Ariana Grande’s ’60s Cat Eye and “Pretty In Pink” Makeup Look

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Hi, Vogue, it's Ariana Grande and I am here today

to walk you through some of my skin prep

and do a, hopefully, cute makeup look.

I'm gonna start with the Sarah Ford Biocell Oxygen Serum.

Sarah's been doing my skin for a couple of years now.

She really transformed

the texture of my skin.

It's so soft and smooth,

and I still have breakouts all the time

when I'm using a lot of makeup on set,

but it keeps my skin as clear

as possible and non-reactive as possible,

so I'm very obsessed.

Next I'm going to use La Mer moisturizer

and I'm going to mix it with some SPF.

Growing up in Florida, I spent a lot of time in the sun.

I think that's probably where some of my discoloration

and my freckles and everything comes from.

It's important to protect your skin as much as possible

when you are using so much makeup.

Clearly I wear a lot of makeup.

I'm sure everybody's gonna be like, Who?

Next I'm going to use R.E.M. Beauty Undereye Cooling Balm.

This is one of my favorite products we have.

This has like my favorite texture in the world.

It's super cool.

And plumping so it fills out any little fine lines

and creates like such a smooth base for your makeup.

I'm also gonna use these Shiseido

eye patches. [paper rips]

Which way are they supposed to go, world?

Because I do them this way,

but I have to be wrong.

At like 4:00 in the morning,

I'm always with my headphones doing my meditation in the car

and then I get ready for a day on set.

So they've been on for like a good four hours now.

So I'm gonna take these off.

Now I'm gonna get into my makeup.

The first thing I'm going to use

is our brand new R.E.M. Beauty Sweetener Foundation.

I'm using the shade Light 8NW.

I'm gonna use like a pump and a half.

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Next I'm gonna use Sweetener Concealer.

My shade is Light 4G.

And I'm gonna get ready to set

with this Anastasia Vanilla Setting Powder.

I like to set pretty quickly after I apply.

I just try to make sure that nothing could possibly move.

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I'm gonna go a little bit out of order

and start to fill in my eyebrows

'cause I'm sure they're probably driving you crazy too.

I am currently like half-Glinda.

I've been bleaching my eyebrows for a year now

and I definitely need to touch them up.

I'm gonna fill them in with this MAC Eyebrow Styler

in the shade Fling.

I like to make the ends really short

and kind of shave them and ruin them [laughs]

and then draw the shape I like

which is more of a like kind of straight and lifted

Audrey-Hepburn-ish-shaped brow.

So I'm gonna try to do that.

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I kind of have eyebrows now.

I don't know what I'm gonna do next.

I feel like I'm going in a strange order today

but I'm just gonna go with the flow

and we'll figure it out together.

I started doing family theater

and community theater in Boca Raton, Florida, [chuckles]

which is crazy, when I was like eight years old

and I always associated each character I played

with a different makeup kit.

So when I was Annie, I remember using a different blush

or a different, like even though I was eight

and it was so minimal makeup,

that was always a really fun thing to me.

And then in music,

I don't know like a different look for each song and video.

It became such an important piece of the puzzle,

and it's such an important part

of being an artist and of storytelling.

And also from watching drag, I love drag so much.

It is so inspiring to me.

When I was on Broadway doing 13,

I used to go afterwards to like see the queens

and sometimes I would end up singing

and that was just a really joyous

and important part of my life.

I'm going to use this contour.

It says Nuria 2

because I stole this from my makeup artist.

I have a massive forehead to begin with,

and my hairline is sliding back more and more every day.

So I have to [laughs] contour it more and more

as time goes on.

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I'm gonna do my little button nose trick that I like.

And then I'm going to highlight

using our R.E.M. Beauty Miss Mercury Highlight.

I'm not flipping you off, but maybe, you know.

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I was always fascinated by Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe

because you could tell

that they were doing these makeup tricks

before anyone really had it figured out yet.

You look at like Audrey's gorgeous brows that she drew

and the way she did her lipstick

like slightly like over here.

And then Marilyn had her own tricks.

It's just, and she,

I think, she used to use Vaseline as highlight back then.

It's just so cool.

It's always fascinated me.

I love, I've always loved makeup.

