Mila Kunis’s Secret to Quick, Super Snatched Glam

Mila Kunis is in her beauty influencer era—kind of. The actor is sharing her morning beauty routine with Vogue, presenting one of her favorite products to the camera by holding her palm behind the transparent bottle. Vogue Beauty Secrets, meet Mila Kunis’s first vlog.

Kunis is currently on the press tour for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, which means she’s wearing more day-to-day makeup than she normally would (i.e., a set of false lashes). Because of that, skincare and prep are super important. Kunis puts her hair into a “let’s get serious” bun to start, then spritzes her face with a clarifying face mist. Next comes the plumping Keren Bartov Booster Peel & Glow Serum, which she wears morning and night. (Bartov is the super-facialist loved by Demi Moore, Cate Blanchett, and Carey Mulligan.)

“I break out,” Kunis emphasizes. “I’ve always had really, really bad skin. Always, my whole life! I had big pimples, little pimples, all the pimples.” Kunis shares that she only started taking care of her skin “religiously” when she hit 22, committing herself to a facial once a month from then on. “Until then, I had horrible skin. I didn’t know why I was breaking out…But I just never really took good care of it,” she says. She credits the aforementioned serum for keeping those tiny blemishes at bay today.

She employs Keren Bartov’s Advance Skin Serum when she’s feeling particularly dry and needs some nourishment, before layering on the brand’s super moisturizing SPF Triple Active Cream. Sunblock, for Kunis and her kids, is a nonnegotiable.

Next, she brandishes an eyelash curler—“it makes me look refreshed!”—and then focuses on her skin with a damp beauty blender. Why? She doesn’t know–“it’s just what my makeup artist does”–but we know that dampening the tool ensures a smooth finish by preventing it from absorbing too much makeup, ensuring it glides on easily, with no cakiness. “This is for when I have to be out in the real world,” Kunis says of these next few steps. She takes the Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation in two different shades, to help “give the impression of a chiseled face,” stippling the paler shade of product across the high points of her face, and contouring with the darker tone. The result: a dewy, poreless complexion and softly sculpted face.