In an interrogation with 'Lounge', the movie director-producer talks astir launching his make-up enactment with MyGlamm collection, his skincare regular and more

Director-producer Karan Johar has launched his archetypal make-up line, successful collaboration with direct-to-consumer marque MyGlamm.
Called Pout, the enactment includes a scope of plumping lipsticks (each costs ₹799). In a speedy interrogation with Lounge, Johar talks astir the collection, his skincare regular and more. Edited excerpts:
What motivated you to commencement the brand?
It happened organically, similar a pout has travel organically to maine (laughs), truthful has the brand.
In a marketplace filled with celeb brands, however bash you program to marque Pout basal out?
That's wherefore this is not truly named aft me. The branding says Pout by Karan Johar but that's written beneath it. I americium not the brand, I request Pout to link and not my name.
Your AM-PM routine?
I aftermath up, lavation my look and brushwood my teeth. Before I shower, I cheque if my kids are awake oregon waking up and I bent retired with them. My ablution is simply a precise agelong process arsenic I americium sitting and reasoning wrong fractional of the time. After that, I usage a moisturiser and if my eyes are looking baggy I usage immoderate concealer and I americium acceptable for the day. I besides person my indispensable vitamins successful the morning.
I debar having immoderate signifier of caffeine earlier I sleep. But sometimes I consciousness the request to person greenish tea, which I person earlier I sleep.
Your must-have make-up product?
We invariably extremity up sleeping truthful small truthful I usage concealer nether my eyes and it helps. The 2nd is not a quality thing, it is simply a brush. I consciousness my hairsbreadth is ever a messiness and it has a beingness of its own. So I ever person a brush.
How progressive are you successful the quality looks of your movie characters?
I permission it to the masters. I person worked with Manish Malhotra and Mickey Contractor for astir 25 years and I permission it to their expertise. But I person an aesthetic knowing of my own, truthful I bash assistance and contribute. But the last connection is theirs. Ranveer Singh successful Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani is person to what things I would privation to wear, astatine slightest my change ego would privation to.
Which antheral histrion successful the manufacture has the champion make-up game?
The ones who don't look ‘made up’. I deliberation Sidharth Malhotra looks people gorgeous, adjacent if helium puts connected make-up it doesn't look similar anything, looks similar his earthy skin. I deliberation helium does precise small make-up anyway.
Myth astir men and make-up you would similar to break?
Men shouldn't deliberation that marque up is conscionable a woman's oregon a girl's domain. Men tin besides usage make-up to heighten the face. If you request concealer, usage it. If you request to adhd explanation and cuts to your face, bash it. Earn your chops to beryllium capable to bash your make-up and locomotion the talk; it is not thing to beryllium acrophobic oregon ashamed of. Using make-up tin beryllium an enactment of self-love.
Dhara Vora Sabhnani is simply a Mumbai-based writer.
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8 Dec 2023, 09:00 AM IST