Cindy Bruna Says This One Makeup Product Is the Crux of Her French-Girl Makeup Routine

Welcome to The Glowdown, the series where we dive into the beauty secrets of our favourite celebrities as they get real about their routines and non-negotiables exclusively with us. Join them as they sit in our beauty hot seat and we fire off a round of quick questions, giving you never-before-shared insight into the products they can't live without, their secrets to getting red carpet–ready, beauty pet peeves, and the genius tips they've picked up along the way. This is no-holds-barred beauty at its finest.

This month, we sat down with Cindy Bruna. The 30-year-old French supermodel has been a global ambassador for L'Oréal Paris since 2020, and we recently caught up with the star during the Cannes Film Festival to ask her all about her go-to makeup products, her best beauty advice and even her secret eyebrow pencil hack…

1. How does your beauty routine support your self-worth? I feel like having a beauty routine in the first place is a self-care moment. Taking time for yourself, choosing yourself for a moment, it's very connected to your confidence and how you actually go out into the world.

2. Which makeup product gives you the biggest mood boost? The L'Oréal Paris Panorama Mascara is amazing. That’s the mascara I use. Sometimes, I go out with nothing on apart from that mascara. For me, it’s everything. Maybe some lip balm and that’s it.

3. If you could steal someone else’s makeup bag, whose would it be? To be honest, mine is pretty good.

4. You only have one product to use for the rest of your life—what is it? Oooh, that’s a hard one. I think I would choose hydration for my lips. That’s [the product that] I carry in my bag all the time. A little gloss or the Plump Ambition Hyaluron Lip Oil from L'Oréal Paris is very good. It’s very hydrating, and at the same time, you have that glow, that little something that you need on your lips. It’s a good way to have both.

5. What’s the best piece of beauty advice that you have ever received? I think it would be to double cleanse at nighttime. Doing it twice is very important. And, pretty recently, I switched my pillowcase for a silk one for my hair and my face, and it's magical.

6. What's your beauty philosophy in a sentence? I feel like confidence is the most beautiful makeup you can wear. When you’re walking down the street and you see a woman walking with confidence near you, she just has an aura that you can’t even explain. You don’t even pay attention to whatever she’s wearing, whatever makeup she has; it's the feeling from within that she brings out to the world, it's everything she needs.

7. What’s your biggest beauty no-no? Wearing your makeup to bed is the worst. That would be a no-no for sure.

8. Name one beauty product that is always in your handbag. A lip balm. I said it earlier, but yeah. A lip balm or lip gloss.

9. The greatest drugstore product for under £10? Oh, the Burt's Bees lip balm is very good! The one with honey and peppermint. That’s the one, though. Don’t go for the others, it’s very specific!

10. What is your best beauty hack? I use my eyebrow pencil on my lips to contour them. That’s something I do a lot. I love a little brown contour, a little darker than my skin tone, just to plump my lips. I would use the exact same colour on my eyebrows, too.

11. Do you have a favourite eyebrow pencil to use for this trick? Not really, no. I would use powder, but I have a scar on my eyebrows, and this trick can only work with a pen.

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