This Taking It to the Streets: celebrity makeup artist Hilla Lali Peer. The routines of working makeup artists are the most useful profiles in this series — they spend their days seeing every product, and use a tiny fraction of them on themselves.
What working MUAs actually use
The fewest products. A great moisturizer, a tinted base, mascara, a single lip color. The discipline of a pro who’s seen what oversaturation looks like.
The pro tip
Skin prep is everything. Five minutes of skincare beats five minutes of additional foundation every time.
The takeaway
The best makeup advice always points back to skincare.