- Hey Allure, it's Halsey,
and as of recently,
I have been super, super into a clean,
fresh faced look.
So I'm gonna show you that
for my 10 minute beauty routine.
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So when I'm starting my beauty routine,
obviously the first thing that I do
is I wash my face.
I use hyaluronic acid.
I use whatever my favorite serum
is that week that I'm experimenting with.
But the most important part of my skincare routine
is of course my sunscreen.
My skin has pretty much been the same
since I've been a teenager,
but ever since I got pregnant,
it's kind of changing on me in ways
that I wasn't expecting,
and [chuckling] had to keep up with.
So the first thing that I do
is I use a sunscreen.
This is the Image Skincare sunscreen.
It's SPF 50.
So I can go out and I can enjoy lots of sun,
and get lots of vitamin D,
and get that fresh air,
without having to worry about my skin
in the long run.
So I start with
a good slathering, really, of sunscreen.
Always on clean skin too,
because sunscreen sometimes is comedogenic
and it can clog your pores.
I usually wash my face
with a very basic gentle cleanser.
I don't use a tremendous amount
of chemicals on my face,
like no salycilic acid,
or benzoyl peroxide, or anything like that.
The simpler the better.
And I double cleanse.
I wash my face once I take my makeup off,
and then wash it again,
to make sure that it's nice and clean.
So my second step for my beauty routine,
after I've put on a sunscreen,
is, you guessed it,
another sunscreen. [laughing]
This is the Drunk Elephant.
I love this brand so much.
It's so amazing.
This is 20% zinc oxide.
It's just a ton of protection
and a really nice tint, like a bronzy color,
which is why I love it so much.
This one I usually apply with a brush,
because then I don't have to worry
about missing spots,
because I've got that sunscreen base underneath.
But you can kinda see as it's applying
that it's beautiful.
It's really like a light, almost like a BB cream.
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I rarely wear foundation.
If you're watching this right now,
you can probably tell that my nose and my cheeks,
and my neck in general are really red.
Fun fact, pregnant women have 40 to 50%
more blood volume than normal people.
So, I am just chock full of blood right now.
So I'm nice and glowy,
and nice and protected.
My holy grail product,
because I don't wear foundation,
is this Cle de Peau concealer.
I use it in the color ivory.
Sometimes I use Buff,
and I'll mix them together a little bit,
depending on what my skin tone
is like at the time.
But I kinda just go in
and get my under eye bags,
because Lord knows,
I haven't been sleeping these days.
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It feels pretty good knowing
that going into this next chapter of my life,
I've already found my holy grail concealer
for my under eye bags.
Now that my face is concealed,
and glowing, and healthy,
my next favorite product right now,
this is the Fenty Beauty cream blush.
This color is so beautiful
because it's like a brownish-red.
I'm obsessed with it.
I used to hate cream blushes,
and hate cream bronzers,
until I found this one.
So I kinda just apply it like on my cheekbone,
and then kinda into my apple of my cheek as well.
'Cause we're going for like a natural,
barely there color.
My techniques for makeup have certainly evolved
over the past couple years.
I started out as a theater kid,
so the first makeup that I ever applied
was super, super crazy, and really heavy.
It was all about defining the eyes,
and super bright blush, and super harsh contour.
Then, as I started kind of transitioning
into music, and performing on stage,
I was all about wanting to have a signature look.
And I've had a lot of really bad ones.
I think that probably for my fans,
my most memorable signature look
is the glitter brow.
I used to do my eyebrows with a glitter liner,
which was very progressive I will say,
for me at the time,
because I don't know that we had really seen
a lot of young people doing
sort of that like really colorful editorial
makeup on a day-to-day basis.
And it was super, super fun.
I love nothing more than going to concerts,
and seeing people come in off the street
with their makeup done just like mine,
I would say my most iconic look
I've had is the Manic cover.
It's a blue bruise made of glitter
all the way around my eye.
The next product that I'm going to use
is this Anastasia brow pen.
I have had a very love hate relationship
with my eyebrows [chuckling] through most of my life.
They're very sparse.
And a year and a half ago
was the first time that I ever plucked
or removed my eyebrows,
and I bleached them off completely.
I love bleaching off my eyebrows.
It's like one of my favorite looks ever.
I think it looks so cool.
But in the meantime,
when they start growing back,
they don't always grow back super full.
Everyone who knows me knows
that I love to draw, and that I love to paint.
So I kind of pride myself
on having a very, very steady hand
and a very fine stroke,
which is why this product
is so great for drawing individual hairs,
for people who have really thin brows like me.
The tip is so fine.
It's so perfect for drawing
those little individual strokes.
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Okay, so now that I'm brown, and pink,
and browed out, and good to go,
I'm gonna line my lips.
Ah, I'm so excited to talk about these products.
These are my products,
they're About-Face products.
I take lip liners very seriously,
because I'm a singer.
I can't tell you how many times
I've pulled a microphone
away from my face and had lipstick
and lip liner and all of that all over.
