Beauty and Makeup - A Dream Career

Career in beauty & makeup is like living your dream every day!

Working in the beauty & makeup industry is like a dream fulfilled every day. You get to work with different people, exploring your creative side in makeover, working tirelessly and still feel excited. Seriously, helping people look more beautiful requires a craftsmanship and its an art where you have no complain as you do what you love. 

When you choose to be a professional in beauty & makeup industry, you choose to be part of ever-growing and ever-fascinating industry. And if you are a continuous learner, innovative and ambitious then there is no limit to explore your potential in this industry.  Beauty & Makeup is the most promising industry which has increasing demand for trained, certified and qualified professionals. 

“The industry has various streams of expertise where trained professionals are required and it includes Hair Styling, Makeup Artistry, Nail Artistry or a Beautician. In pursuing a career in beauty & makeup, you need to ascertain your interest area in terms of what fascinates you most whether you would like to excel in Hair Styling or Makeup or Skin or Nail. Once you have chosen your stream of choice to develop your expertise then choosing a reputed academy or institute is equally important” suggests Hariom Tyagi, Director, BeauPal.com. BeauPal.com is India’s largest platform for beauty salons, spa and makeup artists. There are numerous academies offering courses in beauty & makeup but an institute which provides global standard of education and suits to your budget is rare to find. And we have news here for you, for all of you who are looking for courses in beauty & makeup with a reputed institute and within your budget. IL&FS Institute of Skills-Beauty & Makeup Academy situated in New Delhi is aninstitute which fulfills your dream of becoming a successful artist or stylist in beauty & makeup.  IL&FS Institute of Skills-Beauty & Makeup Academy provides comprehensive training, hands on experience with international trainer and offer certification which is at par with global standards. 

IL&FS Institute of Skills-Beauty & Makeup Academy offers professional program for beautician, hairstylist, and bridalmakeup artist. At IL&FS Institute of Skills-Beauty & Makeup Academy, you can also explore other adjuvant courses like self grooming, saree drapping, juda styles and mehandi application. It provides you an opportunity to acquire skills in all the related streams of beauty & makeup under one roof with an international infrastructure. At IL&FS Institute of Skills-Beauty & Makeup Academy, you not only learn from class trainings by trainers of international repute but also get to work on practical with clients. The institute with world-class infrastructure and course curriculum of global standard equally emphasizes on hands on experience with product knowledge and product applications. 

With the right stream of your choice and training at IL&FS Institute of Skills-Beauty & Makeup Academy you could begin a career in beauty & makeup industry or fashion industry as a hair stylist or makeup artist. As a trained professional in hair, beauty or makeup gives you freedom to start a personal business; like opening your own salon & spa, or freelancing and you may like to opt for a job in the reputed salon chains. The opportunities are limitless. In fact, an appropriate training at right institute like IL&FS Institute of Skills-Beauty & Makeup Academy brings financial independence as you can go beyond the regular beauty & makeup setups and make career in cinema, fashion & stage shows and others. 

The right institute as IL&FS Institute of Skills-Beauty & Makeup Academy helps you acquire skills, dexterity and training that give you potential to change people’s lives by helping them look good and beautiful.    So set yourself in the ever-demanding industry with right training and inspire others. 

Rukhsat The Departure by Sujit Banerjee

About The Author: Sujit Banerjee has travelled across India and world since his birth.  Head to his Good reads profile as Sujit talk more about himself.

About The Book:

The Blurb:

Twenty six stories flow - some into each other, some crossing one another and few charting their own path. Each breathe independently and fade away after reflecting on their own existence. Each story explore an independent emotion leaving you to make our own conclusion.

If Farzana tries to deal with her own masochism then Hemakshi deals with her empty womb. If Gustav reflects on his two night stand then Palash comes face to face with his past lover only to realize he no longer loves him. Siraj's decision to sell his his child body comes to a clash with Manu's trial by God. Last but not the least - Zayan reminiscences on his life an hour before being hanged.

