Zendaya, or how to master makeup as a tool for personal expression

Talking about Zendaya (Oakland, 1996) is talking about an early icon that, most likely, will last throughout the decades as what Lena Dunham aspired: "Being a voice of his generation".Zendaya is part of that new generation of stars that perfectly knows the marketing rules and is tanned in a thousand battles with youtube makeup tutorials.That is, he knows as much as the makeup artists who travel with her red carpet in red carpet.We do not say it to say, in October last year he assured Teen Vogue that he often took care of his own makeup for events.“When I started collaborator with makeup artists, I looked a lot at what they did.If I especially liked how someone made my eyebrows, I looked good and tried to replicate at home, ”defended the actress.

Prueba de ello es su estilismo y maquillaje en Malcolm & Marie (del director Sam Levinson, con el que había trabajado también en Euphoria).It was a challenge for the actress: "When you have an idea, and you invest in it (during the filming I wore my real clothes and make up and comb myself) it is difficult not to feel a little insecure," he confessed.It was just a little later to take that historical emmy (the youngest woman to achieve it in her category) for her work in Euphoria.An event for which, by the way, he had also delineated his eyes herself."It's really trying, failing, and try again," he explains about his creative process.On the other side of the screen in those Emmy, Donniella Davy (fluoride orange eyes) and his team, also took the award for better makeup for that series that, there is no doubt, has drawn the aesthetic path to follow byThe gene generation.

In that same interview last year in Teen Vogue, exestrella Disney assured that among the looks he most liked were the classic neutral tones: “The brown.If you are wrong, you just have to add a little more, it's not a drama.That said, I really love a powerful yellow shadow.Or a gold yellow.And I know how to appreciate a red lip with a clean eye, perhaps a little mask.When you find the right red, you can change everything, you know?It has to have enough luminosity, depth, not too blue, not too much this, not too much the other ... I generally opt for a basic matt red ”.Among his favorites, Nars Dragon Girl.

Zendaya takes his facial and capillary care so seriously, that on his own website he even has a section in which he explains, among others, his routine before going to sleep: "Clean makeup and dirt with the wipes.African Black Soup by Shea Moisture.One of my most important tips to keep the skin clean is to wash the makeup before going to bed.There are no excuses! ".Next, apply the Witch Hazel tonic with rose petals (from Thayers) and ends with an oil enriched with vitamin E (suggests that of The Body Shop).Of course, it does not forget to mention its usual cosmetics, which also includes a cleaner that helps him calm an eczema that sometimes comes out.And sunscreen.That always.

During the promotion of the Dvne remake, the actress has resorted to the hairstyles of Antoinette and the crazy and contemporary makeup of one of her favorite makeup artists (and creative director of the Valentino makeup line), Raoúl Alejandre, who makes her ascience fiction beauty (according to the British edition of Vogue).To highlight those futuristic eyes, with iridescent and magnetic tones in a reverse eyeliner, on a perfectly clean and careful face that led in the screen of the tape in London in London.The same team (the precise Antoinette and the even more exhaustive Raoúl Alejandre) was the one that helped him become the greatest sensation of the red carpet of the Venice Festival in September, with a dress of Balmain's leather and incredible jewels of Bvlgari.

Perhaps the great value of Zendaya, which will last over time, is its ability to mimic your makeup with the environment.That is: for her, makeup is nothing more than one more expression mode. Si se quiere disfrazar de Cenicienta, optará por sombras más azules y dulzonas; si está en el front row del desfile de H&M y Erdem, apostará por su lado más preppy; si quiere homenajear a Rei Kawakubo, Comme des Garçons y todo lo que hay en medio, pues se deja una melena afro bien cardada y un labial naranja; y si lo suyo es celebrar a Juana de Arco, pues a cortarse el pelo, ponerse la armadura y darle a la sombra plateada.Zendaya, as a good icon of the Z generation, is willing to use the entire color palette of makeup if that helps to have fun and create a character (which centenary marks like Lancôme, a signature with which he collaborates promoting the Idôle perfume, they have known capitalize).

Celebrate freedom of expression in all its reach, but it also brightens a lot of small limiting details, such as your parents not letting your eyebrows (one of its current hallmarks) as a child.This was confessed in 2019 to Instyle.“Since I began to worry about them, I always wanted them big.I remember that I went to a aestheticist to do them the day before starting seventh.I left there with a more square and a more round.They looked thin, broke my heart.I cried a lot ... It was before starting seventh!It was important!And I was annoyed because my 13th birthday approached.I complained to my mother, but she only told me: ‘They grow again, Zendaya, relax’.I didn't want to hear ".

Claire Stoermer, Zendaya's mother, is a recurring character in her habits and conversations.Also his father, Kazembe Ajamu Coleman (who is his manager and has the appropriate name of @zendayas_dad on Twitter).Both took her to her first audition, that of Shake It Up, when she was only fifteen years old.They are also responsible, according to the actress herself, that she has always kept her feet on the ground.He learned from her to grow and love oneself sometimes takes time, and we are all in that process."My mother did it at 50.His butterfly moment called.He began to feel safe and connect more with who he was at 40.It can happen at any time in your life.Do not force it.We have to know what happens and be aware that nothing happens to not go to the rhythm of others, ”he said in Instyle two years ago, when he still lived with them.Now live alone, in a two -story house.But, from what it seems, with solid (and creative) foundations.