I want to be upfront about something. For most of my adult life I genuinely avoided lipstick. Not because I did not like the idea of it. I actually loved how it looked on other people. I avoided it because every time I tried it on myself it felt wrong. Too much, too heavy,...

There is a very specific kind of disappointment that comes with receiving a beauty gift that misses the mark. The shade is wrong, the product sits unused in a drawer or it is something so generic that it clearly required no thought at all. Most of us have been on both sides of that...

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...

For a long time I genuinely believed that if I just found the right lipstick, my lip problems would go away. The right shade, the right formula, the right brand. I spent more money than I would like to admit chasing that idea. High-end matte lipsticks, luxury tinted balms, imported glosses that promised everything...