Vanity confidential

Through the lenses of four top shelves, SIYA BHAMBWANI investigates the private rituals and disciplined habits that hold ambitious women together.

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THE BEST VANITY cabinets and cases do much more than organise.

They can be systems of sustenance, points of respite, vessels of completeness. We peeked inside the vanities belonging to women whose careers move at a breakneck pace—on runways, in Olympic pools, in high-altitude hospitality and under red-carpet lights. A good vanity case, we learnt, keeps high-functioning lives intact, far removed from any reductive notions of feminine (read frivolous) fascination.

RIGZIN LACHIC
Founder, Dolkhar, Leh

Her nonnegotiable: At high altitudes, the air is dry and the sun harsher than it feels. Barrier repair comes first for Lachic with La Roche-Posay's Cicaplast Baume B5+ moisturiser.

What's on her nightstand: Medicube's Age-R Mini Booster Pro facial device and Sulwhasoo's Overnight Vitalizing Mask have become a nightly ritual for her. “My vanity has matured from product-led to practice-led,” she says, “in an attempt to truly understand my skin.”