Mila Kunis is in her beauty influencer era—kind of. The actor is sharing her morning beauty routine with Vogue, presenting one of her favorite products to the camera by holding her palm behind the transparent bottle. Vogue Beauty Secrets, meet Mila Kunis’s first vlog.
Kunis is currently on the press tour for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, which means she’s wearing more day-to-day makeup than she normally would (i.e., a set of false lashes). Because of that, skin care and prep are super important. Kunis puts her hair into a “let’s get serious” bun to start, then spritzes her face with a clarifying face mist. Next comes the plumping Keren Bartov Booster Peel Glow Serum, which she wears morning and night. (Bartov is the super facialist loved by Demi Moore, Cate Blanchett, and Carey Mulligan.)
“I break out,” Kunis emphasizes. “I’ve always had really, really bad skin. Always, my whole life! I had big pimples, little pimples, all the pimples.” Kunis shares that she only started taking care of her skin “religiously” when she hit 22, committing herself to a facial once a month from then on. “Until then, I had horrible skin. I didn’t know why I was breaking out…. But I just never really took good care of it,” she says. She credits the aforementioned serum for keeping those tiny blemishes at bay today.
She employs Keren Bartov’s Advance Skin Serum when she’s feeling particularly dry and needs some nourishment before layering on the brand’s super moisturizing SPF Triple Active Cream. Sunblock, for Kunis and her kids, is a nonnegotiable.
Next, she brandishes an eyelash curler—“it makes me look refreshed!”—and then focuses on her skin with a damp beauty blender. Why? She doesn’t know—“it’s just what my makeup artist does”—but we know that dampening the tool ensures a smooth finish by preventing it from absorbing too much makeup, ensuring it glides on easily, with no cakiness. “This is for when I have to be out in the real world,” Kunis says of these next few steps. She takes the Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation in two different shades, to help “give the impression of a chiseled face,” stippling the paler shade of product across the high points of her face, and contouring with the darker tone. The result: a dewy, poreless complexion and softly sculpted face.
For blush, it’s a classic: Anastasia Beverly Hills Blush Trio, rolling over the three highly pigmented pinks with a fluffy brush and dusting the product across the apples of cheeks, building up the intensity. Next comes the Westman Atelier Face Trace Contour Stick—used down to a little nub, so you know it’s good—which Kunis dabs around the tip of her nose and cheeks with her finger. “I shade my nose because after having kids, I think my nose grew,” she says. “I want to look…what is it…snatched!” Taking another sturdy square brush, she then shades her jawline more sharply. “Then I look really snatched.”
Moving onto her eyes, Kunis uses a black Ilia Eyeliner, roughly lining above her top lashes and waterline and smudging it roughly to create an easy, smoky effect. A Wet n Wild Brow Sessive Shaping Gel—picked up at Target—is distributed lightly through her dark already-naturally-well-shaped eyebrows.
Then comes the lips. “I hated lip liner my whole life!” admits Kunis, recalling that she didn’t like her highly pigmented natural lips growing up. “I wanted them dulled down. Now I’m older and the color has left my lips…I’m like, bring the color back!” To achieve that color and definition, she uses the Makeup By Mario Ultra Suede Sculpting Lip Pencil (which she picked up on her first-ever visit to Sephora, about a year ago), focusing on the cupid’s bow and under the most plump part of her bottom lip. All in all, it’s a simple but effective glam on-the-go, good for whirlwind press tour engagements and the day-to-day.
“I’ve had the same makeup artist since I was 15, I trust her,” Kunis says of Tracey Levy, whom she met on the set of That ’70s Show. They’ve stayed firm friends and glam collaborators.
Otherwise, Kunis has dabbled in laser treatments to address some of her skin issues. “I wanted to see what I can do with my face without going all the way,” she says. Elsewhere in her beauty and wellness routine, Kunis has stayed committed to her “alien red light mask” (Shark’s Cryoglow LED Face Mask) and uses its red and blue lights, as well as the undereye cooling function, to depuff and brighten the eye area. She also keeps up with pilates and strength training twice a week: “I look at working out as self-care.”
Turning to her hair, Kunis shares that she has a “skunk streak” of gray across her crown. And while she’s not the greatest at hair upkeep and maintenance (“I could probably make time, but I choose not to”), she’ll pick up the Color Wow Root Cover Up, dusting the dark powder across her grays with a sturdy square brush to easily conceal those colors.
A final touch is the Desert Fleur Botanical Perfume Rollerball—with notes of patchouli, rosewood, and vanilla flower, applied lightly to her neck and wrists. And the last word from Kunis? Brush, floss, dental pick, people!
Shop Mila Kunis’s routine, below.
Director: Gabrielle Reich
DP: Dominik Czaczyk
Editor: Michael Suyeda, Sara Rao
Associate Producer: Lea Donenberg, Marisah Yazbek
Line Producer: Natasha Soto-Albors
Production Manager: Kristen Helmick
Production Coordinator: Tanía Jones
Senior Talent Booker: Mica Medoff
Talent Manager: Phoebe Dishner
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Post Production Coordinator: Holly Frew
Supervising Editor: Kameron Key
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
Filmed at: Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles At Beverly Hills
