Make-Up Artist: Ambika Pillai's Natural Look Make-Up Breakdown

Ambika Pillai, make-up expert, is all for this look. “This natural look surely is a hands-down winner,” she says.

Here’s how Ambika can achieve the look perfectly:

Pick up a foundation closest to your skin tone, not a shade lighter or darker.
Rec: MAC Studio Fix Fluid

Contour your facial features using a slightly darker shade.
Rec: MAC Blush in Margin

Use two or three shades of brown on your eyes. Sweep a single, slightly darker shade on your lids and highlight using a skin tone.
Rec: MAC Smoking Eyes Eyeshadow Quad

Use a brown lipstick with a lighter tinge only on the pout area.
Rec: MAC Lipstick in Taupe

“This look is extremely popular in Hollywood, too, where people believe in basic make-up, unlike India, where overdoing it is the usual,” adds Ambika.

Make-up Trend: Subtle Cat Eyes

• The beauty and crispness of this look rely on the rest of the face. Make sure the brows are well defined. Your brows, lips and complexion are flawless supporting players to your cat eye.
  
  
• If you want a thick line, start small. Begin with one layer of liner, then add on to make the line heavier. It's easier to add on more liner than take it off.
  
  
• Any eye shape looks good in the subtle cat eye. But it's a hard look with a hooded lid, to give the eye a lift on the outer corner only, draw half a line that starts thinly from the middle of the eye and goes outward.
  
  
• Using a thin-tipped eyeliner brush, swipe it into a pot of liner and paint it across the lashline and flick it up at the end. This product can also be smudged for a smoky look. Rec: M.A.C Fluidline in Blacktrack

• It's less fierce than a cat eye that lines the entire eye, but it's equally sexy. Get a look like Rani Mukherjee's using a neutral shadow on the lid, then line the entire upper lid and extend the liner up a bit past the eye. For a more dramatic approach, make the line thicker towards the outer corner. Make a very small line on the outer-corner of the lower lashline and finish with mascara.
  
  
• If you have trouble achieving a flawlessly straight line, dot the lash line with liner, then connect the dots.
  
  
• This look instantly opens up the eye and can be worn with a bold lip or a more neutral one.
  
  
• The upward turn and extension of the eyeliner changes the shape of the eye.