This Is the Charli XCX Magnificence Interview You’ve got Been Ready For

“Within the tour we do seven completely different outfit modifications, 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 additionally 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—together with her sixth studio album, “brat,” which just lately surpassed one billion streams on Spotify alone. Now, she’s bought one other achievement so as to add to her resume: As of at present, 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 believe you may see that from the historical past of the folks that they work with and in addition their merchandise.”

The aforementioned lipstick—the one she applies backstage between songs—is Spike Valentino Buttery Matte Lip Shade in It’s Valentino Child, a deep berry crimson. “I am at all times saying ‘It’s Charli Child,’ in order that type of seems 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 like going within the waterline, type of pulling it out [towards the temples],” she says. “If it will get just a little 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 treasured about taking off her eye make-up at evening: “I am just a little lazy with that,” says Charli. “Typically [the liner] is on my eye the subsequent day, however I believe that at all times appears to be like good. I prefer it to have that type of worn-in, party-girl look to it.”

However even 365 get together ladies ultimately must decelerate and exhale. “I actually love a great sheet masks. I simply bought 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 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.)