Hunter Schafer on the Best Makeup Advice She Learned From ‘Euphoria’

Fill in the blank. I feel most beautiful when…

I feel most beautiful when I’m with loved ones.

You travel constantly. Is there a city or country that gives you the most beauty inspiration?

I get really inspired by wherever I am. It’s been one of the really fun parts, because most of my traveling experience has come from this profession, which has only been in the past several years of my life that I’ve started seeing so much of the world. New York is endlessly inspiring. I love Paris so much.

You can only use three products for the rest of your life. What are they and why?

Ooh, lip balm and tweezers. I love brow maintenance. I think brows are so important. It’s something that I am minding pretty constantly. And then fragrance, I would say. I would love to keep a bottle of Angel on me.

How do you apply perfume?

I love doing the wrists just because it feels so chic, and then on the neck. And then, maybe a spritz in the air and walking through it for that extra encompassing spray. But it’s subjective. Fragrance means something different for everyone, because it’s for you and it’s about making you feel the most fierce version of yourself. It’s up to every person.

What’s your go-to getting ready music?

Ooh, there are a few songs that I return to pretty constantly before something. I love a little Donna Summers, that definitely I can be great for a little hype-up. “I Feel Love”—that’s always a banger before going out to the world.

What’s your favorite way to unwind?

Because my profession and life is so active and all over the place, it involves lots of traveling and new locations and new people. I find the most solace in being at home, cozied up with friends and family around. It’s a basic answer, but it’s true. It’s all you really end up yearning for when you’re bouncing around a bunch and not doing that.

What’s the latest social media rabbit hole you went down?

I go through periods of being on and then taking breaks and being off. I do think it’s important to have a bit of a balance there. Let me think of the most recent one. Oh, there’s this fish called the lumpsucker. We don’t know enough about the sea floor. I would like to see pictures and maybe read some reports.

What’s your favorite emoji?

Recently I like the melty-face one a lot. It can be cute, like, “I love you,” like melty. Or it’s versatile—it can also be like, “I am melting. Get me out of here.” That’s a good one.

Are there any artists or creatives inspiring you right now?

There’s this painter that I really like as of recently called Sang Woo Kim, who does these really incredible portraits of eyes, close-ups of eyes, and then these compilations of images and columns that he does with, I think, an ink printing process on silk maybe. It’s really stunning.