Happy Birthday Katrina Kaif -- the diva's beauty secrets revealed!

Discover how the 'Bang Bang' actress looks so gorgeous, always!

Katrina Kaif who created quite a bang last year has managed to steal millions of hearts with her beauty. She is naturally beautiful with flawless skin and lustrous hair and doesn't have to do much. Though she is blessed with excellent features, she takes ample care of her skin and hair to maintain it. That's one of the reasons she never has a bad hair day. So how does the actress manage to look so gorgeous all the time? Let s find out.

Katrina s beauty diet

Katrina firmly believes that beauty is not just how one looks on the outside but how healthy you are from the inside. She once said in an interview that there is more to beauty than just physical appearance. In order to maintain a healthy glow in her skin, she keeps herself hydrated by drinking four glasses of water after waking up.Here's how water benefits your skin and hair.

To further enhance her beauty, she eats food supplements of acai berry and wheat grass powder. She also sips on green tea which is full of antioxidants and keeps ageing signs like wrinkles at bay. Green tea is not just a health drink, it has several beauty benefits as well.

Overall, she believes it is important to eat healthy and work out regularly to stay in shape and be beautiful. She loves grilled fish as its effects really shows up on her skin and hair, making them look healthy than before. (Read: Gallery Beauty secrets of top 10 Bollywood actresses!)

Dos and don ts

Katrina knows how important it is to look good but she does not believe in wearing layers of make-up. Instead, she prefers a natural look with a dash of kohl and some lip balm. She rarely wears any when she isn t shooting. Here's why you too should give make-up a miss at times.

Before applying any make-up, she rubs an ice cube kept in a muslin cloth over her face, to prep her skin. Ice certainly has several benefits for your skin.

She also loves beauty oils and mineral mud face packs which keep beauty woes like acne, pigmentation at bay.

Katrina never steps out of the house without applying a moisturising sunscreen to protect her skin from the harmful UV rays. Here's why sunscreen is so important.

Another important thing she swears by is never going to bed with make-up on. She makes it a point to always remove every speck of make-up before going to sleep which lets the skin breathe and stay young. Read these 7 reasons you need to remove make-up every night.

Hair secrets

Though Kat sports various hairstyles in her movies, she makes sure she takes ample care of her mane. She applies serums which protect her hair from the heat produced by styling tools like straighteners and curlers.

She also gets head massages often. Another secret to her lovely locks is her leave-in conditioner which she applies to make them more manageable and shiny.

Katrina summed up the secret of her beauty in an interview by saying, When one is at peace with themselves, it immediately reflects on their face. I believe in inner peace and that is happiness for me. The sense of contentment, being grounded and the realisation that you are important just the way you are, no more or no less, is the kind of wholesome beauty that I strive to achieve and propagate. Also read Deepika Padukone's haircare secrets.

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