

Michael Caine: ‘Ledger Will Land An Oscar Nomination’! [ Female First ]

Lust in space: NASA must iron out the kinks in space sex if man is to settle on Mars! [ Telegraph ]

‘World’s oldest blogger’ dies at 108! [ ABC News ]

Blackberry Thunder: First Live Pictures! [ Slippery Brick ]

WeCite Link-Fest

Fans queue in Asia 2 days before new iPhone launch

[ Yahoo News ]

Bin Laden’s son in web terror rant

[ The Sun ]

Barrymore and Boyfriend call it quits

[ Boston Herald ]

The name game: The new celebrity baby naming rule

[ The Independent ]

Bollywood dancers break Guinness World Record

[ CBBC ]

Brothel offers customers petrol rebate

[ Yahoo! xtra ]

iPhone 3G gets reviewed

[ I4U News ]

Xbox 360 rumors flying; 60 GB in, 20 GB out and more

[ Slippery Brick ]

Angelina Jolie doesn’t endorse the Massage Hoop

[ Pop Therapy ]

Tim Flattery’s Transforming Air-Craft Carrier and more

[ Tim Flattery ]

Blackberries: even a 3-yr old can operate them!!!

From Yahoo News

Three year old Madelyn Eaves was able to get rescuers to her mother with the help of a little song and her mother’s BlackBerry.

Jessica Eaves taught the song “911 green” to her daughter in case of emergencies. When she collapsed from a condition called vasovogal syncope, Madelyn dialed 911 and hit the green call button, then was able to direct dispatchers to the house using descriptions of her surroundings. The year before, Madelyn had gotten help with another little song, “green green green.” When Jessica collapsed, Madelyn repeated the steps, which called the last person Jessica had dialed and allowed them to get help.

It’s certainly nice to know BlackBerries are so easy to use, and a very ingenious idea from a dedicated mother.

Get Smart ‘out smarts’ at US BOX Office

Have you seen the new INCREDIBLE HULK that is being shown around in major Pakistani cinemas? You think its THE thing eh? Perhaps you’re right but it’s still not making enough dough when it’s put to the test at the US Box Office!

GET SMART, the new movie starring former wrestler, The Rock (The Game Plan, The Mummy Returns), Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada, Havoc), and Steve Carell (The Office, Evan Almighty) has outnumbered other giants like The HULK, Kung Fu Panda and so on. Currently, in its opening week, the movie took over $ 39 million in sales!

Here are the top 5:

1- Get Smart [$ 39 Million]

2- Kung Fu Panda [$ 21.7 Million]

3- The Incredible Hulk [$ 21.6 Million]

4- The Love Guru [$ 14 Million]

5- The Happening [$ 10 Million]

From Jay To Juggan

Everyone knows who Juggan Kazim is. She’s a hot favorite among guys. She’s a model, a mother, and a media personality.

But do you know Jay Kazim?

Maybe… or not!

If you do then hey good for you. If you don’t then don’t feel left out because this year you’ll get to see her in a re-release of an Anglo-Indian production called Sweet Destiny. Actually the movie has been around since 2005 but back then it was titled Pink Ludoos! Does that ring any bells?

Jay or Juggan Kazim (as most of us commonly know of her as) plays the leading lady in the movie as a free-spirited and seemingly rather quite horny girl who ends up getting pregnant with not one… not two… but triplets! Eat that Juno! And the story goes as it typically does that she gets abandoned by her family and she is left on her own to take care of the matter she has gotten her self in to on a hot and heavy night.

It’s funny. How come we never really heard about this so much? I think I found the answer myself when I viewed the trailer of Pink Ludoos. The opening scene is a car shaking violently with moans and groans in the background. Juggan and a guy are seen ‘getting in the mood’ for some ‘fun’.

A-HA!

I asked a few of my friends from here and there and one of them said she had seen the movie some years back and that it was simply idiotic a notion that it was compared to the likes of Bend It Like Beckham. ‘Just cuz Jay’s mom’s character is played by the same actress who played the mother’s role in BILB doesn’t mean it is in the same league’ she said over a chat session last night.

So our Juggan darling gets to jiggle in a car, smooch her way around and ends up with triplets! (I know I am repeating the facts but I can’t get over the triplets part! It’s beginning to sound all too comical. Did they think using three instead of one child would give the movie more ”weight’?

I don’t know from where to get my hands on Sweet Destiny. It’s prolly not yet available in Pakistan. Good luck wishing this one to be reeled in on Pakistani cinemas!

25 Reasons I Owe My Mother

Hiya every1!

I found this totally random but cute forward while sorting my messy inbox. Thought I’d share it with ya’all. Here’s to mothers… the angels who helped us come in to this world.

