Diwali 2016: Be a Diwali Diva like Alia Bhatt, Deepika Padukone and Sonam Kapoor with these grooming tips!

This festive season, spare time to emulate these dazzling Bollywood divas from a curated lookbook and spruce up your wardrobe with some styling and grooming tips.

The glittering festival of lights is around the corner. We girls simply love to doll up and click those innumerable selfies. To look our festive best, it’s time to raid the wardrobe for those forgotten ethnic outfits blissfully stashed away. With little time to spare, accomplishing last minute shopping goals seem far fetched, notwithstanding the crowded malls and serpentine billing ques. The only options that seem attainable are to wear the same old outfits or be on tenterhooks while the local darzi delivers your precious clothes just in time for the festivities. Also, its not just about the clothes but the accessories and the styling that need attention along with other seemingly never ending Diwali preparations. (Also Read: Diwali 2016: Here are 7 gifting ideas for this festive season) Diwali spiritually signifies the victory of light over darkness and hope over despair. While candles can brighten up the darkness, we can certainly uplift your wardrobe woes and render hope for a stylish Diwali soiree with some glorious looks. Bollywood divas like Deepika Padukone, Alia Bhatt, Shraddha Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Karishma Kapoor, Kalki Koechlin and Neha Dhupia have immortalized some trendy looks for this festive season in their numerous appearances. These looks will lend you some amazing #stylegoals to spruce up your festive collection, flaunt without a flinch and be the ultimate Diwali Diva! (Also Read: Air India Diwali ‘Maharaja’ Offer: Buy one ticket, take one companion free, for bookings between October 20 & October 30!) (1) The Floral Diva Saree, the perpetually ethereal Indian essential is always defined by the right blouse. With the varying trends on blouses, glitzy brocade blouses are a passé. Ditch those ditzy blouses for muted floral ones that spell elegance and beautifully compliment any saree. Deepika Padukone looks resplendent in this floral blouse with embellishment details on the collar and has teamed it with a signature Sabyasachi saree. A minimalistic makeup and accessory accentuate this demure-diva-ish look.

(2) The Backless Diva

A backless blouse instantly glamorizes any saree. Flaunt a flawless back with these absolutely stunning backless blouses, customized with a dash of tassels or sequins. A complete head turner for the Diwali card night party, nobody will dare to call your bluff! Sonam Kapoor flaunts a flawless back in this Anuradha Vakil ensemble and has paired it aptly with a pair of Polki earrings and wavy hair. Make a beeline to your favorite beauty salon to book an appointment to pamper your back and flaunt it in a backless blouse.

(3) The Trendy Diva

If you are bored of pairing those ethnic palazzos with kurtas, turn to Alia Bhatt. The Student of Year effortlessly blends ethnicity with contempo in this Payal Khandwala ensemble of silk white shirt and pink brocade palazzos. With a minimalistic makeup and a single accessory of statement earrings, Alia redefines the trend.

(4) The Vintage Diva

Traditionally, corsets have always been used to lend the body a fashionable silhouette, besides being fabulously stylish. You can choose from a broad and diversified range of corsets and pair them with sarees or dhotis or stylish silk cigarette pants. Designer Shilpa Reddy looks beautiful in this traditional silk saree and a contrast bright orange corset blouse.

(5) The Designer Diva

The trend to flaunt designer crop top skirt separates is on the rise with many Bollywood divas endorsing designers like Payal Khandwala, Masaba Gupta, Rajesh Pratap Singh, Payal Singhal, Manish Arora, to name a few. You can fabulously design your own separate ensemble look pairing a crop top with an ethnic skirt or silk cigarette pants. Aditi Rao Hyadri has glorified a few designer ensembles for us to steal and flaunt this festive season.

(6) The Sultry Diva Lend a sultry vibe to your Diwali card night with a statement maang tika adorning the forehead, a bajubandh adorning one arm, a pair of dangling statement earrings and a chunky ring. A key to nailing this look is a minimalistic makeup and an alluring Yash Chopra’s movie heroine-ish chiffon saree along with a perfect balance of all the accessories. You can also choose to flaunt only one or two of these accessories instead of all. Neha Dhupia looks absolutely stunning in a statement maang tika and bajubandh that adds oodles of oomph to the chiffon saree look! If you already have these pieces of jewellery lying in your jewellery box somewhere in the corner of your wardrobe,scour and flaunt them proudly! You can also choose to purchase from an avid range of maang tikas and bajubandh that spell traditional and glamour effectively.

(7) The Dhoti Diva

Dhoti, the traditional Indian attire is versatile and gorgeous. It can almost be paired off with a crop top or a kurti or a saree. Bollywood is besotted with the dhoti trend and has been sported by divas like Sonam Kapoor and Karishma Tanna. While Sonam rocks the dhoti saree look with her impeccable styling sense, Karishma flaunts an equally appealing dhoti-kurti look. This look also eliminates the need to wear petticoats and is uber stylish and comfortable.

(8) The Elegant Diva If a simple and demure vibe is what you seek, then Karishma Kapoor and Kalki Koechlin can impart some elegant styling tips as they pull off the classic long kurta-palazzo look with the aid of a single statement/chunky necklace or earring. A perfect blend between the outfit and the accessory defines the Elegant Diva. (9) The Cold Shoulder Diva The trend of cold-shoulder casual tops is in much vogue. Ring in this trend ethnically with a cold shoulder embroidered kurta and team it up with silk cigarette or jacquard pants. Shraddha Kapoor looks mesmerizing in a white cold shoulder crop top and an ethnic long pink skirt. (10) The Jacket Diva As Nina Garcia, the noted Columbian fashion journalist and critic quotes, “If my closet were burning, it’d be my collection of jackets I would save – they always make me feel pulled-together.” A jacket can instantly uplift any outfit and we must invest in some great jackets as they are timeless and always in vogue! With an amazing array of styles like kotis, short and long jackets, and peplums, throw in a jacket that suits your sense of style and you are Diwali ready! Caught in the festive season frenzy, we often tend to compromise on our looks with certain guilt pangs lying at the back of our minds. We console ourselves with a momentary assurance to prep better next year. With these fabulous styling tips in your kitty, ride away from the festive blues and choose your favorite look, rise, shine, pout and be the ultimate Diwali Diva!