Welcome to Shelf Life, where celebrities break down every last detail of their beauty routines from the very best hair on their heads to the guidelines of their toes. Today, model and actor Brooke Shields reveals the multi-use makeup stick she swears by, her struggles with nail growth, and her secret weapon against breakouts.

Brooke Shields and wonder have a really weird relationship. They’re sort of like ex-spouses who’re hesitantly learning to be friends again years after a tumultuous divorce. In the event you’ve followed her decades-long modeling and acting profession — which began before she was even a 12 months old — or watched her 2023 docuseries, Pretty BabyI don’t actually need to elucidate it to you.

As Shields puts it, “Beauty… it is usually been a job.” And it’s a job that’s placed her in uncomfortably brilliant spotlights and under microscopes for public consumption and scrutiny throughout her entire life. For this reason, she’s tried to not dedicate much of her off-duty time to beauty, but watching her two daughters change into taken with it’s starting to alter things.

“It’s now change into more enjoyable to me from living through it with girls, young women — their appreciation of it and their techniques. I’m beginning to enjoy it through them,” she tells Allure. “As I’ve gotten older, I’m beginning to enjoy skincare and makeup more since it’s a type of self-care, and the ritual of it’s calming. It’s nice to come back back into it at this stage of life.”

Mainly, Shields is in her reclamation era, catalyzed partly by her partnership with True Botanicals, which began in 2021. “It’s nice since it’s on my terms,” she says. “I’m not following the fad.” As a part of that partnership, Shields broke down her entire beauty routine for us, including her hyper-hydrating skin-care habits, the manicure and pedicure she will’t go without, and her favorite pared-down makeup products.

Hair

Hairstylists never want me to indicate up [to shoots] with really clean hair since it’s beneficial for them. They at all times find yourself dirtying it up as much as they’ll with root spray or something in order that my hair doesn’t go flat. So I attempt to keep it trim, to maintain it healthy, but not wash it so often.

[When I’m not working,] I attempt to keep it moisturized and never brush it an excessive amount of in order that the natural waves in my hair won’t fuzz out. I like to depart it wet. If I would like to style it, I’ll use hot rollers.