My Affordable Beauty Accessories Haul of TS Beauty

My Latest Accessories Haul

Are you looking to stock up your hair and makeup accessory kit without burning your pocket? Maybe, one-stop shop wherein you can select and pick different makeup, beauty and hair care accessories you need for your daily life?

Well, options may be plenty but recently I have come across a new brand [hopefully made in India] that has multiple options to cater to your needs. The brand is TS Beauty!

TS Beauty is an in-grown brand of the retail major- Future Group, also known for its popular Big Bazaar and FBB formats.

The brand has quite an options from hair brushes, combs, makeup brushes, beauty tools like a tweezer, pumice stones and more.

Why invest in right Beauty Tools and Accessories?

Your hair and skin are precious and you need to take good care of them. You cannot risk them with wrong accessories or a damaged one. For example- Just having a comb, is not enough. Having a right comb is important. 

No matter how good or well-pigmented your eyeshadow is. But if you do not use a right eye makeup brush, the effect would not be as good.

My TS Beauty Haul 

A girl never ha enough accessories and she keeps looking for more. Unlike skincare products and cosmetics, there is a wider window with accessories wherein you can try multiple brands without ruining your skin. Makeup or no makeup, skin care is important.

A good skin care regime is incomplete without proper tools. When it comes to beauty tools, I am brand agnostic and quality conscious. There are few accessories that I cannot manage without. Such like- Paddle brushes, shower loofah, makeup brushes, plucker, and makeup sponges among others. 

I have done a haul video with TS Beauty wherein I have featured different products that I own from this brand. Watch this video to know more!

If you were unable to watch this video here, watch it on my YouTube Channel.  Just click this link to visit this vlog.

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Products featured -

Hair Brush Tangle Tamer Makeup Brush Pumice Stones Hair Dye Brush Tweezer Makeup Blenders Silicon Blender Foot Filer

Haute Kutir Verdict: The brand seems to have a good amount of accessories for the daily use. They have accessories ranging from Rs 99 to Rs 300 and above. The pricing is decent. The form factor and quality looks good too. The packaging, especially of the makeup brushes, is quite good.

My favorite products thus far are the makeup brushes. Like I said in the video, I loved the softness of the brush hair, form factor. They have a bundled kit too esp for starters. Do go ahead and try them out.

Do I Recommend: yes Off Course.

So, what are you shopping? Let me know.

And in the case of any queries, you know where to find me.

So live beautifully, Live Haute

Ekta [Haute Kutir]

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Products worth Rs 4500 at Just Rs 399 By Glamego September Box

When it comes to beauty subscription box, one brand that stands out is- Glamego.

Like every month, the September Glamego box is full of surprises. Excited to know what's the exclusive offer this month? well, watch my video to know more.

If it's not exciting enough to you yet, let me quickly sum up the offer this month.

Build Your Own Box

This month, Glamego box has come with a unique offer wherein it has asked the subscribers to select their preferred products from the website. The subscribers can select products worth Rs 4200 from the select options which would include..aha, watch this video to know more.

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Stay Haute, Stay Selective
Haute Kutir

New iPhone Red Special Edition Unboxing & Review

When I bought My New iPhone

I have been taking care of my business with Apple since the first quarter of this year. My job also requires me to travel and visit multiple APR stores across the country. Read surrounded by all Apple devices, conversations and R&D

Bitten by Apple bug, I got my iPhone 8+ Red and thought of sharing an unboxing with you all.

It is a special edition iPhone Red. A better version of the iPhone 7+. You have to see it believe. 

Unboxing Video

The phone has multiple features and storage versions. The one I bought has a storage of 256 GB. I shoot a lot of videos and hate the ever-shrinking size of my iCloud. Hence, I have gone for a higher version.  I have done an unboxing video for all my lovely viewers so that they get to know more about this phone. Watch my Unboxing video here-

Watch this video on YouTube
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About iPhone Red

Its glossy, reflective and piece of joy to carry. However, it may appear a little bulky and heavy at times. 

It has a glass body and hence I have covered it with a transparent plastic back cover. 

Does it look good? It really does look good. The red really stands out. It is one of the finest versions of the iPhone Red with a black front. It has a bright silver Apple logo.

For the front screen, I have taken a neutral and clear tempered glass. I thought of going with a leather folio case which I firmly believe should be made available complimentary with the high priced phones in India, however, I have deferred the decision to purchase. 

Why iPhone Red?

Simply because it has a noble cause attached to it. For every iPhone Red sold, Apple donates a portion of the device bill to the global funds to Fight Aids. 

So far they have raised over $160 mn through the sale of Red editions. For 11 years, our partnership with (RED) has supported HIV/AIDS programs that provide counseling, testing, and medicine that prevents the transmission of HIV from a mother to her unborn child. [as claimed by Apple ORG, Cupertino]

The red edition not just includes iPhones but a whole range of accessories like headphones, smart covers, sleeve pouches, portable speakers, etc.

