Mickey Contractor

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Does Mickey Contractor smoke? Yes.Does Mickey Contractor drink alcohol? Yes [6]V Beauty.Mickey Contractor is an Indian makeup artist. He is famous for Aishwarya Rai Bachchans and Kareena Kapoors makeup looks. He has worked with many famous celebrities such as Jacqueline Fernandez, Kajol, Nita Ambani, Shilpa Shetty, Alia Bhatt, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and many more.Mickey Contractor was a science student before he joined the beauty industry. When Mickey chose to work in the beauty industry, his mother was concerned for his decision but later supported him for his career.His main interest in work was hair styling. He worked as a hairdresser in a salon when he started his career in this industry in 1970. He learnt the art of hairdressing from Tokyo Beauty Parlour in Mumbai. Once, the Bollywood actress Helen came to the salon he was working in, because of the unavailability of any staff to attend her, Mickey was given the opportunity to do Helens hair. While talking to her, he expressed his desire to Helen of doing her hairstyle for any of her movies, to which Helen suggested Mickey be a makeup artist as at that time only women did the hairstyling in Bollywood. [7]Masala!.He always wanted to be part of the film making and the film industry. Mickey struggled for 13 years in the hair and makeup industry of Bollywood. He did the makeup of many supporting actors and extras performing in the films for many years. Later, he started working on doing makeup for portraits with Gautam Rajadhyaksha (photographer) from where he was recognised by his work and was approached to do the makeup of Kajol in her debut movie Bekhudi (1992).The movie Bekhudi (1992) was Kajols debut movie and it was also Mickeys debut to work in the movie as a makeup artist and do makeup for the films heroine since then they have been really close friends. Mickey is often accompanied by Kajol for doing her makeup for Interviews, movies, magazine cover shoots etc. Kajol and mickey contractor used to play cards on breaks from the movie on movie sets. Kajol and Mickey Contractor playing cards on a film set.He is known as the Makeup guru of Bollywood and has done makeup and hairstyle for many prominent films such as Hum Aapke Hain Kaun (1994), Dil Toh Pagal Hai (1997), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), Mohabbatein (2000), Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham (2001), Kal Ho Na Ho (2003), Don (2006), My Name Is Khan (2010), Karthik Calling Karthik (2010), Don (2006), Veere Di Wedding (2018), Angrezi Medium (2020) and many more.He had a turning point in his career when he decided to leave the film industry. For 10 years, he worked in the advertising field which he thought to be more challenging and respectful field to work in. In the field of advertising, he learnt sophisticated and complex makeup techniques, and also gave him the experience to work with different kinds of makeup looks. When his skills were noticed by the film industry in his advertisement field, he was again called in the film industry to work with celebrities.He is an animal lover and is occasionally seen posting photos of his pets on his Instagram account. He has a pet named Mowgli.