Welcome to The Glowdown, where we’re diving into the beauty secrets of our favorite celebrities. We’re putting them on the beauty hot seat with our quick-fire round of questions to find out the products they cannot live without, their skincare secrets, and the beauty tips and tricks they have picked up along the way.
Today, we’re talking to Helena Christensen. The Danish model and photographer was one of the most iconic models in the ’90s and now fronts the new Cellular Goods campaign. You’ll find all her beauty secrets and musings ahead.
1. Which makeup product gives you the biggest mood boost? Bright-red lipstick.
2. If you could steal someone else’s makeup bag, whose would it be? Hung Vanngo.
3. You’ve got a pimple. Are you team pop it or team leave it alone? Both.
4. You only have one product to use for the rest of your life—what is it? Cellular Goods Rejuvenating Face Serum ($121)
5. What’s the best piece of beauty advice that you have ever received? Dab on your blush.
6. It’s a bad hair day. What do you do? My bad hair days are my good ones.
7. What is your signature fragrance? Strangelove Dead of Night ($195)
8. Strong lip or a strong eye? Red lip and kitten liner.
9. You’re having your nails done. What’s your go-to color? I usually do a different color on thumbs than rest of hands, and it might be a combo of red and pink.
10. What is your beauty philosophy in a sentence? Nature will make you the most beautiful inside out, so be in it as much as possible.
11. What is your favorite lipstick color? Velvet Ribbon by Lisa Eldridge ($36).
12. What’s your biggest beauty no-no? Tons of foundation and powder.
13. Candles, reed diffusers or nothing at all? Tons of candles.
14. If you could share one piece of beauty advice, what would it be? Go cold water dipping.
15. What beauty product do you recommend to everyone? StrangeloveLuminizing All Over Oil ($195)—I use it on my shoulders, arms, collar bones, cheeks and eyelids.
16. Name one beauty product that is always in your handbag? Fenty Beauty Flyliner Longwear Liquid Liner in Black ($24).
17. Are you team dewy or matte? Dewy all the way.
18. Your brows, in one word: Self-sufficient.
19. Your worst hairstyle (or hair moment) ever: Permed hair and straight bangs.
20. You have to wear your hair crimped or blue eye shadow for the rest of your life: Which do you choose? Blue eye shadow.
21. Makeup primer: love it or hate it? Don’t use it.
22. Confession time—how often do you clean your makeup brushes? I use my fingers.
23. What beauty rule do you always break? I don’t really know any beauty rules.
24. Would you rather have ultra-skinny brows or bleached brows? Ultra-skinny.
25. Which celebrity’s hair would you love to steal? Frida Kahlo.
26. Which era of beauty inspires you most? The ’20s.
27. Eyelash curlers: love them or hate them? Don’t use them.
28. Best beauty hack? Use lipstick on cheeks and as eye shadow as well.
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This post originally appeared on Who What Wear UK.
