Welcome to Shelf Life, the place celebrities break down each final element of their magnificence routines from the best hair on their heads to the guidelines of their toes. At this time, mannequin and actor Brooke Shields reveals the multi-use make-up stick she swears by, her struggles with nail progress, and her secret weapon towards breakouts.

Brooke Shields and sweetness have a really bizarre relationship. They’re type of like ex-spouses who’re hesitantly studying to be pals once more years after a tumultuous divorce. If you happen to’ve adopted her decades-long modeling and performing profession — which started earlier than she was even a 12 months outdated — or watched her 2023 docuseries, Fairly Child, I don’t actually need to elucidate it to you.

As Shields places it, “Magnificence… it is all the time been a job.” And it’s a job that’s positioned her in uncomfortably vivid spotlights and below microscopes for public consumption and scrutiny all through her total life. Due to this, she’s tried to not dedicate a lot of her off-duty time to magnificence, however watching her two daughters grow to be curious about it’s beginning to change issues.

“It is now grow to be extra pleasurable to me from dwelling via it with ladies, younger girls — their appreciation of it and their strategies. I am beginning to take pleasure in it via them,” she tells Attract. “As I’ve gotten older, I am beginning to take pleasure in skincare and make-up extra as a result of it is a type of self-care, and the ritual of it’s calming. It is good to come back again into it at this stage of life.”

Mainly, Shields is in her reclamation period, catalyzed partially by her partnership with True Botanicals, which started in 2021. “It is good as a result of it is on my phrases,” she says. “I am not following the fad.” As a part of that partnership, Shields broke down her total magnificence routine for us, together with her hyper-hydrating skin-care habits, the manicure and pedicure she will’t go with out, and her favourite pared-down make-up merchandise.

Hair

Hairstylists by no means need me to point out up [to shoots] with actually clear hair as a result of it is helpful for them. They all the time find yourself dirtying it up as a lot as they will with root spray or one thing in order that my hair would not go flat. So I attempt to maintain it trim, to maintain it wholesome, however not wash it so typically.

[When I’m not working,] I attempt to maintain it moisturized and never brush it an excessive amount of in order that the pure waves in my hair will not fuzz out. I like to depart it moist. If I have to model it, I am going to use scorching rollers.