Director: Gabrielle Reich
DP: Esteban Veras
Editor: Michael Suyeda
Associate Producer: Lea Donenberg
Production Manager: Natasha Soto-Albors
Production Coordinator: Ava Kashar
Associate Talent Manager: Phoebe Feinberg
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Post Production Coordinator: Scout Alter
Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
Associate Director, Post Production: Nicholas Ascanio
Filmed at: The William Vale
DP: Esteban Veras
Editor: Michael Suyeda
Associate Producer: Lea Donenberg
Production Manager: Natasha Soto-Albors
Production Coordinator: Ava Kashar
Associate Talent Manager: Phoebe Feinberg
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Post Production Coordinator: Scout Alter
Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
Associate Director, Post Production: Nicholas Ascanio
Filmed at: The William Vale
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00:00Hey Vogue, it's Kiki and I'm going to show you guys my everyday hair routine,
00:04skincare, and makeup. So let's go ahead and get into it.
00:07This is my favorite product to use with La Roche-Posay.
00:11When I do any kind of product, I do check and see
00:13what kind of people have reviewed the product particularly, and I think it's important
00:18to know that Black people use a product of somebody with obviously Black skin.
00:22Next, I want to use Paula's Choice BHA, which is an exfoliant.
00:30I'm trying to clear up leftover hyperpigmentation and stuff,
00:33and I think exfoliating really helps with that personally.
00:36During my pregnancy, my skin was absolutely amazing, and when I had my son,
00:41I think it was just like the over excess amount of progesterone that helped level my skin out.
00:45But then after I had him, it kind of like almost immediately reverted back.
00:49If you have severe acne and it's really mentally putting you in anguish, which it had for me,
00:55that might be something really good to invest in.
00:58A dermatologist and an esthetician, I would say, and then good products.
01:01Next, I'm going to actually put on this Dr. Dennis Gross mask.
01:05I really do love doing the mask thing.
01:08It just feels so fun. You're in your bag. Very cutesy.
01:13Don't look at this one nail because it's chipped and I'm pissed.
01:15Why would they do this the day that I'm doing the Vogue?
01:20I love all the things that allow me to spend more time with myself.
01:25When I started doing my natural hair, I wasn't sure how to wear it.
01:27A lot of people do wash and goes. A lot of people do twist out.
01:30But I wanted to figure out what was the style for me,
01:32and I realized that I really loved Flexi Ross sets.
01:34I just take it out just like this. It's not too much.
01:37I just try to make sure I keep it in its form.
01:43I am a girl that likes to do protective styles,
01:47which for me usually means a wig.
01:49I think it took me a long time to get to the place
01:51of being able to really appreciate my hair and all its uniqueness
01:55and what it can do and only it can do.
01:58Now when I wear a wig, it's not because I feel like I have to,
02:00but it's because I want to do something different
02:01that I don't want to do to my natural hair.
02:03And when I wear my natural hair,
02:04I actually have a different relationship with it.
02:06I remember when I did Nope,
02:08it was such a big thing when I was talking to Jordan.
02:10He was like, you know what?
02:11I think I want you to wear this hair for the movie.
02:13And I'm like, you want me to wear this hair in a major motion picture?
02:19And he was like, yeah, I think that's what we need.
02:21I mean, this is black American iconography.
02:23This is what we need.
02:24And I was like, Jordan, the man in the tube.
02:30Oh, we have to showcase all versions of beauty.
02:33And we hear this all the time.
02:34We keep hitting ourselves over the head with it,
02:36but it really is true.
02:37I think him allowing me to wear my hair like that in that movie
02:39and given that platform and that stage,
02:41it continues to push forward
02:42so that another little girl like me,
02:45you know, maybe her mom has an easier time telling her like,
02:47your curls are beautiful.
02:48You are beautiful because she's seen it.
02:52Okay, I need to sit down for the rest of this.
02:54My hand's about to hurt.
02:55Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
02:56I know what I...
02:57Come on, honey.
02:58It's your girl.
03:00This is how it looks when you take the rods out.
03:02Very flat, very Shirley Temple.
03:03I'm going to use this argan oil shine mist from Cream of Nature.
03:08And what I'm going to do is pretty much break a piece off
03:11and then curl it out, okay?
03:13So every little piece, I'm remaining the curl
03:16as I'm separating it, just like that.
03:20See, I just love all the things that you could do with your hair, honey.
03:26This is honestly a very fun process.
03:28I had to do this every day on note.
03:30You know, I was a perfectionist.
03:31I wanted my hair to be everything in every shot.
03:33So a lot of times with this particular style,
03:35you have to set it every night.
03:41Phew!
03:42That really did something.
03:44I feel so...
03:45Hello!
