#No Filter keeping it real with celebrity makeup artist Zoya Shaikh

How did Zoya describe herself personally and professionally?

So personally I would describe myself as someone who as fun, ambitious, hardworking and definitely fearless confident and when it comes defining myself professionally I am someone who is creative and I believe that I am here to change people prospective towards beauty.

 

In your career whom you find the most difficult actor to work with?

The most difficult actor to work with I feel a  makeup or hairstyling is self such a challenging job not easy to hold a responsibility of such influential faces in terms of how there look  on screen people out there all over the world are gonna see judge there craft but you have implemented on them if you know the job you are an expert what you doing there is nothing difficult and if you're lacking something and not confident, so everything is difficult even breathing is difficult. But ya I'm blessed to have so many good and positive people like Noora Fatehi, Liza Ray, Karishma Kapoor, Kanika Kapoor, I am so happy to work to work with them.

 

How do you prepare different skin types before applying to makeup?

So before applying makeup the first and the most important thing is analyzing the face and then goes prepping and priming the skin which is very important like our function without these three things. And when it comes ro prepping it is cleansing, tonning, moisturizing, and applying your under-eye cream and lip balm very important and when I talk about cleaning the face I would love to work on the cleanest face possible to remove all the accumulated dirt and any kind of foreign bodies there on the skin and then use the toner and hydrating the skin is very important again so be it any oily skin, dry skin or a combination skin it is very important to use the right product for your skin, in terms of an oily skin its not necessary that the oily skin moisturizer which is suited for a young teenager skin would be equally toward the oily skin,  so it is very important to hydrating you skin be it oily, dry or combination,  trust me it creates humongous amount of difference when you do that under eye you need to let it rest first before applying the layers of makeup on it. You  need to make sure that the skin is at peace so prepping is the most important key to a good makeup is what I believe and the next important step is primer so before priming the screen you should know what kind of a primer you using because this is a very important tip. I share with my all people if you have primer which is water based you should match it with the foundation is also a water based and if you're using a silicone based primer you should go for silicone based foundation and it creates a humongous amount of how it look, how it feels and how it is staining throughout the day so these are my pro tip that I believe I follow it, So you guys try it out and let me know  how it work.

Suppose if I want to be a makeup artist and I want advice from you in that case you take me as your competitor all you to keep a bigger heart and give me genuine advice and also what’s that advice?

I believe that I have competitors for sure I feel I am biggest competitor so and I am a person who is a self taught a makeup and hair artist I don't belong to this background I have seen the hard work my effort and knowledge but I believe in and apart from that one advice I would like to give them would be work hard dream big there is no dream which is small or big it just your believe which is making bigger or smaller. Just about the society what people will say or the benchmark which society has created

In terms of you being a girl or being a guy, for you to pursue a career they are no one you should just believe in your capability and try that I can do it and anyone else can do it.

Just Work hard towards it and I am not saying it's gonna be easy it is challenging it's painful you have to go through a lot of hurdels, you have to face lot of competitors but if you believe in yourself you are true to your words your professional enough there is no way to look back so just keep trying and one last thing I would like to advice all the inspiring me coming makeup and hair artist is educate yourself no words going on worldwide and start experimenting there is no limit to your creativity you never know no you could be the next trend setter so just go for it you are not creating rockets not something very difficult that you can't do you just believe in yourself and you will fly.

 

What Zoya wants to achieve in life?

Firstly I want to achieve more and more knowledge and I am very greedy about educating myself and I am self taught makeup artist so I love gaining knowledge and whatever is vision in my life would be to use my skills and create imprint of my talent  globally I am looking forward to you working with a lot of international brand and I want to collaborate with the international artist and I am also aiming to have my comp-lien very soon and the biggest important thing that I am aiming in my life is die down deeper to this art and explore as much as I can, Hence I want to become one of the influential makeup artist and  make my country proud. Thanks you so much for this interview and if you want to know more about me. So you can follow me on my Instagram ID Zoya. 'Makeupandhair'.  and keep dreaming don't forget to love yourself.