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.

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.

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.

Somewhere in the mountains of southern China, there is a village where women wash their hair in the river with fermented rice water, where hair grows past the floor and stays dark well into the seventies, and where Guinness World Records once showed up with a measuring tape and confirmed what the women already knew.

There was a time when a single grey hair could send people into panic mode. A quick pluck, a box of colour, or a rushed salon booking —...