Dove Cameron claims she’s “so lazy these days” when it comes to makeup. “I used to be a real makeup girl and spend a lot of time on it. It felt very ritualistic,” she says in a new Allure video accompanying her February cover, “and now I’m so tired.” But you could have fooled us. The 10-minute night-out makeup look she shared with us definitely gives “real makeup girl” vibes, even if she’s pared down the products.
“So what I’ve started doing is I give myself a base that will last all day, simple and light enough, and it’s not going to get super cakey,” she says of her game plan. “And then I just kind of pump up the eyes and the lips and the cheeks as the world around me gets darker.” Heard that.
Cameron starts with concealer before anything else—specifically, House Labs Triclone Skin Tech Concealer. “They sent it to me, and it’s one of the very few products that I got sent that I was like, this is so, so good, and I’ll never stray.” She follows it up with Amorepacific Color Control Cushion Compact, which she says she’s used for a decade and Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Finish Setting Powder. “When in doubt, I just buy the lightest product possible.”
Just like so many of us who scroll TikTok on the daily, Cameron is susceptible to beauty-product hype, and one product in particular really lured her in: the Dibs Desert Island Duo. “I literally went on TikTok, and I was like, ‘bronzer for pale girls,’ and this girl was like, ‘This is so perfect for pale girls,’ and that was all I needed. I bought it immediately,” she says. She dots the bronzer side of the chunky stick in a halo around her hairline and then along her cheekbones, blending it with a Morphe contour brush.
As for blush, she’s ready to address the elephant in the room. “The amount of times that I see in my comments—people are like, ‘Why is Cameron’s nose always pink?’” she says. Well, to put it bluntly, “It’s cunt. It’s chic. I love a pink nose. I love looking like I’m chilly. I love looking like I’m full of life and blood, and I’m blushing everywhere, and that’s my choice.” Can’t argue with that. And to achieve that look, she relies on a little cream blush sample from an Estée Lauder x Ladurée collab that, sadly, is no longer available (though any sheer cream blush will do—we love Merit Flush Balm).
Then, in a move we didn’t see coming, she drops in a couple of splashes of Lumify eye drops after applying a Japanese mascara called Canmake Quick Lash Curler.
After using the Dior Diorshow Brow Styler pencil exactly as intended, she proceeds to go rogue with other brow products. “This is an Anastasia Brow Pen in Soft Brown, and I use this to go over my freckles. I don’t like any of the other products that are made for freckles, and this is a soft, cool tone,” she explains.
As for Anastasia Beverly Hills’ Ombre Effect Long Wearing Brow Powder Duo, she mixes the gray and black shades “until I feel spiritually aligned,” applying it along her lashes and up toward her brow bone, and then a little above her inner corners. She then takes just some of the gray shade.
For a decent chunk of her routine, Cameron wears Sacheu Lip Liner Stay-n on the border of her lips. Once she peels it off, she adds one of her long-time go-to products, the iconic Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in Endless Cacao, followed by a pop of a nude Chanel lipstick in the center of her lips.
