[energetic music]
- Hi I'm Sonam, today I'm doing
the easiest thing that I
can do to look glamorous
which is a typical 90's
Bollywood style makeup.
Which is called,
it's like the smudgy brown around the eyes
and there's kajal inside the eyes.
It was made super famous by
this makeup artists
called Micky Contractor
who is an institution and he's amazing.
And he taught this to me
and so I'm gonna do that.
And I'm gonna do an amazing red lip
and I'm gonna look like a typical
like Indian Bollywood actress.
Okay so let's start.
So now lets start with my skincare.
I'm going to do vitamin C.
So I just take it and pat it on my skin
and do it on my neck cause
it's really important.
Okay and then,
then I'm going to do a
little bit of moisturizer.
This is another one of my
doctor's, Doctor Lancer,
who is in LA.
Who's great
and it's just like meta-moisturizer
that I use, it's great.
I also put it under my
eyes because you do this,
use this under your eyes as well.
As an actor I think
it's a little dangerous
to put stuff in your skin,
like you know, a lot.
I think it looks beautiful
when some people do it.
But as an actor I don't think it's
you can do a lot of stuff like
put fillers and botox and stuff like that
cause it all shows onscreen.
I really have to take care of my skin
and it's important for me to do it.
Using a little bit of sunblock
which is really important.
I mix my sunblock with Doctor
Sturm's Anti-Pollution Drops.
Especially on the forehead,
I like to put on my nose.
I am like, I have like
a lot of like age spots,
like brown spots on my face because
I do a lot of films without makeup
because I do those kind of
films and again on my neck.
I use coconut oil on my lips.
It's like this pretty cool Indian brand
called Forest Essentials
and I use that on my lips
and sometimes I use them on my eyebrows,
on my eyelids and I like it.
Done.
I have horrible dark circles
and lots of like brown
spots around my face.
So I have this corrector that
I like to use which is
an orange corrector.
I don't find many products for like Indian
girls or like girls who are my color
cause we have like a
very, I think special,
tone.
We have a lot of pigmentation.
We have pink and yellow in our skin tone.
I honestly haven't found a foundation
or anything that I can
actually completely use
so a lot of correction that
needs to be done on my face.
So you see just the corrector
has helped my skin so much.
Now I'm going to use the Bobbi Brown one.
Please guys, don't, I know you
guys have discontinued this
but please, please, please don't.
I don't really have bad skin
because I drink a lot of water,
I avoid sugar as much as I can.
I, I mean after a certain age
I completely stopped drinking alcohol.
And yeah, so I think I'm pretty fine.
I eat a lot of greens, green juices.
So after I use a little bit of concealer,
I don't need to use that much foundation.
So a lot of people online have been
asking me to do a makeup tutorial.
I guess this is, this is it.
Just see how amazing I am at it. Not.
Okay so my concealer
and my corrector is done
and now I'm gonna just add
a little bit of foundation
because I don't need much more than this.
So this is like something that
my makeup artist in London
Miriam mixed for me.
I take this under my eyes as well
so that it all like matches
and I don't look crazy.
I've worked with some of the best
makeup artists in the world and
internationally and in
India and they just have
they just know what they're doing
and sometimes, you know,
you just pick up stuff
because you're staring at them
doing your makeup the whole time.
Everybody has their own
styles of doing makeup
and then you just see what you think
works for you when you're
doing your own makeup
because everyone has a
different way of doing makeup.
A lot of people don't go into their necks
and it just looks crazy again.
Face looks different from your neck.
I have this amazing powder
from La Mer that I use.
It's got a little bit
of shine underneath it.
So it kind of reflects out of your,
like your eye and I think
it sits really beautifully.
So I put this under my eye.
Before I put my powder under my eye
I basically take my sponge
and get rid of the lines
which I have after 30 and I kind of
just push it into my eye,
under my eyes like that.
Then I take the rest of it and put it
over my eyes because I
have lines everywhere.
And then I just take it
and put it near my nose and near here.
A lot of people don't use color
and I think color just
brightens your skin up you know
and it just looks nice so I like using
like pinks and golds and
stuff that's like colorful.
Let's start with the eyes
which is the fun part.
I'm using this NARS
pencil to do the smudging.
It's a disaster.
I didn't know that you couldn't sharpen it
and you just did this so I
tried sharpening this pencil.
I'm an idiot [laughs].
Okay I'm gonna come really
close, it's gonna be freaky.
This is powder that I use for
contouring which I also use as a
little brown smudgy thing
which is from Benefit
which is really nice and light and brown
and so I'm using that.
The dark eye is a very Indian thing
cause we have big eyes
and beautiful eyebrows
and we always try to accentuate that
and a lot of Indian girls actually
don't have to get best, like I said,
there are foundations that we don't have
for our skin and stuff like that.
