Articles by Rachel Lopez
Traditional beauty beliefs: are they true?
We rounded up some of the biggest beauty beliefs – stuff that’s been floating around for so long we believe it must be true – and put them before a panel of India’s leading specialists. Read on…

Updated on Jun 15, 2013 06:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez
BFC: rules of the game
Your term for underwear says a lot about the person you are

Updated on Jun 15, 2013 06:24 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez
Redo your living room
As you turn the TV off this No TV Day, here are some suggestions to re-decorate and enliven your home.

Updated on Jun 01, 2013 06:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez, Mumbai
Idiot Box: our favourite crime-show clichés
Here're few clichés that we totally love! Take a look.

Updated on May 25, 2013 05:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez
I’ve pushed myself more in dance than music: Shaan
It’s a muggy summer evening and Shaan is showing off his battle scars – red elbows, bruised shoulder, kneecaps that have seen better days. It’s been barely a week into his training for the reality dance show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa and already his inexperience is showing.

Updated on May 25, 2013 05:51 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez
Brunch Opinion: at home with Amish
For this week’s cover story, I met Amish Tripathi and his wife Preeti at their Mumbai home. Most writers are odd. They ramble. They grumble about the Net. They don’t get Twitter. Amish and Preeti, however, were oddballs of a different sort.

Updated on Apr 27, 2013 05:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez
Cover Story: How Amish Tripathi changed Indian publishing
A husband who’s more than an author; a wife who’s more than a marketer. How Amish Tripathi and Preeti Vyas changed Indian publishing with The Shiva Trilogy (The Immortals of Meluha, The Secret of the Nagas and the recently released The Oath of the Vayuputras).

Updated on Apr 27, 2013 05:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez
Your summer reading list
Everybody’s curling up with a book. Which one is the best for you?

Updated on Apr 14, 2013 11:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez
Career switchers part 2: from MBA to an NGO for Dogs
In this five-part series, five Mumbaikars tell us how they abandoned their comfort zones to plunge into new professions. This one's about Aras, who gave up his stable job to sterilise street dogs, help strays find homes...

Updated on Apr 13, 2013 06:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez
Save or splurge on makeup?
Some cosmetics are worth every extra rupee. The colours glide on like a dream, the formula makes you glow and the longwearing versions stay on stubbornly. But sometimes, the product you’re buying is just a dud in fancy clothes. So how do you decide what’s worth your money?

Updated on Apr 21, 2013 04:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez, Mumbai
COVER STORY: How to spend one week in Hua Hin
Nobody wants to hear about your holiday in Bangkok. We’ve all been to the night markets, sampled the street food and brought home a flatscreen TV. Nobody cares about what you did in Pattaya either – we’ve seen a ping-pong ball ejected from the same orifice and it was 100 Baht cheaper.

Updated on Mar 25, 2013 01:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez
Shortcut to smart
Meeting an art buff? Use this cheat sheet to keep up.

Updated on Mar 02, 2013 07:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez
Brunch Date: A salaam to the Parsis
Sooni Taraporevala’s first-ever show of photos in Mumbai gets up close and personal with her community. "Have we met before?” Sooni Taraporevala asks me just as we settle down to lunch at Kemps Corner restaurant 36 Oak & Barley...

Updated on Mar 02, 2013 07:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez
BFC: Five people who should totally attend the Norah Jones concert
Anyone who’s had their heart broken and feels worse after listening to Adele. The BBC said it, and we agree: Norah Jones makes breakups sound good.

Updated on Feb 23, 2013 05:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez
Oscar Special: today is movie marathon day!
Tomorrow are the Oscars. Some of us – the ones who spent the last few weeks watching the year’s best films – will wake up in the morning to cheer for our favourites.

Updated on Feb 23, 2013 05:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times |
Parul Khanna, Abhijit Patnaik, Rachel Lopez
Cover story: the insatiables
Twenty years after India opened its doors to the world, bringing in new brands, new choices and lots of new money, it appears that for some at least, the waves of economic liberalisation have morphed into a tsunami of bratty discontent.

Updated on Mar 09, 2013 06:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times |
Rachel Lopez, Aparna Pednekar & Ashish Jagtiani
Take a rule-free break
Try it. Even if it’s for a day. Chances are, you won’t have missed anything important anyway. But you’ll have gained something more precious – yourself.

Updated on Jan 19, 2013 06:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez
Front row: Poor unfortunate souls...
Everyone talking about Les Misérables? You don’t have to watch it! Just pretend like you’re in the know too...

Updated on Jan 19, 2013 06:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez
BFC: Myths and Facts
See? You thought wrong

Updated on Jan 05, 2013 03:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez
Brunch Quiz: How well do you know Christmas?
So you think you know all there is to the much-celebrated festival? Take this quiz and see how you fare.

Updated on Dec 22, 2012 07:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez
Money Matters: How to give it away
Giving to charity just to avoid tax? Make sure your money works as hard as you do.

Updated on Dec 08, 2012 06:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez
Here're some beauty basics for eye makeup
In the concluding part of our three-part series, here are some classic techniques for your eyes. A slim eye pencil (Avon Glimmersticks, Lakme EyeConic, Maybelline Colossal), either a felt-tipped liquid liner...

Updated on Nov 29, 2012 04:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez, Mumbai
The beauty fix
Rachel Lopez tells you how to look like a million bucks, without spending a bomb on lotions and potions.

Updated on Nov 26, 2012 12:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez
Cover Story: Never be bored again
Be the life of the party. Be the one with all the answers. Be the one who starts the conversation. Be the one who knows what everyone’s talking about. Be in on the trends. Be in tune with the classics. Be on board with the new, the hip, the cool and the crazy. Be the one who’ll try anything once, and you’ll...

Updated on Nov 24, 2012 04:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times |
Amrah Ashraf, Mignonne Dsouza and Rachel Lopez
Breakfast of Champions: Brunch Opinion
Reasons you should follow our list of 50 things to do

Updated on Nov 26, 2012 04:20 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez
Shifting Sands
African singer and guitarist Bombino’s electrifying music will remind you of golden deserts – and of Jimi Hendrix. And you can now hear him in concert in Delhi

Updated on Nov 26, 2012 04:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez
The beauty fix: How to look your best this season
In the second of a three-part series, we show you how to look like a million bucks, without spending a million on lotions and potions

Updated on Nov 22, 2012 04:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez, Mumbai
Draw to the fold
Thought saris were only for old ladies and Traditional Day in the office? Four young women prove they’re just as chic as your skinny jeans or bandage dress, and just as easy to wear too.

Updated on Nov 17, 2012 04:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez
Brunch Opinion: The six-yard wonder
This cover story is me at my selfish best. Why am I doing a story on young women who aren’t afraid of wearing saris? Because I’ve shamefully reached age 30 without owning a single sari.

Updated on Nov 17, 2012 03:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez
Know your skin type before you buy makeup
In the first of a three-part series, we give you six questions every woman should ask before she shops for make-up. There’s a whole world of products out there and sales assistants are only too keen...

Updated on Nov 14, 2012 11:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rachel Lopez, Mumbai
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