Actor Bipasha Basu’s dark kohl-eyed look in her upcoming film Raaz 3 has been inspired by the international singer Avril Lavagne. In the film, Bips is only highlighting her eyes and using minimal make-up on her face. Initially, director Vikram Bhatt wanted her to sport curly hair and heavy make-up, to look the part of a psycho. They even shot a couple of days in that look.

Says a source, “Several experiments were done before Vikram settled on the curly look and heavily made-up face. However, he later felt that Biapsha’s look in the original Raaz where she sported straight hair was a hit and decided to go with that. Bips on her part felt that the heavy make-up will look more prominent in 3D and decided to just highlight her eyes.”

Confirms Bipasha, “In 3D less looks more! So my foundation was kept very minimal and luminous. Shanaya (her character) is a diva, so her eye make up was smoky liner making her character look more powerful. Initally I was suposed to wear curly tight tonged hair but Vikram changed his mind last minute and wanted it straight like Raaz with middle parting. To add that slick glamorous appeal we coloured it mahagony red.”

Though Bipasha is doing a psycho film, in real life the actor is quite scared of paranormal occurings. Though the actor was part of Raaz, she had given the sequel a miss. “I had told Bhatt sahab to give me a film in which I would have to get into the character totally and when he narrated Raaz 3 I loved it but I was very scared thinking how I would project the character but with everybody’s help I managed to portray the character on screen,” says Bipasha.

So taken up with the genre is she now, that Bips has signedanother ‘ghostly’ film Aatma with actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui. “Bips likes the kind of dark roles Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts play in their films, which is why she decided to shoot for Aatma post Raaz 3,” adds a source.