I am super uptight about oral hygiene so when I wake up I brush my teeth right away. Usually I’ll do a light spritz on my face with an Evian Spray and then I work out. After I get back from the gym I wash my face with Cetaphil. I’ve been using it for a hundred years; it’s the most amazing cleanser in the world. My grandmother’s ninety years old and she’s been using it forever and has amazing skin so that has always stuck with me. I use a Kiehl’s Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado and recently started using a new moisturizer, Clinique Moisture Surge. It’s really good and only thirty dollars a jar, which is pretty incredible. In the winter I like the La Prairie Caviar Cream when my skin is dry.

When it comes to cosmetics I am very low key. Lipstick is my number one product; it’s my armor. No matter how crappy I feel or how much I hate my outfit I always put on some lipstick and it can change everything. I am not a brand loyalist and have about fifty different tubes. I’m wearing Estée Lauder, Fuchsia Velvet and I have a Clarins red that I have been obsessed with forever. I just got into a dark lip from MAC and am loving it. I am making it my mission this year to learn how to wear eyeliner. I just have never figured it. I am determined to master a nice little cat eye and winged flip. I’ve been wearing DiorShow mascara forever, that’s my go to.

I try to wash my face every single night; I hate to go to bed with any makeup on. Moisturizing my hands is really important to me. Hands are the telltale sign of how old a woman is, I am fanatical about keeping my hands youthful looking. I use L’Occitane hand cream and sometimes I sleep with cotton gloves. I put Vaseline on my lips every single night. I hate the feeling of dry lips.

I chopped all my hair off in October for a shoot for Glamour. It was down to my waist and cut more than ten inches off, it was so scary. It was a huge move for me after having long hair for years and years.”

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“I am not such a beauty girl. I am very natural; I think I am very French for this. At the same time I am a woman and a Beauty Editor so I have to test some stuff [laughs]. When I wake up the first thing I love to do is spray rosewater on my face. Afterwards I have a green tea then take a shower. I have sensitive skin so for my face I use a lot of La Roche-Posay and Avène—more pharmaceutical products.  For my body I can try everything. I love the smells and textures. I take the time to nourish my skin with lots of Clarins Sérum Corps Peau Neuve it’s  my basic and afterwards I use Aesop.”

“I know American girls wash their hair everyday but I can’t. Since I was young I’ve been told that if I wash my hair everyday it will be too dry so I wash it every other day. I put a lot of oil in my hair before I shampoo it. I’m a Mediterranean woman, from the French Riviera so I love oil. I use the Kiehl’s Amino Acid Shampoo with coconut. I love Kerastase and the brands of L’Oreal Professional. Shu Uemura Art of Hair products have great texture and smell nice. After I wash my hair I use a serum like the one from David Mallet or an Aveda cream for texture so I don’t look like a big head of hair. I never use any blow dryers though. I think when you have curly hair you need to come as you are. In France we have a sentence that means if you want to forget your natural way it will come back fast and strong.”

“I love to wear some splash after I nourish my skin. Tom Ford’s Neroli Portofino is amazing. I use so many because for me it is a very feminine and important gesture. It is not so much about the smell because the scents  are very subtle.”

“I only wear a little makeup. I don’t use a foundation, just some powder from Givenchy, Croisière . Now that it is summer I have some tan so I try to keep it. Afterwards I add pink because it can look too brown otherwise with the bronzer. I don’t like eye shadow or eyeliner so much because afterwards I can be a mess like a girl coming home with everything all over. I use a lot of black mascara by La Roche-Posay. I have very sensitive eyes and this one is very gentle. Sometimes I put blue pencil around my eyes just to change it up, but if I don’t use this blue, I use nothing. I think black looks hard on me. At the end of the day if I’m going to a party I’ll wear lipstick. I like a good matte lipstick with a lot of color like MAC Lady Danger. For the day I prefer something more sweet, with color but not too strong.”

“The last thing I do before I leave the house is apply real perfume. I love No.19 by Chanel. I have had it since I was seventeen. It is my first and my all and my everything, my first love [laughs]. Sometimes I use L’eau Froide, by Serge Lutens it means cold water. It is very special because when you smell it, it is very cold but it is hot at the same time.”

