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  • - Hi, I'm Deepika Padukone, I'm an actor,

  • producer, and philanthropist.

  • I'll be opening up my little black book

  • and bringing you into my world.

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  • So another very important part of my little black book

  • is skin, hair, and everything to do with feeling

  • and looking beautiful and glamorous.

  • I feel like we all grow and we all evolve

  • and sometimes things that you don't like,

  • you kind of embrace them.

  • For example, I didn't ever like

  • a center parting slick hair, and now we do it all the time.

  • There was a time when I didn't like doing anything

  • under the eye, and now I love sort of,

  • you know, just that little definition

  • under the eye with mascara.

  • I'm sure in this entire process, there have been

  • tons of looks that I would look back at and be like

  • what was I thinking?

  • I can't think of one, I can actually think of one.

  • If there's one thing that I've really consciously

  • tried to stay away from is to learn to do my own

  • hair and makeup, I really would leave that,

  • my styling included, I really would leave that

  • to the professionals.

  • - I'm Sandhya Shekar, I've been working with Deepika

  • for over a little two and a half years now.

  • - I've been working with her for about 10 years.

  • The event was in Macau and we were at an after party

  • and I was having a little dance and Deepika comes up

  • and we had a little dance together and she said you know,

  • I've been trying to work with you so many times

  • but you're always busy, and I said you've got

  • to book in advance Deepika, I said you've gotta,

  • you know if you know your dates in advance,

  • just book in advance.

  • That's when it really started happening

  • and we started working together a lot,

  • so that's where the bonding really happened,

  • and not only the professional friendship

  • but also the friendship within that blossomed

  • and the trust and the comfort factor and everything

  • that goes along with it, so.

  • - I had done about close to eight years

  • in the industry and I remember that I was

  • nowhere interested in doing celebrity makeup,

  • but I also remember that the only person

  • that I was keen to work with was Deepika

  • and one day, I get this call because I've worked

  • with her stylist, Shelina, and I think she

  • had suggested me and the next thing I know,

  • I got a call from Deepika's team saying

  • that we want you to do her makeup for like

  • a small event, and that's how it happened

  • and it was an instant connection.

  • She was extremely warm, she was exactly

  • the same person that you know, I had seen her off

  • and when I met her personally, that was

  • instant connection for the two of us.

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  • - I feel like I went through a phase when clean,

  • beautiful skin, focus on the lashes

  • and a bright, red mouth, it's almost like

  • if anyone else did a red mouth, it was like

  • that's Deepika's look.

  • I don't like too much foundation, I don't like caking

  • too much or layering too much.

  • I like my freckles to show through or any discoloration

  • that I might have on my skin.

  • I really don't mind all of those things coming through,

  • because when it's cakey, I don't know,

  • I get really conscious of that.

  • I just feel like I wanna see my skin.

  • - I think Deepika's signature look would be

  • the no makeup look, I don't have to put like more than

  • two drops of foundation on her.

  • Natural warm tones is her go-to colors.

  • In terms of blush, we generally stick to, you know,

  • palettes like these which are more warmer

  • which is more closer to her skin tone.

  • She's excellent at doing her own brows.

  • It's been two and a half years and I've never

  • done her eyebrows ever, that's because I trust her

  • the way she does it, so she does her own brows

  • for everyone out there who doesn't know.

  • - I remember the very first movie that I did, Om Shanti Om.

  • Shantipriya, the character that I played

  • is a yesteryear heroine and to help me look

  • like a yesteryear heroine, the eyeliner was the focus,

  • and the eyeliner that we used in that movie

  • became extremely popular after that,

  • every makeup artist that I worked with,

  • brides would go up to them during their wedding day

  • and say they wanted the Shantipriya eyeliner,

  • that's the name of my character, or the Deepika eyeliner.

  • It was the signature sort of winged liner

  • that I did for many, many years.

  • - With film, it's very different, I mean it's quite

  • restrictive hair-wise in a sense because obviously

  • the actress is playing a character.

