I want to be upfront about something before we get into this. I was a high-end beauty loyalist for a long time. Not because I had unlimited money to spend on lipstick but because I had convinced myself, the way most of us do, that price was a reliable signal of quality. That if...

There is a point in every Indian summer, usually somewhere around mid-April, where lip balm simply stops being enough. You apply it in the morning and by mid-morning your lips already feel dry again. You reapply and the same thing happens. You go through half a stick in a week and your lips are...

Nude lipstick is one of those things that should be the simplest, most wearable choice in your makeup bag. It is meant to look natural, like your lips but more polished. And yet for most Indian women it is one of the most consistently frustrating purchases in beauty. You see a nude that looks...

Most working women I know have two separate approaches to lip colour for the day and the evening and neither of them is particularly convenient. Either they go in bare or with a very minimal lip in the morning and then scramble to do a full lip look in a work bathroom before heading...