1 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 1: Beyond the Beauty is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:16,760 Speaker 1: I'm Your Host, Bobby Brown. Nikita Upade is a beauty expert, 3 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:21,440 Speaker 1: a journalist, an influencer, and she was the head of 4 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: Digital at Cosmo India. She is the author of the 5 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: book Roots to Radiance, Wholesome Beauty Solutions for the Millennial Life. 6 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: I met Nikita as I do many people online. I 7 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: don't even remember how and when we connected. She asked 8 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: me if I would write an introduction or she could 9 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: interview me on her book, which we did when she 10 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: was in India and I was in the Bahamas. I 11 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 1: remember one Saturday morning in my backyard because that was 12 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: the only place I can get WiFi, and we did 13 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 1: a FaceTime interview. I took some screenshots I posted it. 14 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: Then I told her I was coming to India to 15 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:04,759 Speaker 1: be on the first ever Indian beauty show. She hosted 16 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:08,039 Speaker 1: me and now we are friends and she is here 17 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: in New York City. I'm really excited to talk to 18 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 1: Nikita to hear her journey which has only just begune. 19 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 1: Here's my conversation with Nikita Opatten. Nikita, Hello, Bobby, so 20 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 1: nice to see you, so nice to see you again. 21 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: I did not think you would be here this quickly. Yeah. 22 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:31,119 Speaker 1: Actually I just went home changed quickly, you know, got 23 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 1: out of that big skirt that I was wearing today 24 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 1: and just dashed right in. Well you've got the New 25 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:41,680 Speaker 1: York thing. Now you've got the black dress and the sneakers. Yeah. 26 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: So so this isn't for Instagram. You know, this is book, 27 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: this is work. So could you tell everyone please how 28 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 1: we met and what was your experience like? Sure? So 29 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 1: you know, I was writing this book, my first book, 30 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: Route to Readings with Penguin, and I thought I will 31 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 1: get the poster people of beauty in it. And the 32 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: first person that you know, came to my mind was you, 33 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,920 Speaker 1: because when it when I think about beauty, I think 34 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 1: about you know, Bobby Brown, the person, and you know 35 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 1: her legacy and what she's created, and I had such 36 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: massive respect for you. I reached out to you on 37 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: Instagram with absolutely you know, no hope of you know, 38 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: ever hearing from you or anything. I just I was like, okay, 39 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: let me at rest try and I somehow got noticed 40 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:36,080 Speaker 1: by you. You responded. We had that chat and even 41 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 1: though you know, we are sort of confirmed that you 42 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 1: will be contributing to my book. I didn't know that 43 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 1: you were going to come to India. So a few 44 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 1: days later you told me that, by the way, I'm 45 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:51,080 Speaker 1: coming to India also, so I would love to meet you. 46 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 1: And you know, I couldn't believe how life has a 47 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 1: way of working things out, because I would have never 48 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 1: thought that one day You're just like a person I 49 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:03,639 Speaker 1: look up to. Next day, I'm like facetiming with you. 50 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: I'm about to meet you. I'm going to have dinner 51 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:08,920 Speaker 1: with you. And this is still like a dream to me. 52 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 1: Well it was. It was a really fun dinner. But 53 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: even before I got to India, when I couldn't get 54 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,119 Speaker 1: into the hotels that I wanted to, I reached out 55 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: to and I knew being in the magazines, you would 56 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: probably have a way in. Yeah, I can't you like 57 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 1: my recommendations. I did. We loved the hotel. And and 58 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:30,919 Speaker 1: when I first met you, when we had dinner with 59 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 1: my husband and Pyle, and you had these beautiful gifts 60 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 1: for me, these cakes, it was it was a magical evolution. Yes, yes, 61 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: she made a beautiful had her bakery make a beautiful 62 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 1: cake that mimicked evolution eighteen. And we had dinner at 63 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 1: a really fancy, nice Indian restaurant and later that restaurant 64 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: got an award, and you know, I was just attending 65 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: that award function and on my way back, I had 66 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: another FaceTime called