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...

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...