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5 Beauty Products Celebrities Have Kept Coming Back To
From Meghan Markle's iconic NARS blush to Kim Kardashian's favourite drugstore mascara, these are the beauty products celebrities have publicly shared they genuinely use, backed by their own interviews and verified appearances.

Style Essentials Edit Team
Aug 73 min read


Product Review: 0.3% Pure Retinol Face Serum by /PHD/ Proven Honest Derma
We have covered /PHD/ Proven Honest Derma before and every product from this brand has impressed us. The 0.3% Pure Retinol Face Serum is no different. Fragrance-free, milky in texture, and genuinely suited for every skin type in the house.
Shweta
Jul 292 min read


When Makeup Actually Expires: The PAO Symbol Explained
What expires, when, and the small symbol on the packaging that has been telling you all along We spend a great deal on makeup and use surprisingly little of it. A lipstick is bought for one occasion and worn twice; a foundation is replaced before the bottle is half empty; an eyeshadow palette is used for a single shade and kept for years on the strength of the other eleven. The collection grows, most of it sits, and somewhere in the middle of it the products quietly expire wi

Style Essentials Edit Team
Jul 298 min read


Product Review: Rosemary Hair Growth Spray by Oshea Herbals
We received this product for review from the brand. Monsoon is genuinely one of the worst seasons for hair. The humidity weakens roots, the scalp gets oily faster, hair fall increases, and finding a product that actually helps rather than weighs everything down is harder than it sounds. The Oshea Herbals Rosemary Hair Growth Spray arrived at exactly the right time, and two weeks in, it has made a quiet but noticeable impression.

Style Essentials Edit Team
Jul 282 min read


Product Review: Teja Mandara Gel-to-Milk Double Cleanser by Dipsy
We received this product for review from the brand. Dipsy is a name we have covered before with their debut Malli Malli moisturizer, and Teja Mandara is their second launch, a gel-to-milk double cleanser and makeup remover built around Indian botanicals. Given how much we appreciated the thought behind Malli Malli, we came to this one with genuine curiosity.

Style Essentials Edit Team
Jul 282 min read


Airyday: The Australian Suncare Brand Betting on Wearability to Fix Britain's SPF Habit
Australian suncare brand Airyday has launched in the UK with six wearable SPF 50 "Skinscreens," aiming to close the gap between how much people care about skincare and how rarely they actually wear sunscreen.

Style Essentials Edit Team
Jul 82 min read


Product Review: Sweatgo Solution by Salve Pharmaceuticals
Ask anyone who sweats excessively through the summer how embarrassing it can get, and the answer will not be pretty. Soaked shirts, damp palms, and the constant anxiety of being in public or on the field—it is a confidence issue as much as a comfort one. We received this product for review from the brand, and since none of us on the team personally deal with hyperhidrosis, we handed it over to someone whose friend does. And when we say "sweats a lot," we mean it literally. Th

Style Essentials Edit Team
Jun 152 min read


Product Review: CodeSkin Hyaluronic 7+ Serum
The hyaluronic acid serum category in India is crowded enough that standing out requires doing something genuinely different. Most HA serums deliver surface hydration and stop there. The Hyaluronic 7+ works across seven molecular weights simultaneously, from high molecular weight forms that sit at the surface and lock moisture in, to low molecular weight forms that penetrate deeper layers to hydrate from within.

Style Essentials Edit Team
Jun 102 min read


Tried & Tested: The Skincare Worth Your Money
We get many products across our desks, and most are just okay—and "okay" doesn't make this list. This list isn't everything we've tried; it's the handful that actually worked well enough for us to keep using and recommend. From a pigmentation serum that delivers to a baby shampoo we'd trust, here are the ones worth your money. Our team has tested each one — click through for the full review. For Brightening & Pigmentation Alpha Arbutin 2% Depigmentation Serum — Proven Honest

Style Essentials Edit Team
Jun 73 min read


Acqua di Parma Bergamotto La Spugnatura and La Caletta: A Summer Collection Built Around a Centuries-Old Extraction Technique
Acqua di Parma turns 110 this year, and the anniversary has produced a considered series of releases. The latest is La Caletta, a summer collection developed in collaboration with French interior designer Laura Gonzalez, known for projects including the Cartier Mansion in New York and the Hotel Saint James in Paris.

