Zoë Kravitz Shares Her Guide to Summertime Skin Care and 9-Product Makeup

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Hi, this is Zoë Kravitz

and today we're gonna do some stuff to my face.

I'm gonna wash my face with this

Rhonda Alison Pumpkin Cleanser.

It smells like Christmas.

So I just wet my hands,

got it nice and frothy. [jewelry clinking]

I have always been super into skincare

'cause my mother is.

Both my parents are really.

But my mom was always really into products,

organic products, facials,

taking care of your skin.

And I really think that beauty really starts from within,

from your health, your gut, your beauty routine,

your skin routine, being hydrated.

And then you don't have to use makeup

to cover yourself up, you can use it to highlight.

I'm gonna wash this off.

So now my face is nice and clean.

I'm gonna use this Retrouvé serum.

Really just lovely.

I love all their products.

But in the summertime,

this serum's just really nice and light.

Okay, here we go.

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My parents, they're both in the entertainment industry

and wanna look and feel good.

I think they really always wanted me

to take care of myself and take care of my skin,

and make sure I am aware of the ingredients

that are in the products I'm using and stuff like that.

And my mom and I are constantly

sending each other things that we like.

So now I'm gonna use this Caudalie mist.

[laughs] It's good to keep your skin hydrated

in between serums and stuff.

And it has a really nice minty, fresh feeling.

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Okay, it's summertime, it's hot outside.

We're gonna use some SPF

because it's important to take care of our skin.

So this company ISUN is fantastic

and I love this Sun Butter.

You can use it on your body and your face.

I'm really into smells.

I'm a really sensitive person to smells.

And when something smells yummy it makes me, I get a lot.

So this smells kind of like peanut-buttery happiness,

I don't know, but it's really, really delicious.

Little goes a long way,

and especially with SPF,

it can be hard to blend in.

Light layer.

I've not always worn SPF.

It's something actually I'm just becoming strict about.

I have freckles, which I love,

but I'm getting more and more.

And I just want to make sure I'm not damaging my skin

and I live in New York and I walk outside all day

and all of a sudden you realize

you've been basically baking in the sun for like 12 hours.

But it's important that we protect our skin.

I really think wellness

starts with diet, exercise, hydration.

I try and drink a lot of water.

It's easy to forget to do that too.

And I think it's all about balance, right?

I think it's about joy and happiness and laughter. [laughs]

I really think that affects the way you look and feel.

I love to steam too, I love to sweat things out.

I think it's good to keep the body moving like that.

So speaking of internal wellness,

me and my mother, every year, we try and do

the Dr. Schulze 30 Day Cleanse together.

It's a 30 day cleanse

that focuses on all your different organs,

so your bowel, your liver, your kidney, gallbladder,

and then bowel again.

And it's just a nice thing

to kinda reset your body every year.

And if you don't do that cleanse, it's fine.

I just think taking a week of eating raw natural foods

is a great way to just kind of let your body relax

because it's constantly working to process everything

that we're putting in it.

So it's nice to basically give your guts a vacation.

So eye cream.

We love eye cream because we love our eyes

and the skin under our eyes is all thin and delicate.

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So growing up, I had acne.

I had a lot of acne on my forehead

and on my cheeks.

And I still break out, you know?

It happens.

Even if you don't have a lot of makeup on,

living in a city like New York,

there's pollution and shit in the air,

so no matter what time it is and what my night's been,

I will wash my face, religiously.

So in between skincare and makeup,

I'm gonna put on some deodorant.

This company milk + honey.

And I've been on quite a journey

with just natural deodorants, in general.

Because a lot of them don't work.

But I don't want to put aluminum

near my lymph nodes and breasts,

really, really bad for us,

so should we be trying to use natural deodorants.

And this is one of the first ones that works, truly works.

Lasts all day and smells delicious.

So I just put a little on my hand and then do this.

Just gonna rub it on my pits. [laughs] Here we go.

We're gonna start with some Fenty primer.

Shoutout to badgalriri, because you're so cool,

we all wanna be you.

Especially after putting lots of serums on and stuff,

we're nice and dewy, which we love,

but there are some places that we don't want to be dewy.

And we have to matte it.

So I just put a little bit, very little,

especially if you're gonna go over it with makeup,

because it can roll.

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Now, we're going to put on a little concealer.

I don't, on a daily basis, wear foundation,

but it's nice to balance things out.

Our Touche Éclat.

I love this stuff because it's light

and just kind of brighten things up.

Sometimes a lot comes out,

just put in on your hand like that.

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And this is great for a happy medium

of just covering little spots.

I started wearing makeup probably when I was 14 to 15.

My mom always tried to get me to not,

but I would buy it.

I also plucked my eyebrows really, really thin

when I was 15 and my mom yelled at me,

god bless her soul,

and told me if I ever touched my eyebrows again,

she was like, I'll be mad.

And I'm so glad she did,

because I love my eyebrows and they're nice and thick

and they grew back, which I'm really lucky.

I lived in Miami for a while,

and there was a very specific trend

of this gel blue liner that all the girls would wear.

I was like this 15 year old girl with really tiny eyebrows

and this blue line across my eye,

and it was a look.

Eyebrows.

We have this YSL Couture Brow Pencil.

And we're just gonna fill in the brows.

