[upbeat music]
- Tracee Ellis Ross here.
Tracee Ellis Ross
just out of la shower.
Have washed with my hydrating shampoo
and then I used Pattern Medium Conditioner
which is my favorite
conditioner of all conditioners.
Then comes the holy
grail of all holy grails,
the Pattern Leave-in Conditioner,
which I like to put on my
hair usually in the shower
but for the sake of this,
I'm gonna do it out of the shower.
I like to use a lot of it.
I could probably use a little bit more.
My hair's, eh, it's not
as wet as I like it,
but I'm gonna move it all the way through.
I'm gonna dip my head.
[squelching]
Ooh.
This is key.
You can see my little gray is coming in.
I'm not afraid of any gray.
No, I'm not.
So I like to wrap the towel really gently
so that all of the lovely curl making
that happened in the shower
doesn't get jostled or ruined.
Retrouve Body Oil.
Out of the shower while
soaking wet, all over.
You will glisten and
shine and look like silk.
Okay, body is glistening.
Now let's work on the face.
Terri Lawton Serum.
I don't know what she puts in here.
Don't ask me but it's
a whole bunch of stuff
that's gonna make me look gorgeous.
Okay, so it is liquid.
It's like water
and I just slather and lather
and here comes the beginning of stuff.
I do this until it's in my skin.
Some people spend time putting on makeup.
I spend time [laughs] hydrating my skin.
Phase two, Biologique Le Grande Serum.
It's like a spray,
[spraying]
and it's kind of goldy.
I have always taken care of my skin.
As a young girl, I was a picker.
I used to love to do my own extractions
and I thought that I was an
esthetician but I was not.
So I started getting facials really young
so that I wouldn't pick
and I would have a professional do it
because my mom was like, "You
are gonna scar up your skin."
Oh yeah, see?
Something's starting to happen, guys.
I think I'm gonna move to my eye cream.
I don't know how you pronounce it.
I think it's Yon-Ka.
I like the teeniest little bit
'cause there's not a
lot of skin under there
and the thing that's so funny is
I feel like no one ever taught
me how to do this stuff.
Watch, some professional's gonna be like,
"Tracee, you're doing this all wrong."
Well, it works for me, guys.
46 years old and this stuff
still looks pretty cute.
Okay, I'm gonna take my towel off
and I'm gonna put in my Pattern clip
because this is another
phase of developing my curls.
I like to grab my hair from the top.
It's kind of Victorian.
So, we're back to my face.
This fancy jar is La Grande Creme.
I like to use a spatula to get it out.
I don't like to stick my fingers in there.
Very sterile.
So I like a lot 'cause again
hydration, hydration, hydration.
I like to heat cream up in my hands
and then get in there.
Gonna move into my tools.
This is a small vibrating tool.
It was very inexpensive
and it's from Amazon.
I don't even know what it's called.
I don't drink coffee.
I rarely eat sugar.
I don't like to drink alcohol at all
when I'm gonna be on camera
which is all the time.
♪ All the time ♪
Instead of coffee, I
like to dry brush my body
or vibrate my face or roll
my face or Busan my face
and wake it up because I'm often
at work at 5:00 in the morning.
My bathroom is filled
with tinctures, tonics,
creams, lotions, potions, and oils.
So today, along with the four
layers I've already put on,
I'm gonna do a top layer
of Retrouve Intensive.
I just do one little squeeze.
Like a teeny little bit goes a long way.
Really hydrating and a little bit greasy
and shiny which I really love.
So I just kind of press it everywhere.
It's like look at how those
cheeks are already coming up.
Come on, who needs makeup?
Look at that.
This is Biologique Tool Serum.
It's like a pop of the skin.
Two drops, like that's all, boom boom.
Again, I like to heat it up
and just gently pat it in.
The blue balls.
The giant blue balls.
Oh my god, they're glass,
[glass clinking]
and they're cold.
I keep them in the refrigerator.
Oh my god, this feels so good [laughs].
I do this every, a lot of days at work
when it's really early
and I just feel tired.
It is very hard to go to bed
at nine o'clock and wake up at 4:00
and get your eight hours
but I need eight hours.
My beauty routine is more about how I feel
than how it transforms me
into some version of myself
that I can't keep up with.
This little lip scenario right here,
it is a lip mask from Tatcha
and it says, "The Kissu Lip Mask".
My prep for when I wear
lipstick is just that I hydrate
and then I wipe it completely off
before I put my lipstick
on if I wear lipstick.
So now that my face is completely
hydrated and all of that,
I'm gonna diffuse my hair and
get some big, fluffy volume.
This Dyson diffuser and blow dryer?
Shut up.
It's so good.
[air blowing loudly]
I'm sweating, guys.
I'm totally sweating.
Creates its own glow.
Takes awhile to get the poof.
I like it big.
[air blowing loudly]
For me personally, I don't
like when it's all uniform.
I have so many different
curl patterns in my hair.
The front is one texture, then
the top is another texture,
and then there's other
curl patterns under here.
This guy lately does not want to curl.
It's tired and it just needs a break
so I'm just lettin' it be.
