Yami Gautam Recalls Makeup Artist Asking Her To Change Her Eyebrows: ‘My Heart Sank’ | Exclusive

The debate surrounding actors resorting to botox and fillers has gained momentum in the past few years. While some mock their choices to go under the knife, others believe it’s a personal choice. But one can’t deny that celebrities, now more than ever, find themselves under harsh public scrutiny for the way they look, which reiterates the unrealistic beauty standards of Bollywood. Speaking exclusively to News18 Showsha, Yami Gautam Dhar reveals that she too was told to change her appearance but decided to not succumb to it.

She tells us, “These things happen. I’m sure that almost every girl goes through it, every female actor goes through it. And it usually happens when you’re very new and vulnerable and it becomes very easy for people to give

you advice. Sometimes they don’t mean harm and they genuinely mean it. You can figure that out by seeing if any of their advice has worked on any of your colleagues. You do have access to people [who can change the way you look] but I’m not the kind of person who would do that.”

For Yami, the idea is to understand when to turn a deaf year to these free advices. “You’ve to be mentally very strong to cut that noise out for yourself. There’s no satiating point there. There’s no full stop to it. Today, it’s going to be something about your face and tomorrow, it could be something else. I would just listen to their advice and smile and that’s it. Months later, they would meet me and tell me, ‘You didn’t take any of my advice, did you, darling?’” she says.

So, what’s that one suggestion she remembers vividly? “I was told to change one of my eyebrows – that it needs to be shaped in a way so that the curve can be removed as that would make me look edgier and cooler. They perhaps wanted my eyebrow to look like two snails approaching each other from either side (laughs)! He was a very senior make-up artist. My heart really sank and I just told him that we should move on and get ready,” recalls Yami.

A reason why she decided to never opt for these aesthetic surgeries is that it would interfere with her job as an actor. “It’s about perspective also. But that’s not the idea of beauty for me. For someone else, it could be an editorial call. When you see somebody that looks that way on a magazine cover, it may look really cool. But I’m an actor. When you see me onscreen, you shouldn’t have to focus on why my face, cheeks or lips is looking unnatural. That can’t become a distraction,” Yami states.

She further adds, “Even if I wasn’t an actor, I wouldn’t have undergone any such procedure that alters the structure of my face or puts anything I don’t believe in into my skin. At that moment, it could make you look good but it could’ve consequences later. It’s also something that you need to do again and again. But duniya bahot badi hai. To each, his own. If it makes someone happy, that’s great. But if someone’s doing it under pressure, that’s sad.”