The cold war between Bollywood beauties - Kareena Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra - is fast intensifying, with a makeup artist the reason for the latest outbreak of hostilities, according to a Pakistani daily.

"The war between Kareena Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra is not a new thing. For a long time, reports of mutual dislike between both have been circulating. This time, another undeclared outbreak of war between the two is over their favourite makeup artist Pompy, who is the stylist for both, " the Urdu daily Jang reported.

According to the paper, Priyanka wanted Pompy for her makeup in her film "Anjaana Anjaani" but when she contacted him, she found out Kareena had taken the makeup artist with her to Sydney, and thus Priyanka was unable to avail of Pompy's services for her film.

"It is these things that keep on adding to the bitterness between the two and thus the gulf between the two first-rank actresses is increasing day by day, " the report said.