with you. I was like, okay, I was, 67 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: you know, just like I was just thinking about that 68 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 1: night we had dinner because that restaurant was getting in 69 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: avoid I was like, okay, again I have to talk 70 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:14,119 Speaker 1: to So these two places have something like there's some connection. Well, 71 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: it's you seem very spiritual and you also seem very 72 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 1: open because here you are in New York City. Your 73 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: book launched a month ago July, around July, and it's 74 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 1: been you know, you did a lot of press from 75 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 1: India and it did very well, right you. You made 76 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:33,039 Speaker 1: all the best sellers lists and it was just a 77 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: very big success. And then you it was for sale 78 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:40,720 Speaker 1: over here in America, and now you're here and for 79 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: you guys that are listening. So many people would not 80 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 1: even think about taking the chance, but Nikita came over here. 81 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 1: She had a couple of things set up. She went 82 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:52,479 Speaker 1: to see my friends in vain Or Media Mary Kay 83 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 1: at Pure while we have a mutual friend Matt Higgins 84 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:01,920 Speaker 1: and little by little things are happening. Yeah, yes, I think, Oh, 85 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 1: that's so funny. So he's Matt Higgins is actually um 86 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:10,119 Speaker 1: texting her right now, which is really funny. But we're 87 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:12,599 Speaker 1: we're here talking about her book and talking about what 88 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: it's like to work for magazine in India and what 89 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 1: it's like to be an influencer, because now you're an influencer. Yeah, 90 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 1: so tell me about tell me about your book. First 91 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 1: of all. So my book the whole reason why I 92 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: wanted to do it because my mother, who's a d 93 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: I by queen, and I belonged to a very small 94 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: town in India where you did not have access to 95 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 1: you know, online shopping or like really fancy products or 96 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,600 Speaker 1: you know any place in India for that matter. When 97 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 1: I was a child, we did not have this online 98 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 1: shopping or you know those kind of things back then. 99 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 1: And since I was very little, left noticed my mom, 100 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 1: you know, getting all the solutions in the world through 101 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: holistic ways. You know, everything if resolution has to come 102 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:06,840 Speaker 1: from the kitchen, so if there's like pigmentation or like 103 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:10,119 Speaker 1: there's a seasonal change, anything that she wanted to do 104 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 1: and you know, she thinks was failed. Proof was you 105 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 1: know made in the kitchen, so I knew that she 106 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 1: has all the extensive knowledge in the world about these ingredients. 107 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 1: So earlier I thought maybe with her knowledge, I could 108 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 1: come out with products. But then I was like, okay, 109 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: products could take a lot of time. You know, maybe 110 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:34,039 Speaker 1: if I have to do something quickly, I have to 111 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 1: you know, I should write a book. Because anyway I 112 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,280 Speaker 1: was writing. I was the head of Cosmopolitans, so I 113 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 1: was writing health and beauty articles over there. So all 114 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 1: of those things were happening. So when you're a writer 115 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:48,600 Speaker 1: already and then you have the knowledge, you know, if 116 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:51,479 Speaker 1: you combine those things, the best thing you could think 117 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 1: of is writing a book. So that's how that happened. 118 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 1: So talk about some of the ingredients because right now, 119 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:00,840 Speaker 1: you know, very big in the wellness world are traditional 120 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 1: Indian ingredients armlackg tumor black pepper. What is m arm 121 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: lies gooseberry and what do you do with the gooseberry? 