Emilia Clarke Says This New Foundation Completely Changed Her Makeup Routine

There’s this old-fashioned thing that you can’t do a lip and an eye. Sure you can! Why not? I think makeup rules are baloney. Whatever you want to do, you do you. Whatever you want to put on your face, put it on. Clash colors, do it all, don’t do anything, it’s all game. 

Since your mom worked in beauty, what’s the best advice she gave you growing up?

It's going to sound silly, but when you’re putting on your mascara, think to the end of the lash. I’m obsessed with mascara, and I want my lashes to look like I’m wearing false eyelashes. So when you’re putting it on, put it on slowly, and think all the way to the end. It genuinely makes all the difference. 

My favorite is Clinique's High Impact mascara. I used it even before I was with the brand [as an ambassador]. My mom uses it, my best friends use it. It works every time.

Clinique High Impact Mascara

Fill in the blank: I love my hair when…

It’s long. I'm trying to grow my hair to my butt. That's the plan. I want it as long as Rapunzel—keep it coming! It’s because I dyed my hair peroxide blond, and it was so damaged I had to cut it all off. So I’m never cutting it again. I like to be able to put it up and play with it and curl it. I hear a lot of “You look chic with it shorter,” and all that, but whatever. I want long hair.

What products are you using to keep your hair healthy as you grow it out?

Shu Uemura Ultimate Reset Extreme Repair Shampoo and Conditioner. It’s so pricey, I use just a tiny amount to make it last longer. But you genuinely don’t need much because it’s really enriching. I’ve been using that since I was trying to make my hair grow again after it had been blond. And any kind of hair masks as well.

Shu Uemura Ultimate Reset Shampoo

Shu Uemura Ultimate Reset Conditioner

What’s your favorite way to take a moment for yourself?

If I have 10 minutes and don’t need to be anywhere or do any work, I have a cup of tea while I read a cookery book. I literally read cookery books like they’re novels. I get engrossed in them, like, “Ooh, that’s what I’ll make for my brother’s birthday.” I get ideas, and I’m obsessed.

Screw, marry, kill: mascara, highlighter, lipstick.

I’m marrying the mascara, I’m screwing the lipstick, and killing the highlighter.

What’s your go-to perfume and why?

Le Labo Santal 33. I’ve been wearing it for a number of years and it is has gotten to the point where people are like, “I keep smelling you, dude. Your perfume is becoming popular.” It’s all the right notes: It’s masculine, it’s feminine, it’s musky, it’s light, it’s absolutely gorgeous. And again you don’t need much. It changes on individual skins. And the bottle looks cool.

Santal 33 Eau de Parfum

If you could change one thing about beauty ideals, what would it be?

Oh my gosh, everything. I can’t handle all the filters—this warped idea that we need to look like a Barbie, because that’s all those filters are doing. They’re trying to make you look like a doll who was made by some dude 40 years ago. Embrace the individual beauty. If you have wrinkles, you have wrinkles. If you have an eye that’s a different shape from the other, or whatever it is, that’s what makes you beautiful. This whitewashed idea that essentially everybody needs to look the same makes me really angry.

Who are the women inspiring you the most right now?

From an acting point of view, I’m obsessed with Sarah Paulson. I think her career is magnificent and she is a phenomenal woman. Greta Thunberg all day. Keep doing what you're doing! And Michelle Obama. I need her to write another book.

Jessica Radloff is the Glamour West Coast editor. You can follow her on Instagram @jessicaradloff14.