Mary&May Tranexamic Acid + Glutathione Eye Cream – 12g

Late afternoon, when a little breeze finally reaches the rooftop cement that has been baking all day, a smell rises — wet dust, the rust on the clothesline, and the sharp tempering smell drifting from the next building's kitchen. You know that smell.

This is the hour you go up. A dry orna still hanging on the line, your back against the water tank, rickshaw horns below, dry leaves collected in the corner. The phone stays in your pocket. Nobody calls for you up here.

And you know that moment — when someone looks at you and asks, "Are you feeling unwell?" You smile and say, "I didn't sleep last night." The same answer for the last three months, the same smile. You hold the camera a little higher on video calls. In group photos you stand at the very edge. You have never said any of this out loud.

That one inch of skin under your eyes is the thinnest on your body. Dullness and pigmentation settle there first, and the moisturizer you use on the rest of your face doesn't really do the job there. That is why it needs something of its own — Mary&May Tranexamic Acid + Glutathione Eye Cream – 12g. A small 12g tube, the kind that doesn't get lost in the front pocket of your bag.

The cap makes a small click. Take a rice-grain amount on your ring finger and rub it for a few seconds — it comes out of the tube cool, then softens with the warmth of your finger. Almost no smell, just a faint sweetness. Small taps along the bone under the eye — four on the left, four on the right. The texture is light enough to leave no stickiness, but the hydration is still there after you lift your finger away.

The light is going soft over the parapet by then, a TV switching on in the flat below. You lower your hand and stand there a little longer.

If your day also ends on the rooftop, let this small habit become yours.