Shilpa misses going bald!

IF Shilpa Shetty had had her way, her role in the Indo-Chinese project Desire would have been a hair-raising experience. The script required the actress to go bald and the actress was apparently willing to go through with shaving her head. “However, she wasn’t able to because of a campaign she’s doing for a cosmetics company,” says make-up artiste Vidhyadhar Bhatte, who did the bald prosthetics on Shilpa for Desire.

The scenes that required the actress to be bald were shot in one day, and it took Vidyadhar two hours to create the look. “After holding her hair back with gel, I placed a plastic cap on it. Then, I used an adhesive and covered it with stockings to give the cap a neat and natural look. After that, I applied four layers of liquid latex. The result was quite impressive and pleased everyone,” says Vidyadhar.

The make-up artiste also says that unlike many stars, who generally do not like having their hair experimented on, let alone having adhesive applied to it, Shilpa was cooperative. “She was very patient and gave me a free hand to create the right look. She’d never say anything for the two hours it took me to get the look right,” says Vidyadhar.

Shilpa, who regrets not being able to go the whole hog, was quoted as saying, “I wish I could have actually shaved my head. When Aamir Khan tonsures his head, it becomes a fashion statement. But, we girls have to go by the market definitions of
glamour.”