In August 2025, Louis Vuitton launched its first ever lipstick. The price? $160. That's about ₹15,400 for a single lipstick. To put that in perspective, you could buy three Chanel lipsticks for the same money and still have change left over. It's almost twice what
In May 2019, Gucci launched 58 lipsticks and did something luxury beauty almost never does. It put a punk singer with gapped, uneven teeth at the centre of the campaign, grinning straight into Martin Parr's camera. The message was simple: makeup shouldn't hide your flaws, it
Scroll for thirty seconds and you'll find it. The frosted bottle, the tiny brush, one swipe that leaves skin looking wet and lit from inside. Chanel's Les Beiges Water-Fresh Tint is all over your feed, the answer to every "what's on your
I was sitting with a group of guy friends when one of them turned and asked me something simple: what does an actual skincare routine look like for a man? Not a joke question, he meant it. So I asked what he currently does. "Honestly? I just wash my
The first women allowed to play Wimbledon showed up in corsets. This was 1884 ankle-length white dresses, hats pinned in place, and faces bare by law. Not written law. The worse kind. Makeup belonged to actresses, a tan meant you worked in a field, and everyone simply knew it.
I was on Nykaa this morning and a hair oil stopped me mid-scroll: ₹4,950 for 100ml. Fable & Mane's HoliRoots — Editor's Pick badge, 1,388 ratings, sitting in the Luxe section like it was born there (checked 9 July). I opened the ingredient list
There is a specific moment of panic that happens right after you finish your makeup. In your room mirror everything looks seamless, and you walk out the door with absolute confidence. Then you catch your reflection in a car window, or a phone selfie in natural sunlight, and your face
On Tuesday morning, a couple climbed the outside of the Empire State Building. No ropes, no permission. Angela Nikolau and Ivan Kuznetsov make their living this way — scaling famous buildings and filming it. At the top, 443 metres above Manhattan, he pulled out a ring. She said yes. They photographed
There is a moment at every beauty counter where someone gently tells you your face cream is not enough. That the skin around your eyes is special, fragile, ageing faster than the rest of you, and needs its own cream. A smaller jar. A bigger price. And you believe it,
You've definitely seen it by now. Someone on your feed pressing, tapping and stretching their own face, swearing it's a free facelift if you just do it every morning. No needles, no surgeon, no bill. It sounds too good to be true, which is usually the
You know that feeling when someone looks really good but you cannot work out what they actually did? Nine times out of ten, it is not a product. It is a handful of tiny habits most people never get taught, small things that make your features stand out instead of
Picture walking into your salon, sitting down, asking for your usual gel and being told no. That's the reality across the EU right now. Since 1 September 2025, gel polish has been illegal to sell or even apply in all 27 EU countries, plus Norway and Switzerland. The
The 2026 FIFA World Cup has an official skincare sponsor. It is Paula's Choice. Not a legacy mass-market brand with a century of advertising muscle. Paula's Choice, the evidence-based, no-fragrance, acid-exfoliant brand that built its entire identity on cutting through beauty industry
Birkenstock has been making sandals since 1774. It has been making nail polish since April 2026. The collection is called Care Essentials. Five shades — Eggshell, Light Rose, Crocus, Surf Green and Red coordinated with the brand's sandal palette. Vegan, plant-based, 23-free formula. $11.95 a bottle.
Short answer, yes. But probably not for the reason you think. Most people treat their hands as an afterthought. The same body lotion, sometimes a bit of coconut oil, occasionally nothing at all. And then wonder why the skin on their hands looks older than everything else. Here is the
There is a very good chance you have been treating the wrong problem for years. Dry skin and dehydrated skin feel almost identical. They both feel tight. They both look dull. They both make you reach for the richest moisturiser you own. But they are not the same thing and
You did not decide this. The wellness industry did. And it has spent the last decade building a very convincing case that looking and feeling your best is not just your responsibility in fact it is everyone's. Including the people who cannot yet walk. Including the ones who
The skincare industry has spent decades telling women what their skin needs. It has spent roughly the same amount of time handing men a blue tube and calling it a day. In India, that blue tube usually contains the same formula as its pink counterpart. Different fragrance. Darker packaging. Same
There is a very specific kind of betrayal that happens every June. You reach for the perfume that made you feel like yourself all winter, spray it on, walk outside and within twenty minutes it is either completely gone or so loud that you become the reason someone opens a
On 13 January 2026, Commission Regulation (EU) 2026/78 was published. By May 1, any cosmetic product containing one of 18 newly classified CMR substances — carcinogenic, mutagenic, or toxic to reproduction — became illegal on European shelves. No transition period. No grace window. Pull the product or reformulate. This is not
