- I've been attempting to wake up everyday
between 10 and 11 [laughs], not early.
Hey Vanity Fair,
this is Dove Cameron,
coming to you live from my home in Los Angeles,
and this is everything that I do in a day.
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My days when I'm not in quarantine are really varied.
I have the kind of job
where sometimes I have one thing to do
and it's like a meeting across town,
and some days I have nine things
that are completely back to back.
Some days, you don't work for three or four days,
and then there are times
when you work everyday for nine months [laughs]
doing 16 hour days.
And when I'm on set,
my days are pretty regimented.
I like to wake up,
shower in the morning every morning,
and feel fresh and good.
Get a coffee [laughs]
so that I can have it on the ride to work.
Usually just throw on sweats or whatever's nearby
because you're gonna be wearing another character's clothes
in an hour or two anyway.
I spend around two hours in hair and makeup,
and I have my breakfast while I'm there,
and my coffee,
and I'll have these little under eye patches,
usually start in hair.
And then I'll go get dressed and I'll ride to set,
and then, when you're on set,
your kind of on set.
There's nothing really to be doing,
so I'll usually bring a book or my journal
and my headphones.
But I also love to talk to my castmates
and things like that,
and then, over lunch,
I set that time aside to be doing me time.
I'll either take a nap or I'll watch a show on Netflix,
or I'll read or I'll journal,
just so I can feel some kind of private time.
Right now, I am at home,
like most of us hopefully are,
and my routine if I'm not on set
or doing something that relocates me,
my at home life is pretty much the same.
The alarm will go off
and I'll snooze it for a good 1/2 an hour.
And then, if I have something
I'm particularly waking up for,
I can pretty easily roll out of bed
and go straight to the living room and start my life.
But if I don't,
then I will check my phone.
I'm a firm believer that we as human beings
are not meant to be as involved
in everybody else's lives as we are,
and I feel like we're meant to
really focus on ourselves more.
On the days where I do,
I'll stay in bed for live five minutes,
mostly check my emails and things like that,
but I will check Instagram.
It's funny, I'm such a big skincare person,
but I'll probably go straight to the living room
and I'll start my day with a big, massive jug of water.
Either a liter of water,
if I'm being really crazy,
or I have this reusable Starbucks cup.
There's something about if you have caffeine
before your natural body energy is created,
then it [beeps] up your cycles
and it just makes you more tired throughout the day.
So these days,
I try to do that.
I try to have a ton of water.
I'm a big supplement person,
so I'll have a lot of supplements that are like,
"Take these on an empty stomach,"
and I'll start my day like that.
And then, I'll go make breakfast around 11, maybe 11:30.
I'm the breakfast person during quarantine.
We divvied up the meals,
so I do breakfast and lunch,
because they're easier,
and then he does a big dinner,
he being Thomas,
he's over there somewhere.
I'll make something like brown rice cakes with avocado,
I'll mash up some avocado,
put in salt and pepper and chili pepper flakes.
And then, I'll put either some smoked salmon
or I'll fry up an egg or something like that.
I have to start my day with something really salty,
I think I must have a salt deficiency or something.
Then, I'll have my coffee,
and then, after that,
I'll have the rest [laughs] of my supplements that are,
"Take these on a full stomach," supplements.
I take a number of supplements.
I take collagen supplements,
omega-6 fatty acid fish oil pills.
I'll do something immune boosting like a B6 or a B12,
just stuff to feel my best.
And then, I'll take vitamin E
because it's really good for your skin,
your bones and your joints,
and things like that.
I'm a big oil person,
I'm big at keeping my body oily,
as sexy as that sounds.
After I've allowed myself kind of an hour to wake up,
because I'm really sensitive,
so I need my protected hour before I begin my day,
probably around 11:30,
I'll sit down in the living room.
I can't keep lists on my phone
because if I do,
I feel like it just leaves my brain.
