Marc Jacobs Does His Busy Day Beauty Routine—Complete With a Fierce Red Lip
Presiding over his eponymous empire, Marc Jacobs doesn’t have much time to spare. For this reason, a streamlined beauty routine has become a calling card for the prolific fashion designer. Today, the 56-year-old, born-and-raised New Yorker shares his guide to looking fresh—and why above-neck expression is a key part of of the full fashion equation.
“Designers going into cosmetics or makeup is sometimes not the easiest thing, and sometimes doesn’t feel very credible,” explains Jacobs of breaking into beauty and launching Marc Jacobs Beauty in 2013. “But we’ve managed to create a makeup line that people do respond to and they do love. And I feel good about it.” After cleansing and toning his face, he reaches for the latest launch, the Youthquake Hydra-Full Retexturizing Gel Crème. Warming up the supercharged elixir between his palms, he massages it into his face for a dewy radiance, and adds a layer of Under(cover) Blurring Coconut Face Primer to his shine-prone areas.
“I love to sit for hours and get my makeup done,” says Jacobs while dabbing the Accomplice Concealer & Touch-Up Stick on his fingertips and tapping the neutralizing pigment in his under-eye area. “I love to do drag and I love to do makeup and costume. Dressing up and self-expression is such a big deal to me. I mean, I’m a designer and one of the things I love about clothes is the transformative quality that they have. You can kind of be this person you want to be in the creative choices you make. And, of course, makeup is the final accessory in any kind of fashion look.” Moving onto brows, he brushes a tinted gel through his arches, concentrating on the outer tails “because that’s where I’ve lost the most hair.” After a few quick smacks of nourishing lip balm on the mouth, his face is complete. Well, almost.
Borrowing a technique from the original Queer Eye for the Straight Guy groomer, Kyan, Jacobs does a few “spray, delay, walk away” mists of Angéliques Sous La Pluie by Frederic Malle, then tends to his onyx crop, locking it into place with Oribe’s Rock Hard Gel (“It is glue!” he insists) and topping it off with René Furterer Glossing Spray. “I think the most important thing in your choices of makeup and your choices of clothes or accessories is that you’re happy with it,” he explains. “Now, if someone else benefits from them or somebody else appreciates them, that’s great. But I don’t get dressed or choose what I’m going to wear based on what somebody else will think of it.”
And with that, he whips out his Le Marc Lip Crème Lipstick in Oh Miley, a cool red inspired by his muse Miley Cyrus, applies it haphazardly to his lips, and “signs off with a very sloppy lip,” completing a no-nonsense routine punctuated by an unexpected jolt of color.
Marc Jacobs Does His Busy Day Beauty Routine—Complete with a Fierce Red Lip
Filmed at Crosby Street Hotel
Originally Appeared on Vogue