122 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 1: So gooseberries an antioxidant and has tons of vitamin C. 123 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 1: So it's like, you know, it's even stronger than orange 124 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 1: and lemon in that case. So if you you know 125 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: it's a anti aging agent as well as you know 126 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 1: it has antioxidant and anti aging properties, so those things 127 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: are very good for your scalp. Like if you fermented, 128 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: you know, in an oil. I have a lot of 129 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 1: oil recipes, so if you you know, ferment that in oils, 130 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 1: it can generate new growth. A lot of times people 131 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:50,040 Speaker 1: are even scared if they eat too much gooseberry. You know, 132 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 1: they can even have facial hair because it is that strong. Right, 133 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 1: it's not just for you know, the growth will be 134 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: like on all parts of the body. So it has 135 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 1: to be done, you know, in the right way. And 136 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 1: it's almost something you would eat or is it a powder? Yeah, yeah, Amla, 137 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 1: you can definitely eat the berries itself. Yeah yeah, okay. 138 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: And what about g is that he is you know, 139 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: made with milk, so that's a dairy product. But g 140 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 1: is just you know, you can just make it at home. 141 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 1: In India, we even put that on the chi parties. 142 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 1: So it's not just like for the hair or you know, 143 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: the body or the face, which is which is you 144 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: know it's fabulous for but you can even eat it, 145 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:36,199 Speaker 1: apply it all of those things. Yeah. And what about tumeric? 146 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:42,559 Speaker 1: Tumeric actually, you know it is like the um ingredient 147 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 1: in every vegetable recipe in India, everything has to have 148 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 1: g because all the you know, um subsis we call 149 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:55,239 Speaker 1: it India. You know in India which tables are called subsist, 150 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 1: so in all of them it's yellow in color, right, 151 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 1: So it's all termeric every So it has to be 152 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:04,960 Speaker 1: in every single thing. You even added with milk, and 153 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 1: you added in your face masks, and you can add 154 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: it in your the vegetables that and the meals that 155 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 1: you're making, even in rice when you when we make 156 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:18,839 Speaker 1: by Anni, I don't know if you've had of course, 157 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:22,319 Speaker 1: of course, so you know, it's like the star ingredient 158 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 1: in every recipe in India. It's just you know, super 159 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 1: food in every sense, and it's so humble because it's 160 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:33,720 Speaker 1: so cheap, you know, so easily available and has you know, 161 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:37,960 Speaker 1: all the um things that you could do with it. 162 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 1: It's just a NonStop So tell me what it was 163 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 1: like working with Cosmo and how long did you work there. 164 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 1: I was with them for almost three years. Before that, 165 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:53,080 Speaker 1: I was with Harper's bizare right, and it's so it's 166 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: from the same group in India as well, like it 167 00:09:56,120 --> 00:10:01,240 Speaker 1: is here. So um, that was like not a change 168 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:04,320 Speaker 1: in floors, but just you know, a change in the office. 169 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:07,439 Speaker 1: So I was with Happers, So that was the Bridal magazine. 170 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 1: I worked with them as an intern and then I 171 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 1: became a contributor and their social media manager. Then I 172 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 1: wanted something full time, so then months later I applied 173 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 1: at Cosmopolitan. UM. I was given the title of junior 174 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: features writer at first, but after I grew their views 175 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 1: organically so quickly that they made me the head of 176 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 1: the entire thing in a year. So what were the 177 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 1: what were there followers when you joined and then what 178 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 1: did you grow out? They were at a nine million 179 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 1: is ish and you know, the kind of views that 180 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 1: I had given them, They've never seen anything like it. 181 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 1: So I was the newest in the team and you know, 182 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 1: so I didn't know what their standards were. I was 183 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 1: pretty new. I was even like unwell in the I 184 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 1: had DENGHI so in the middle, I sort of even 185 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:02,560 Speaker 1: in my sickness, I was you know, breaking records. So 186 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:05,200 Speaker 1: that that's when my teammates reached out and told me 187 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 1: that this is the you know, the most amount of 188 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 1: views we've ever seen. I was like, oh, I didn't 189 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: know that. I was just like, you know, why do 190 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:14,720 Speaker 1: you think that, Why did you think you've got so 191 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 1: many views? Because I think I'm a good reader of 192 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 1: you know, minds. I don't know if you've noticed that yet, 193 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: but I know what kind of content should be out, 194 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 1: you know, on social media at what time of the day. 195 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:34,560 