Let me begin by saying that I’m hardly ever ever starstruck. Actually, I’m most likely one of the vital cool, calm and picked up individuals you’ll ever meet on the subject of being within the presence of celebrities. Nonetheless, till Friday, I’d by no means been face-to-face with Rihanna. Interviewing her on the Fenty Skin and Fenty Beauty occasion in Los Angeles, within the thick of Tremendous Bowl weekend, my composure was actually examined like by no means earlier than — particularly when the very first thing she checked out me and stated was, “I’ve been seeing you over right here with this outfit, I find it irresistible.”
Radiating on the carpet in a purple and inexperienced sequined set (which has already gone viral, btw) I used to be capable of chat with the Dangerous Gal herself in regards to the intersection of magnificence and being pregnant, how she avoids being “ashy,” and the nostalgic manner she fell in love with perfume.
“I’m a flexible bitch,” Rihanna tells me when requested about why the Fenty model hasn’t relegated itself to only one side of magnificence. “I genuinely care about skincare I genuinely care about make-up, I really feel like they go hand-in-hand.” And whereas these two segments might have come first, a foray into perfume was at all times inevitable. “My mother was once a gross sales clerk for a perfume division so I had my justifiable share of publicity to perfume at a younger age and I sort of understood the profile of smells and fragrances,” she shared whereas reflecting. “So we began small and we moved into this area of interest world of perfume and created Fenty Fragrance.”
Nonetheless, it’s not the eau de parfum that she says is her perpetually must-have. “Gloss Bomb for certain,” she begins earlier than altering her reply. “Or perhaps it’s Buttah Drop as a result of I can nonetheless put it on my lips.”
The star makes it abundantly clear that today her precedence is hydration, particularly for her rising bump. “I can’t be ashy!” she explains rubbing her stomach. “Black individuals particularly, we’re massive on pores and skin and being moisturized — and I imply, hiya I’m clearly not lacking an inch!”
One other precedence today, as informed to ESSENCE, is satisfying these cravings. “I need a cheeseburger,” she tells us earlier than getting into the occasion.
Somebody get our sis her cheeseburger!
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Fenty Pores and skin Butta Drop Whipped Oil Physique Cream
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Fenty Magnificence Gloss Bomb Common Lip Luminizer
