Jewellery on display at the designers’ studio. In 2011, singer-actor Selena Gomez wore Isharya’s polka allure hoop earrings to the People’s Choice Awards and gave the Indo-American designer jewellery brand its first starry-eyed red carpet moment. That was when co-founders and sisters-in-law Gauri and Radhika Tandon, who had launched Isharya “quite organically” in 2004, to design jewellery Read More →

1. Choose Your Eyeliner Wisely Ever think that maybe it’s not you? Maybe — just maybe — it’s your eyeliner formula? Liquids can be prone to wobbliness, pencils to smeariness. For creating a “beautiful, defined eye”, makeup artist Carl Ray (whose clientele includes former First Lady Michelle Obama) opts for gel liner: “it’s easy to apply and Read More →

Will Lipman/Engadget Perhaps the person on your list is already quite happy with their laptop or mobile device (slash, you’re not up to buying them a new one). There are plenty of accessories that make for affordable, and dare we say, practical gifts. Included in our holiday gift guide are two styles of keyboards, a high-end mouse, a battery pack, selfie and battery cases, a 400GB (!) Read More →