I like to start in the middle and not the front,

just to kind of control the shape.

And you don't want the front to be too heavy.

I love makeup.

I love doing it,

I think it's a literal art form.

And obviously a red lip's like,

people know you're wearing red lips,

but I just think there's also some really fun little secrets

where it's fun that no one can tell you're wearing

something on your eyes or on your face,

it's like a little trick.

I like to trick people. [laughs]

So, I just think there are different kinds of makeup

and everyone finds their own style,

but I do like to try and encourage people,

and I say this all the time,

but to enhance the things that you love

and not try and change your face completely,

or reshape your face completely.

Sometimes it's fun to do that,

but everyone is so pretty in their own way.

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So now we're gonna do a little bit of eyeliner.

I love this eyeliner, it's a Korean brand,

I believe it's pronounced Cheongdam.

And I love it because it's really, really thin.

[eyeliner clicks]

So it's just easier to control.

We're about to embark on a journey together.

I don't go all the way across,

I like to start about here.

And then I usually,

that's what I do.

I literally wipe it

with my finger,

which kind of gives it a sharper edge.

So if we're doing a more cat-eye liner,

I like it kind of fresh,

but if you're doing inside the water line,

I think that always looks good the next day.

Ooh, that looks nice.

'Cause it smudges down a little bit.

I like it even when it comes down a little bit.

I think it feels a little bit more natural

when it's not super pointy and going up too much.

I basically wanna make my eyes look bigger

and open them up.

We're gonna use this Sunkissed Nudestix

and it's a nice creamy

texture.

I don't know why,

but I tend to put everything on my hand first,

just so that you make sure there's not too much.

You can control it.

You wanna smile,

you wanna smile like this.

And put a little [laughs]

on your cheeks.

And also pat a little on your eye,

I actually really like it when the eyelids

are the same color as the cheeks,

'cause it just feels like a natural, consistent,

like this is the color of my face. [laughs]

But it does feel just kinda like a natural blushy feel.

And I also, obviously, brushes are a thing,

but I tend to do makeup with my fingers.

We're gonna do a little highlighter.

We're gonna use this incredible Pat McGrath,

I love you Pat,

highlighter.

And so we're just gonna put a little on the cheekbone.

And a little extra zhoosh

is I like to put a little bit of the highlighter

just in the corners.

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Something I love about this,

is that it has a balm on the other side.

So it's just nice to go over the highlighter

with the balm.

It blends it.

And it makes it look less dry,

and actually adds to the highlight effect.

I'm also gonna put a little more

of this Fenty mattifier here again,

just a little.

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And I just think that this kind of everyday,

no-makeup makeup is something I do a lot,

because of my job too.

I play a lot of women who don't wear makeup,

but it's obviously still needs to feel pretty.

So in High Fidelity and Big Little Lies,

my incredible makeup artist,

she's just so good at the no-makeup makeup,

which is nice because it feels

more truthful to the character.

And yet, you can still look a little something.

So that's also the reason why I've fallen in love

with this style of makeup.

Honestly, sometimes on Big Little Lies

I would get jealous,

'cause Reese and Nicole,

Shay didn't wear very much makeup either,

but Laura,

they all looked so fabulous all the time.

I was like, I want to look like that.

So now, we're gonna do lips.

I'm going to start with a lip liner.

And this is a Marc Jacobs lip liner.

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My technique for liner is just to go pretty soft.

And slowly build, as opposed to,

lip liner and lipstick,

I think it's a better thing to build,

'cause I really like a pouty lip.

If you wanna kinda make your lips look a little bigger,

I would go lower here, as opposed to up here.

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You bring it up a little

and do the inside of your lip,

and it gives you a cute little shape.

And I like to blur it out a little bit,

'cause again, I don't like the harsh lines.

So we're going to use

the Slim Radical Matte Lipstick by YSL.

Because we're doing, again, an everyday thing,

we're gonna for a pinky, pretty lip.

Again, we're just gonna kinda

pat.

I'm pretty good at doing makeup in transit,

just 'cause, I don't know, in New York,

I've done makeup on the stoops,

and in a lot of dimly-lit bathrooms.

You can go back over

with the lip liner

and do a little.

[mellow music] We're gonna use a little coconut oil,

and I look to put it in my hair.

Us Black girls should keep our hair hydrated.

And I also just use this literally all over my body.

So I'm gonna like.

My hair journey has been quite the hair journey

and I think that, probably, a lot of brown girls

can identify with that,

brown people,

because we're basically taught to hate our hair.

I used to relax my hair,

which was really bad and it would break off,

and actually, I think, ends up looking a little funny,

on me.

And then also, it grows out really quickly.

And so the braids have been just a really great way

to protect my hair

and be able to be playful with it,

but not put any chemicals in it.

And then lately, for films,

I've been doing wigs, which is great.

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I cornrow my hair, put on a wig.

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Ba-bam.

So we're gonna finish with a scent,

because smells are important to me.

And we are gonna use today the new Black Opium Extreme.

Ooh.

[inhales deeply]

Yeah, delicious.

I just spray it directly on.

Usually I'll do this baby, you know?

Honestly,

it's on my wrists now,

I'm just gonna put it in my hair.

We look good, we feel good,

we smell good.

Thank you guys so much

for watching my face and beauty routine.

And have a good day.

Bye.

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