Let them rain on you, soak you and take you on a roller coaster ride

The Cover:

Vintage themed tree with falling leaves has done good amount of justice to the book and it's stories.

What I Felt About The Book:

Short stories are always a gem and a delight to read on. The best part of short stories is that they take me to a different world and I come back in no time.

‘Rukhsat The Departure’, a collection of short stories titled on their main character name starting from A to Z took me to the real world. All the stories depict a life lesson which might be bitter or sweet - but at the end I realize that it does happens.

The author has narrated different human emotions in the way they must have been felt. There are some stories which end without a note ad it’s absolutely fine – because those emotions cannot be explained. Some things can/might just be felt by putting yourself in the person’s shoe.

What I Liked:

The little graphics with each title were an icing on the cake. I wanted to share some, but then I hate spoilers.

The first story ‘Abhimanyu’ truly mesmerised me.

I loved admiring one and hating other letter in ‘Bhusan’ and ‘Palash’.

Stories ‘Karan’ and ‘Yasmin Bibi’ shook me from inside and I could not do anything about it except frowning on the bitter truth of society.

What I Did Not Like:

The writing in one or two stories is so intense and author has created so much suspense that at the end, I honestly could not infer the zest of it. May be I lost track somewhere.

Story ‘Chitra’ would have been my favourite one if it had at least some lines, if not complete of poetry written by the lead.

To conclude I enjoyed reading each story and they are going to stay with me for some time.  Congratulations to Sujit Banerjee for his debut.
The Book can be brought via following Links:

Amazon Paperback               Amazon Kindle Edition            Flipkart Paperback

Note: I received a PDF copy of the book for an honest review

The Claim by Sanjat Bordia

About The Author:

Charted Accountant by profession and a book lover by heart, Sanjay Bordia is making his dream of writing come true with this debut book. He can be reached via his official website - http://www.sanjaybordia.com/

About The Book:

The Blurb:

The recent foray of ‘3M Chandani Group’ in the life insurance sector is besieged with a large insurance claim.  All evidences and documents are in order but there is an eerie feeling that something is not right.  The case lands on the table of ‘Mohan Mohanty’ the ace internal auditor of the group.
Will Mohan be able to unearth the truth?  Laila and Iceberg, two trusted assistants of Mohan are confident that with Mohan at the helm of affairs truth does not need to worry.
And the investigation begins, which takes Mohan and his team to a village hospital where Compounder Tara Nath fixes the posting of Doctors. The team of auditors meets Madan Prasad, a sculptor who creates wax statutes which can chase London’s Madam Tussaud out of business.  The team has to find out whether branch manager, Sunil Shinde, is a victim or a culprit.
Time is running out since Mehra family, the parents and brother of the deceased, are threatening to go to media and courts, if the settlement of insurance claim is delayed further.
Mohan has to act fast and come out with clinching evidences or pay the insurance claim of Rs. 10 Crore.

The Cover:

Having received the pdf copy for review, I looked for the cover at Sanjay's site. The cover page is quite normal and may or may not prompt the reader to pick it up from the book shelf. Also, although, it does depicts some puzzle, but could have been much better - may be some hint to the clue without revealing it before its mention in the book.

What I Felt About The Book:

I would not lie that my thoughts of initial two chapters were not very motivating for the author. As the story proceeded and the turn of events were unfolded, I gradually got hooked to it.

What I Liked About The Book:

1. I was in love with Laila. Her immediate urge to eat anytime, anywhere added the required little amount of humour to the narration. Other characters were also plotted nicely.

2. The small inclusive suspense plots added every now and then solved the purpose of giving a new short story to the reader and soon the reader is back to main story line with a fresh mind. I liked the idea and enjoyed it thoroughly.

What I Did Not Like About The Book:

Predictability - Yes, any regular reader irrespective of his or her interest in thrillers would be able to predict the turn of some events. But this did not stop me from reading further.

