BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND - NOVEMBER 06: Singer Katy Perry attends the MTV Europe Music Awards 2011 at the Odyssey Arena on November 6, 2011 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)more
LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 26: Singer Katy Perry attends the 56th GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on January 26, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 27: Singer Katy Perry attends the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton on April 27, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)more
HOLLYWOOD, CA - JUNE 26: Singer Katy Perry performs at the first-ever Pepsi/Billboard Summer Beats special live performance for "Katy Perry: Part Of Me" at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on June 26, 2012 in Hollywood, California. "Katy Perry: Part Of Me" will be released by Paramount's Insurge Pictures on July 5, 2012. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)more
LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 29: Singer Katy Perry attends MOCA's 35th Anniversary Gala presented by Louis Vuitton at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA on March 29, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jonathan Leibson/Getty Images for MOCA)more
LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 31: Singer Katy Perry arrives at Nickelodeon's 25th Annual Kids' Choice Awards held at Galen Center on March 31, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for KCA)more
LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 26: Singer Katy Perry attends the screening of EPIX's 'Katy Perry: The Prismatic World Tour' at The Theatre at Ace Hotel Downtown LA on March 26, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)more
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 04: [EDITOR'S NOTE: Image has been digitally processed] Singer Katy Perry attends the "China: Through The Looking Glass" Costume Institute Benefit Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images for Variety)more
FLORENCE, ITALY - JUNE 18: Katy Perry poses backstage prior to the Moschino show during the 88 Pitti Uomo on June 18, 2015 in Florence, Italy. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)
ST. PAUL, MN JULY26: Tani Austin, Katy Perry and Bill Austin on the red carpet at the 2015 Starkey Hearing Foundation So The World May Hear Gala at the St. Paul RiverCentre on July 26, 2015 in St. Paul, Minnesota.(Photo by: Adam Bettcher/Getty Images for the Starkey Hearing Foundation)more
ST. PAUL, MN JULY 26: Katy Perry performs at the 2015 Starkey Hearing Foundation So The World May Hear Gala at the St. Paul RiverCentre on July 26, 2015 in St. Paul, Minnesota.(Photo by: Adam Bettcher/Getty Images for the Starkey Hearing Foundation)more
In an exclusive interview with Byrdie, the bubblegum pink themed pop princess that is Katy Perry divulged her beauty secrets. As music to our ears, Katy has just the same amount of complaints and irritations as us mere mortals, proving that she too is of this Earth. What’s more, she’s guilty of falling asleep with her make-up on and she even admits to enjoying the occasional spot of sunbathing though she knows it’s far from her skin’s best friend. Though the media is currently preoccupied with chronicling the ongoing feud between Perry and Taylor Swift (and one that we can’t quite understand), Katy’s words here remind us that she’s a woman after our own hearts and thankfully, she doesn’t take herself too seriously.
On the advice she wishes she could give her 16 year old self when it comes to make-up, Perry says: I’ve worn a lot of foundations that aren’t right for my skin tone in the past?they’re just too white. So, maybe take a little extra time to match my skin color. And to stop picking at my face, and to wash my face. Because when you’re young, you just think you can sleep in that stuff. And you really can’t. I wish I could say, like, sun damage or whatever, but I actually kind of like the sun. I’m not perfect!
On her all time beauty icons: Ooh, there are so many. It’s Lolita to Frida Kahlo, Chlo? Sevigny to Daphne Guinness?those are probably my four who I really love. Oh, and Tavi Gevinson?I definitely said her last name wrong.
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On the ultimate make-up hack that she’s inherited from her personal make-up artist Jake Bailey: Well, there are a lot of tutorials on YouTube right now, about ?baking? and powder and shading. Shading is so great, especially because some of my weight in between stuff shows up on my face. That’s where you first lose weight; it falls off your face. Until then, if you want to enjoy life, just get a little shade out, and contour your weight out of your face. Jake also does this thing where he takes a credit card and puts it behind my lashes when applying mascara to my lashes-it lifts them up. He’s so good at the glowy stuff, too-he adds it in my Cupid’s bow, to open up the lip, and also down your nose. It makes your nose a little smaller; Marilyn Monroe used to do it.
Check out the full interview, for which she’s promoting new fragrance ‘Mad Potion’ over yonder on Byrdie.?