A 21-year-old Indian woman ... In matrimonial columns, skin colour is almost always emphasised - prospective brides are described as being fair, wheat-ish, light or dark brown, but almost never ...

Sunscreen is essential for all skin tones, including darker ones, offering protection against ageing, hyperpigmentation, age ...

calling on people to celebrate dark skin. Yet, the unhealthy obsession with light skin has continued and, as ad filmmaker Bharadwaj Sundar says, it's not just limited to earthly beings ...

Learn more For years, my makeup routine was all about the challenge of seeing how much makeup I could pile on top of my pimples and my brown skin ... against this for Indian skin in particular.