  • Film work's hard because obviously well myself

  • being such a perfectionist as well,

  • I do tend to get a little bit flustered

  • because you know, continuity issues,

  • hair moves all the time.

  • Editorial's my favorite because obviously

  • you can be more creative, and what I love about

  • editorial is that you're creating an image,

  • and you're creating a beautiful image.

  • - When it comes to deciding a specific look,

  • we end up doing a lot of research with the latest

  • runway looks that are out there, a lot of editorial looks

  • that are out there.

  • - It's a team collaboration.

  • You know, I'll come up with certain ideas

  • or the stylist might come up with certain ideas

  • or the makeup artist, we're all a great team,

  • we work really well together, we trust each other,

  • we respect each other.

  • - Once the outfit is ready, I take to her at least

  • two or three different looks that I think

  • would work with that particular outfit.

  • Cannes happens after Met so it's a little chaotic

  • because we're pretty much like finishing Met

  • and then running to Cannes.

  • - Cannes gives us that creative element of yeah,

  • being fashionable and being creative,

  • but at the same time, it's still gotta look beautiful

  • and still gotta work on camera and work on her,

  • you know, she's gotta look amazing.

  • Really sold the outfit, really just the dress

  • was like wow, blown away.

  • It was pretty spectacular.

  • As soon as Sandhya, the makeup artist, and myself

  • saw the headband, we were like, we love the headband

  • and Deepika was like yeah, I'm up for it,

  • I love it too, and so she tried it on

  • and we're like yeah, this is it.

  • It was a lot of fun working on Deepika's wedding.

  • Obviously one of her biggest days in her life

  • and such an honor to be a part of that,

  • it was a lot of fun.

  • First of all, Deepika trusts me a lot,

  • obviously we have that kind of a relationship.

  • So we didn't have to do any trials or anything like that.

  • - But we did have like a small wine and cheese party

  • at her place where we were just discussing looks.

  • - It's a special day, it's a very special day,

  • so you know, there's photos, there's videoing,

  • there's all sorts of stuff, and they're long days,

  • after events, the partying, the dinners,

  • this and that, she's gotta look fantastic.

  • She's, the hair's gotta last.

  • The last thing you want is hair coming out,

  • bothering in her face or this and that and the other,

  • so the hair had to be simple, it had to be super chic

  • and very sturdy so that it held all the,

  • the jewelry, the Indian jewelry and the dupatta,

  • the veil on top and you know, all that stuff

  • that went along with it, so there's

  • a lot of heaviness there.

  • Also, the back of the bun, you know,

  • which you couldn't see because of the veil

  • but there was a lot of beautiful gajra,

  • they're basically rows of jasmine blossoms,

  • so it was all filled in the back with that,

  • and it was quite extraordinary.

  • She looked spectacular.

  • A lot of times it was picking up hues and tones

  • from the outfit that she was wearing.

  • She was wearing a lot of these beautiful designer outfits

  • from Ser Versace and I think one or two from like

  • Abu Jani and Sandeep, it was like pushing

  • my own limits with Indian wear, which I was

  • very happy about, I think she was very happy about as well,

  • so creatively it's been very enriching I must say

  • because she's somebody who completely trusts me

  • with what I do and that's something

  • that we've worked on for the last few years

  • that we've been working together.

  • - I feel like I really and truly came into my own

  • in 2011, 2012, I was doing this movie called Cocktail

  • and I played this character called Veronica.

  • Up until then, I led a life where I was

  • conducting myself in a way that one is expected to

  • or speak a certain way or dress a certain way

  • and I feel like through that movie

  • and through that character, I actually somewhere

  • started becoming comfortable with myself

  • and I felt like from then on, whether it's anything

  • big or small, any decision or choice that I've made

  • in my life, I feel like I've been honest in those choices

  • and I feel like I feel truly liberated

  • from that time on, and I feel like it shows

  • in my characters, in my movies,

  • and in everything else that I do.

- Hi, I'm Deepika Padukone, I'm an actor,

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