So I'll go to the lists on my phone
with this massive list of things that I have to do
by this day,
or work that I have to get done,
or contracts I have to sign or scripts I have to read.
And lately, Thomas has been trying to get me
to do specific times
because I get really overwhelmed really easily [laughs].
So he's like,
"If you just block it out to specific times
"then you'll feel more chilled."
And then, I'll start,
I'll start my work,
which is, a lot of the time it's maybe a video
for an outlet,
or the other day,
we did a spread for a magazine.
We shot that at home.
Or I'll have a self-tape audition for a role,
or I have to do something promotional for music.
There's lots of things.
Probably after I've done a few things like that,
that's when I'll remember
that I have to take care of my skin.
So around 12:30 or one, even,
kind of after I've given myself a chance to wake up,
I'll go to my bathroom
and I'll wash my face with this unbelievable,
I'll never stop talking about how great it is,
Shu Uemura oil cleanser.
It's this anti-oxy oil based purifying cleanser,
and it's in this big green bottle.
I've not used anything else for like two years now.
I do a serum,
and I kind of change up my serums the most.
I'm using this Clarins two in one.
I've never used Clarins before,
but it's a really great serum.
It's this amber colored serum.
And then I will use a Barbara Sturm serum,
which is great,
I love Barbara Sturm products.
And I'll give myself a second to brush my teeth with,
I just got this cute toothbrush,
I'm obsessed with toothbrushes.
I think it's called quip.
It's super small and really lightweight,
and it comes with its own little case,
and I'm a major germophobe
so I was really excited about that [laughs].
And it's also electric,
and I was like,
you're for me.
Then I'll layer on a bunch of moisturizer
and finish off with some vitamin E oil,
just tap it in,
let it live on my face for a while.
And around that time,
I feel like it's maybe 2:30 or three,
when I hit a stopping point with getting things done
and I start to feel like
I could use another cup of coffee [laughs].
I love my espresso machine so much,
and I didn't use it until this lockdown
because I was such a Starbucks person,
but I bring you reusable cups often.
Now that I can't do that,
I've learned the value of having your own espresso machine.
The second I learned how to work it,
because it looks really scary,
I was like,
"Oh, I'm an adult now, it's official."
And then, like I said,
I'll start on lunch,
which mostly has devolved into just sandwiches.
Now I make Thomas these massive triple sandwiches.
I'll toast the bread,
I'll do three slices of bread,
and I'll put this stuff on it that he likes,
it's called Nandos spicy mayo.
I'll layer it on really thick,
and then I'll do turkey or chicken,
and then some Swiss cheese,
and then I'll put another piece of bread in the middle
and I'll double layer it with the spicy mayo on either side.
And then, on the other side,
I have my produce,
and I'll do chopped tomatoes,
lettuce, and he really likes jalapeños,
so I'll throw jalapeños on there.
And so, I cut it in diagonals
and that's his lunch everyday.
And then, for my lunch,
I feel like I get way less creative.
I'll have a hard boiled egg and some toast myself,
or I'll throw more things on rice cakes
or something like that.
Sometimes I make myself a PB&J
because there's nothing better.
After I've made lunch,
I'll usually deliver it to him first.
I mean, admittedly,
we'll probably watch The Office
for a good two or three episodes.
But in that time,
I am still being productive.
It's so funny,
I give myself this long list of things that I need to do,
but I'm also highly aware
of how toxic productivity culture is.
I have to be like,
"Okay, in this time,
"I'm putting my phone away,
"I'm just gonna watch TV for an hour and a 1/2,
"or I'm just gonna sit out on the balcony for a little bit
"and just chill."
And that can mean anything,
that just means whatever I want that time to be,
and not what I think I should be doing,
but just, what do I need right now?
Do I need to have V8 juice?
Guys, I'm a really big fan of V8 juice.
I even found my baby journal the other day
from what my parents kept when I was little,
and it even says,
from when I'm like a year and a 1/2 old,
we can't get you away from the V8 juice,
and it's the same now.