25 things I owe my mother

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.
“If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.”

2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
“You better pray that will come out of the carpet.”

3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
“If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock you into the middle of next week!”

4. My mother taught me LOGIC.
“Because I said so, that’s why.”

5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC.
“If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you’re not going to the shops with me.”

6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
“Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you’re in an accident.”

7. My mother taught me IRONY.
“Keep crying and I’ll give you something to cry about.”

8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.
“Shut your mouth and eat your supper.”

9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
“Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!”

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
“You’ll sit there until all that spinach is gone.”

11. My mother taught me about WEATHER.
“This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it.”

12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.
“If I told you once, I’ve told you a million times. Don’t exaggerate!”

13. My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
“I brought you into this world, and I can take you out.”

14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOUR MODIFICATION.
“Stop acting like your father!”

15. My mother taught me about ENVY.
“There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don’t have wonderful parents like you do.”

16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.
“Just wait until we get home.”

17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING.
“You are going to get it when you get home!”

18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.
“If you don’t stop crossing your eyes, they are going to stay that way.”

19. My mother taught me ESP.
“Put your sweater on – don’t you think I know when you are cold?”

20. My mother taught me HUMOUR.
“When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don’t come running to me.”

21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.
“If you don’t eat your vegetables, you’ll never grow up.”

22. My mother taught me GENETICS.
“You’re just like your father.”

23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.
“Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?”

24. My mother taught me WISDOM.
“When you get to be my age, you’ll understand.”

25. My mother taught me about JUSTICE
“One day you’ll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you.”

 

For the night owls!

If you’re a night owl like moi then you know its missions keeping a fresh and active image for the crowds! Only God (and we ourselves) know what we have to go through to accomplish this and hide that and highlight the rest! Do I hear cries of ‘totally!’ and ‘righto’ ?

Well luckily the beauty industry and it’s make-up artists are on the ball when it comes to creating products designed to keep night owls looking fresh.

If you have a girlfriends/boyfriend/family in London, you HAVE to HAVE this! I tried their Eye Crayon Gold Pencils (pictured here) and absolutely am in love with ’em!

Check out the gallery for some of the best of the lot show-cased at the london paper website

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Fashion Drama

It’s bad enough when someone else wears the same dress as you but when you’re a style icon it’s a disaster- ask Sarah Jessica Parker.

The actress was mortified when she discovered the Nina Ricci dress she for the New York premiere of the Sex and the City movie had already had a red carpet outing.

Sarah told the New York Times that Theyskens assured her that the dress had not been wore before.

“My affection for the dress hasn’t changed,” she explained, “but what they did was so short-sighted. It’s just unethical and disappointing that they would allow the dress to be worn again.”

You tell ’em girl!!

From Female First Fashion News

Air Travel Couture – What NOT To Wear On A Plane!

Folks,

Did you hear about this lady Kyla Ebbert who was kicked off a Southwest Airline flight last summer because the attendants claimed she was dressed in a ‘too revealing’ outfit? Too bad the airline was deregulated otherwise it was doing a good job of reforming some loose pieces of the US community but hey any thing goes in terms of clothes when travelling right?

[[[BANG]]] !! WRONG ANSWER!!

You might be surprised to know there are some pretty nitty details that can effect your air travel. Things like wearing tight fitting clothes or high heels can cause you serious harms to your health or that its better and safer to wear dark colored clothing and avoid light colors and so on. I”m sharing with you an article on this that I found really interesting. We all might learn some thing from this. Travel safe 😉 

Point and click here to read it! 

Maria Sharapova jewellery collection by Tiffany

Sometimes I get so jealous of the ‘perks’ some of us fortunate ones get to enjoy! People like Maria for instance.
Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova has just signed a two-year deal with Tiffany & Co, where the luxury jeweller will provide Sharapova with a new pair of earrings for each of the next eight Grand Slam tennis events, including Wimbledon and the US and Australian Opens.

The world number one is set to take to the tennis court wearing $1,150 yellow gold Elsa Peretti Wave earrings during the upcoming French Open – although dangly (see picture), they are apparently also very light to wear.

Each pair of earrings will be available in Tiffany stores during the event in which Sharapova wears that pair. With each tournament, the special grouping of earrings available in store will increase

A Novel for Sex & The City?

Fans of SEX & THE CITY (like moi here) are in for a special treat! There is going to be a book based on the upcoming movie AND… it features characters and plotlines that have been edited from the film.

Sarah Jessica Parker revealed to Contact Music the the companion book to the film was completed while writer/director Michael Patrick King was still editing the movie – and he cut out items and people that will appear in the published book.