The word beauty maybe a simple one but has multiple connotations for different people. In a recent interview with the magazine Marie Claire, Bollywood star Deepika Padukone talked about her first experience with beauty, how she chanced upon it and how the meaning of beauty has evolved over the years for her.
Talking about some of her favourite beauty experiences, Deepika revealed that it was seeing her mother all dressed up. The actress confessed that her mother is her starting point and source of inspiration for all of her beauty and fashion endeavours.
The ‘Padmaavat’ actress said that seeing her mother and father, ace badminton player Prakash Padukone, get dressed for an evening out was one of her foremost encounters with beauty. She told the magazine that being the six-year-old little girl that stood by the door, as she watched her parents look their best and watched mother apply gorgeous eye makeup and lipstick.
Deepika also said that her definition of beauty has evolved over the years. “Now, I feel most beautiful when I’m the most centered. When I was younger, I was influenced by what I saw on television and read in the magazines.”
Deepika also spoke about her interaction with beauty during her school days. In the interview with the magazine the actress said, “When I was older and in school in Bangalore, we’d have plays or fancy dress competitions and my mom would take that lipstick and put it on my cheeks, a couple of dots on either cheek and smudge it out to give me that flushed look.”
She went on to say that a decade ago, beauty for her was most certainly attributed to her physical self as that’s just the way you’re conditioned as you’re growing up. However, in the last few years, she started to believe that beauty is to be in a state of bliss and to feel that absolute oneness with your truest self.