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Parisa: “Max is more obsessed with putting creams and such on; I’m actually not [laughs]. I didn’t even put body lotion on until he forced me to. But I always wash my face with Crème de La Mer face wash. I have very sensitive skin so I can break out if use the wrong products. Crème de La Mer works really well on my skin. Kiehl’s body lotion—I love. For fragrances I hate common smells. I have on Chanel Coromandel—it is amazing. It’s very strong with a musky touch to it.”

Max: “Yeah I am the one spending all the money on my beauty regimen.  I have the more elaborate beauty closet. When I wake up I just rinse my face off with water in the shower and then moisturize with Crème de la Mer. I also use their eye balm. For lip balm we use Fresh’s Sugar but everything else is Crème de la Mer and an SPF from my dermatologist. At night I always shower before bed and moisturize my full body. Then I use this gel serum on my face that is like a peel. I use it every night and then always eye balm and always lip balm.  For perfume I always use Byredo. You can only buy it typically at Barneys never at Duty Free or something like that.”

Max: “We just bought a shampoo that is really cool called Number twenty-Four. My hairdresser from London, Daniel Galvin is incredible, his son James opened up a place in Los Angeles. So they started up a line and the products are great–we are loving them.”

Parisa: “Okay for makeup it’s my turn now [laughs]. I like NARS a lot. I like their lipstick, the pink one I’m using Schiap, its super pink and feels fun. I’m a big blush person. Mascara, I don’t use that much, unless it’s a special day, but I look dead if I don’t use blush and some bronzing powder on my face. I like NARS in Casino and Desire. Eyeliner is something I have always used since I was fifteen years old. I like to do dark eyes with a bright lipstick. I use the Benefit waterproof eyeliner pencil and it doesn’t smudge it’s really good. I always thread my brows, they are naturally pretty thick but I keep them up [laughs]. It hurts a lot and I thread once or twice a week.”

Parisa: “I was born in Iran but I moved to Sweden when I was two years old. We live in L.A. now but I am used to always traveling. When I’m in Stockholm I go to Sturebadet, for my gym and my spa that’s the best spa in Sweden. I love the spa at The Setai Hotel in Miami, they have an amazing spa there, it is one of my favorites, very relaxing. Here in L.A. we go the Beverly HIlls Hotel when we want to pamper ourselves really well.”

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“When I wake up in the morning coffee comes first. I wash my face with Neutrogena and then use a Dermalogica toner  and a Kiehl’s moisturizer. I have a Greek yoghurt and then I brush my teeth. With my makeup routine I keep it simple and natural with a couple of basic products: Diorskin Nude Concealer, a matte Bobbi Brown eyeshadow in Slate for contour, some mascara (currently YSL Faux Cils) and the Anastasia brow pencil. I use a Dior eye shadow compact and Stila liquid eyeliner if I want to look a little more polished.”

“My most beautiful memory is of playing games of flashlight tag on hot summer nights in Maine.”

“My favorite salon is Ion Studio for a cut and color, Mauricio is awesome!”

“Before I go to bed I brush my teeth with Crest 3-D! Then I wash my face with Neutrogena, moisturize with Kiehl’s Midnight Recovery Concentrate, and Kiehl’s Ultra Facial Cream.”

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“I always had air-dried, perfectly straight hair, and when I was younger I never wanted to cut it all off. I always loved my hair and girls were envious of it my entire life. Back when everyone had a mushroom cut, I had a center part and long hair. I started using Head and Shoulders two-in-one back when I was in high school and every single day since then, I’ve used it as my shampoo. I know people say that it’s horrible [to wash your hair everyday] but people should do what works for them.”

“I remember when Marc Jacobs had his first fragrance for men, I had my mom go out and buy it and have used the exact same fragrance ever since. At this point, it just smells like me. When a bottle is running low, a new one will appear from my mom, whether it’s in the mail or if I see her… It’s like, she knows when I’m gonna run out.”

“I have friends that spend thousands of dollars on their beauty regimens monthly. And as much as my caps for clothing and accessories are probably way beyond what anybody else thinks is logical or normal or healthy, I’m pretty much a Duane Reade guy when it comes to beauty. My beauty regimen is super chill. I’m also pretty 90’s with my beauty products: Head and Shoulders, Cetaphil, Irish Spring. I use a Kiehl’s shaving cream because it’s one of those things that my mom has always bought for me.”

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