Alexandra Daddario Shares Her Guide to Face Masks and Easy, Everyday Makeup

The actress reveals her beauty secrets, from a high-powered serum that keeps her complexion in check to her easy, everyday nine-step makeup routine.

Alexandra Daddario Shares Her Guide to Face Masks and Easy, Everyday Makeup

“This is my hair in the morning!” a pajama-clad Alexandra Daddario says, pulling her rumpled lengths back into a ponytail. Today, the 35-year-old actress, who stars in the new HBO Max series White Lotus, is taking Vogue through her beauty routine, which begins with not one but two masks: a tingling glycolic acid puree followed by a moisturizing sheet. Next up comes her secret weapon: Vintner’s Daughter Serum, which she first discovered after a bout of breakouts while filming 2017’s Baywatch. “It was really the only thing that really worked,” she recalls, as she pats the nutrient-rich oil onto her face and neck. But, she continues, a lit-from-within complexion requires more than just a handful of high-powered products. “Part of my skin-care routine involves the ritual of going to yoga and destressing and meditating and going to acupuncture,” she explains. “I think it’s really important to take care of yourself and learn to love yourself and love your skin the way it is and keep yourself balanced. I think that all of that ends up helping every aspect your health including your skin.”

When it comes to makeup, Daddario, who’s become accustomed to having powders and pigments caked onto her face since she first appeared on screen as a teenager in All My Children, prefers a less-is-more approach. “I like a cleaner look,” she says of her off-duty nine-piece arsenal, which includes concealer dotted under her eyes, a sweep of pink blush, and a slanted Chanel eyebrow pencil. “Sometimes I will just do this and do nothing else, especially if I’m feeling very lazy,” she says, adding that such simple steps have become her go-to beauty equation, even for date night. Occasionally, however, she’ll add an extra flourish with the help of a light brown eyeliner from Clinique. “I can do this without using a mirror at all,” she notes, drawing the pencil across her lids. “I’ve been basically doing this since I was in my early 20s.” If it ain’t broke…

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