The beauty of Indian skin tones is the range. From the palest fair complexions to the deepest, richest skin tones, Indian women span an enormous spectrum of colour, undertone and depth. The challenge that comes with that range is that most lip colour guides are written with a single skin tone in mind and...

Your bridal lip look is the one part of your wedding makeup that needs to work perfectly across the most demanding conditions you will ever put makeup through. It starts early in the morning when you are getting ready, survives hours of ceremony, photographs in every possible light, close-up moments, a full reception and...

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...