And then it's on my chin,
and then it's on my neck,
and then it's on my clothes,
and everybody's looking at me like I'm crazy.
So I really had to come up
with the perfect liner.
I have two in front of me right now.
One is After Party and one is Smoking Room.
They're kinda like these pinky browns.
I think we're gonna use Smoking Room today.
But they're so easy to apply.
I'm gonna top this actually with one
of my favorite matte lip colors,
which is Not Your Baby,
which is a reference to one of my songs
of my second album, Walls Could Talk.
I'm kinda just gonna have this
in the middle a little bit,
'cause we were going for a more natural look.
These are also scented
with peppermint, eucalyptus,
and they smell so good.
I'm a gloss girl now.
I never used to be.
Used to love a matte lip.
I'm super into glosses these days.
I don't really know why.
Just something happened,
and I totally had a change of heart about them.
This one is Double Clutch,
which is part of our light lock collection.
And all of these products
are color matched.
So they're meant to go perfectly with each other.
When I'm talking to people,
I want them to listen to what I have to say,
which means that they're always looking
at my mouth.
So it's really important to me
that I feel confident about how my mouth looks,
and how it smells,
and how it tastes, and how I feel.
So having a perfect pout
is very, very important to me.
But what also is really important to me
is having really wide open eyes,
so I feel like people are locked in,
they feel like I'm paying attention to them,
they're paying attention to me.
So eyelash curler is a necessity for me.
I had a really bad experience
with one of these when I was a kid,
'cause nobody ever taught me how to use one.
Funnily enough, my mom
was a total tomboy growing up,
and she never wore makeup,
and she never taught me anything about makeup.
And I had to figure everything out on my own,
and I had two brothers,
and I snuck into my grandmother's house
and stole her eyelash curler,
tried to use it, ripped off all of my eyelashes.
It was a total disaster.
I was in so much pain,
but mostly it was in so much trouble
because I knew that I wasn't supposed
to be digging in her makeup collection
and I did.
Flash forward about 20 years later,
and my mom just graduated from makeup school
in New York at the makeup academy, MUD.
So now she's the one schooling me on makeup,
which I think is really funny.
I'm super, super, super proud of her,
and super glad she went to school,
but I'll never forgive her for not warning me
what would happen if I used
an eyelash curler the wrong way.
One of my favorite products, speaking of moms,
[laughing] I mean, speaking of my mom,
and speaking of me becoming a mom,
is by another mom who's a friend of mine.
This is from Jessica Alba's Honest Company.
It's the Chill Mama Soothing Jelly.
It's super, super cool
'cause it's meant for itchy skin.
And it's like a cooling gel.
This has been one
of my life saving products to use.
I use it everywhere.
It smells super good.
It's got aloe and eucalyptus in it.
If you spent a day at the sun or in the pool,
I honestly feel like you could probably use this
even if you're not pregnant,
but if you've been out in the sun,
or if you have any red patches,
you can see my skin has gotten
so, so, so sensitive.
And it really used to be able to take a beating,
but it can't anymore.
So I have to be really, really gentle with it.
Being pregnant during the pandemic
has been a really, really interesting experience.
On the one hand,
it's given me a lot of time
to get to know myself,
and spend time alone,
experiment with what works
and what doesn't for me,
in terms of makeup, and wellness, and skincare.
It's been such an amazing journey
watching my body and my mind change
so quickly, and learning how important it is
to take care of myself,
and to pay attention to myself.
One of the things that I miss the most
that I wouldn't be able to do pregnant or not,
because of the pandemic is go out.
To dance, and to sing, and to see my friends,
and to enjoy an ice cold beverage somewhere,
and sitting at home alone
and not being able to drink alcohol
or have caffeine has been kind of a little bit
of a bummer sometimes.
So I discovered this one product
that I really love.
I found it out on a trip in Joshua Tree,
which is where I go to write and make music.
I wrote my book there.
It's Dram or Dram,
I'm actually not sure to be honest with you,
I'm doing a bad job right now.
But it's a non-alcoholic bitters.
And this one is Palo Santo.
Palo Santo is like a really, really soothing,
calming smell, taste to me.
So what I do sometimes
is I just add like two or three drops
of it to a sparkling water,
when all my friends are drinking,
Coca-Cola, or beer, or coffee,
or whatever it is,
and I just smell this and, cheers,
and I'll enjoy, if you guys are at home,
have a drink with me.
Have non-alcoholic drink, a coffee drink,
a Palo Santo drink, whatever you want.
It is so good.
It is so good, and I feel so good,
and I feel so calm.
Allure, thank you so so so much
for letting me share my 10 minute beauty routine.
Thank you for letting me list
all my favorite products.
You guys can find them below.
I hope you learned something today.
And if you're out there,
and you're going through
some of the same things as me,
just know how important it is to take care
of yourself and to feel good about yourself.
I'm rooting for you,
and you're doing a great job, mama.
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