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.