I don't know what I am doing.

This is the most discombobulated makeup video

on Vogue's channel.

I'm gonna do Bobbi Brown.

I'm gonna take this pink that is over here, this, that one,

and just kinda

my whole lid basically but also my whole face.

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One of my favorite things to do

is to create like a '60s looking cat eye.

And I'm gonna use our multi-use eye stick in Intergalactic.

I'm really concerned about making sure

you guys are seeing everything.

I'm in the process of doing so,

I can't see a goddamn thing I'm doing.

I am just coloring like a four-year-old.

But it will come together. Trust me.

My next step is gonna be blush

and I'm going use Dior Rosy Glow.

Something I do with my blush that also makes no sense

is I, like, go in my eyebrows and my this

and kind of everywhere.

Something else that I fell in love with recently

is doing like a shadowy version of a cat eye

instead of a liquid line, back to the Bobbi Brown.

I'm gonna mix that guy and this one.

Oh, my God, I'm allowed to use this, I just found out.

We have hope.

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I feel like my relationship to beauty

has changed so much over the years,

especially because I started

so young.

You know, being exposed to so many voices at a young age

and especially when people have, like, things to say

about your appearance and stuff at a young age,

it's like really hard to know

what's worth hearing and not,

but you know, when you're 17 you don't really know.

You don't know that yet.

I, over the years, used makeup as a disguise

or as something to hide behind,

and more and more and more hair,

more and more thicker, the eyeliner,

the whatever. [chuckles]

And that can be so beautiful at times.

And I still, I still do have love for it,

I'm doing mascara, and appreciation for it.

But I think

as I get older,

I don't love that being the intention behind it anymore.

I think of it as self-expression now

and accentuating what is here.

Our relationships to beauty are so personal.

Like we're here talking about beauty secrets.

Isn't the secret that we all just wanna feel our best

and be loved.

Full transparency as a beauty person, as I do my lips,

had a ton of lip filler over the years.

And Botox,

I stopped in 2018

'cause I just felt so too much.

I just felt like hiding, you know?

Didn't expect to get emotional. [chuckles]

[hand claps] Take 300. No.

For a long time beauty was about hiding for me.

And now I feel like maybe it's not

since I stopped getting fillers and Botox,

and maybe I'll start again one day, I don't know.

To each their own.

Whatever makes you feel beautiful, I do support.

But I know for me, I was just like,

Oh, I wanna see my well-earned

cry lines and smile lines.

I hope my smile lines get deeper and deeper

and I laugh more and more.

And I just think aging is like such a,

it can be such a beautiful thing.

Now, might I get a facelift in 10 years?

Might, yeah. [laughs]

But these are just thoughts

that I feel like we should be able to discuss.

If we're sitting here talking about beauty secrets, fuck it.

Let's lay it all out there.

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Juicy Tubes.

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Something I do and that's insane

but I use my lip stain

and then I put gloss and then I wipe it off.

So it looks like I actually have pigment in my lips,

which I don't.

I'm gonna use Pink Razor instead.

It's a little more fair.

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MOD Vanilla, my favorite.

Love it so, I actually do love it so much.

Fragrance is so important to me.

It's one of my favorite things to work on.

I saw Hailey Bieber use my product in her video,

and I brought hers to mine because I love this lip mask.

It's so good.

This is the Watermelon

but I think the Birthday Cake is my favorite.

I'm gonna make this line a little heavier

'cause I know that's what the children want.

When I did Drag Race,

Ru came out to come sit at the the judging panel.

She was like, Miss Grande, I love your never-ending

stream of PR packages that are constantly arriving.

And I was like, Oh, my God, I'm so sorry.

Do you want it to end?

It can end if you want it to.

And he was like, No, I really mean it. I love it.

And you created the perfect chocolate brown eye pencil.

And I was like, Oh, I can and will die now.

That was the best moment of my makeup career so far.

I'm gonna set with Fenty setting spray.

They don't sell this anymore.

That is it.

I think we did a pretty in pink cat eye moment today.

We had a little therapy session in the middle. [chuckles]

Talked about beauty inside and out.

And I'm just sending everyone so much love.

Thank you for watching.

Have a beautiful day.

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