You apply your lipstick in the morning, look in the mirror and feel genuinely good about it. By eleven the colour has started retreating toward the centre of your lips. By noon it is half gone. By the time you eat lunch it has essentially disappeared, leaving behind that faded ring around the edge...

Indian weddings are already one of the most demanding events you can dress for. Add summer heat, outdoor ceremonies, multiple hours of standing, eating, dancing and being photographed from every angle and you have a genuinely difficult brief for your makeup. The rest of your look can be touched up relatively easily. Your lip...

Every year it happens the same way. March arrives, the heat starts building and somewhere around the first really brutal afternoon I look in the mirror and notice my lips have already given up. Dry patches, that dull look, lipstick sitting wrong no matter what I try. I used to think this was just...

Every year without fail, the moment summer hits properly in India, my lips go from manageable to completely out of control. Dry patches that appear overnight, flaking that no lip balm seems to fix, a dullness and darkening that makes even my favourite lipstick look off. I used to just accept this as a...