What is my daily approach to beauty?
I’m just looking in the mirror and saying,
I love you.
You’ve got this.
You look gorgeous.
And leading with that mentality.
Even though sometimes you might not feel like it,
you have to pretend.
Hi, Allure.
It’s me, Olivia Dean,
and this is my 10-minute beauty routine.
[relaxing music]
The look we’re doing today is 10 minutes,
if I can do it ’cause I’m quite slow when I get ready,
every day, every day look.
Oh, where’s my bits and bobs?
The vibe when I’m getting ready is,
we need to start with a candle.
[Olivia sniffs]
[Olivia chuckles]
Diptyque is kind of the most gorgeous candle in the world.
I love all the scents,
but this one, I hear, is pronounced Baies,
so we set her down
and we get ready.
I would play some music on my speaker.
I’m not going to now,
otherwise, you might not be able to hear me.
But imagine that it’s like, I don’t know,
some gorgeous Brazilian kind of like sixties music playing.
Something like that.
Okay, so I’m not gonna do this on camera
because then we wouldn’t have, you know, enough time,
but these face masks,
the hype is true, guys.
And then, oof, lovely hydrating
sort of prep mist after that.
[spray spritzing]
Mm.
Smells like the spa, even when you’re not in the spa.
If I’ve just come out of the shower
or I’m, like, refreshing my hair,
I’ve been using this recently, OUAI Hair Gloss.
It’s really lightweight.
I’m not really sure, like, what’s in it, but I like it.
[Olivia laughs]
So, I put this on and then I blow it out with a hot brush.
I would say my mom has always instilled in me
that your hair is your beauty.
It’s important to look after it
and treat it like it’s your best friend.
And I’ve never dyed my hair
or kind of like done anything crazy with it.
I just feel like quite protective of her.
I always kind of do think that one day,
I could do, like, a shaved head look.
Like, that would be quite chic,
but I think my mom would have a fit,
so I don’t know. [laughs]
And also guys.
[Olivia vocalizing angelically]
[Olivia chuckles]
If you know, you know.
Beyonce, thank you.
This is actually really hard to get,
but if you can find it,
pick it up and put it straight in your basket
because your hair will grow at a rate
that you’ve never seen before.
I would use this kind of straight out the shower
when there’s nothing else on my hair yet,
and I would kind of poop-poop,
and then, like, work it into my scalp here.
I love the blowout.
It makes me feel like I’m like this kind of, I don’t know,
seventies, sort of like fabulous lady.
It’s speaking to me right now.
Sometimes recently, I’m actually controversial.
Skipping moisturizer and just doing SPF.
This one is Ultra Violette.
Is that how you say it?
SPF 50.
I think it needs to be 50, guys.
The sun is really hot.
And we’re protected.
Ooh, yeah.
Okay, next up, we have the Rhode Glazing Milk.
This is really good.
I really like it.
It’s lightweight.
And whenever I put it on,
I feel like it’s the perfect base
for the rest of my makeup,
and so I’ll just kinda pop her on.
And I’m also gonna use her later for something else.
A hack, guys, a special hack.
Now, we’re kind of getting into makeup world.
At the moment, I’m loving Hourglass skin tint.
For me, it’s always a skin tint.
I don’t love super heavy foundation.
I want it to feel like my skin, like you can see my skin,
but it’s just looking a bit more kind of one shade
rather than lots of different ones.
And I’m either shade 10 or 11,
depending on how much sun I’ve been able to receive.
Today, 10. [laughs]
And I’ll just put kinda like this much
on the back of my hand,
and then work her in.
It’s really not a lot.
A little goes a long way.
You know what? Let’s do this a little bit more
with this lovely brush,
which I’ve had for a very, very long time.
And we definitely wash all the time.
Okay, pretty.
The skin is tinted.
Wow, this is so fun.
I’ve wanted to do one of these for such a long time.
Like, I definitely sit in my house at home and I go
[laughs] with nobody there.
Okay, so next, I’ll use concealer, airbrush concealer.
I’ve been using this one forever,
and I am in the shade Dune under my eyes.
And then Maple if I have got, like,
my chin is my problem area, but.
Okay.
I’d normally just go like this.
I’m not a makeup artist, guys.
I’m just a lover of makeup.
And then I would kinda buff her in.
Sometimes I’d use my finger
’cause I feel like that gives you a real nice
kind of even spread.
Honestly, I do a bit of both.
I used to really do the sponge,
but falling a bit outta love with the sponge.
It’s a lot of work.
You’ve gotta go and wet the sponge and, you know.
I just do a bit of that.
Sometimes I kinda put some here, too.
Okay, cute.
I am gonna put a little on my chin.
This is Maple.
Beep, boop, bap, boop.
I’m really letting everybody see
what’s really happening on the skin.
It’s all right.
That’s actually my face.
Cute.
[mouse button clicks]
The visual world for The Art of Loving,
I think, from the beginning
was just focusing on timelessness,
kinda looking back into the past
and things that felt classic.
I loved a lot of black and white imagery
that I was looking at.
Always looking at Diana Ross, Natalie Cole,
kind of singers from that Motown era.
It’s about glamour and fun,
but, mm, I don’t know, singing from the soul.
