Serena Williams s Simple Skincare Routine and Thick Brow Trick

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Hey, Vogue, it s Serena Williams.

I m gonna walk you through my everyday face regime,

including a little makeup, mm.

So I have on my under eye mask on,

I m just gonna take him off,

cause Lord knows I need moisture under my eyes.

I hear it s hereditary, so thank you, Mom.

First thing I start out with is a light mask.

It soothes your skin.

So in case you have like inflammation or something,

it like kind of just calms everything down.

Now I m gonna wash my face. Barbara Sturm is amazing.

I like how she makes things for darker skin tones.

I ll usually do two or three pumps.

I started having a skincare routine

like when I was a teenager

because you know when you re a teenager

you start getting pimples,

so I needed to make sure that my skin was pretty clear.

And I was always in front of a camera

cause I was always playing tennis

in some stadium somewhere.

In that process, I wanted my skin to be the best

at that time that I could allow it to be.

I actually like to air dry it with my hands. [laughs]

My next thing is EADEM. I use about two.

Actually, I m gonna use three pumps

cause I m gonna put it on my neck as well.

I just put it on my ring finger,

and I apply that lightly under my eyes

because that s a really important area.

Whenever I m pregnant, my skin gets really dark,

which is cool cause I look like I m tanned at all times,

but my whole body changes colors.

Honestly, I think pregnancy is a beautiful thing

and I love everything that happens to it.

That s a lie. I don t love everything that happens to it.

Who am I kidding? I can t be fake.

I get through it,

and I know that everything goes back to normal

at some point.

La Roche Posay. I like it cause it s small.

I can travel with it.

And then obviously, I just dot it under my eyes.

My mom told me ages ago, Always go up on your skin.

I ve already told my daughter who s six.

When you re washing your face,

always go on a upwards motion.

I love using this BeautyStat.

I don t know if you know it, but it s really cool.

It s a great moisturizer.

Gonna grab a little bit and just kind of massage it.

I always do also a little massage when I put on my products

just to keep inflammation out.

If you re not taking out time to just do the simple things,

which I know I ve honestly haven t had time

to do a lot of stuff, but if I m not doing that,

then it s like I m letting myself go,

and I need to like take time for myself.

Let s move on to makeup.

So I m gonna start out with WYN BEAUTY.

I am going at active cause I m going to be running around.

I don t have time to do like this full on

glamorous carpet look.

So this goes on actually a little lighter

because it has SPF 30 in it.

It totally takes on the color of your skin.

Watch. You can see it live.

It s the tone of what your skin is.

This skin tint was super important for me

to have sunscreen in it

because I never leave my home without sunscreen.

And when I m playing tennis

or when I was doing that professionally,

it was so important for me to have that.

The shade range goes from darkest to lightest.

Being a person of color founder,

it s so important to do something different

and then to empower so many people that look like you.

I love this L.A. Girl.

A little dab would do you,

but thanks to my mom, I need more than a little dab.

I love color corrector under my eyes

because it makes the concealer go on better.

It makes the concealer lasts longer.

I m putting some of this skin tint on.

Okay, so now I add my concealer.

This is a Pat McGrath concealer.

There s nothing that Pat makes

that I am not completely obsessed, in love, with.

I think Olympia likes it too.

She actually plays a lot in my makeup.

So what I do is I have these mannequins for my wigs.

She takes the mannequin faces and she just like makes them.

And so my mannequin faces are like just destroyed,

but it s kind of fun.

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Growing up, it was hard not to notice

that there wasn t a lot of stuff in my shade,

and I ve always loved the skin that I have,

and I ve always embraced that,

especially like 15 years ago and 10 years ago

when 40 shades didn t exist and none of that was around.

So the next step I m gonna do is my brows.

I was a stickler about making sure it wasn t dry

because I love my brows.

I know a lot of people are like, They re too thick.

Well, they re my brows. I like them thick.

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But if you do wanna shape your brows

and they re a little too thick,

I go back to my Pat McGrath concealer.

So I just do like a lighter line beneath.

So I m contouring my brows,

which I used to do all the time when my brows were thin

to actually make them look and appear thicker,

and now I have to contour them

to make them look and appear thinner.

When I was younger, thin eyebrows were in,

and when I tell you I ruined my brows, I ruined them.

They were so thin, and so I became traumatized,

and I grew them out for a very long time for years

and I never touched them.

So on my social media, I just make it a fun place.

You know, I just try to be myself.

I ve been doing obviously a ton of makeup videos

because that s what I love to do.

I ve been loving to do makeup for so long,

and for so many years

it s just been like my thing and my vibe.

If you see me like slide off my wig,

just like lean in and just say, I feel you,

cause you know how it is.

You know how like sometimes

you just need to slide that baby off.

I won t slide it off today though. I m playing good.

Next I m gonna do a little contouring.

I love contouring, and I love Fenty, everything Fenty.

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I ve really gotten pretty excited

about using blush on the corners of my cheek

just to bring it up a little bit higher.

In this moment right now, I like to keep my blush high,

which keeps my face happy.

Alright, so I m gonna move on to mascara.

Somehow we ve already won an award for this mascara,

and I m quite obsessed with it

because it covers each and every single lash,

and it s like each individual lash gets special attention.

I named the product WYN because I was thinking,

What resonates with me most? [laughs] Winning, right?

I m kidding. I m kidding.

I am not cocky at all. I promise.

I m gonna move to highlighter on my cheeks.

I use a highlighter in the same area that I use the blush

cause it s like having a moment.

I love the name WYN

because winning isn t about just winning championships.

It s about just winning in life.

It could be winning and having a kid.

That s a huge victory.

It could be getting an A in class.

I m gonna end on lips. I love both of these.

I m not sure which one to use. I m gonna go with this one.

So this color is called Advance.

This is also a lip and cheek product,

and a little goes such a long way.

That even may have been too much.

This literally, when I do my makeup like this,

it lasts a whole day.

Like I said, I can make real life runs.

I can go to the grocery store, and go pick my kid up,

I can go to ballet and still look decent.

Yes, I take ballet classes. Thank you very much.

First position. That s that beauty mark.

I m gonna lock this all in with some setting spray.

Okay, I feel good now. I m feeling confident.

I feel like winning. I m gonna go get dressed.

I m gonna go pick up Olympia.

I might go play with the baby too.

Thank you for joining me. I love you all.

Okay, bye, Vogue.