Let’s admit it! For  many of us those weekly or monthly visits to the beauty salons are definitely a nightmarish experience. Uninvited comments about our physical appearance, unnecessary interference in our personal lives and skewed sense of what looks attractive is propagated by most, if not all beauty salons. In fact, whenever you feel that […]

Theresa May, the British Prime Minister, was recently under fire for saying there are jobs for ‘boys and girls’. Probably not the most well thought out comment on a public platform. Nevertheless…sometimes it’s not about gender but simply what you’re more attuned to and what you’re able to get done without getting a headache. If […]

I have always been aware of all that it takes for immaculate personal grooming. At times a little paranoid about it. Having been an awkward teen I had my own painful induction into what it takes to look good – epilators, glasses, hair straightening, braces – the works. The thing is you would think it […]

For India’s leading cosmetologist Dr. Jamuna Pai, vanity is sanity. In this ‘selfie’ and self-image obsessed generation, where the window for creating an impression is shrinking as quickly as the definition of beauty, she talks about cosmetology being the crutches for lending confidence and a sense of security to its seekers.