Speaker 1: For this, one has to know that. You know, my 196 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 1: target followers, they are active, you know, during this time, 197 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 1: and they are more you know, this age group that's 198 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 1: more focused on you know, maybe health and wellness around 199 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 1: this time of the day because that's when probably they're 200 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 1: getting up, you know, they're leaving work, so maybe they'll 201 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 1: go home think about their life. That's when they think 202 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:03,560 Speaker 1: about relationships. So you have to think about what your 203 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 1: reader is thinking about and that's how you you know, 204 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 1: put out content. So you really have to and you know, 205 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 1: no psychology to get that kind of use because you 206 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:17,199 Speaker 1: have to know what the other person is thinking and 207 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 1: what they need at what time of the day. You 208 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:23,200 Speaker 1: even told my assistant how to hold the camera and 209 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 1: now she thinks she's like, you know, it's like perfect photographer, 210 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:29,200 Speaker 1: which she did a good job. So thank you for 211 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: that tip. What's your own beauty routine? Like my my 212 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 1: own beauty routine? Is fairly simple. So I get up 213 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 1: and I do one facial exercise that you know that 214 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:47,840 Speaker 1: you have to just press this the point between your eyebrows. Yeah. 215 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 1: That that's that's sort of activates your ch across you know, 216 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 1: it increases blood circulation. So while when when you're washing 217 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:00,320 Speaker 1: your face and applying cream, just do that for a 218 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 1: few It's all explained in book. Yeah you have. I 219 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 1: have a copy, so I'm going to go look at 220 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 1: that when I get home. Yeah, and then you know, 221 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:11,280 Speaker 1: just fairly basic tips that just you know, when you 222 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 1: run your fingers in upwards circular motion. Those you know, 223 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 1: small small things that you know help you in the 224 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: long run. And just face versh in the morning, and 225 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:27,200 Speaker 1: then apply your favorite cream, whatever it is, and then 226 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 1: apply the sunscreen and on top of that primer if 227 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:34,240 Speaker 1: you need that, if you don't, it's just you know, 228 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:37,320 Speaker 1: if you can just feed your face adequately, you don't 229 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:40,439 Speaker 1: really need primers or anything of that sort, right, because 230 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 1: you're into health and wellness also, right, Yeah, Yeah, what's 231 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:47,959 Speaker 1: your what's your eating routine? Like my eating routine, I 232 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 1: just have one simple rule in that sense that I 233 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:55,559 Speaker 1: do very light dinners or like no dinner at all whatever. 234 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:58,439 Speaker 1: You know, I indulge in all kinds of food. Like 235 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 1: I've never said no to a pizza or an ice 236 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:04,719 Speaker 1: cream just because you know that I can't ender. I 237 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: just park it before two pm. Yeah. To exercise, yes, 238 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 1: I used to exercise even more when I had a 239 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 1: you know, a full time job because they had a gym. 240 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 1: There After that I became I sort of became lazy 241 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 1: in the middle. But then I started doing yoga at home, 242 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 1: and yoga I've never done. Earlier I was into exercise, 243 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 1: then I was doing nothing because I was writing a book. 244 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 1: But then I thought, Okay, the best way to you know, 245 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 1: work this out is to get into yoga. And and 246 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 1: I never thought I could actually do it because it's 247 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 1: so big in India. It's so big, you know, in 248 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:47,720 Speaker 1: the US and everywhere, everyone swears by yoga. But I 249 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 1: was one person. I thought it was too boring for me, 250 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 1: like I cannot sit in one position and not like 251 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:58,000 Speaker 1: do anything. But then I looked up a few exercises 252 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 1: that involved moving, So those things I can do, I 253 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 1: can move. I just can't sit in one position. I'm 254 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 1: sure you can relate to that. You have a pretty noisy. Yes, 255 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 1: I have a very noisy friend. Yes I do, I 256 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: absolutely do. But I could do yoga, but I'm telling 257 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 1: you my mind is somewhere else. But I do yoga 258 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 1: more for the physical because it kind of gets all 259 