By the time evening comes I’m not just tired in the way an office person is tired — I’m physically wrung out in a very specific way.

“I approach my skin the way I approach my work — with data, with hypotheses, with a genuine interest in understanding mechanisms rather than just outcomes. My skin is South Indian, and the specific concerns for skin like mine are genuinely underserved by the mainstream beauty conversation. That’s what drove me toward Ayurvedic beauty. Not as a trend. Because it has centuries of knowledge developed for skin like mine.”