When we went on quarantine,
I came home and Thomas got me
seven big liters of V8 juice,
and I was like,
"I'm set, it's all I need."
Lately, Thomas has been playing guitar,
so we'll sit around and I'll kind of hum along
to whatever he's doing.
Or I'll organize my photos on my phone,
or I'll learn a little bit of French.
I've really been wanting to improve my French skills
in this time.
In the industry,
when they say end of day,
they mean 5:30 or six.
And so, whatever you have to turn in that day,
which I always feel like I have something to turn in,
I'll try to upload things and get things done
before 5:30 or six so I don't get in trouble.
Being your own content creator is hard, you guys.
Shout out to people
who make their own content for a living, it's wild.
I've been trying to work out,
it's really hard to stay motivated at home,
for me, at least.
I just got an exercise bike.
It's a bike,
but it's got a desk on it.
I'm not quite sure that it's really gonna do much for me,
but at least I can sit on it and be moving
while also doing stuff.
So I've done that once [laughs].
I did that once, yesterday,
and it's really hard,
it kicked my ass because I'm really out of shape.
This is the only time
that I feel like I really have to be chilled
about being in shape.
There's a pressure as an actor
to just sort of be not in any sort of particular shape,
it's about being amorphous.
It's about being able to be a lot of different people.
And so, as sort of like a base level,
you're just kind of expected to be in shape.
Sets are demanding.
I feel like this is a really good time
for me to be less conscious of that.
We usually have dinner around nine p.m.,
if I'm being honest,
which I would say is really late
and it's because of quarantine,
except it's not
and we always kind of have dinner around that time.
I'm really trying to use this time
to take care of my hair as well.
My hair is fried, you guys.
At some point in the day,
meander back into the bathroom
and either put a face mask on or eye patches or something.
I'm really using this time to be like the caterpillar,
to come out of the chrysalis.
And so, a lot of that is pampering myself,
skincare, haircare, that's important to me.
I think that the whole conversation
about how those things related to vanity is kind of old.
I will spend time communicating to myself that I matter,
how I feel matters.
There's so much in that that helps your self-esteem.
I'll put oils on my scalp and in my hair,
and I'll usually have a bath
and do my full oil routine and all that stuff.
And then, I'll emerge in my matching pajamas of the day,
which are always matching.
I have this weird obsession with pajamas.
They make you feel together,
even when you're at home.
I come out like a Grecian goddess and I'm like,
"I'm ready, I'm ready for my meal."
And so, then we'll open all the windows.
We have these really nice kind of double door balconies
that feel very like you're getting the outdoor experience,
but we're up on a really high floor,
which has been our only saving grace
because we don't leave the house.
And then we'll have some dinner.
Thomas makes an incredible dinner.
Maybe a little glass of wine,
but I'm not really a big drinker.
I always feel like I want to be a drinker
because it seems nice.
I feel like I grew up watching my mom
have a little glass of wine with dinner,
and I was always like,
"Oh, it's so classy
"and it seems like such a ritualistic thing."
I just can't get into it.
And then we'll snack for a while,
we'll have some popcorn or little candies,
or things like that after dinner.
And then I'll make my tea,
and we'll head to bed,
and I'll do my extensive nighttime skincare routine.
I've never counted,
but I bet my nighttime skincare routine
is somewhere from 10 to 20 steps.
And I won't bore you with it now,
I'll talk about that eventually when I'm ready.
We tuck in probably around midnight,
11:30, 12, something like that,
and then we'll stay in bed for two hours or so reading
or messing around on our laptops,
or something like that.
Which is really bad,
I'm trying to stop doing that
because it's bad to have any kind of blue light activity
when you're going to bed, but yeah.
So that's everything that I do in a day.
Like I said,
no two days are really ever the same for me,
but that's a pretty good rough outline.
Thank you so much for watching,
stay safe, stay home
and stay kind to yourselves [blows kiss].
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