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- Hi everybody, it's Laura Dern and I guess,
I'm sort of inviting [laughs] you into my bathroom.
This is so intimate.
So I'm gonna walk you through
how I'm learning to figure out how to take care of myself.
Mostly by learning about and choosing brands
that care about our health and wellbeing
and also our beauty.
First of all I'm gonna do a mask
cause I love this mask by Eminence
which is this probiotic mask
and it leaves the skin feeling so good.
I think the last time I watched a woman
do this was on "I Love Lucy"
and anything Lucille Ball does, I'm comfortable doing too.
I'm just gonna let you know.
Cause she is a goddess.
Isn't it interesting too that in the 40's and 50's
a woman has natural skin care and,
or that's what it looked like,
maybe it was, you know, I don't know,
petroleum based foundation and just a great lip
and my grandma loved to take care of herself like that.
She loved clean, healthy products.
She would make products out of fresh oils
and essential oils and then she'd just clean her skin
and put on a beautiful lip and I loved that.
Okay now I'm gonna let this sit, and I,
literally it feels like it's cleaning my skin right now.
And it's probiotic.
I mean we're eating it,
why shouldn't we also put it on our skin?
Now I'm gonna wash this off after a few minutes.
Okay, bye.
Guys, I'm in love with True Botanicals.
They are the most extraordinary brand.
They care about the planet, which is why.
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We have, thank you, glass bottles
and their products are so pure and so clean.
They have done so much due diligence to make sure
that it's not only healthy for the planet
but it's healthy for us
and makes us feel good and more importantly,
it works better than anything I've found.
So here is my mist.
Right before I do my makeup, I spray.
Also, even the mist is good.
You know how sometimes when they [laughs].
Some products, the mist sprayer,
it like shoots you [laughs] in the eye
and it's really awkward.
I've finally realized what was truly healthy and safe.
So now that I'm making my daughter use all of them
and when it moves you as a mom and you know
it's better for the planet, that's really cool.
And their other product that I am obsessed with,
which is how I found out about them,
is True Botanicals Pure Radiance Oil.
Guys,
this is magic.
It's all I'm gonna say.
We were starting our show, "Big Little Lies"
and my makeup artist used this on me
and it literally has become my foundation.
So I use a few drops of the oil
and I'll show you my options.
The way I do it.
I take a few drops into the palm of my hand,
I rub my palms together,
and I just lightly press all over my face
and honestly that is my foundation.
And if I'm working, I then,
and sometimes I'll even mix a few drops of the oil into it,
I use and have used for 20 years,
Face Place Collagen Moisturizer
and I take a little bit of the moisturizer,
I rub that into my palms and under makeup,
it just helps keep the skin really hydrated,
really glow-y, and helps the makeup kind of float
over it instead of kind of going into the pores
and it's better for your skin
and it helps the makeup last longer and look more beautiful.
I mean one of things I've learned,
I mean especially on film and working on location
in different climates with extreme humidity in the summer
or we just made "Little Women" in Massachusets
throughout the winter and we all know how the skin
is so deeply affected when it's freezing and dehydrated
and how drying it is.
So using the oil as a base and frankly as your foundation
is just, it makes for a more beautiful skin
and it really help nourish the skin
and you can even rub it into the lips
and then I found It Cosmetics
which I really like as a concealer
and I just put a little concealer
on my back of my hand and I go in and you know,
just cover up, as my grandmother would say,
"A multitude of sins."
I kind of, I really keep it simple.
My grandma was all about good skincare and a lip
and a little mascara and that was it.
I love color and I'm pale
so I think since I was a teenager it just made me feel
[laughs] happier and healthier
to have a little color on my cheeks.
Use an eyelash curler.
So this, guys, is terrifying.
I don't know about you know,
you gotta look down and get it in there and then.
But I also wear glasses sometimes
so curling one's lashes when you can't see
is also a [laughs] little bit terrifying.
This is Chanel, really nice.
Also, old school Voluminous Mascara.
I love.
And you go and you just do a little bit of,
you, I'm talking to you.
Me.
This is what I do, you probably have a million ideas
that work so great [laughs] for you.
You don't have to do any of this,
but if you want a few tips.
I did consider how amazing it is that for the last,
thank God, particularly decade,
we and our teenagers literally will go to beauty counters
and say, "Do you test on animals?
"I don't wanna use the product if you test on animals."
But we've never asked, is it safe for us?
I think that also should be considered.
So I love that there are companies with great integrity
that are considering our health and wellbeing.
I love a cream blush.
I feel like it's more natural.
I like putting it on with my fingertips.
I don't like the trouble of having to have tons
of brushes and sponges at the ready.
And it's really just about, you know,
giving one's self a little bit of color
and sometimes I'll even use it a little bit on the eye.
If I weren't anemic [laughs] maybe I wouldn't need blush.
But it does help.
You know, this is a very natural me.
The cool thing is as an actress you get to play all kinds
of radical characters and period films
and many times I've been just a bit of a mess
of a character so it's about stripping down,
but I've also had glamorous people or women who would never
leave the house without being truly done
in an elegant way like Renata.
When I was 12, I had my 13th birthday on this punk rock
movie called, "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains"
and I arrived never having worn makeup
with like "Alice in Wonderland" hair down my back
and it got crazy.
All I know is I left with my hair chopped off,
jet black, white stripe down the middle,
and amazing, the most amazing eyeshadow you've ever seen.
I am in love with this Marc Jacobs lip liner.
I can't even tell you guys.
I just feel like I eat lipstick all day long
which may mean I'm over talking,
but I do love it and it works so well because it lasts.
See I told you you get mascara on yourself.
They haven't figured out a way to have a pair of eyeglasses
you can wear while [laughs] you're doing your eye makeup.
Just for you entrepreneurs out there.
[smacks lips] Get on it.
Okay so you finish, I finish, my Marc Jacobs pencil
and the colors are beautiful cause there's so many tones
that are close to lip tones so it feels natural,
and then so many great lip balms.
I've used Dr. Hauschka for a long time with lip balm.
This is Burt's Bees and you just,
you know, throw on a little cause you can keep it with you.
And that's it guys.
I just, you know, I take my little old school clip out
and I shake my hair out.
[rustling]
And I've learned to just let my hair be
cause I'm, have a natural wave and just comfortable
with it being
its own texture
and less iron and all the other things
that can be done to it when you're working.
I'm also in the best pair of pajamas right now
[laughs] which you can't see
and I just wanna live in,
but I will take the the pajamas on and put on jeans
and a tee shirt and maybe some Birkenstocks.
Maybe I'll just do that today, or sneakers.
I'm a sneaker fiend.
And that's it.
I'm so happy to hang out with you guys
and talk about things I love that make me feel
healthy and good and try to keep it simple.
So, see you soon.