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When Ankush Bahuguna gave us wings
Updated On: 03 December, 2023 07:48 AM IST | Mumbai | Aastha Atray Banan
He’s an influencer with a twist—he makes you laugh and also teaches you how to look pretty. Ahead of the party season, Ankush Bahuguna, gives us easy hacks to look like a wow
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The second season of Bahuguna’s show launched last week, and featured Prajakta Koli as the first guest. Pic/Pradeep Dhivar
Good makeup begins with good skin,” says Ankush Bahuguna, as he applies a peach blush on this writer. The digital creator, who has 1.1 million followers on Instagram, started off making funny reels that either featured his mother Manju or other creators such as Shivani Bedi. It was in the pandemic, he says, when he realised that everything had to be done by himself, that he took to makeup. “I started by practising on mom—who didn’t even have much makeup. And then it just grew from there,” says
the influencer.
The reels, in which he turns his mom and friends into goddesses with just a flick of the brush, led him to create his own YouTube show, Wing It With Ankush, the second season of which launched last week. “I used to be a makeup noob, now I know a little more,” says the Andheri resident. “I do watch other beauty videos, but I feel that they are not for the real person—they are not easy or doable. You are not just seeing the end result; I am showing you how to do it. I am also using very little makeup—because the more makeup you use, utna cake-up hoga. That’s how I have learnt most of it… by trial and error… by winging it!” It’s makeup, or just the art of putting it on, that he says sometimes helps people become themselves. “When you are in the chair, your insecurities rise to the surface… but so does your confidence. You can know a lot about people by observing how they do their makeup.”
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