Ever wonder what hides behind the mask of heavily caked base, blush, shadow and liner? Peel it off, layer by layer, and you see the real thing. The quintessential beauty. The icon that colours fairy tales of love, and longing.

While beauty may be in the eyes of the beholder and the artistry of make-up artistes, what lies beneath tells a whole new and true story as this gallery of Bollywood actresses with and without makeup will show:

1) Rani Mukherjee

2) Vidya Balan

3) Sushmita Sen

4) Priyanka Chopra

5) Esha Deol

6) Urmila Matondkar & Sushmita Sen

7) Priety Zinta

8) Kajol

9) Aishwarya Rai

10) Kareena & Karishma Kapoor

11) Bipasha Basu

12) Tanushree Datta

13) Amisha Patel

14) Katrina Kaif

15) Deepika Padukone

16) Lara Dutta

17) Isha Koppikar

18) Amrita Arora

19) Sushmita Sen

20) Urmila Matondkar

21) Karisma Kapoor

22) Preity Zinta

23) Mugdha Godse

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