Dua Lipa knows what works for her, both on- and offstage. And now the singer-songwriter is sharing some of those secrets with Vogue.
Lipa has been trying to figure out her skin since she was a teen. “I really started struggling with my skin quite a bit,” she admits of the barrier-disrupting combination of heavy make-up and sweaty dance moves that came when she started touring. Waking up in the morning after a performance, Lipa always had “some kind of blemish of some sort”, which impacted her confidence, she says. Now, she’s taken control of her routine, especially the skincare portion.
Of course, cleansing is her first step. She likens a swipe of Bioderma Micellar Water to “pressing the reset button on a laptop”. Next, it’s time for a big reveal that she’s “very excited to announce”: a trio of products launched in collaboration with cult skincare brand Augustinus Bader. “I wanted to create my own skincare line, and I felt like the only way to do it was to really team up with the very best,” she says, while pulling out the Dua Powered by Augustinus Bader Balancing Cream Cleanser. She still likes a mix, layering IS Clinical’s Pro-Heal Serum Advance+ before a couple of pumps of her Supercharged Glow Complex, which has passed the “real test”, she says: “When I get on tour and I see how my skin’s going to react to it, that’s going to be the real telltale sign.”
Next, Lipa takes her vitamins and minerals – in liposomal form – like Akasha Superfoods Liposomal Sea Moss Gel, which she chases with a few swigs of Evian water. The mind-body balance is important, after all. “For my mindset, waking up every morning doing a workout of some sort of Pilates or yoga” is essential, Lipa says. “If I don’t have time, really don’t have time, then I’ll take 10 minutes for meditation or a stretch.”
She calls her Renewal Cream “so cute”, and explains that the formula has “a natural pinky colour to it, and that’s because of the vitamin B12, which really helps protect the skin barrier.” When it comes to make-up, she’s still using tricks she learned while working at a club in London. “I started experimenting more with eyeshadows and eyeliners and different colours, and what works for me and what really doesn’t,” she says. Today, she likes to build dimension from the jump with a bronzer like Vieve Modern Radiance Cream Bronzer and always primes her brushes, a tip from her make-up artist Katie Jane Hughes (who gave her an early sample of her new KJH brand Nano Set Brow Gel, which also just launched). Lipa loves the tiny brush and clear formula that “freezes” brows in place.
