I literally like fell into like a mini depression you can say
because I was so used to seeing my face in a certain way
By God's grace I have not done any surgery
About oh my God I was like learning so much of contouring over here which I’ve never done in my entire life
I love it, it’s cosy and cute
Hello everyone. Welcome to Pinkvilla this is Aaina Mehta and today I have the
multi-talented and gorgeous Elli AvrRam with me.
Hi Elli
Hi. Welcome to Pinkvilla
Thank you so much. How have you been? How's it going?
I have been great by God's grace I will say
Before we dive on to the fashion note what I’d like to ask you is this is what I have personally
observed and I’ve seen you, always been prim and proper, you've been in shape and
I’m just like how does she always look so good. Does that go a lot of effort to look the way
you do off-camera and a lot of lifestyle change or is it just naturally you’re blessed this way?
First of all, thank you so much and I know my mom and grandma would be very happy to
hear this. I'd say it's both in the beginning when I actually moved to India, I suddenly got
acne for the first time ever in my life and that kind of like freaked me out because it was like
I was someone who never even used to get like pimples and suddenly you know and it
happened at the time when I just signed my first movie which gave even more stress because
I was like oh my God, I want to like look my best on the screen and suddenly this has come up
Was it during Mickey Virus?
Yes so we try to like cover it you know a lot and like I think in few scenes you can kind of
like see it and all and I was just like I literally like fell into like a mini depression you can say
because I was so used to seeing my face in a certain way and then cut to these like huge acne
you know and you're like what is going on and you're trying to figure it out like what is it that
I’m eating wrong or what creams do I have to put and like I’ve tried literally like all kinds of
things like I’ve tried everything and it was really, really difficult and then cut to one day I just
tried this aloe vera gel and I started to only apply that on my face and it just did like wonders.
Like literally it's been so good and just realised that I was spending so much of money on all
these like expensive branded creams and everything but aloe vera gel just like did it and I’ve
realised that it's very important to use sunscreen like I’m one of those I am sorry but I’m one
of those who were like you know like I would never put
sunscreen so yeah so, I’m taking more care now actually
For your previous story with Pinkvilla you did mention that there were people who
commented on probably your forehead and the way you looked and your features and they
told you how you should correct it, did you ever probably step into a makeup room, picked up
a contour palette and contoured your forehead to actually make it the way they asked you to
and you know make changes that people actually tried you know?
Yeah by God's grace I’ve not done any surgery like actually I’ll tell you what I realised was
that you know people put so much of stress in you with the way that you know, oh you need
to lose more or your fat cheeks or your this and that you know so like constantly if you're
eating a chocolate you're like oh my God I’m going to put on or like you're having a pizza
slice like oh, and you're stressing and stressing that it kind of like really affects you know
and it's as if no matter how much you work out like I used to go twice a day in the morning
and in the evening I would work out so hard and it was just so difficult to get into the shape
that I wanted until I actually started with yoga. And when I started with yoga and then got to
meditation I just got this like peace from within and that's when I completely transformed you
know because there were people and they can only do such things also like you know like
you know change so many things but I was like no, I love myself like deep down inside I was
like but I love myself and how like God has created me but I ended up getting affected and
yes, this contouring that you're talking about oh my god I was like learning so much of
contouring over here which I’ve never done in my entire life and yes of course you get
conscious, your confidence starts to suddenly like breakdown and you start to feel that oh
maybe I’m not like maybe good enough and you know all those like terrible, stupid things
you know so you just have to really take care of yourself but yeah. And I just have to mention
this one thing which I find like extremely like annoying and I feel it's so outdated. it's like a
thing. I don't know if it's a thing like in our industry maybe because like a lot of people are
stressing with constantly wanting to lose weight and lose weight and it's been this whole
thing of like being like size zero and all of that literally like I’ve started to say that to people
now because I’m actually in a phase where I want to put on weight and it's actually
difficult for me to put on weight it's as if my metabolism is just so good that it's like
constantly burning and I’m like no I want to put on some weight you know. Let's just say you
look good; hey, you look so beautiful, not like you've lost weight.