So next time when you hit an Apple store, I believe a lot of you will say- Gimme Red!

A lot of you may say that one can do charity without buying an expensive iPhone. True. But if you are a hard-core iPhone fan or want to buy only an iPhone, this is a noble way to get associated. So, stop being a hopeless cynic. Know your priority right and go for the phone that you wanted to own and not what the world would get envy seeing in your hand.

However, do learn that with iPhone there is a huge risk of high damage and replacement cost. So buy one, only if you can afford one and do not forget to ask for a Screen-Protect plan from the premium reseller. There are many plans but always go for the complimentary ones and avoid anything with too many terms and conditions. [edited]

How to protect the screen otherwise: A lot of Apple Premium Resellers provide Apple attached screen protect plan which gives you 1-2 free screen replacement. Trust me you need no other plan unless you are a rough user with limited resources. In either case, go for a glass screen guard either from the Apple store or open market. A cover [transparent or ornamental] always comes handy. For more Apple/iPhone/Macbook tips and tricks, do let me know. 

So, that's all about my iPhone Red. If you want to buy this model, let me know. If you plan to buy some other phone, do share the experience with me too.

My review as a user

Overall I am happy with my phone/model.
The only regret is the battery and the camera. There are few basic things that are amiss like - hold/pause feature in video mode. The manual mode. A lot of time the portrait [stage] mode may not work but if you are still using the phone and upgraded the software, you can change the different portrait mode while editing.

The glass is quite sturdy and it will take a very clumsy, irresponsible person to mishandle and break a new handset. Use the screen guard and DO NOT MISHANDLE your phone. I remember how I helped a co-blogger to claim Insurance for her phone but in return, she lied, swindled and played folly with the service provider. She was so dumb yet cunning that she took the service and compared a national manager with a Temp field salesperson in spite of all the timely help provided to her proactively. [lol some people are so fake] So it is very important to buy Apple products only if you can afford them.  cause the repair comes with an equally high price. No point haggling later or blaming the Insurance company.

Nevermind, coming back to phone review. I absolutely loved my phone. Though I had my share of fall and I need to replace the screen sooner.

Am I planning to invest in a new iPhone? Well, if the camera meets my requirements, why not. Cause I need my phone heavily for my blogging and vlogging and wanting desperately to have a depth of field to be introduced in mobile camera video mode [front and rear]. Well, that's the kind of innovation/feature I am looking at in my next phone. I even had a word with CMO at OPPO 2 years back, giving him the same feedback. Let's see when it gets done and importantly who gets it done first.

Another sought after feature is low-light photography which is not very promising in this model.

Remember, your phone is just a device and not your living companion. So invest more in real life companions/ people than staring at your phone all the time 😉😉

Stay Haute with Haute Kutir,

XOXO

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Reverse Makeup Challenge

Disclaimer

Before I start this blog post, let me tell you two things. First that I am a makeup novice.

Frankly, I can't spend hours trying and practicing makeup on my face.

Secondly, I shoot with the simple phone camera to give as real-time footage as possible. And yes, there are no filters on my phone camera, nor any heavy photo-shop, Adobe editing tools.

Taking new challenges 

As a Blogger, I like to try different things and some of them are quite challenging. Whether you fail or you win, taking challenges are important and more importantly, the medium should be right.

So I have taken few challenges-

1) Reverse Makeup

Have stumbled upon few YouTubers taking a reverse makeup challenge. I have done few makeup tutorials which look better in real than the camera, so I thought let's try the reverse makeup. Why? Simply cause I do not go by the book all the time cause when it comes to makeup, the pages keep on changing.

2) Shooting on iPhone 

I have acquired a new iPhone Red and given my sometimes foolhardy experimental nature, I thought of shooting this challenge on my new iPhone, whose screen cover wasn't even removed. How experimental I am!

watch my new iPhone Red Unboxing here!

Reverse Makeup Challenge

Notwithstanding the fact that Nikki Tutorial, Tati, and others are global brands in name of makeup Youtubers [with their million subscribers against my feeble thousand], I ventured into this path. It may not be picture perfect [err do not refer the poor pics below cause my lighting was worse than my skills] but it was creatively encouraging [if not satisfying] 

What is the Reverse Makeup?

Simply suggesting, it is doing the whole makeup process in reverse wherein your first step of the make becomes your final step and your last step becomes the first step.

Sounds intriguing? well yes. However, it is not an impossible feat to achieve unless you follow every step very religiously. Even then, there's always a way to get it done, respectfully. I was little down on energy and like I said shooting on iPhone without checking the footage was my biggest achievement.

Well no, my biggest achievement was to transfer the files from my iPhone to my Mac [yeah you heard it right] It is easier for me to move my files from my Android to Mac, but hell yeah I will conquer it soon.

Do check the video for more. 

You can watch my video here and alternatively on YouTube [link]

Do let me know your views here or on the channel.

XOXO

Haute Kutir

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