Monday, February 28, 2011

Diagram How To Contour Your Face

Taaj: when India is invited in our bathroom

early February, I was invited in a pretty and chic optician to find care Taaj. I already knew a little brand name, its star product so even if I had not tested, but without really knowing it eventually. So I just wanted to deepen the subject. Because it feels good to get away a bit from time to time to our usual marks, to see if the grass is not greener elsewhere.

Taaj is a young brand but draws its identity, its forms and its assets in the knowledge millennium. The creation story is quite interesting and very representative of our time. Stephen Levy, its designer, worked in finance for 10 years when he decided to change his life. Fascinated by India, he decides to go there for 7 months and discovered Ayurveda. This holistic medicine (which takes into account the whole body but also the individual in its environment and not the symptom alone) 5000 year old aims to restore balance between body, mind and spirit to heal but also to prevent disease, aging, pain, etc.. To heal, she uses include yoga, aromatherapy, plants, massage but also cosmetics. Indeed, the skin care is a branch of medicine this millennium because beauty is synonymous with good health. On his return to France, Stephane Levy decided to create a brand of cosmetics inspired by Ayurveda. Taaj was born.

(Photo Caribou)
Specifically Unhelpful For the formulation of their care, based on the principle Taaj Ayurvedic Sanyoga, synergy. The important thing is not only an asset but the combination of ingredients used and who will act together, thus multiplying their powers and their effects. I'm not going to describe in detail how it works, I'm not a good little chemist and I confuse you more than anything else. Say to sum the formula is considered as a whole and that every ingredient used is not put there at random and is intended to enhance the action of its small companions. Obviously, the assets selected by the mark for care come from India and are commonly used in Ayurvedic medicine. At the heart of the formulas, there are forms of herbal essential oils or plant by example but also the water source in the Himalayas with soothing and softening properties.

But beware, if the forms are inspired by Ayurveda, the texture of care is it adapted to Western skins. Because we do not have the same skin as the Indian, the dosage has been prepared for us. Wholesale assets are Indian, but the texture is French. Besides the mark does not exist in India and, if it was started there, it would not work since it does not suit local tastes. Despite appearances, Taaj is a French brand. I say still crowing.

Well, at first, I confess, I was still skeptical. Not on the products themselves but on the whole concept Ayurvedic. I have a pragmatic side, while West, the one who was biberonnée to modern medicine, and do not necessarily believe in alternative medicines or "philosophies" Oriental. And then, during the evening, to get familiar with Ayurveda, we did do a little test. This medicine postulates that each individual is composed of three doshas - vata (air), Pita (fire) and kapha (earth) - including one that defines our dominant personality type but also our skin (and therefore the care we to use) and our hair. So I did the test to see which dosha I was, just for fun but not believing at all. In tests accustomed (and because I also wrote a lot for my job), I know it's all a bit of bullshit. But then, I was amazed. The description of the profile obtained (I am Vata) was spat me (with some details about mini). I am disgusted, I kinda lost the sheet descriptive but since I can remember the lines: already, there was the artistic side, the description of the skin was that too, but what struck me the most hit is the little sentence that said that I tended to forget things. I've already mentioned my early Alzheimer's not (now I even forget the names of the people is to say)? You could say it's a total coincidence. But the test also had just typed Girl Lambda this also that day. Like what if Ayurveda has survived 5000 years, not a chance.
were also treated to a small and nice facial with products from the brand (I particularly liked the scrub). Moreover, there is somewhere a picture of me naked face behind. Horror. I even saw my opinion on the Micellar Water, the best-selling brand. I've been home for six months, I think, but I hate the micellar water, not made for me, so I'd never opened. And finally, she perfectly cleansed without getting your face on fire (as did the ones I used to date). Sudden heart of the fragrance also discovered some treatments that day and who feel divinely good. And cheers for the names of products, very fun: Delhicieuse Nourishing Cream Moisturizing Kashemire, Dry Oil Bombaysque. IPO attention, you have a serious competitor in the category of wordplay.

An evening full of fun and very nice discovery. I left with the new brand: a foot cream and hand lotion in particular (the trademark care for face and body). I'll keep you posted as soon as I pushed all the tests. If you want to discover these products Taaj be purchased in pharmacies and drugstores. I also advise you to go to the website of the brand because it can make a particular test to see how we Dosha and thus discover what we need creams.

Thank Poulette Taaj and thank you for the invitation and for hosting the Caribou. Since it was an optician, I took the opportunity to try all pairs of glasses available and it confirmed what I suspected: I have a head for Ray Ban (Wayfarer or Driver). Arf, I like!

