Winged liner, glitter on eyes, ombre lips, kohl contour—search for Bollywood makeup on the Internet and you will have millions of recreation videos, tutorials, Reddit pages, and more. Girls really get to have fun with makeup. And the artists who glam up female actors are celebrities in their own right. But male actors, who attend an equal number of film promotion events, and act for ads, are rather mum about makeup artists (MUA), perpetuating the belief that men don’t wear makeup. The reality, however, is different. We spoke to makeup artists to some of the biggest male actors in the industry to give Sunday mid-day readers a peek into what makes a man even more beautiful.

'Makeup is not just limited to actors, it's for all men'

Hinal Dattani
MUA to Ayushmann Khurrana, Vijay Devarakonda, Allu Arjun, Siddhant Chaturvedi