Lupita Nyong'o Prepped for the Tony Awards with Brad Pitt's Skincare Line
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Lupita Nyong'o is known for both her captivating on-screen presence and sartorial taste. Nyong'o has consistently topped the best-dressed list every award season, so it's no surprise that she ups the ante on every red carpet—and the 2023 Tony Awards were no exception. For Broadway's biggest night, Nyong'o showed off a freshly shaved head with an intricate henna tattoo and sported a stunning custom silver breastplate. And as a beauty editor, I can't get enough of her statement-making graphic eye, plum lip, and glowing skin, so here's everything worth knowing about Nyong'o's empowering look.
Nyong'o teamed up with her longtime celebrity makeup artist Nick Barose, who used Le Domaine The Fluid Cream from Brad Pitt's skincare line. It's also safe to assume Nyong'o sporting Le Domaine was significant since she and Pitt were involved in the 2014 Best Picture Oscar-winning film 12 Years a Slave. Nyong'o immediately became a Hollywood darling who nabbed her first Best Supporting Actress Oscar win for her compelling portrayal of Patsey, and Pitt played Samuel Bass and served as an executive producer via his Plan B Entertainment production company.
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"This is a really makeup-friendly cream because it hydrates and allows foundation to go on so smoothly. I like to massage it on her face and neck with my fingers in a circular motion, and then go over with the CurrentBody Skin Cryo Roller for three to five minutes to wake up the muscles," says Barose, who also works with Angela Bassett.
"Makeup can feel like a mask when you are doing strong eyes with a strong lip. So the skin has to look fresh because it’s what the makeup is sitting on top of. When you prep it the right way, that inner glow is always coming out. I’m known for doing a lot of dramatic makeup, but people always say it looks natural and that’s definitely my key—to be able to make a statement, but at the same time it feels real because you can see the skin and it looks luscious," he adds.
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After massaging her face, Barose applied Byroe New York Truffle Eye Serum under her eyes to help smoothen and brighten Nyong'o's undereye area. "It’s hydrating but it absorbs really well so it’s makeup-friendly. Concealer doesn’t crease on it and you don’t have to blot it off. If you pick the wrong eye cream, it can be greasy and then you have to blot away excess or the concealer will crease. With this, you only need a small amount and it absorbs so quickly that you can pretty much apply concealer right on top," he says.
Lupita's Shaved Head and Henna Tattoo
The 2016 Tony-winning actress also showed off her shaved head and henna tattoo on the red carpet. Before Nyong'o attended the opening night of her friend Mira Nair's Monsoon Musical, she dreamed up the idea of covering her entire head with henna. "I could do something special and different to celebrate the culture using the canvas readily available to me! I was so excited by the idea that I could not go back to sleep. Misha connected me to Sabeen, and we were ON OUR WAY...," Nyong'o shared on Instagram. "Sabeen had NEVER designed for a head before; I had never done such a thing before, either. My only prompt to her was that I wanted a widow's peak (homage to the bindhi, borla/maang tikka), the rest was ALL HER INNOVATION."
Lupita's Custom Outfit
Curious about her attention-grabbing outfit? In an Instagram post, Nyong'o shared her enthusiasm for sporting this custom outfit that was cast and molded to her body. "Misha Japanwala is a Pakistani artist and fashion designer whose work is rooted in the rejection and deconstruction of external shame attached to one’s body. In her artistic process, she creates a realistic and true record of a person’s body as an act of resistance and celebration, and an insistence on being allowed to exist freely in our bodies," Nyong'o shared with her 11 million Instagram followers.
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