To conclude, I found the book a major candidate for big Television programs like crime patrol series. Had the author been able to make it unpredictable, it would have been a big screen blockbuster.

Congratulations for a decent debut and best wishes to Sanjay Bordia for his future writing projects.

The Book can by purchased by following links

Amazon-Paperback    Amazon-Kindle Edition      Flipkart

Note: I received a PDF copy of the book for an honest review

Why Pay Tax?

“Hey, have you filed your returns for the year? Last date is in a few days.”

“Leave it buddy. It does not matter. Moreover, It’s we the salaried citizens who pay tax and suffer on top of it.”

“Yeah, that’s true. The business class people do not even think about it or pay bare minimum.”

“Moreover, tax has already been deducted from my salary each month. Who wants to get into filling up those useless long forms and submitting them?”

I am sure everyone must have seen/heard/participated in some conversation similar to this. ‘Why should I pay the tax and on top of it, file a return for the same?’ is one question all of us ponder over sometime or the other.  Below are some of the reasons which encourage us to pay the income tax:

1. Standard Proof for most complicated facilities
1. Want a Loan? ITR  - Income Tax Return is the first document any legitimate organisation asks for. Producing the valid document completed more than half of the process.
2. Want a VISA? Again, all embassies around the world ensure that the person they are granting permission to enter their territory is safe to land there. The ITR document again helps a lot in proving your credibility and ensures that you are financially sound.
2. Want your money back? Our eyes open up wide enough with curiosity on getting the money back. Filling the ITR can also earn us some money. When I filed my ITR for the first time, I got a check of Rs. 180 from Income Tax office as I had paid that tax extra as per my claims and savings. It was a small amount, but the salary was also small that time!
3. Want a better future for you kids? All of us want the best future for our children. We work day and night to ensure that they get the best of education and life. We cut on our own expenses, give up some luxuries and save for their future needs. During all this, we subconsciously fail to realise that the economy they would be living in should also be insured. We would definitely want them to live in a much better environment then today. We must know that the tax we pay is the money government use for basic amenities like-
1. Safety – We would never ever want ourselves to be bombarded with weapons and bombs. Government uses the money we pay in tax to strengthen various means of defense.
2. Infrastructure – We are still far behind when it comes to roads, buildings, bridges and the most talked about – public transport.
3. Money – India as a nation can take loan itself from international organisations like the World Bank etc. Please be informed that they are not a charity organisations and they bear their own terms of interest and serve a defined tenure failing which further have penalties.
4. Nature – Floods, earthquakes, Landslides, Tsunami, Thunder Storms – Name any major natural calamity and there would be at least one place in India which is prone to it. So, while we enjoy and be proud of our varied land, water and air every few kilo meters, we must accept the benefits as well as the disasters these climatic conditions throw upon us. The better the government is equipped with resources quicker would be the response time and relief during such situations. Pay the tax on time and do your bit!

So, next time whenever you need an inspiration to pay tax, think twice about these small yet big enough reasons.

 I’m taking the #TaxPledge to file IT returns with the easy Income Tax efiling option from H&R Block at BlogAdda.

Reflections A to Z Challenge April 2016

This is not a typical reflections post. I took a deep breath and wrote this post which looks more like a letter to myself. Finally, rather than hosting it on my own blog, I took a much deeper breath and sent it to A to Z team so that I can share the lessons learnt.

To Succeed I MUST recognise my Failures.

~Amita

Here goes my reflection to A to Z Challenge and first Guest Post –

Lessons from the Failure

1. Plan - Plan, draft and schedule your posts
2. Open Up - Seel Help
3. Be Confident - Do not take success for granted

Hop on to the link to read the complete confession.

Did you survive the challenge? Have you also felt the same anytime when you thought of your commitments?

Please be kind and pardon any silly mistakes. I am all ready to improve.

Do leave your valuable comments. I love them – all of them.