03:46Now I'm going to just pick it out a little bit before I get into my makeup.
03:50And honestly, as much as I love how this looks,
03:52I really love it when it's like a day in.
03:55Okay, we are all done.
03:56I'm going to finish the last bits of skincare.
03:58So now I'm going to put a little bit of this thermal water on
04:02using this Neutrogena Hydro Boost Serum.
04:04That's my son in the back, guys.
04:06He is making tons of noise.
04:09Say hi, buddy.
04:11Say hi, booty boo.
04:12Oh, why are you gonna embarrass me?
04:13Act like that's not what we do.
04:15Got it.
04:15Cool.
04:16Love you, pumpkin.
04:17La Roche-Posay Double Repair Moisturizer.
04:21The real reason why my routine has changed as a mom
04:24is because I'm tired.
04:25Sometimes I have to really like pull myself to do the routine.
04:29Now I'm going to put a little bit of Aquaphor.
04:32Y'all know, good old Aquaphor.
04:33Number one advanced repair around my nose
04:36because I've been getting cracked up over there.
04:40Shout out to Winnie Harlow.
04:41I'm putting on the K SPF.
04:44What I love most about it is that it's perfect under makeup.
04:48And so if you're ready,
04:49then I'm ready for us to get into the makeup.
04:51I'm going to start with the Anastasia Brow Wiz.
04:57I learned how to do my makeup,
04:58I think I was about like 11 years old.
05:00And I know that sounds like very young,
05:02but it was because that was when my acne stuff first started.
05:05And so it was a way for me to like just find confidence.
05:10So I'm going to be going for a very casual makeup look.
05:13I'm very much into like,
05:14oh my gosh, did she do her makeup?
05:16Maybe she did.
05:17She's such a fab girl, naturally.
05:18I'm starting with the Double Wear Estee Lauder.
05:26I just put on this NARS concealer.
05:28I know it seems just like, girl, that color is light.
05:32But honestly, we're going for a highlighted vibe.
05:34You gotta look like you woke up.
05:35Okay, I'm trying to look five.
05:36Now I'm going to also use Cookie.
05:40I definitely went down memory lane writing the book.
05:44It was like a process of visiting,
05:46I guess all the most impactful projects that I've done
05:48or the things that I feel like I learned the most lessons from.
05:51One, obviously being True Drugs.
05:54Cause that, I feel like really set the trajectory for me
05:58and my life and also like my brand.
06:00I mean, I think Akeelah Ndebe obviously had a big part
06:02in that as well.
06:03When the movie came out, it kind of bombed.
06:05Like it didn't really do well in theaters.
06:08It wasn't until years later that it played on TV
06:10and that people really got a chance to see it
06:12and became like a high selling movie that people bought.
06:16Back when DVDs was a thing.
06:17Oh my gosh, millennials, what's going on?
06:20But yeah, it was really cool sharing some of those stories
06:23that I think now impact me differently.
06:25And obviously I've had so many different experiences
06:27and a different level awareness
06:29that allows them to have such deeper meaning.
06:32If I'm not getting my makeup done for a job,
06:36then yeah, I'm doing my own makeup.
06:38I feel like I got out of being a makeup girly
06:40for a little while because it started getting me down,
06:43honestly, having to always deal with so much texture stuff.
06:47So I did kind of get out of it a little bit,
06:49but then I found my way back.
06:52I'm gonna spray a little bit
06:53of this infamous Charlotte Tilbury spray.
06:55I do it in between sometimes before I finish
06:57because I feel like it really sets the tone for me.
06:59I do it in between sometimes before I finish
07:01because I feel like it really cements it a little bit.
07:08This is a tiny travel version
07:10of the Charlotte Tilbury for deep ponds.
07:13And I just use this for like a bronzing powder.
07:19This is gonna really place it.
07:22This is my favorite freaking color.
07:23It's She's Giving.
07:25The name speaks for itself because honey, I gives.
07:30Honestly, growing up, the person that I love,
07:33like looking at, that's so Raven.
07:35I mean, I loved Raven growing up.
07:36I love the colors.
07:37I love the magic.
07:38I love the creativity of her styling her own clothes.
07:41Into the future.
07:43It's some Chanel loose powder.
07:46That Disney Channel era,
07:47anybody that didn't get a chance to get into that?
07:49Honey, cheetah girls, gotta do what I gotta do.
07:52Got the brains, gotta speak the truth.
07:53We're from around the world,
07:55so you best respect the cheetah girls.
07:57You know what's so funny?
07:58When I think about Moesha,
08:00I had got my first record deal with Atlantic Records
08:03and they had me in the studio with Babyface.
08:07And he happened to be in the studio with Brandy.
08:10And he knew that I was a big fan of hers
08:12and I grew up watching Moesha.
