Beauty

This Is the Charli XCX Magnificence Interview You’ve got Been Ready For

Allure


“Within the tour we do seven totally different outfit modifications, and they are often elaborate. The one factor I actually have time for after I go backstage is lipstick, so I simply seize it, put it on, and go,” says Charli XCX. “It at all times works out.”

“It at all times works out” may additionally be the theme of the singer’s profession. Greater than ten years since she first launched music and many blood, sweat, and tears later, Charli XCX has hit her stride along with her sixth studio album, “brat,” which lately surpassed one billion streams on Spotify alone. Now, she’s acquired one other achievement so as to add to her resume: As of right this moment, Charli XCX is the most recent ambassador for Valentino Magnificence.

“I am sort of actually solely into working with manufacturers that encourage and amplify particular person expression, and that is clearly one thing that Valentino Magnificence does,” she says. “I feel you may see that from the historical past of the those who they work with and in addition their merchandise.”

The aforementioned lipstick—the one she applies backstage between songs—is Valentino Buttery Matte Lip Colour in It’s Valentino Child, a deep berry purple. “I am at all times saying ‘It’s Charli Child,’ in order that sort of looks like my signature shade nearly,” says Charli, who has dialed into our name on the way in which to the Atlanta cease of the Sweat Tour, which she co-headlines with Australian singer and actor Troye Sivan.

She additionally credit the model’s Colorgraph Eyeliner in Rockstud Noir for her undone cat eyeliner. “I really like going within the waterline, sort of pulling it out [towards the temples],” she says. “If it will get a little bit smudgy, I am by no means mad at that. I at all times sort of prefer to appear to be I have been out partying the evening earlier than, which in some instances, I’ve been… however different occasions, I can depend on my make-up to make it appear to be that.”

She’s not too treasured about taking off her eye make-up at evening: “I am a little bit lazy with that,” says Charli. “Typically [the liner] is on my eye the subsequent day, however I feel that at all times seems to be good. I prefer it to have that sort of worn-in, celebration lady look to it.”

However even 365 celebration women ultimately have to decelerate and exhale. “I actually love sheet masks. I simply acquired into the model Patchology. I actually like 111Skin,” she says. “I placed on a sheet masks and watch a great deal of films and lie there, and that is sort of my magnificence routine.” Does she have consolation films? “We watched Rope the opposite day, the Hitchcock film, which I really like,” says Charli. “And I am at all times obsessive about Charlie’s Angels.” (That could be a message to her followers, who name themselves as a lot.)