Hair Botox, Baz Luhrmann, Precious Oudh and more this month

Its smart marketing when vocabulary from one category is borrowed to spark interest in another. Hair ‘Botox’ is L’Oreal’s new Fibreceutic “anti aging ” offering for hair. Its molecules seal split ends, fill out hair volume and shine and the treatment lasts for ten washes not unlike Kerasmooth or other intensive treatments. The reviews are…

Why We Travel

I wrote this essay for Verve  www.vervemagazine.in  some years ago but it is still relevant. Women respond intuitively to travel .Don’t defer the dream of travelling- it’s good for inner beauty 🙂 Any woman who travels will tell you that when a journey calls it is difficult to ignore its summons.It is like some deep-seated…

Kiehl’s Micro -Blur skin perfector

I am on day 5 of using Kiehl’s newly launched Micro -blur skin perfector. I like Kiehl’s products though some don’t do it for me like their star selling Clearly Corrective Dark spot Solution By now all my blog readers know about my hyperpigementation issues☺ But I like their Midnight recovery serum, which is ultra…

When fashion meets fragrance

This week guest blogger and fragrance junkie Aparna Gupta looks at the close relationship between fashion designers and their fragrances. Aparna has been with Times of India’s Luxpresso, consulting Beauty Editor at Verve india and now is a contributor at luxury magazine L’Officiel and Geeta’s List. Her earlier fragrance blogs are Enchanted Fragrance Garden and When…