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Makeup hasalways been a thing forMelissa Barrera.
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“I remember it so clearly.
“It was like a Mexican pink: fuchsia, bright pink.
My mom used just a little bit on me because I was a toddler.
Then, she’d put on a little lipstick and maybe eye shadow or something.
But after she was done, I would sneak back in and put more blush on.”
She just got done shooting a campaign for the brand’s newEven Better Clinical Serum Foundation.
“For the longest time you would hear, ‘Oh, you wear makeup to cover your imperfections.’
Melissa Barrera:Growing up, we always had analoe leafon our table.
Someone would cut a piece of it and it would be there for anyone that needed it.
I feel like I have such a personal relationship with aloe plants.
I genuinely think that they’re magic.
I’ll just cover imperfections, domascara, add alip tintor something, and a little bit of blush.
I don’t use a lot of foundation.
I like to keep it super light.
When you take the makeup off, it actually feels like you just removed a hydrating mask.
Our face is our presentation card and having good skin, I think, should be a human right.
Everyone deserves to have good skin because it just makes you feel better.
It’s a little bonus.
ALLURE:Speaking of which, what does your skin-care routine look like?
MB:I’ve been usingDexeryl soapsince I was 16.
Then, obviously, I have theClinique Moisture Surge, which I love because it has aloe vera.
It genuinely saved me while I was shooting last year in Whistler.
That moisturizer really helped me recuperate and keep my skin good for the rest of the shoot.
At night, I use a little bit of retinol.
I’ve been using it for a while, and it really helps.
Plus, it’s not the kind that darkens your skin around the eyes.
I also like to use theLaneige Lip Sleeping Maskat night right before bed.
That jar has lasted for [redacted] years.
MB:I have topluck my browsalmost every day.
They grow a lot super fast.
I haven’t had anyone touch my brows in maybe eight years, I just do it myself.
I have to brush through them because I can look like a crazy person if I don’t.
If I brush them up, they’ll just go full Cookie Monster.
Or no, what’s the one that comes out of the trash can?
ALLURE:Oscar the Grouch.
Both my mom and my dad have really thick eyebrows, my sisters and I all have these eyebrows.
It’s a born-with-it kind of thing.
I had a unibrow for most of my childhood.
It wasn’t fun because I would get teased a lot.
Luckily, my mom never let me wax my eyebrows, even though I really wanted to.
I wanted to make them thin because, in the ’90s and early 2000s, that was the thing.
Tweezerman
Slant Tweezer
Brow Scissors & Brush
So it’s trim, trim, trim.
I mostly trim on the sides because they grow super long there.
I grab some little scissors and pluck them with a tweezer.
Sometimes, my brow hair will grow in afull loop.
I’m like, what is this?
They will also grow all the way down to my lid.
I don’t know if that happens to you, but I have hair everywhere in my eyes.
That’s why I have to pluck every day.
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