Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o has shared her top makeup and hair tricks that she has learnt on her rise to fame by working with professional hair stylists and makeup artists closely. The ’12 Years a Slave’ actress reveals that one top tip a makeup artist taught her, was to find a lipliner that matches her skin tone rather than the shade of her lipstick, because it gives a great sharp outline around the lip:
“I had always been confused about how and why to use lip liner. [Makeup artist] Nick Barose taught me to match my lip liner not to my lipstick but to my skin tone. It frames the lip, and lipstick seems to stay on longer.”
One of her favourite products is Lancôme’s Kissed by Gold eye-shadow and she often uses it to define her eyebrows:
“I carry [the] palette with me all the time. I brush the darkest shade on my brows to give them definition.”
Lupita uses a very natural avocado oil on her skin as a cleanser at night which removes her makeup gently:
“I dab very lightly, because I don’t want to massage the makeup further into my pores, and then I wipe it off with a gauze cloth.”
Her hairstylist taught her a great tip to look after her hair which relaxes her curly locks and makes her hair look sleeker:
“Sometimes when I comb my hair out there are a lot of strands sticking up and it looks messy, so [hairstylist] Larry Sims taught me to just use a hot towel, placed gently on top, to calm the curls down. It gives my Afro a sleeker look.”
