“A thing of beauty is a joy forever:

Its loveliness increases; it will never

Pass into nothingness; but still will keep

A bower quiet for us, and a sleep

Full of sweet dreams and health, and quiet breathing.”

– John Keats, ‘Endymion’ 1818.



In Hindu mythology, Brahma, the supreme god of creation, after having created man, asked Vishwakarma, the divine architect, to create the woman, bringing together the purest of ingredients. Vishwakarma fashioned the woman with the fullness of the moon, the liquid gaze of the gazelle, the quiver of the moving grass, the softness of the flower and the fathomless depths of the sea.



These photographs were taken in Sunitha’s Salon, which is also called Charu’s Beauty Parlour. The salon is at 418, 9th Main, 24th Cross, Banashankari Second Stage, Bengaluru 560070, India.



Charu's mother, Sunitha, provides various beauty treatments: facials, pedicures, manicures, hairstyles and many other services, which make the women of Bengaluru more beautiful and happy.