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 1: the junk that hurts in my body. And I have 260 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: not meditated yet. I do it for I could do 261 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: it for two minutes, I could sit and I feel 262 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 1: good after two minutes. But I assume I would feel 263 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: good if I could do it for twenty but I'm 264 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 1: not gonna happen. So I have some questions. First, is 265 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 1: how do you stay fresh on apply fresh on the plain? Yeah. 266 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: I have two favorite things that I carry with me. 267 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 1: Sunscreen It's given, okay, So I'm not going to mention 268 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 1: that because everyone says you sunscreen. I'm going to go 269 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:02,600 Speaker 1: with sheet muss and face mists. So that's my way 270 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 1: of just keep feeding your face all day. Do you 271 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 1: travel with food or snacks and not on a flight? 272 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:14,360 Speaker 1: I like to travel with the water bottle. Sometimes it 273 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: gets too heavy, but that's the thing you have to 274 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:21,200 Speaker 1: live with if you want to stay hydrated. And what 275 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 1: makeup item can you now live without? Ah? Makeup items 276 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: that I cannot live without. Mm hmmm, I think I'll 277 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:34,680 Speaker 1: go with braw pencils or muscara, one of you know, 278 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: the two things. And how do you take your makeup off? 279 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 1: I use makeup wipes or sometimes I just use coconut 280 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 1: oil and cotton because that's the best I've even taught 281 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 1: d I y makeup removers in my book. All you 282 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: have to do is put milk and almond oil and 283 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: a few drops of lemon if you wish, Yeah, just 284 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 1: a few drops, yeah and yeah, and it takes your 285 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:04,720 Speaker 1: makeup of even I make up even longer, makeup like 286 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: long because there's almand oil right right when that cuts it? Yeah? 287 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 1: And last question, how do you fall asleep at night? 288 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 1: I actually have a lot of you know, I do 289 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:22,159 Speaker 1: struggle a lot to fall asleep because I always have 290 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 1: like twenty thousand tabs in my mind. And it's not 291 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 1: really something that I have to do, but it's something 292 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 1: I want to do. Like there's no deadline or you know, 293 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 1: someone standing on my head, you know, asking me to 294 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 1: do something. It's just my own, you know, list of 295 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:42,000 Speaker 1: things that I want to do, and I I it's 296 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 1: I have not even fallen asleep, and I cannot wait 297 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: to get up and you know, get to work. That's 298 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:51,359 Speaker 1: just how Yeah. So sometimes I do listen to hand 299 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:55,919 Speaker 1: pan music on Alexa. So when I'm not able to 300 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:59,200 Speaker 1: fall asleep, I just ask Alexa to play handpan music. 301 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:03,160 Speaker 1: So it's very very coming. That's a beautiful instrument and 302 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: you know, it's just better than all the other instrumental 303 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:10,440 Speaker 1: music that helps you sleep, according to me. And where 304 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 1: could people that are listening find you? Like we're on Instagram? 305 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 1: I think that's where. What's what's your Instagram? And I 306 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:22,320 Speaker 1: K I D A U P A d H y 307 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,920 Speaker 1: A Y And your book. The name of your book 308 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:31,920 Speaker 1: is Roots to Radiants Wills Beauty Solutions for the Millennial Life. 309 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 1: And it's really good. I suggest you all go out 310 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 1: and get it. There's a lot of great tips in there. 311 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 1: And thanks so much for me to me for lunch today, 312 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:45,159 Speaker 1: for coming me, for coming my podcast. I hope I 313 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:49,040 Speaker 1: get you to Mount Clair this week. Yeah, I'm definitely 314 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:52,440 Speaker 1: trying for that. I'm just sorting all of things, all 315 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 1: of the things that I'm you know, pucking towards the 316 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: end of my trip. I'm only going to do these things. Yeah. No, 317 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:01,200 Speaker 1: And it's your first time in New York, so I'm 318 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,439 Speaker 1: excited for you to see at the city. Thank you 319 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:07,919 Speaker 1: so much, Thank you so much, Y love you too. 320 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:12,480 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from I Heart Radio, visit the I 321 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:16,000 Speaker 1: Heart Radio Apple Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to 322 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 1: your favorite shows.