“Somebody showed me a picture of some event I went to back in the day and I was really going heavy on the turquoise jewelry and it was not good. I was like, OK, I guess that was a phase that needed to happen,” Camila Alves has said about her fashion regrets. These days, the Brazilian model, who has three children — Livingston, 4, Vida, 7, and Levi, 8 — with actor Matthew McConaughey, prefers effortless elegance (translation: flowing bohemian dresses by day and embellished plunging gowns by night). “When you’re a mother of three, I’m lucky if I get to brush my hair in the morning!” she told In Style Magazine. “It’s more about what I can get done or not. I try to keep it basic and add in a few accessories.” Stylish looks back at the 35-year-old star’s top hair and makeup looks.
Beauty of the Day: 5 Secrets of Camila Alves’ Style
“Somebody showed me a picture of some event I went to back in the day and I was really going heavy on the turquoise jewelry and it was not good. I was like, OK, I guess that was a phase that needed to happen,” Camila Alves has said about her fashion regrets. These days, the Brazilian model, who has three children — Livingston, 4, Vida, 7, and Levi, 8 — with actor Matthew McConaughey, prefers effortless elegance (translation: flowing bohemian dresses by day and embellished plunging gowns by night). “When you’re a mother of three, I’m lucky if I get to brush my hair in the morning!” she told In Style Magazine. "It’s more about what I can get done or not. I try to keep it basic and add in a few accessories." Stylish looks back at the 35-year-old star’s top hair and makeup looks.
“Somebody showed me a picture of some event I went to back in the day and I was really going heavy on the turquoise jewelry and it was not good. I was like, OK, I guess that was a phase that needed to happen,” Camila Alves has said about her fashion regrets. These days, the Brazilian model, who has three children — Livingston, 4, Vida, 7, and Levi, 8 — with actor Matthew McConaughey, prefers effortless elegance (translation: flowing bohemian dresses by day and embellished plunging gowns by night). “When you’re a mother of three, I’m lucky if I get to brush my hair in the morning!” she told In Style Magazine. "It’s more about what I can get done or not. I try to keep it basic and add in a few accessories." Stylish looks back at the 35-year-old star’s top hair and makeup looks.
Days before the Gold premiere in NYC on January 17, 2017, the model posted Instagram videos with hair and jewelry options to coordinate with her Marchesa gown, and her fans quickly chimed in to cast their votes. The final choice: slicked-back hair and a crescent and star-covered statement necklace. “Thank you guys so much for your help in putting the look together,” Alves posted on January 16, 2017.
“I just throw on foundation and under-eye concealer, then dust bronzer on my cheeks so they look defined,” Alves (in a Yanina Couture dress and Neil Lane jewels) told Redbook Magazine of her everyday beauty routine. But the red carpet is her chance to amp up the glamour. To complement her braided updo by Kristin Heitkotter at the L.A. premiere of Sing on December 3, 2016, makeup artist Kelsey Deenihan used cocoa powder to smoke out eyes and applied champagne shimmer cream atop cheekbones.
For the Baby 2 Baby Gala honoring Jennifer Garner in Culver City, California, on November 12, 2016, she paired her crimson pout with a Zuhair Murad dress and Neil Lane gems. “I’m still searching for an optimum lip moisturizer, because I travel so much, my lips are always dry,” she told the L.A. Times. "I like two right now: Christian Dior, it gives a nice pigmentation. The other one is just a cocoa butter stick you can get at Whole Foods or a pharmacy."
An Amanda Wakeley-clad Alves modeled Bite Beauty’s Amuse Bouche Lipstick in Persimmon at an NYC event on June 13, 2016. “My brother used to make fun of my really big, curly hair, and I always wanted it straight, straight, straight … but it got to a point I couldn’t do it anymore,” she told the L.A. Times. "My hair wasn’t healthy. It took years to get the relaxer out of my hair. Now my hair is healthy, happy and alive."
Alves (in a Paule Ka dress and Lorraine Schwartz sparklers at an event in Beverly Hills on February 25, 2016) says Natura Seve’s Body & Massage Oil is “the most amazing oil for your skin.” Another favorite: “For hair, (Brazilian women) usually do an avocado mask where you basically smash an avocado and rub it in your hair and put on a shower cap and just sit in the sunshine and get your tan while you’re in the backyard. It’s a big thing.”
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