Celebrities dont change their brands. Do they? And so was she.
We had a luxury of using all kinds of cosmetics right from Toothpaste to Talcum powder before they come into the commercials, As samples come straight to our dressing tables before they go to the grocery store. I still remember enjoying Cibacca, Colgate Gel, Promise, Cuticura, Lesancy-Neeedithu Varugirathu soap, Lifebouy plus, Cinthol, Vigil, Margo for different seasons.
But there was one set of Soap and Powder that never changed on her dressing Alamari .(Its a top of a beero with mirror hanging on it and it was in the kitchen itself.) They were Mysore Sandal soap and Gokul Santol Powder. There were also a lot of big maroon velvette sticker pottu about a size of a 50 paise coin, stuck on the Mirror. These are her brands. She never changed it till her end.
She carried a Gigantic personality and always looked majestic on her Madisar. Her face would always be bright from Morning to evening. She braids her hair with/without savari and then makes a kondai out of it with lot of Kondai oosi.... In the evenings she keeps little garland of Malligai poo around her kondai, that made her look even more respectable. Everyone in the family would dress up beofre 5.30 in the evening, cos at 6.00 all the gentlemen in the family would start reciting Vishnu Sahasranamam and other Desika Stotrams.
My mom tries to imitate her (trying to look majestic) by using the Santol Powder and the big Sticker pottu. But she would lose her natural glow and look quite artifical with a Nelam paricha moonji. It suited only Booma Paati and nothing else suited her either.
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