Euphoria’s Chloe Cherry Isn’t Into Makeup Brushes

Reported by Vogue.

There's a version of celebrity beauty content where everything is demure and deniable. Chloe Cherry is not doing that version. The Euphoria actress opens her Vogue "Beauty Secrets" video by addressing the obvious: yes, the lips are filler. "I have gotten so much lip filler in my lifetime that I no longer even need to use the numbing cream," she says, matter-of-factly. Botox too. She wanted to change how her face looked, so she did. End of conversation.

But the part of her routine that's genuinely surprising has nothing to do with a dermatologist's office. According to Vogue, Cherry's makeup process is almost entirely brush-free — we're talking fingers only, all the way through. Her reasoning is both practical and kind of genius: "Your hands are warm, so it melts the product into your skin." She also considers them the cleanest tool available, as long as you're actually washing your hands (she is). The result is a lived-in, second-skin finish that no fluffy brush is going to replicate.

The Routine, Product by Product

Lashes come first — which is not how most people do it, and that's the point. After a year of using Sweed Beauty's Eyelash Growth Serum on set, her lashes grew so long they had to be trimmed mid-production to keep continuity intact. She layers Dr. Lara Devgan's Extreme Lengthening Mascara before anything else touches her face. Concealer is next: Clé de Peau Beauté's SPF 27 formula, introduced to her by makeup artist Alexandra French during Euphoria season two, blended under the eyes and around the mouth — with her fingers. Milk Makeup's Matte Bronzer Stick handles contouring on the cheeks and forehead, and a sweep of eyeshadow goes not just on the lid but up to the brow bone. "People always tell me not to do this," she says. "But I do it anyway." Dior Addict Lip Glow Oil closes the whole thing out.

What Cherry's routine actually illustrates is that the most interesting beauty looks rarely come from following the rules — they come from someone deciding their instincts are worth trusting, filler, brow-bone shadow, and all.

Read the original at Vogue.