Tara Uzra Dawood · Other Expert

Realizing that the number of products and gift choices available can be overwhelming, we at DelectablyChic! have selected some of the most dazzling this season and for your convenience has organized them by occasion or recipient. Gift one of these and the recipient is sure to appreciate your thoughtful and well thought out gesture.

Best Hostess Gift

Philosophy’s “Holiday Hostess” combo of Sugary Cinnamon Icing shampoo/shower gel/bubble bath and body lotion is an ideal gift to give when you go to a holiday party. The frosted blue packaging is very charming as is the tag line “every …

There is enormous variety of fun and cool options for stocking stuffers this year. I personally fell in love with Christian Audigier’s Ed Hardy candles with their tattoo art tin packaging and divine scent. For a more traditional candle option, check out Crabtree & Evelyn’s Noel candles; so pretty with a heady fragrance. What’s great about these products is that you can buy the 3-piece gift sets and then put a single candle in a stocking; perfect fit, perfect price!

If you would prefer to give lip balms, Philosophy’s “Under the Mistletoe” is a nice set of four including my favourite, the…

Scotiabank sponsored another great Young Women Of Influence Evening Speaker Series event. Despite a rainy evening, the talk at The Roosevelt Room attracted a dynamic crowd of innovative, enterprising women, a thought-provoking speaker and plenty of opportunities for seamless networking!

Catharine Fennell, CEO & Founder of VideoBio, was the keynote speaker and she delivered a short but valuable content-packed speech. Her two key pieces of advice were the importance of maintaining a top reputation and building a fan base.

She also shared her top ten tips for women entrepreneurs:

1) …

See how this cook has turned his personal brand into an empire and is on a mission to help kids as well as prisoners self-optimize through sound nutrition and cooking!

Jamie Oliver was in Toronto for just one night and he cooked up a storm for 3,000 of his favourite fans. Organized by The Art of Cooking and presented by The Food Network, Oliver came, saw and conquered the bedazzled crowd. The Naked Chef was in town promoting his new book and program “Jamie’s America.”

Whether he disclosed his love for chillies, the simplicity of healthy eating or answered the dozens of audience questi…

The current trend is Virtual Business Cards.

For over four years the pundits have proclaimed that business cards are dying. While they are very much still around, it’s very clear their value is deteriorating.

For most people, the ritual of exchanging cards is more a social one than a useful one. Too often, one returns from a networking function or a meeting with a stack of cards and that stack continues to sit on your desk.

With the advent of Smartphones, virtual cards are now readily available.

They have the following 6 advantages over physical cards:

1. they are usually free (…

It’s Earth Day and I am feeling so blessed to be living on this incredible planet of ours.

Although we can gripe about pollution or worry about O-Zone layers, depleting water supplies and so many other things wrong in our world, there is so much more to be grateful for. The amazing way the sun rises every morning, only to be followed by the moon each night.

I recently went for a yacht ride on the full moon to Oyster Rocks. Just a 20 minute ride from Karachi, this island has a beautiful view of Manora and Karachi and we climbed to the top quite easily. Arranged by Neshmia Ahmed, we …

Want to know the coolest colour to wear this Fall … read my article on a very special fundraising shade from OPI.

This October, OPI has come up with the prettiest candyfloss pink as their 2010 “Pink of Hearts” nail laquer. This 2010 edition of Pink of Hearts follows in the tradition of OPI’s same name 2007, 2008 and 2009 Nail Lacquers in raising awareness of breast cancer during the month of October (National Breast Cancer Awareness Month).

Suzi Weiss-Fischmann, OPI Executive VP & Artistic Director relates, “OPI is proud to join with Rethink for the fourth consecutive year, with Pink…

Reviewed By T. U. Dawood

Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist was one of those life-changing books that contain poignant words of wisdom. In it he espoused that when one is on one’s true path, the entire universe conspires to expedite the process and make one’s dreams come true.

Inspirations, Coelho’s latest work, sheds light on the author’s own life path, particularly the journey that made him the bestselling writer and philosopher that he is today. In the book he has arranged his selections from classic literature into four sections — water, earth, air and fire — which reflect the four eleme…