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Ambika Pillai is a hair stylist and make-up artist from Kollam, Kerala, India. Her work regularly appears in advertising campaigns, catwalk shows, fashion films, and editorials.

Personal life

Ambika Pillai was born to a cashew exporter Gopinath Pillai & Santha Gopinath Pillai in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Her family then moved to her native place in Kollam, where she had a luxurious childhood, living in a bungalow by the backwaters of Kollam. After her boarding in Ooty, at the age of 7, she joined Mount Carmel Convent Anglo-Indian Girls High School in Kollam. She was married to Surenda Nath on 1980 at the age of 17 and moved to Calcutta to have a settled married life but things did not turn out the way she had desired and had to be satisfied with taking forward her life in a tiny one bed room apartment. They have one daughter, Kavitha. Later she married Rakesh (aka Rocky) in 1993 but due to his heavy drinking & gambling she left him. Her three sisters, Gopika, Renuka and Devika were trained by her and are also into hair and skin makeover. She lives in New Delhi but frequently travels to Trivandrum and Kochi.

Career

She started her career as a hair stylist and moved on to Make-up. When Ambika started her first salon it was called Visions by Ambika. She later decided to develop it as a brand. At present Ambika Pillai is a brand by itself. Pillai's salon has branches in South Extension, Punjabi Bagh, Rajouri Garden, Malviya Nagar and Model Town in the Delhi National Capital Territory; Gurgaon in Haryana; Chhatarpur in Madhya Pradesh; and Kochi and Trivandrum in Kerala.

Awards

Television

Pillai has appeared as a judge in:

• Midukki (Mazhavil Manorama)
• Malayali Veetamma (Flowers)

References

1. ^ "Delhi gets a fancy new address for high fashion makeup". The Sunday Guardian. 9 September 2012. Archived from the original on 11 October 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
2. Ambika Pillai hair stylist: Ithalukal 24th Sep 2014. Asianet News Ithalukal. YouTube. 24 September 2014.
3. "Website Leading Salons in The World". Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
4. Pillai, Ambika (5 September 2014). "Ambika Pillai on Facebook". Facebook. Archived from the original on 4 April 2021. Retrieved 4 April 2021. I went to boarding to Nazereth convent,Ooty . At the tender age of 5 Renuka started studying at mount Carmel convent Kollam we joined Renu in MCC
5. Nair, Vinod (23 February 2002). "Ambika Pillai, through the looking glass..." The Times of India. Bennett, Coleman and Co. Archived from the original on 14 August 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
6. Ravindra, Rahul (14 December 2014). "Ambika Pillai's very own house of butterflies". Manorama Online. Archived from the original on 10 March 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
7. The Hindu 1
8. Article Times of India
9. ^ "Business Digest". Archived from the original on 11 October 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
10. "Website Afaqs". Archived from the original on 9 August 2016. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
11. "Website Beauty News India". Archived from the original on 11 October 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
12. ^ Website Weddingsonline

External links

• Official website

• Hairdressers
• Living people
• Artists from Kollam
• Indian make-up artists