3 products Olivia Cooke had in her BAFTAs purse that kept her "fresh" on the night
Olivia Cooke may play a literal confident queen in House of The Dragon, but IRL the 29-year-old still gets scared when she walks the red carpet.
Cooke was one of many stars who flocked to London’s Royal Festival Hall for the BAFTAs on Thursday, and the A-list guest list had her shook.
“I sort of show up and then the realisation kicks in that I'm getting pictured and people like Viola Davis and Brendan Gleeson are there,” she told Harper’s Bazaar UK. “I carry that expression onto the red carpet and generally look bewildered and overwhelmed!”
“It's fun to play with hairstyles and with makeup,” she admitted. “[But] it can feel a little stressful and [it's] fair to say not my natural habitat.”
Cooke trusted celebrity makeup artist Lisa Eldridge with her glam on the night, but she likes to stash three products that keep her feeling “fresh” (plus, a snack) in her purse just in case.
“[I] rabbited down [a protein bar] after the awards show at 9pm, before dinner," she confessed. “I've [also] got a very shiny forehead and a very flaky chin, so that's a fun combination.”.
To combat her combo skin woes, Cooke said she tends “to pack a moisturiser [and] blotting papers” — two solid complexion refreshers by any account.
Considering Cooke’s posed for Fenty X Savage, we think it’s safe to assume she’s reaching for Fenty Beauty Invisimatte Blotting Paper ($19.50 at Fenty Beauty).
Fenty Beauty Invisimatte Blotting Paper
In a 2021 interview with Byrdie, Cooke shared her top two moisturiser picks are “the 111Skin Hyaluronic Acid Aqua Booster ($162 at MECCA) if I’m feeling a bit dry, or [I] just go straight to CeraVe’s facial moisturiser with SPF25 ($24.99 at Adore Beauty) — [it’s] the only SPF I’ve found to date [that doesn’t] make me break out.”
111Skin Hyaluronic Acid Aqua Booster
CeraVe’s facial moisturiser with SPF25
Considering all the flash photography at the BAFTAs, we’re guessing she stashed the former in her purse. An SPF white cast on the red carpet? Not cute.
Her final purse pick-me-up product is an undeniable necessity — “mints”.
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Briar Clark got her start in the media industry in 2017, as an intern for Marie Claire and InStyle. Since then, her keen interest in fashion and beauty has landed her gigs as a Digital Content Producer and Beauty Editor with titles like Girlfriend, Refinery29, BEAUTYcrew and beautyheaven. She loves the way seemingly innocuous topics like skin care and style have the ability to put a smile on people’s faces or make them think about themselves a little differently. A big believer in self love and experimentation, Briar has made a point of becoming the Australian beauty industry’s unofficial guinea pig for unusual treatments and daring hair trends. When she’s not testing out the latest beauty launches, Briar is big on broadening her horizons, mostly in the form of food but she’s also partial to travelling to new destinations both near and far (and of course, allocating an extra bag to bring their best beauty offerings home with her).
