Michelle Yeoh’s Guide to Skincare Squats and a 10-Minute Makeup Look

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Hello Vogue.

I'm going to walk you through my everyday skincare routine.

When I wake up, I want to wake up my skin.

[laughs]

You know, as I tell you, every day when I wake up I do a lot

of stretches and things like that.

And so I do the same thing with this.

I use this essence just to give it some moisture.

Pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat all over.

Then it's got all that to wake it up.

'Cause we Asians tend to have a little bit fleshy cheeks

and I want to have that nice little contour going.

So, and then under the eyes as well, all the way up.

Normally when I'm doing all this, I'm doing my squats,

but if I do my full squat,

you'll see me disappearing from the screen.

I guess you don't want that.

Remember you can do your kicks,

you can do your stretches while you are

also waking up and exercising.

I have this cold ice water

into this

HR roller.

I normally have two on your eyes,

give you that clean jawline.

It's what we all aspire to have.

My earliest memory of taking care of my skin

is seeing my mom do this every day,

morning and night.

Then she does all these incredible things where she's like

pow, pow, pow, pow, pow,

pow, pow, pow, pow, pow,

pow, pow, pow, pow, pow.

It's like doing martial arts on her face.

She's 83 and she looks stunning.

So, you know, I love this new product that I discovered.

Leonard Rubenstein Mask.

You warm it up and the contours

of your face all the way across

and never forget your forehead.

This is like the warmup massage for the face and the neck

and all the lymph nodes that surround.

It like wakes up all the little nerves in your head.

I think it helps with the growth of your hair as well.

And I do it all over.

With your skin, the most important

is drinking a lot of water.

That really helps 'cause I think when you have good skin,

that just sets up a beautiful canvas for you to be able

to paint on your makeup.

Eye cream is very important for me.

I don't normally rub, I like to give it a little pat,

like do little jumps for the face and all the muscles.

I never leave the house without sunblock.

Since I am going out for a hike later on,

I am using a little sunblock that's

heavier than usual.

My skincare routine changes depending

on the climate I'm going to.

If I'm going back to Malaysia

or to Asia where it's more humid, then I use a lighter

lotion kind of skincare.

But if I'm going to, for example, where it's winter

and the conditions are more severe

and harsh, then I tend to use slightly creamier.

I'm using a natural sheer foundation

because one thing I learned is when you have makeup

that's too thick or a foundation that's too thick, it tends

to highlight the creases

that you normally would prefer not to have.

And I use a little concealer.

My favorite is the Cle de Peau concealer,

'cause you know, I have some unfortunately sun spots

that I had from a long time

before when I used to stay out in the sun

for too long without using the right products in my

younger wild days.

So now older, wiser,

but then you still have to pay

for mistakes that you did before.

Fortunately my mom loves makeup so she's always very careful

with eyebrows and she's a very good makeup artist

'cause she's practicing on herself like all the time.

So that's one thing that she always taught me was like,

don't let anybody pluck your eyebrows

because you know, they just don't grow back properly.

I'm quite blessed with very natural.

I try not to over pluck it,

I just leave it the way it is.

At night generally I use the serum to help with the growth.

I just like fill in all the blanks but not too much.

I always like a little bit of color on the cheeks.

I like it a little further up.

So it sort of highlights the cheekbones a little bit more.

Generally with hair and makeup,

I try to be involved all the time

because you have to be comfortable.

But also of course when you are playing a role,

you're not being yourself then it's very different.

You have to understand why that that kind

of makeup is being used.

The most important I think for me is like the foundation,

'cause nowadays with the lighting

and all that, it doesn't have to be the old style cakey.

If you can see it sticking out like a mile.

It can look like you have little,

almost your own skin coming through.

So that is the kind of makeup I like.

And fortunately, even in Wicked where it is so glamorous

and theatrical, the makeup is still beautiful,

but I am lazy normally.

So I like to be able to have my makeup done

in like 10 minutes or under.

So really it is just a little bit of the eyeliner

to highlight the eye.

I don't like it too thick,

especially if it's during the day.

I just want it to be there, a hint of it.

I do like to give it a little bit of a contour, you know,

just to highlight the cheekbones.

So I'm going to redo my eye.

I like to give it a little bit of color sometimes.

Don't run away.

And this one is like an olive color.

I do my eye line very close to my

lash line just to give it like a complete look.

A little bit of mascara,

a little bit of lipstick goes a long way.

That's it.

I've played in the last two years, three

and I find very different mothers.

Eleanor Young from, Crazy Rich Asians,

Evelyn Wong from, Everything Everywhere All at Once,

and now Eileen's son from, Brothers Son.

All mothers are pretty much the same no matter

whatever culture, whatever language you're speaking,

there are certain gestures that just like

transcends and it's global.

I've been brought up with, you know, to always be

who you are, be true to yourself.

You can't hide. You can pretend to be something different

for a little while, but eventually

who you are will always come shining through.

And I think the most important thing for me is to be able

to find and fine tune a nicer me, a kinder me.

And so I think in that way, this is what you get.

This is pretty impressive

'cause one little thing will just clear it all up.

Thank you so much for watching and putting up with me

and my silly little tips.

Have fun. Go and have a nice day.