Beauty
How Simone Ashley, Geraldine Viswanathan & Sangita Patel Nail Summer Glam - And How You Can Too!
Summer is plodding along but what is sizzling is how South Asian beauties are owning the summer look with aplomb and glamour. Previously, summer was looked upon with a mix of zeal and trepidation, zeal because pool parties are fun and trepidation because we would be judged for having darker skin due to our temerity to stay outside to enjoy a pool party. Now our beauty story is about protecting the skin and having fun, because skin is me
Strategic Faces: A Makeup Guide For South Asians Navigating The Networking Game
A makeup guide for networking South Asian professionals with strategic beauty tips, pro products, and career-ready confidence. Summer cocktails after a working day are a great way to unwind… but it is also a golden opportunity to network. By network, I mean meeting new people from different industries and reinforcing positive rapport with colleagues. In this blog, I explore the importance of networking and how we can use
How South Asian Women Can Achieve the Perfect Summer Glow - No Sun Required
Being a tanned beauty is inherent in the DNA of every South Asian woman, regardless of her country of origin. The challenge is how to bring out the glowing brown summer glow whilst minimising issues such as strawberry skin, scars and discolouration. The approach is simple: preparation, maintenance and execution. Preparation Brown skin is beautiful, once layers of dead skin are removed so that
From First-Time Dads To Wise Grandfathers: A Father's Day Gift Guide For The Men We Love
Father’s Day is an important one because the love from our dads, grandfathers and uncles is like rocket fuel that fills us with the courage to take risks. In my opinion, dads, uncles and grandfathers are simply the best because their quiet strength is the foundation upon which many of us have built fulfilling lives. On Father’s Day, spoil them because even if they may not be effusive in their appreciation for gifts, everyo
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Beauty Beyond Earth: This South Asian Founder Is Taking Skincare Into Space
Beauty inspired the vastness of space and made to withstand the harshest of conditions is a unique combination of concepts that birthed Ready Set Jet Beauty, founded by South Asian innovator and entrepreneur, ...
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Mother's Day Special: What Are Our ANOKHI Moms’ Timeless Beauty Secrets?
Mother’s Day is a day to remember and celebrate how our mothers, aunts and grandmothers raised and supported us… it is also an opportunity to celebrate their beauty and their individual style. After all these magnificent women are more than just our caretakers and cheerleaders, eve ...
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The No-Nonsense South Asian Guide To Mastering The 'Glass Skin' Trend
We break down how South Asians can adapt the glass skin trend for real results — and why it’s time to stop believing everything you see online. Glass skin is a K-beauty trend that has been gaining traction since 2024 and is still popular. This trend promotes a complexion wh ...
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From Blue Lids To Glossy Lips: Wallet Approved Spring Beauty Trends For South Asian Skin Tones
Spring has returned with a soft rainbow of colour that infuses our beautiful brown skin tones with freshness and energy. In this blog, I explore how we can take four, popular, mainstream trends and infuse them with a touch of spice, so that they make us South Asian Beauties sizzle without burn ...
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From Red Carpet To Reality: Stunning South Asian Celebrity Beauty Trends For 2025!
The recently ended awards season was full of South Asian beauties whose glamourous looks will serve as a font of inspiration as we prepare for weddings and summer parties. In this blog, I have culled looks from the major awards shows and events that highlight how we can emphasise our eyes, skin, l ...
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Nail It! The Lazy Girl’s Guide To Putting Spring Into Your Cuticles
Hands and feet, like the neck and the contour of the eyes, provide clues as to your biological age and lifestyle choices. In this blog, I explore how to care for the delicate skin of the hands and feet and how we can beautify them by using nail colours that celebrate our brown skin tones. To ha ...
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Get Aunty-Proof Confidence With These Pre-Spring Skincare Tips For Your Brown Skin
An unjust aspect of South Asian culture is how some aunties get away with body shaming South Asian beauties of all shapes and sizes. No matter how old we get and how many achievements we accumulate, the dreaded phrases uttered by far too many aunties, including but not limited to: ...
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How To Rock The Icy Spicy Y2K Beauty Look This Valentine's Day
The iciness of the Y2K look with its infusions of silver and cool pink, appear to be antithetical for the brown skin tones that compose the rainbow of South Asian beauty, but I assert that brown beauties are born to be icy spicy. If we can learn anything from the icy beauty of the Indian born, lat ...
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Is 2025 Pantone's Color ‘Mocha Mousse’ a Wash for South Asian Skin Tones? Here is the Beauty Scoop!
Pantone has declared Mocha Mousse as the colour of the year because it is a mellow hue of brown that evokes comfort. As someone who has consumed her fair share of chocolate mousse and mocha pudding, I loved it until I realised that in terms of beauty, the shade does not translate effortlessly onto b ...
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Tame the Mane: ANOKHI's Guide To South Asian Winter Hair Care
Old Man Winter has arrived and with the dreamy scenes of hot cocoa by the fireplace, there are also scenes of South Asian beauties struggling to get their legendary locks to look lustrous. It is challenging to have a shiny mane, regardless of texture, because we are facing a trio of challenges: Ar ...
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ANOKHI’s Holiday Gift Guide To The Best Beauty Stocking Stuffers In North America!
The holiday season is soon upon us, and now more than ever there are vibrant South Asian beauty brands that offer products across several categories such as skin care, hair care, fragrance and cosmetics, that are glamourous and perfect to spoil yourself and loves ones. This blog focuses on sets an ...
