Life Gets A Facelift
THE WEEK|May 26, 2019

Two years after a cinematic rescue from Pakistan, Uzma Ahmed has her hands full—with an upcoming film on her life and a newly-opened beauty parlour

Sneha Bhura
Life Gets A Facelift

Uzma Ahmed has a special recipe for erasing dark circles. It is her most treasured beauty hack, teased out of coconut oil, vitamin E capsules and sundry other ingredients that she will not disclose. She is at her new salon de beauté—Falak—which opened its doors on April 10 in the narrow, gridlocked lanes of Brahmpuri in north east Delhi. Ahmed has a candescent air about her. Her sharp-staring eyes look luminous and her face is deadpan clean; the abstention of food and water during Roza has not besmirched this aura of cold, hard serenity. “It has been five days and I have not seen a single customer come in. What to do? It’s the holy month of Ramzan,” says Ahmed, while applying a neat shade of pink lipstick to brighten up her face for the photo-shoot. “But why show any signs of stress? I am so busy with my work, I don’t have a second to worry about the future. Even when there are no customers.”

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