Style Essentials Edit Team
Jun 41 min read


Product Review: Chicco Baby Moments Gentle Body Wash & Shampoo
The Chicco Baby Moments Head to Toe Wash is formulated with 92 percent natural ingredients, combining mild plant-based cleansers, oat bran extract, and apricot extract to gently cleanse without stripping the skin’s natural moisture. Free from parabens, SLS, SLES, alcohol, dyes, phenoxyethanol, and tropolone, the dermatologically tested no-tears formula leaves skin and hair feeling soft, nourished, and comfortable after every bath.

Style Essentials Edit Team
May 312 min read


Product Review: Nat Habit Anti-Dandruff Neem Beracyl Navdha Shampoo with FlakeZero Technology
Most anti-dandruff shampoos are built around a simple and quietly dishonest promise: suppress the flakes, keep the customer coming back. The scalp gets stripped, the barrier breaks down, the fungal environment rebounds, and the cycle repeats. The Indian haircare market has been running on this loop for decades, and most people dealing with dandruff have simply accepted recurrence as part of the deal.

Style Essentials Edit Team
May 282 min read


Product Review: Tri-Leaf Rosemary Summer DASABUTI Hair Oil by Nat Habit
The Nat Habit Tri-Leaf Rosemary Summer Hair Oil is part of the brand's DASABUTI range, which is built on an authentic Ayurvedic preparation method where fresh herbs are slow-infused for over ten hours in cold-pressed oils.

Style Essentials Edit Team
May 282 min read


Product Review : Parasoft Cream for Dry Skin by Salve Pharmaceuticals
Before discussing what works, let's first cover a little about the brand. Salve Pharmaceuticals has been a trusted name in pharmaceutical skincare in India, and Parasoft is one of its most established products, widely available across leading pharmacies and online. It is not a lifestyle skincare brand in the conventional sense. It is a dermatologist-tested, clinically formulated moisturizer built around one clear purpose: tackling dry, dehydrated, and compromised skin.

Style Essentials Edit Team
May 282 min read


Kess, the Berlin-Born Minimalist Beauty Brand, Has Officially Launched in the UK
Kess has arrived in the UK, and if you have been looking for a reason to finally edit down your makeup bag, this Berlin-born brand makes a convincing case for it. Founded in Germany's creative capital, the brand is built around multifunctional formulas that are designed to replace several products rather than add to the pile, with a minimalist design aesthetic that feels entirely at home in the current beauty conversation around doing less, better.

Style Essentials Edit Team
May 221 min read


Basics by B, the Australian Clean Beauty Brand Built Around the Aussie Glow, Has Launched in the UK and US
Sydney-based makeup artist Bonnie Gillies spent twenty years watching women overcomplicate their routines. In 2019 she built a brand around the opposite instinct and called it Basics by B.

Style Essentials Edit Team
May 222 min read


Product Review: UVShield SPF 50 PA+++ Sun Block by Oshea Herbals
We have so many sunscreens on our shelf right now that adding another one to the rotation felt entirely unnecessary. There are the fancy Korean ones, the clinical ones, the tinted ones that are half foundation, and a few impulse buys that never quite worked. So when the Oshea Herbals UVShield SPF 50 PA+++ came in for review, the expectations were cautious at best.

Style Essentials Edit Team
May 152 min read


Product Review: Malli Malli Moisturising Cream by Dipsy
I received the Malli Malli moisturizer from Dipsy through AB Comm and have been using it consistently for a little over two weeks, incorporating it into both my morning and evening routine. My skin tends to lean combination, and my concern going in was straightforward: finding a daily moisturizer that hydrates without feeling heavy or leaving a greasy finish, particularly through the warmer part of the day.

Style Essentials Edit Team
May 142 min read


What Happens to Your Skin at 35,000 Feet and Why It Takes Two Weeks to Fully Recover
Your skin doesn't just get dry on a long-haul flight — it undergoes a complex biological disruption. Here's the science behind what really happens at altitude, and how to recover fully.

Style Essentials Edit Team
May 118 min read


What Is Bakuchiol: The Indian Ayurvedic Ingredient the World Is Calling the Natural Alternative to Retinol
If you have spent any real time in skincare communities in the last few years, you will have noticed that the conversation around retinol has quietly but significantly shifted, not away from it exactly, because retinol remains the most clinically validated anti-aging ingredient in dermatology and nobody serious about skin is suggesting otherwise, but toward a growing and genuinely complicated conversation about who retinol actually works for and who it leaves behind.

Style Essentials Edit Team
May 98 min read
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