There are a lot of self-proclaimed “girl’s girls” this season. In your opinion, what makes a girl’s girl?
A girl’s girl is the girl who is going to stick up for her friends and stick by what’s right and save face for her friends at all costs. I don’t believe there’s ever a situation where you have to tear another woman down to make yourself look better; there’s just never a need for that. But to be a girl’s girl, it doesn’t necessarily mean you get along with all girls. It’s just a matter of doing and saying what you feel is right. Mostly everyone on the cast had the mindset that you do not have to tear someone else down or bring someone else down to make you look better. That’s how we can condense being a girl’s girl.
The sisterhood between the women on the show seems to be very strong, even when you were all dating the same men. Was that something that the girls had a conversation about in the beginning or did it come naturally?
Jokingly, but with the tone of seriousness, we all did set the premise in the beginning. We had a couple days of spending time with each other before we started going on dates and meeting the men because we had to shoot promo. So we were jokingly like, “Listen, we’re not ruining this over anyone’s son.” We did talk about that early on, but the friendships were so strong. Even if it hadn’t been addressed, it was an unspoken mutual respect between everyone.
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Below, Jess from Love Is Blind shares her favorite skin care, makeup, and hair products.
My cleanser
I have very, very oily skin. I’m always using products that revolve around that. For morning I use Skinbetter Oxygen Infusion Wash. I love it because it cleanses my face, but in a way that doesn’t really strip it of its barrier, I still feel like I’ve got a little bit of, not oil there, but moisture. And then in the evenings I use CeraVe Foaming Cleanser, and I love it. It melts my makeup off, it strips my face, but not of its natural oils.
My serum
I do use a vitamin C serum, and I was trying to remember the brand of it before this call and I could not, so that was my one assignment and I messed it up. But the only serum I use is a vitamin C. Again, I have to be careful about the oils and stuff, because I’m naturally oily.
My moisturizer
In the mornings I use SkinBetter Trio Rebalancing Moisture Treatment. It’s a really good light balancing moisturizer that is good for all skin types. In the evenings I use Cicaplast by La Roche Posay. It’s amazing and underrated. You can get it at Target. It has saved my skin. It’s better than any high-end nighttime moisturizer I’ve ever used.
My retinol
I’ve had a lot of people ask me if I use tretinoin and I do. I use tretinoin, 1%.
My eye cream
I cannot say enough good things about the SkinBetter EyeMax AlphaRet Overnight Eye Cream. It will take 10 years off your skin. You need it. And for eye masks, if I could recommend this to every woman, it would be this: the Shiseido Benefiance Eye Mask. It is a splurge, but you could use it just once a week and it is going to change your life, so the girls need that.
My face mask
When I do use one, usually before a big event or on the rare occasion I get dry patches, it’s the Charlotte Tilbury sheet masks. They’re so good and great for every skin type. You can use it up to four times, and it’s got an antimicrobial thing in it, so it’s not crusty if you do want to use it all four times.
My lip balm
The Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask, we love her. She is the best.
My devices
If I was on a desert island and had to pick one thing, it would be the Skinny Confidential Hot Mess Ice Roller. It’s so good. It is expensive, but the stainless steel roller on it is huge. You can do lymphatic drainage on your whole body with it, which is underrated—everyone should be doing it. People always think I’ve had work done on my jaw and I have not. It’s this ice roller, I’m telling you. I keep it in the freezer. So, in the morning when I’m packing Autumn’s lunch, I just roll my face with it. But I do extra lymphatic drainage on my jawline area. When I’m telling you that is what gets the jaw snatched, everyone needs that.
My complexion
Because my skin is so oily, I don’t wear foundation. For special events, I will. But my base is usually the Alastin Tinted Moisturizer, and this could serve as a foundation if someone really wanted it to, but I just put it on my dark areas and blend it out. My concealer that I use is the Too Faced Born This Way Multi-Use Sculpting Concealer. It’s buildable if you need it to be, but depending on what you blend it with, it can be pretty sheer too.
My blush
I am a blush girl. I love the DIBS Beauty Desert Island Duo. She’s invaluable. You can do so much with this. I have all the shades. My favorite shade is 2.5, because you can use it in any season. Then after I do the cream blush, I set it with my powder, the Makeup by Mario Soft Pop Powder Blush in Creamy Peach. Also, the Hourglass Ambient Lighting Blush in Sublime Flush is also a universally flattering shade. I didn’t come up with that; that’s what they say on their website.
My eyeliner
I felt like my eyeliner on the show aged me a bit. Autumn tells me that it’s very 2016 eyeliner and people are not doing that anymore. But I do love a good winged liner. That was the KVD Beauty
Tattoo Liquid Eyeliner.
My bronzer
On the show I didn’t wear cream bronzer because we had our makeup on for so long and I didn’t want it to separate. I wore the Anastasia Beverly Hills bronzer in Saddle.
My eye shadow
The Makeup by Mario palettes, the Master Mattes. The one I was wearing on the show was actually the Ethereal Eyes Palette. But the shimmer that I had over top was actually a Smashbox, it’s a liquid eye shadow in the shade Kitten Heel.
My lashes
On the show I did have lash extensions, but I’ve since given them up after a long nine-year run. Now I’m completely married to the Kiss ImPress Press-On Falsies Eyelash Clusters, they’re prebonded. They have so many: They have natural ones, they have volume ones. It’s so innovative. And you literally just pop them right underneath your bottom lash, no glue or anything needed. They’re the best thing that’s ever been created. I have them on right now. And my mascara is YSL Beauty Lash Clash.
My setting spray
It’s nothing new, but the Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Setting Spray. The only thing I do differently with it than I think other people do is, when I put my tinted moisturizer on in the morning, I spray some of this in my hand and mix it in with it so it’s a good base for when I do my concealer, or if I am wearing a foundation. And once I’m done with everything, then I spray it all over again. On the show I was extra powdered just because you just never know what you’re going to do that day. And my powder was the Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Finish Powder.
My hair
My hair is mine because I bought it. But I do naturally have so much hair. But I have one row of hand-tied hair extensions that I was wearing on the show. They’re the same length as my natural hair. I’ve used the same curling iron and bought it over and over again. It’s literally just a ceramic wand from Target. It’s by Remington and it’s under $30. I buy a new one maybe every three years. All the girls in the show have actually bought it now, fun fact. I’ve been with them and they’re like, “How do you get your curls to stay so long? What kind of sorcery is that?” And I’m like, “Literally, it’s the Target curling iron. I don’t know what to tell you.”
Ariana Yaptangco is the senior beauty editor at Glamour. Follow her @arianayap.
