“Within the tour we do seven completely different outfit modifications, and they are often elaborate. The one factor I actually have time for once 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 also 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—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 immediately, Charli XCX is the latest ambassador for Valentino Magnificence.
“I am type 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 believe you’ll be able to see that from the historical past of the those that they work with and likewise 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 purple. “I am at all times saying ‘It’s Charli Child,’ in order that type of seems like my signature shade virtually,” 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, type 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 type of wish to seem like I have been out partying the night time earlier than, which in some circumstances, I’ve been… however different instances, I can depend on my make-up to make it seem like that.”
She’s not too valuable about taking off her eye make-up at night time: “I am a little bit lazy with that,” says Charli. “Generally [the liner] is on my eye the following day, however I believe that at all times appears good. I prefer it to have that type of worn-in, party-girl look to it.”
However even 365 occasion women ultimately must decelerate and exhale. “I actually love a superb 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 type 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.” (Which may be a message to her followers, who name themselves as a lot.)