So we just kind of accentuate our eyes
because we don't have
the right skin stuff.
I hope somebody comes up with
like foundation and concealer
and all that will work
on Indian skill you know.
Now I have to put kajal
inside the eyes now.
It's a little freaky the way
I do it so don't judge me.
And then I lift it up
and then I do it in the other eye as well.
So when you do that it
just makes your eyes look
really nice and big.
And now weirdly I'm going to do
a little bit of shine on
my eyes after all of this.
So there's this really cool product
that Cherish, my makeup
artist in LA, showed my.
It's basically the devonshe thing.
You can't see it but there's
like shine on it and I love it.
I love using brushes.
I used to paint when I was younger.
So I feel like I'm painting my face
and sometimes when I'm
you know when I'm about to go on a shoot,
just sitting in front of the mirror
and getting my makeup done
or doing my makeup myself,
this is like, it just prepares me.
I started working when I was 17.
I was an assistant director
and the director who was
directing that film decided
to cast me in his next film.
And
the first film that I
did was when I was 20.
I don't know how many
films that I have done,
but I must have done like 20 I think.
And
it's been a journey
[laughs]. It's been lovely.
The blush that I've been
using for a long time
is the Sure Mara Pink, it looks very pink
but it doesn't come across that much.
I like color because I have
a very small face and a narrow face.
So you know how people try
to contour their face a lot?
I try to make my face a
little fresher and brighter.
So I love using blush, it's
like one of my favorite things.
And I just do this.
And I do the rub it in.
I'm sure all the makeup artists
who are seeing me do this
are gonna be like ew what is Saram doing?
But I like doing this, this is fun.
See you just, I feel like it
just brightens up my face.
And I do it right on
the apples of my cheek.
Whew guys so my blush is done.
Now I'm going to do a
little bit of bronzer.
I love this Benefit bronzer.
I think it's like amazing.
So I don't usually need contouring.
But once you do foundation,
your face just becomes flat
and so you need to bring
back the shape in your face.
And then
I take the same brush that
I do my eyeshadow with
and just kind of take a like bit
and do a little bit of my crease.
This is me doing it, it's not like
some professional makeup
artist so it works.
Then after I've done all of this
then I take a blender.
I hated when those like harsh lines show.
I find it like really, I don't
know, you look like a clown.
I actually like doing a
little more of a highlight.
I just feel like, I
feel like a movie star.
So I mean I am one but I feel like one.
I'm gonna do my highlighter now.
I use this palette which is
like three different shades
but I only end up using the
one which is in the middle.
Okay then I put a little
bit on my brow bone.
Little bit here.
That's it, I don't really
want to do more than that.
This looks painful but this is
the most important thing
to make your eyes look big.
In every makeup kit I have one of these.
I actually curled my husband's lashes once
and he looked kind of crazy.
Cause he always asks
me why do you do this?
I was like I'll show you and he was like,
uh he still doesn't understand it.
Done.
Now let's do the mascara.
So usually I just close
my eyes and just do this.
One eye actually if I close both my eyes
I couldn't actually see what I'm doing.
This is something that just
lasts on my lips like all the time.
It's my favorite color,
called Dragon Girl for NARS
and I have been using it,
again, since I was like 21, 22.
It's amazing.
I feel like I conquer the
world when I wear red lips.
It just makes me feel so good.
See the coconut oil actually
lets my lip color go on nicely.
Usually a lot of the lip balms
kind of don't let you use
lip color as effectively.
So I use a little bit of it
and it makes my lips really nice.
When I follow the shape of my lip line
cause I have, I think I
have pretty okay lips and
I don't like that over-lined look.
And I find like lips chic.
You know I think every person has
a lip shape and lip size for their face.
Now the last bit to make
it like super Indian.
I'm gonna put a little bit of sindoor
since I'm married and I'm very dramatic
and I'm a movie star and
I'm allowed to be dramatic.
This is like a sindoor liquid thing.
It's only for married women.
It's like to show that you're married.
The 16 things you do when you're married
which is the tajal, put
like sindoor, bangles,
manga sutra, like 16
their called Sola Singhar.
My husband who is Indian
but he's like American
didn't know what this was.
Okay I'm gonna do a little bit of a bindi
because sindoor without bindi looks weird.
And I don't have a bindi
so I'm just gonna use
a kajal pencil or a brown pencil to do it.
That's it, done.
It's me with my little bindi.
Okay I can make it bigger.
Oh I'm done.
The last bit is me
wearing my silver jhumkas.
These are from India, I
think they're my mom's.
Old ones which I've stolen from her.
They're real silver and whew I'm done.
I'm looking very Indian and I
am ready to go out somewhere.
Bye guys.
