NEED TO KNOW
- Christina Ricci is the face of Merit’s Solo Shadow Sheen campaign
- For the launch of the brand’s pearlescent eye shadows, the actress shares her makeup POV with PEOPLE
- Ricci also reveals her skincare splurge and you’ll never guess what she has “drawers of” at home
We can’t take our eyes off Christina Ricci’s new beauty campaign.
The Wednesday actress, 45, is partnering with beauty brand Merit to model its Solo Shadow Sheen, the follow-up to its viral Solo Shadow Matte.
Speaking to PEOPLE at the shoot, where she modeled shades Iris, Matchbook and Sartorial, Ricci shares that the partnership is a fit because “I love the quality of their makeup. It’s really beautiful [and] very chic.”
Ricci is drawn to this launch, which comes in six ’90s-inspired cream shades, because “I’m always looking for something that you can put on with your hands and the [formula] is such that you could,” she explains.
She adds that another plus is “you can have a very sheer look, or build” these weightless, jojoba extract-infused creams up. Her fave in the assortment? The copper-y Sartorial.
Aside from the brand’s “very blendable” shadows, she also praises the “quality” of its “sheer blushes.”
Other than that, she likes a CC cream for “a little bit of color and some sunblock. We all have to wear sunblock all the time,” she reminds.
One thing you won’t find in her makeup bag? Powder.
“I don’t like [it],” she says. “I try to use powder at absolutely the last moment because as you get older powder can settle into creases and actually make your wrinkles look stronger.”
Ricci says she generally only wears makeup “when I have to work.”
“I’m not a person who goes out for fun or anything like that,” she admits. “I put makeup on for meetings if it’s a very important meeting.”
The actress says she does feel beautiful when “my team has done my makeup,” but on the whole, she’s not focused on her appearance.
“I try not to think too much about [it] when I’m not working. But I think that that comes from being somebody who has to think about their appearance when they’re working,” she says. “I try to just be like, ‘this is who I am, and I’m either the more me or less me.’
When it comes to her skin, the mom of two goes all in.
“My biggest [beauty] splurge is skin care and masks, and they tend to be very expensive. And then as you get older, it gets even more expensive.”
She continues: “I use a lot of prep masks, I have drawers of those at home. There’s a Lancer mask that I love. It’s like an at-home peel that I use twice a week. And then I have two masks that I use before I go on camera: one is Hanacure and the other is a 111 Skin.”
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Though she’s been in front of cameras for decades, Ricci explains that acting and being shot for a campaign are “very different.”
“This is all about appearance and the image afterwards. When I’m acting, it’s much more about emotion and what’s internal.”
Still, she understood the assignment — the proof is in the pictures.
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