“Within the tour we do seven totally different outfit adjustments, 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 plenty of blood, sweat, and tears later, Charli XCX has hit her stride—to place it mildly—along with her sixth studio album, “brat,” which just lately surpassed one billion streams on Spotify alone. Now, she’s acquired one other achievement so as to add to her resume: As of right this moment, Charli XCX is the most recent 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 feel you’ll be able to see that from the historical past of the people who they work with and likewise their merchandise.”
The aforementioned lipstick—the one she applies backstage between songs—is Spike Valentino Buttery Matte Lip Colour in It’s Valentino Child, a deep berry purple. “I am at all times saying ‘It’s Charli Child,’ in order that type of looks like my signature shade nearly,” says Charli, who has dialed into our name on the best way 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 prefer to appear to be I have been out partying the evening earlier than, which in some circumstances, I’ve been… however different occasions, I can depend on my make-up to make it appear to be that.”
She’s not too valuable about taking off her eye make-up at evening: “I am a little bit lazy with that,” says Charli. “Typically [the liner] is on my eye the following day, however I feel 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 ladies ultimately have to decelerate and exhale. “I actually love an excellent 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.)