“Within the tour we do seven completely different outfit adjustments, 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 all the time works out.”
“It all the time works out” may additionally be the theme of the singer’s profession. Greater than 10 years since she first launched music and plenty of blood, sweat, and tears later, Charli XCX has hit her stride—to place it mildly—along with her sixth studio album, “brat,” which lately surpassed one billion streams on Spotify alone. Now, she’s bought one other achievement so as to add to her resume: As of as we speak, Charli XCX is the most recent ambassador for Valentino Magnificence.
“I am form 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’ll be able to see that from the historical past of the folks that they work with and in addition their merchandise.”
The aforementioned lipstick—the one she applies backstage between songs—is Spike Valentino Buttery Matte Lip Color in It’s Valentino Baby, a deep berry pink. “I am all the time saying ‘It’s Charli Child,’ in order that form of seems 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 like going within the waterline, form of pulling it out [towards the temples],” she says. “If it will get slightly smudgy, I am by no means mad at that. I all the time form of prefer to seem like I have been out partying the night time earlier than, which in some instances, I’ve been… however different occasions, I can depend on my make-up to make it seem like that.”
She’s not too treasured about taking off her eye make-up at night time: “I am slightly lazy with that,” says Charli. “Generally [the liner] is on my eye the subsequent day, however I feel that all the time appears good. I prefer it to have that form of worn-in, party-girl look to it.”
However even 365 get together ladies ultimately must decelerate and exhale. “I actually love an excellent sheet masks. I simply bought 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 form of my magnificence routine.” Does she have consolation films? “We watched Rope the opposite day, the Hitchcock film, which I like,” says Charli. “And I am all the time obsessive about Charlie’s Angels.” (Which may be a message to her followers, who name themselves as a lot.)
