In the pursuit of the perfect tan!

This past whole week I have been bitching about the horrible weather

The burning sun, the intolerable humid

So this past weekend I decided to take advantage of this sun, and go for a day of un-limited swimming and tanning, I wanted to get the perfect tan!

But after hours of rubbing oil and getting baked under the sun, still I didn't catch the color, and I really wanted to get bronzed that day, I wasn't gonna wait for another session under the sun

So I was off to Saharz Saloon

As I mentioned in a previous post, Saharz has a tanning booth, and a session of 10 minutes costs 12 OMR, 

So to intensify my color I went for 10 minutes in the booth and I was pretty satisfied with the color

  

But then when I got home, I was worried the color will fade, so to add the final touch I used the tanning towels to add more color- towels available at Talyan's boudoir

and by night time- luckily- I realized that yaay I got the perfect tan!!

So am not gonna bitch about this burning sun for the next couple of days, as I owe it to her!

xoxo

TalYan's

The Best Place To..

So here is my little black book , no am not gonna give you the phone numbers of all of my Xs, hands off girls!

I will provide instead a list of places where to get the best services: beauty, fashion, food and entertainment - in Muscat, that is-

Again this is simply my opinion and based on my experience, it isn't my fault if you don't like it :P

Hair:

Best hair cuts: Sa7arz Saloon Madinat Qaboos

Best hair coloring: Crown Plaza Saloon

Best hair styling: Ibrahim at his saloon at Shatti Beach hotel, but to get the perfect curly hair styles I surly suggest Faces Saloon Madinat Qaboos

Hair extensions: Arozat Lebanon Saloon- Safeer International hotel Khuwair- that's where I get mine done, loop extensions.


Nails:

Best Pedicure and Manicure in terms of cleaning: Signature Saloon- Azaiba- only set back they are almost always fully booked

Best nail art and wide collection of colors: Tips and Toes- Shatti Al Quram

Body:

Best Scrubs: Chedi Spa

Moroccon Bath: Sa7arz Saloon

Best Facial: Chedi spa, Sa7arz Saloon with Madlene

Eyebrows: Christina at Dantelle Saloon Quram

Best bikini wax: if you want the Hollywood wax (all hair removed) then Dantelle saloon Quram, if you would like to try Brazillian ( hair straps left) or a bit of creative artistic wax, I used to love to get it done at Essence Spa Madiant I3lam

Crystal Micro-dermabrasion: Manal Saloon Shatti Al Quram

Facial Mesotherapy: VLCC, it was a bit expensive but my 10 sessions were totally worth it!

Tanning: Spray tan: Signature Azaiba ( I have to warn those who hate the smell of henna, it has henna in it and it does smell like henna, but lasts upto two weeks), Tanning booth: Sa7arz Saloon MQ ( my bestie tried it last week and the results were amazing even after one session of 10 minutes)


Fashion


Best Place to Shop on a Budget: Zara and H&M

Best Place to Splurge: Salam Stores, Eye Candy Boutique- Jawharat Al Shatti ( I used to love them more though before when they used to stock sugar vintage collection)

Baby Fashion: Mennez Madinat Qaboos

Best Place for Wrist Candies: TaLyan's boudoir, Trinket ( Bareeq Al Shatti), Boutique Muscat and Eye Candy Boutique

Best online shopping: ( places that deliver to Oman): www-net-a-porter.com, Simply Vintage - Facebook group, The Vintage Closet- Facebook group, Sophie's Closet- Facebook group

Food


YES, I know it isn't related, but I just LOVE FOOD! 


Best Jasmine Tea: Chedi Hotel

Best Strawberry Margarita : LeftBank - am a sucker for margaritas!

Best dessert: Love at the first bite- they have this amazing nutella biscuit sorta of dessert its to die for!

Best Cheesecake: Japengo

Best Nachos: Senior Pico


Okay my mind just went blank after I started day-dreaming of the cheesecake!
That's what I can think of now, more later!

xoxo

Stop, watch it, and be inspired - Find beauty everywhere

In a previous post I mentioned that to me beauty isn't the genetic package you are born with, but the way you portray your beauty and the attitude and glamour you carry yourself with.

That's why I love fashion, make-up, styling, photography...it all allows you to re-define your beauty and focus on what you love in yourself.

I was always criticized by my friends as " having poor taste in deciding which girls are pretty and which guys are hot"

According to them, I see everyone pretty!

Well to me, when I walk into a party the girl or the guy who catches my attention isn't the one with the perfect genetic package of what people consider "pretty"

But rather the person who dresses himself well, focuses on their beautiful side and enhances it, and carries himself with an attitude of "HELL YEA I'M THE BOSS"

Such a person catches my attention way more than a person who presumably has the perfect genetic package but does zero to enhance it - doesn't dress up well, doesn't have the character or attitude to carry it-

But on top of all of that, to me I always found myself finding beauty in people most of my friends would call average.

It bothers me really, that beauty has been defined for us, and we blindly follow it without regard to what our true taste is, because after all it isn't something one can control, you are born with your genes, you cant change it, you didn't earn it.

But dressing our self, beautifying our self, carrying ourselves with the IT attitude, that is something we can control, and therefore it is something you earn and you can flaunt.

I admire a girl who has a good sense of fashion, beautifies herself, has confidence- way over a girl who simply has good genes- because she simply was born with it and didn't earn it,

Having said that, people no matter what flaws they may have -even though I don't like to call them flaws, but just to make the picture clear- Have to embrace their flaws, focus on their pretty side, enhance it, show it off, and have the confidence to carry it around.

But that can't be easy when there are people out there forcing us to think that beauty is only one thing and can't be anything else no matter how you dress, no matter how confident you are, no matter how pretty some parts of you are.

To them beauty is defined as one thing and one thing only and anything else is ugly.

My whole point of this post is that we should start seeing beauty in every person, embrace that beauty and start to view it in a different way.

To help you understand it better and be inspired I want you to watch the following video from TED


Rick Guidotti is a fashion photographer with a passion project: finding and sharing the unmistakable beauty of kids with albinism and other conditions that affect their physical appearance -- and the way society treats them. At TEDxPhoenix, he shares some of their stories and the empowering effects of a little glamour as he redefines their beauty in a flash

If a person who worked with top models can see beauty in everyone WHO ARE YOU to be picky when it comes to beauty?


xoxo
TaLyan's

Loving KARL Dresses

Anything by Karl Lagerfeld is gorgeous no doubt 

BUT SERIOUSLY:

How gorgeous are those dresses?!

Especially the two black ones

They are so my type of dresses, something I would wear over and over again,

I seriously want the short black one

This candy colored pink organza dress is cute as well, and there is only 50 pieces of it available, but I don't feel I cant pull this color off, but it is seriously gorgeous

KARL by Karl Lagerfeld is available at www.net-a-porter.com