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Watch Madame Web Star Isabela Merced Get Ready for a Girls’ Night Out

The 21-year-old star walks us through her skin-care and makeup routine for a night on the town. Director:Gabrielle Reich Director of Photography: Josh Herzog Editors: Michael Suyeda, Brittany Lewis Associate Producer: Natalie Harris Production Manager: Kit Fogarty Production Coordinator: Ava Kashar Associate Talent Manager: Phoebe Feinberg Associate Director, Post Production: Nicholas Ascanio Post Production Supervisor: Marco Glinbizzi Post Production Coordinator: Jovan James Supervising Editor: Kameron Key Assistant Editor: Andy Morell Filmed at: The Wlliam Vale

Released on 10/01/2022

Transcript

[lounge music]

Hi, I'm Isabela Merced,

and this is my Quick on-the-go skincare routine

and Girls Night Out makeup look, so let's get started.

I'm gonna start off with OSEA,

and it's just their ocean cleanser.

I've always had a skincare routine,

but it's also changed throughout the years,

because our skin changes, our hormones change,

I have to adjust according to the seasons,

and right now we're kind of in a wintery season,

and I just wanna make sure that I'm on top of my game.

I'm gonna go in with my vitamin C serum from Tree of Life.

What I do is I put on the vitamin C in the morning

and then hyaluronic afterwards.

I'm just gonna put a dot. [lounge music continues]

Unfortunately, I had to learn about all this skin care stuff

by myself, because my mom is like super holistic

and just uses soap and water. [laughs]

I was the one who had to tell her like, put moisturizer on.

This is all kind of self-learned,

and after being in the industry for a while,

you kind of just have to learn how to take care of yourself

when you're not working.

I've got a little pea-sized amount

of this amazing multi-peptide eye cream.

[lounge music continues]

We're gonna be doing this moisturizer.

Basically, I got this in an airport,

because my skin felt like it was cracked to the extreme,

and I felt every facial expression forming on my face,

and I actually ended up liking it.

So I'm gonna grab like a generous amount,

'cause we're gonna get the neck too.

We wanna make sure our lips are moisturized.

I am addicted to ChapStick,

specifically Lucas Pawpaw Ointment.

[lounge music continues] So my skin is prepped,

let's get ready for this girl's night,

'cause I'm going out tonight,

and I'm gonna have some fun and look good while doing it.

We're gonna start with this product Tower 28 SunnyDays.

It also has SPF in it,

which is very important to incorporate.

I have to change my products all the time,

because I am in fact Hispanic,

and so my skin changes color all the time,

depending on how much I'm in the sun.

This is really light coverage y'all,

'cause I don't like to feel the makeup on my skin.

And then for the concealer, it's called IL MAKIAGE,

it popped up on some ad one day,

and I was like, Okay, let me see,

and it was like, We'll match your color perfectly,

and I was like, Okay. [lounge music continues]

And actually, they did a really good job.

I'm gonna put a little under the eyes

to pretend like I did not rap at 4:00 AM yesterday

and then wake up hella early.

[lounge music continues]

Another thing that works for me is the powder that I use,

which is Laura Mercier.

I was out here using all those like white powders

that left my skin looking a little ghosty,

and I was like, Why is that?

Well, babes, I have an olive skin tone,

Laura Mercier has a translucent honey one,

which is, you know, a darker, warmer powder,

and it sits really nice on my skin.

[lounge music continues]

So I was working on my first movie of this year,

I had like two panic attacks that were really significant,

and both of them happened on set.

I wasn't listening to my body, and, you know,

we learn as we go, and I'm only 21.

I decided from then on

that I'm gonna just do two movies a year,

and keep it at that,

we need to sort of, to enjoy life,

and not prove to others that we have one.

I'm doing a little bit of of contour,

but in a different way than Rihanna probably advertised.

It's Fenty Beauty. [lounge music continues]

So I just kind of do a few swipes of this,

and I actually start kind of lower

and I lightly press it in,

and then I bring it up and I build it.

When it comes to the movies, I don't know how,

but I've gotten very lucky with every single one

to have like amazing castmates and crew.

Literally, the last project that I just finished up,

I don't think I would've maintained my sanity,

had it not been for them being around,

and like, their presence, and our solidarity.

Sydney Sweeney and Celeste O'Connor,

they have been kind of like the first group of girls

that I hang out with.

They're awesome, and I love them very much,

if they're watching. [lounge music continues]

So I'm gonna do a little blush, I'm gonna combine two,

but I'm gonna use the creamier one right now.

And it's RMS Lip2Cheek, and shade Modest.

I make it quite apparent to people that I am, you know,

of Hispanic descent,

and that's kind of like my brand, I guess.

Like, Latinos aren't just all the same.

I'm Peruvian, so I think my job is to make sure

people know where Peru is, and what it is,

and the beauty that it has to offer.

So the next step is,

I'm gonna take this really oversized brush,

this old bronzer that I keep using. [laughs]

[lounge music continues]

Now we're moving on to brows.

I got this, precisely my brow pencil.

So my tip is to brush your brow hairs downward.

My eyebrow hairs naturally grow downward,

they want to like force them to stay up.

And we're basically going to fill them in

in the sparse areas.

[lounge music continues]

And here comes, dun, dun dun,

the brow glue.

Then you're gonna use your finger,

you're just gonna press up.

This is for the stubborn eyebrow girls.

Going in again,

but we're going to brush down the middle part right here,

like this kind of area.

So for the direction of the hair growth, up, down, up.

[lounge music continues]

I'm gonna use two eye pencils today,

Honest Beauty Vibeliner Pencil Eyeliner, shade Grounded,

and then Neutrogena Smokey Kohl Eyeliner.

And I want to elongate my eyes,

'cause this girl's night, we're being hot girls tonight.

And then I go with this thinner pencil,

and we're gonna go start from the bottom,

and literally just go up like that.

[lounge music continues]

I'm gonna go in with this guy.

I can stick anything in my eye,

and it will not like hurt, I won't flinch.

Then we're gonna do mascara.

And I'm really proud of myself

for putting this in my bag,

'cause it's just really pretty and it's Dior.

This is what I used on the premiere of Rosaline.

I had fun doing that, because I got to wear...

Wow. [lounge music continues]

Okay, I got to wear

these beautiful like historically accurate gowns.

Another hack, when you get a clump of mascara on your skin,

don't wipe it off,

you wait a significant amount of time,

and then it'll get hard,

and then you can just flick it away.

Let's go onto the highlighter.

So this is actually an eye stick.

I saw this on TikTok.

[lounge music continues]

Going in with Huda Beauty Lip Contour 2.0, in Rich Brown.

I was looking

at vintage pictures of the girlies back in the day,

especially like J-Lo and Soma Hayek,

she had a look in particular

where she had a darker brown lip and

and I wanted to look like her, so.

[lounge music continues]

We go in with this,

Huda Beauty,

and it's in the shade Money Maker, it's a cream lipstick.

So now that I see everything together,

I actually wanna add a little bit more mascara.

And fun fact about mascara,

is that in Spanish, it's not mascara,

it's actually rimel.

In English we say Rimmel.

Well, Rimmel was the first mascara company

to ever send mascara to South America,

and because of like the effect of, we see this product,

sure there's fine print that says mascara,

but we just see Rimmel in big letters.

From then to now, everyone just calls it rimel.

[lounge music continues]

Thank you so much for watching.

I hope you learned a few tricks, tips, or two,

and I'm gonna be going out now.

Bye.

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