Yeah, yeah that's true. I just have to like put that out there. So one more thing what I want to
know is what you’ve noticed you've been extremely experimenal with your hair looks so
My hair looks, yes. You've had like
beautiful long hair and then you've gone short and then you've done red hair and Malang was
like a completely different look. What is the vibe we can look
forward to now like what’s coming?
Oh my God, it's something super cool. It's something in one of my next movies it's going
to be something actually in, both my movies the ones I’m currently shooting for, there will be a new look
Now I think we're going to dive into something that we're here for. In the month of
December, it's like the party season and there's so many things happening and it's the month
where you can experiment with your looks, go a notch higher, be subtle. We've seen on your
Instagram there are a lot of times you style yourself and keeping that in mind Elli has a few
of her December essentials out here and she's going to run us through as to what her
December look book is going to look like. So, let's get started
First of all, this is the winter jacket which I recently got actually because I will be traveling
outside of Mumbai and I realise it's very cold so i need like a thicker jacket and I have to
mention this is not real. This is fake and it's very important I feel for like salesmen
out there to also understand that there are a lot of people who just not want to buy jackets if it
has real fur so this one is more like for like Mumbai
Yeah, this would be a bit too much
Yeah, I think you'll feel hot in the puffer
And then this is something also like I recently picked this one up I love it it's so cozy
Yeah, so like either I combine it with this with these pair of jeans where the green color is matching the
We have green again. Yeah. Or these ones which also then picks up this color
So, you can style it you can also like
I think this is the material yeah, the material yeah and also the color
Yeah, so you have that so either I’ll wear this or I’ll wear this or actually this one also goes
really well with like, what you're currently, what I’m currently wearing
Yeah, yeah for sure yeah, it's very cute. Not with the socks though. It's
Like a nice day
It's super cute
Yeah, and then I love these two dresses so I got them in both
the color. Yeah so, I think these would go like well with
This is more for like you know see I would say this is more like for a dinner, okay like you
tie it, you tie it like this on your waist and then like a pair of stilettos and a nice handbag and
like maybe like red lips and it can be like a Christmas dinner. Yeah. And the white one I
would say is more like a Christmas lunch again with a pair of stilettos if you want to do white
ones or you can do black ones and again with a matching bag
or any other color also but like for Christmas I would go more
What do you call it like basic colors? Yeah, like basic rather than going like poppy like pink
Yeah I wouldn't do that on a Christmas day but like this one I would definitely wear like for
Christmas brunch you can say because it's like white so it's bright and you know we're here to
spread light yeah so when I was a little I used to be so naughty that the night before I would
sneak down to the living room and I would actually see which are all my gifts and I would
open them very nicely, so that you know what's coming and I would know what I was getting
and then nicely I would put it back again and you know few times I got caught and my
parents they still joke about it that I would always say yeah, but one can forget also.
Yeah, that was my this you know excuse that one can
forget also. I won't remember tomorrow what I’m getting so I used to do that
Fun yeah. I don't do that anymore you know
But yeah, and then these are just three different types of like party
December calls for party
Yeah this is like very New Year's so I would say this one is more if you just want to be like
quirky, fun, bubbly, bit wild New Year's Eve but you can't not do
Like that like happy, happy, happy yeah and like let's party and this one is more like
very sensual, elegant lady if you just want to be the more like happiness
Yeah and just like yeah give a little bit of moves here and there. Yeah so, this one has that vibe yeah
And this one is just like I really love this one also. This is also like so chic really has that also
like Christmas yeah this is also again a little bit in the same like yeah a vibe of proper and a
married type. No I'm just kidding no maybe actually I don't know but I'm not married though
Yeah and we have this little and then we have this one I love it
I think it's matching your outfit right now. Yeah.
So these ones you can wear like differently and style it differently and just feel like you're in France or something
Now it goes with socks even the. It does
So this was actually fun, I saw what's coming up in the month of December probably we'll
catch you on your Instagram and see when we'll be spotting you in these looks. This is truly
fun. Thank you so much for doing this and we hope to do something super soon again
Yes, yes definitely. I'm excited about that too.