[air blowing loudly]
You know, growing up
there were so few people
that had, that wore their
hair in its natural texture.
My mom was one of them.
And that was part of the reason
that I started dreaming
of a line of hair products
and that I have kind of carved
out this path for myself.
Growing up, there just
were not a lot of examples
in media and entertainment of women
that wore their hair naturally
and I'm so grateful to be
a part of this community.
I could chronicle my journey of self-love
and self-acceptance through
my journey with my hair.
I only wanna empower and support
you in loving what you have
and it took a long time for
me to understand my hair.
The more that I understood it,
the more it has been able to do.
I like my hair when it is completely dry
because once it is completely dry,
the curls have sort of sealed themselves
and then once it cools off,
then the cuticle closes.
The shape of the curl is locked in.
Now makeup.
I like to wipe off anything
that's left of that lip mask.
Tried and true, Ruby Woo.
[clicking tongue]
Favorite lipstick of all time.
I love a bold color, I love a matte lip.
With Ruby Woo for some reason,
I like to do the lipstick
first and then the liner.
I use the cherry lip pencil from MAC.
I can do lip liner without a mirror
but I'm looking at you so.
But I could close my eyes.
I mean, I'm not a big makeup girl.
I've got a lot of hair
and a lot of personality.
There's not [laughs], there's
not a ton of makeup for me.
My eyebrows are pretty simple.
IT Cosmetics, it's like a
skinny, skinny, skinny one.
Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop.
Bop, bop, bop, bop.
I spent a lot of time hidden on the floor
in my mom's dressing room
while she did her own hair and makeup.
My mom is so self-sufficient
with her beauty
and I think it's informed
so much of what I believe.
I feel like every person should be able
to access their most beautiful self
and feel beautiful in their own bathroom
without having to be dependent
on someone outside of themselves.
I just like it to look like hairs
so I like it to look really natural.
I have a lotta eye, lotta eyeball
and a lotta space between
this line and this line
so I don't like an arch.
I like when it pulls my eyes out.
Obviously I have lips and eyebrows on
and I didn't do any foundation
and I didn't do any concealer.
It doesn't bother me.
I feel like I earned these stripes,
I earned these gentle situations here
and this under my eyes
and this way when I giggle
or when I get embarrassed
or whatever and the skin
colors change in my skin,
you can see it, light can reflect,
you can actually see my
natural contour that exists,
my freckles, and I could be crazy,
maybe after seeing this
video I'll be like,
"Oh my god, I need to
wear foundation [laughs]."
But who cares?
I don't know.
I wear foundation on TV, in the movies,
I can look like some pictured
version of me, I don't know,
but in real life, I like
what I actually look like.
And even the things that I
don't like that I look like,
even the things about my
face that I have issue with
or you know, I like this side of my face
better than I like this side of my face
and blah blah blah.
But I also feel like who cares?
I have so many things to do in my life
and worrying about this little thing
or that little thing on my
face is a waste of time.
This is, I stole from a makeup artist.
It was given to me.
It's Dr. Lancer, kind
of gentle iridescent.
You know how people love highlighter?
You ready?
This is my version.
And I will look like I have
just come from the beach.
So this is just a really
hot pink cream blush.
I'm just doing that.
I like blush in the front of my cheeks.
And then I might add a
little brown in there
just to take down a little bit.
Tom Ford, it's this little palette.
I don't use the top guy [laughs].
I just use that one.
I basically contour my blush.
I don't know which one goes first.
I don't really care.
I don't need contour.
Look at this little gap right here.
Here's the thing, at work sometimes
or like if someone's doing my makeup,
they'll put so much foundation
you can't even see my contour
so then they gotta contour
and then there's no sheen up here
so then they gotta highlight.
I mean, you can do it
for camera but come on.
See how it took the
pink down a little bit?
But it looks like I just went
and I was like on a walk in the sun?
Come on.
I am ready for a date, you guys.
Who's taking me out?
Seriously though, who's taking me out?
This is a Surratt eyelash curler
and it's nice 'cause
it's the shape of my eye.
The trick for mascara,
I kid you not,
the best combination of
mascara situations ever!
This is Tarte's Opening Act.
The best combo now, you now mix it
with Benefit's They're Real! Mascara.
It's the brush.
And I like top and bottom lashes.
And even when I get my makeup
done, I do my own mascara.
It's so funny, by the
time you get to this age,
I'm 46, you've got the things you do
and they're just the things you do.
Okay, but do you see how the top
just like gives you a
little sexy bedroom eye?
But now we gotta do the bottom.
I do a real clump on the bottom.
You see I've clumped them together.
I use a ton of primer,
use my fingers and this to
like push them together.
Now I'm gonna do the same
thing on the other eye
and then I'm gonna paint
the mascara over it.
So other eye is now done.
Paint the clumps.
Okay, so there they are [sings notes].
Let's bring my bangs back down.
Little serum from Pattern [hums fanfare].
Seal the deal on the hair.
All right, use that extra here.
Tracee Ellis Ross, no foundation,
happy, joyful hair,
a sexy red lip,
and a little bit of a
Twiggy lash [laughs].
[kissing]
