“In the tour we do seven different outfit changes, and they can be elaborate. The only thing I really have time for when I go backstage is lipstick, so I just grab it, put it on, and go,” says Charli XCX. “It always works out.”
“It always works out” may additionally be the theme of the singer’s profession. Greater than 10 years since she first launched music and many blood, sweat, and tears later, Charli XCX has hit her stride — to place it mildly — together with her sixth studio album, brat, which just lately surpassed one billion streams on Spotify alone. Now, she’s received one other achievement so as to add to her resume: As of at this time, Charli XCX is the latest ambassador for Valentino Magnificence.
“I’m kind of really only into working with brands that encourage and amplify individual expression, and that’s obviously something that Valentino Beauty does,” she says. “I think you can see that from the history of the people that they work with and also their products.”
The aforementioned lipstick — the one she applies backstage between songs — is Spike Valentino Buttery Matte Lipstick in ‘It’s Valentino Child’, a deep berry purple. “I’m always saying ‘It’s Charli Baby,’ so that kind of feels like my signature shade almost,” says Charli, who has dialled 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 love going in the waterline, kind of pulling it out [towards the temples],” she says. “If it gets a little smudgy, I’m never mad at that. I always kind of like to look like I’ve been out partying the night before, which in some cases, I have been… but other times, I can rely on my makeup to make it look like that.”
She’s not too treasured about taking off her eye make-up at evening: “I’m a little lazy with that,” says Charli. “Sometimes [the liner] is on my eye the next day, but I think that always looks good. I like it to have that kind of worn-in, party-girl look to it.”
However even 365 occasion ladies ultimately must decelerate and exhale. “I really love a good sheet mask. I just got into the brand Patchology. I really like 111Skin,” she says. “I put on a sheet mask and watch loads of movies and lie there, and that’s kind of my beauty routine.” Does she have consolation films? “We watched Rope the other day, the Hitchcock movie, which I love,” says Charli. “And I’m always obsessed with Charlie’s Angels.” (Which may be a message to her followers, who name themselves as a lot.)
Due to TikTok, Charli has additionally been dabbling in face therapeutic massage: “My TikTok algorithm is absolutely flooded with gua sha routines and face exercises, so currently I’m trying to do my face exercises every day,” she says. “I don’t know if it’s doing anything, but my face definitely feels sore afterwards, so that’s something.”