Nice To Each Other, I started, and I had my curly hair,
and the makeup was, like, very natural.
And then Lady Lady,
we played with this kinda like really frosty eye.
That was quite chic.
And then Man I Need, I think I had the best hair
in that video I’ve ever had in my whole life.
[Olivia laughs]
Like, that was a great hair day for me, thank God.
And I was being lifted up in the sky by all those men,
and it was just a great day.
I feel like I’ll look back on those videos
in 20 years’ time and be like,
Oh, I looked like me and I looked happy
and yeah, really beautiful.
[mouse button clicks]
Okay.
Now, we’re moving into bronzer, guys.
Bronzer is a bit of a Holy Grail moment for me.
This is my favorite one.
Lasts forever.
And what I like to do, which I saw on TikTok,
which I’m not on anymore, but when I was on there,
they do have some good beauty hacks.
I’ll give it to you, TikTok, okay?
You get your Rhode Glazing Milk
and your Chanel cream bronzer,
and you do that.
You give it a little one of these.
And it just kinda makes the product a bit more supple.
I don’t know if that’s the right word.
And then it’s kind of ready to just go straight on.
Ooh, look at that.
Quite a lot.
[Olivia chuckles]
You can always blend away, guys.
Ooh, best beauty hack from my hair and makeup team.
Less is more with the hair products.
And with makeup, hm,
always take your makeup off before bed.
Sometimes after a show, it’s like,
Oh my God, I just wanna just crawl right into bed
and go to sleep.
But always take your makeup off.
I know that’s an obvious thing to say,
but I know sometimes we get lazy, ladies.
Next up, we are gonna do eyebrows.
I’ve had a real eyebrow journey in my life.
I used to have really big, kinda slugged eyebrows
sort of 2016.
I think that was when they were hot.
I carried the trend on too long.
But now, I’m into fluffy brows,
and this REFY one is my favorite.
And I learned, I know it looks crazy, guys,
but we go that way.
What?
And then we go up.
But it’s completely clear.
But it makes me look like I’ve got,
like, five times more brow.
And then I like to go like that.
And sometimes you get a bit on the top.
You just get that out.
I mean…
[hands smack]
Health, health, health.
Yeah.
Wow.
That’s my favorite part.
I feel like once we get that cooking,
it’s like we’re really getting somewhere.
Ooh, I’d love to just put this, like, lighter shade
just under my eyes.
Just to kinda set that and brighten up the eye.
Maybe some here, too.
I don’t know.
Sure.
It’s blush time.
Which shade feels like my vibe today?
I’d say I spend a lot of time going,
But which blush will it be?
This feels like me today.
This feels like my energy.
I love liquid blush.
I just think it really goes with the kind
of dewy thing I’m going for.
And this one is my favorite right now.
Vision. [chuckles]
[Olivia laughs]
I would prop her on the back of my hand,
sort of pump her out like this.
And then I would kinda go in with my finger for this one,
and just deet, deet.
Pap, pap, pap, pap.
Kind of on the top of my cheek.
And then I would go in with a little brush.
And just making it look like somebody’s made you blush.
Maybe somebody said something cheeky to you
or, I don’t know, flirted with you,
and you’ve gone a little bit red.
Also on the top of the nose.
Cute.
We love her.
Oh my God, that actually looks really good.
Wow.
Eyelash curlers.
SHISEIDO, these are the best ones, rumor has it.
I got a lash lift recently, so a lot of my eyelashes
are kinda going in different directions,
but this will just sort me right out.
I do love a little lash lift.
Sue me.
Sue me.
Mascara.
At the moment, I’m loving this one from Glossier.
I’ve kinda gone through different mascaras,
but this one just feels light
and not too clunky.
So, just a bit of her.
I like to use black mascara.
I’ve tried brown, but it didn’t really give me
the va-va-voom I was looking for.
I just think black’s classic.
Now, for my favorite part, lips.
Lips is where I feel like it really all comes together.
I love a bit of a glossy lip,
but recently, Hourglass have come up with the Blur Balm,
which I feel is just as gorgeous as the glossy one,
but kinda has more of a matted effect.
I like to use lip liner.
I’m very into brown lip liner.
Doesn’t really matter what time of day it is.
I think brown lip liner always looks nice.
And this is actually the shade that I used on the Grammy’s,
the Grammy night.
Crazy.
I will go in kind of exactly where my lips are.
I don’t really overline,
mostly because I don’t know how to,
and that’s, like, for professionals.
This is the shade Enigma.
I don’t think I’m an enigma.
I wish I was.
I think, [laughs] I think I’m pretty, like, as it comes.
And then I’ll just fill in.
And blend that together.
And then we’re done.
[bell rings] That’s my finished
10-minute makeup look.
[lively music]
Thanks so much, Allure.
See you next time.
If ‘The Art of Loving’ was a document,
what message would I hope transcends time?
My aim with album was to remind people
of the importance of loving each other
and our capacity to do so,
and how important human connection is,
and that it’s okay to want love and to love and be loved.
And we don’t need to pretend to be so cool
and nonchalant all the time.
And actually, it’s really cool to be sincere
and love the people in your life properly.
[lively music continues]