Helen Mirren: ‘As you get older, you have to wear less and less makeup’

On her beauty routine:

“I don’t have one, quite honestly. I don’t really know what a beauty routine is. But I love beauty products, and I’m always trying new ones. One thing I consistently use is Latisse [the prescription lash-growth serum]. It really works, and if your eyelashes look great, you can let a lot of other things be crap.”

On wearing makeup every day:

“I wear makeup every day. I love putting it on, and I get really into it: a little bit of this here, a little bit of that there… But then I stand back and look in the mirror and it’s awful! So I take it all off because I’ve gotten too anal about it. It’s absolutely true that as you get older, you have to wear less and less makeup. You can get away with naked eyes if you’ve got red lips. Or red lips and sunglasses.”

On skincare:

“Lately I’ve been using a Kate Somerville face wash, but I’m also a great believer in drugstore products. You don’t have to spend a lot of money to get quality stuff nowadays. A brand like L’Oréal has amazing technology.”

On cutting her own hair:

“Not always, but yes. I can’t handle going to the hairdresser every six weeks, so I only go about once a year. In between, I get out the scissors and do something, usually rather disastrously. Sometimes I’ll even chop my hair the morning of a big red-carpet event.”

… says Helen.

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