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Camila Mendes just dropped her ride-or-die beauty products
Including an ingenious hack for flyaway hairs
In the glorious years that Riverdale has graced our screens, we've had our fair share of envy when it comes to incredible manes, the glowing skin, and the surgically-precise eyebrow grooming on the show.
So it makes sense that we're also borderline hooked on any beauty recommendations we can get from the likes of Lili Reinhart, Madelaine Petsch and of course, Camila Mendes who plays rebellious, triple-threat legend Veronica Lodge.
Thankfully, we got the chance to sit down with Camila herself (who, by the way, is Urban Decay Global Citizen), cutting to the chase when it comes to her beauty products, from the primer she uses to stave off 'oily lids' when applying her experimenting with the latest Wild West palette, to the hair serum she uses to flatten her flyaways.
As you might imagine, she did nottttt disappoint. Camila has curated the perfect ritual capable of offsetting the intensive hair and makeup sessions on set for Riverdale. Whether she's addressing the dermatological side effects of long days of filming under bright lights or after sleeping off a day of on-demand cry-acting, she's got a solution for everything.
You can read through her ride-or-dies below, but my favourite insight? That not only is Camila expected to wear the same nail polish day-in, day-out, while filming Riverdale (true commitment), but that she actually gets to pick the shade. After tiring of O.P.I's jet black shade Lincoln Park After Dark, she's been on a slow transition through colours until finishing up with long nude talons that she feels represent Veronica's new sense of maturity in the latest season.
If that level of investment in her character doesn't scream 'total pro', I don't know what does.
"One of the girls in high school had this on her vanity and she always smelled so good. It was a thing all the cool girls had. Still my signature now, it's what I use in the daytime. Maybe I should evolve and grow up, but I’ve apparently chosen not to."
"They use this on set of Riverdale because I get a lot of flyaways. And when you're being backlit, you can see everything. This is kind of a paste-serum. It's a little thicker, and a little goes a long way, but it's great for baby hairs and fried hairs that stick up. It's my best-kept secret."
"Something that's always been in my life and my makeup bag, since I was literally in junior high, is this... I can’t stand it when my shadow creases. So when I learned about eyeshadow primer, it was like a new obsession."
"Retinol is the one thing facialists and derms recommend that you use in your daily, and it's the only thing that is proven to really work. And so retinol is like a staple in my skincare routine. I use it every other night. I feel like it like not only smooths the skin but it's great for anti ageing, and for whenever I have little blemishes."
"I make sure this is kept in my fridge, so it's on my way to the coffee machine in the morning...I pass by the fridge, grab the roller, and start the process of making coffee. It's all like, 'Okay, I'm slowwwly becoming a conscious human being. Starting to work my brain again'."
Sunday Riley Autocorrect Brightening and Depuffing Eye Contour Cream
"When I wake up from shooting a big emotional scene the night before, I always wake up puffy. So having that little moment of massaging my under-eyes? I need that. This is a brightening and de-puffing cream, so it's good for that."
"I love Olaplex. My hair gets coloured once a month, I'd say, and the shampoo is good for anyone who dyes their hair. But this particular product is a styling cream that's great for wavy hair. One squeeze of the tube tames my waves and really makes an impact, but in a way that makes them look hydrated and natural."
"I achieve my glow through both skincare and makeup. The skincare side is that twice a week I'll use Renée Rouleau's two-step mask. And the combination of that with Hydro Maniac is what really gets my skin glowing."
"For Riverdale I have to pick a nail colour every year, and that's the colour I stick to. There was Lincoln Park After Dark for a while, and Malaga Wine for season two, maybe? I got really sick of the black nails. It was a lot for the entire year. And so now, with the time jump, Veronica's matured, so now I have longer nails, and they're a nude colour. I picked it because I wanted something that would work in my daily life, that felt like me but also worked for Veronica."
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