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Why Are My Lips Gunky

The legend of the Taj Mahal

Finally ................... I'm back:)
After a period of intense work for a great project on which I focused in recent times, I finally back in form and with good news that I will reveal in my next post. I'm so wait a bit:)
Meanwhile, back in to our sheep, I attended a very nice swap "the earth and its treasures" organized by Nansou last year. I'll give you my recipe for soap "The legend of the Taj Mahal" that I made for the occasion.


legend Taj Mahal


Il est en Inde, un mausolée de marbre blanc esseulé qui fut construit par l'empereur moghol Shâh Jahân en mémoire de son épouse Mimtaz Mahal (la lumière du palais) la favorite du Harem qui fut sa seule et unique épouse.
Son amour pour elle était tellement grand, que lorsqu'elle mourut en couche, les cheveux de l'empereur devinrent gris en une seule nuit.
La légende raconte qu'il  planifiait la construction d'une réplique black marble of the Taj, on the left bank to hold its own grave. So the couple would be united after death, thanks to the bridge would have connected the two buildings.
Unfortunately, the emperor was imprisoned by his son who stole the power, Shah Jahan was poisoned and was never able to implement its projects.
At his death he was buried beside Mumtaz in Taj Mahal, and they rest side by side for eternity.


- 50% coconut HV (smoothing makes the skin silky, nourishing, penetrating, not greasy, soap bubble)
- HV 30% Sesame (UV filter, insightful, refreshing, relaxing)
- 10% almond HV (asoucissant, fabric softener, anti-stretch marks)
- 10% Br mango (nourishing, softening)

greasing 9% dilution with water for cooking rice

- Coconut milk (moisturizer, nourrissant, adoucissant)
- Terre noire des Indes (colorant naturel noir)
- Dioxyde de titane (colorant blanc)
- HE patchouli (décongestionnant, circulatoire, régénérant cellulaire, cicatrisant, tonique)
- HE cèdre (cicatrisant, astringent, antifongique, relaxant, décongestionnant, cellulite, peaux et cheveux gras, pellicules, chute des cheveux)
- HE girofle (antibacterien, antiviral, antifungal, antiseptic, general stimulant, anesthetic)


To illustrate this legend, I divided into 3 parts soap. The first part from the bottom is the black marble mausoleum that the Emperor has never had time to build, the white top depicts the Taj Mahal in white marble.
The medium marbled black and white is white and the Mumtaz black emperor sitting side by side, united in eternity.

I preferred ingredients found India: coconut, sesame, rice, almond, mango, earth, cedar, patchouli and clove.


Unknown Pain Between Shoulder Blades Causes

From the violence of the electric tooth brushing

Parfois, je me pose des questions existentielles. L’autre jour, la Miss Catastrophe qui est en moi a encore frappé. De bon matin (il devait être dans les 11 h), je tends la main vers ma brosse à dents pour faire mon petit toilettage de canine. Forcément, à cette heure là, j’ai la tête pas où il faut et la main pas assurée. Donc ce qui devait arriver arriva : ma brosse à dents m’a échappé pour finir dans les toilettes (maudite armoire à pharmacie juste au-dessus de la cuvette) ! Encore une victime innocente de ma maladresse. Bon, je l’ai repêchée mais bien évidemment plus question de me brosser les dents with. Yuck. Zou in the trash. And, of course, I had no spare brush. Seeing me go wrong at the local supermarket with my breath and my teeth yellow jackal, I am so determined to do what I rejected for years: opening a power toothbrush stored in the bottom of my closet and I had a press day.

There, I've heard them shouting behind their screen: "What you got an electric toothbrush available and you are satisfied with poor disposable brushes! "Well, yes. I do not know why I never took the leap. However, the one I have is a bit of electric Rolls, an Oral B with a timer that tells you when it's good, it feels good 3 minutes, you also say how much time brushing each area and when the brush is worn. But I do not know, it did not attract me more than that. Maybe because it was too huge for my tiny bathroom and I did not want it eats me up all the space on the edge of the sink (there's already my make-up, my soap face and one hand, there remains a centimeter for something else). I told myself that I keep for when I have a bathroom worthy of the name. Such as pour voyager, c’est pas hyper pratique. Peut-être aussi par pure paresse, parce que ça me saoulait d’avoir à la charger (et à lire le mode d’emploi pour savoir comment elle fonctionne aussi). Non, je trouvais les jetables bien plus pratiques, même si les électriques nettoient mieux. Elle m’attendait donc depuis 2/3 ans.

Mais là, il le fallait bien, pas d’autre choix, je l’ai enfin déballée. Mais je reste dubitative. C’est vrai qu’après je sens mes dents plus propres (enfin, c’est une impression, mais je les sens plus lisses). Mais le brossage avec cet instrument (de torture si je puis dire) not really, but really not pleasant. Already, with his giant stick, it is not very easy to take in hand. I also had trouble getting used to the mini brush. In addition, because there is less surface brushing, I feel like I put twice as much time and forget the zones. Moreover, I find that some areas are difficult to reach. And it is a force! These vibrations, it makes me shiver the whole head. We do not laugh, I do absolutely not kidding. It does not hurt but almost. It has come brushing teeth a chore. I come to regret my brush disposable. And as expected, having to charge it all the time get drunk. Especially when she falls in the road right in brushing. There, more vibration, so I find myself doing things a normal brushing but with a brush riquiqui. Hell. Perhaps it is time to get used to this new movement. There's only been two or three days. For example, even though I no longer need, I'm still doing rotation movements with the hands, while the brush is already doing. I normally just leave "ask." So I wondered: am I alone in finding the unpleasant electric tooth brushing ? Is it because I'm too cozy? And you people rather brushing manual or electric? I told you I was asking philosophical questions.