'Dopamine beauty': How colourful makeup could boost your mood

The "dopamine beauty" trend focuses on using more colorful makeup to help boost your mood. Photo: AFP

From the pandemic to the war in Ukraine and the economic crisis, these are hardly the happiest of times. And this is inevitably impacting the well-being and mental health of pretty much everyone.

So what better reason to work on boosting your daily production of dopamine, the pleasure hormone, through food, exercise and meditation, but also makeup.