“Within the tour we do seven totally different outfit adjustments, and they are often elaborate. The one factor I actually have time for after I go backstage is lipstick, so I simply seize it, put it on, and go,” says Charli XCX. “It all the time works out.”
“It all the time works out” may additionally be the theme of the singer’s profession. Greater than 10 years since she first launched music and many blood, sweat, and tears later, Charli XCX has hit her stride — to place it mildly — along with her sixth studio album, brat, which not too long ago surpassed one billion streams on Spotify alone. Now, she’s received one other achievement so as to add to her resume: As of at this time, Charli XCX is the latest ambassador for Valentino Magnificence.
“I am sort 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’ll be able to see that from the historical past of the those who they work with and in addition their merchandise.”
The aforementioned lipstick — the one she applies backstage between songs — is Spike Valentino Buttery Matte Lipstick in ‘It’s Valentino Child’, a deep berry crimson. “I am all the time saying ‘It’s Charli Child,’ in order that sort of looks like my signature shade virtually,” says Charli, who has dialled 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 really like going within the waterline, sort of pulling it out [towards the temples],” she says. “If it will get a bit smudgy, I am by no means mad at that. I all the time sort of wish to appear to be I have been out partying the night time 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 valuable about taking off her eye make-up at night time: “I am a bit lazy with that,” says Charli. “Typically [the liner] is on my eye the following day, however I believe that all the time appears to be like good. I prefer it to have that sort of worn-in, party-girl look to it.”
However even 365 get together women ultimately have to decelerate and exhale. “I actually love sheet masks. I simply received into the model Patchology. I actually like 111Skin,” she says. “I placed on a sheet masks and watch a great deal of motion pictures and lie there, and that is sort of my magnificence routine.” Does she have consolation motion pictures? “We watched Rope the opposite day, the Hitchcock film, which I really like,” says Charli. “And I am all the time obsessive about Charlie’s Angels.” (That could be a message to her followers, who name themselves as a lot.)
Because of TikTok, Charli has additionally been dabbling in face therapeutic massage: “My TikTok algorithm is completely flooded with gua sha routines and face workout routines, so presently I am making an attempt to do my face workout routines day by day,” she says. “I don’t know if it’s doing something, however my face positively feels sore afterwards, in order that’s one thing.”