08:15So he had asked her to stay over a couple hours after
08:20while I was recording when she was finished,
08:22just to say hi to me, because I was such a big fan.
08:24And because she's awesome,
08:26she did, just putting a little bit of contour on the nose.
08:28She also brought me a journal,
08:31my very first journal that I still have.
08:34I have had it for years.
08:37And she wrote a note in the front where it says,
08:39I am who I am because you are who you are, Brandy.
08:43And I didn't know what that meant at the time,
08:45but obviously as I'm older,
08:46I mean, simply put, it's about representation.
08:48Like the wheels keep turning.
08:50We all represent each other.
08:52And as an artist myself,
08:53I feel the same way about my art.
08:55I feel the same way about my audience,
08:56where I can be because you can be.
08:58And who better to give you your first journal than Moesha?
09:01And how crazy is it that Brandy also
09:03was the first ever black Cinderella?
09:06And then years later,
09:08I had no idea that I would be the first
09:10black Cinderella on Broadway.
09:12I've always been pretty quirky and silly.
09:15Like honestly, everybody in my family is like that.
09:17All the problems, like when people talk about the Met Gala
09:19and they're like, uh, uh, uh, uh,
09:20like my whole family does stuff like that.
09:22We're very singy songy.
09:24We're very kind of like, girl, stop.
09:27A lot of people from Chicago are this way.
09:29I mean, I feel like it's also like cultural community.
09:31Like I grew up in a church.
09:33Everybody says what's on their mind.
09:34This is again, she's giving,
09:35but this is the side of it that's not cream.
09:40And I would definitely also say like
09:42from my head to my toes, it's all real.
09:44Yeah, you know.
09:50This is Kosa's airbrow.
09:52It's good to be back kicking it with Vogue.
09:54The last time I kicked it with them was
09:56on the Met Gala red carpet, honey.
09:58I had such an amazing time doing it,
10:00but it was absolutely a lot of work, honey.
10:03Okay. Not just everybody can feel Andra Leon Talley's shoes.
10:08Obviously what the Met is for is to bring us all together,
10:11to continue to collaborate and to give back to fashion.
10:15So that fashion can keep telling stories
10:16because it's very expensive as all art is.
10:20It's so funny though.
10:20The last time that I went, so I'm there
10:23and I'm like talking to Ayo Edibiri
10:25and we're like, hey girl, hey girl.
10:26And then behind me, I look and I see Chris Hemsworth
10:30and I'm looking at Chris Hemsworth
10:32because obviously it's Thor.
10:33You know, I'm just like, but he's staring at me back
10:36and I'm like, what is he staring at me back for?
10:38Like, is he really looking at me?
10:39He looking at somebody behind me.
10:40And I turned behind me, no one's there.
10:42And he's like, Kiki.
10:44Yeah, I'm looking at you.
10:45It's you, Kiki.
10:46And I'm like, yeah, it's me, Kiki.
10:48And he's like, yeah, Kiki, we want to do this movie.
10:50We got to figure out this movie with you.
10:51I don't want a picture right now.
10:53But I got to let you know.
10:54So he's talking to me and talking to me about this movie
10:55and he quickly starts to pitch this idea.
10:57And he's like, wait a minute, wait a minute.
10:58Before I go into it,
10:59I got to get you with my buddy real quick.
11:01We're producing it together.
11:02He taps the back of this white man.
11:05The white man turns around, it's Matt Damon.
11:07He pitches me this movie and Matt Damon's like,
11:10looking like we in Good Will Hunting.
11:11He like, it was a moment in time.
11:15And I'm like, yo, that's crazy.
11:19Not me linking up with Chris Hemsworth at the Met Gala
11:22and him tapping his homeboy
11:23who just happens to be the Matt Damon.
11:27I had to take off that damn robe.
11:28It started getting hot in here.
11:29The sun was moving.
11:31It was just too much going on.
11:32I'm putting on this Forever lip liner.
11:35And what is the color?
11:36The color's, it is cacao.
11:42So I'm using Huda Beauty.
11:44It is the color Trendsetter.
11:49The Vanish Airbrush Powder by Hourglass.
11:51But it honestly is really good.
11:52Look at that.
11:53It just kind of blurs everything out
11:54and just meshes it together.
12:01I'm gonna put a little bit of this Chanel on,
12:04just on this apple area.
12:08I just wanted to make sure I shot out Gigi brows.
12:10This is what I use to go underneath my eyebrows.
12:14It just is a quick way to highlight them
12:16without having to do the whole brush thing.
12:17You can literally do it just like that.
12:21Then I'm gonna use a little bit of this Lash Lushes by Maybelline.
12:30I have on falsies, but they are on their last leg, sweetie.
12:34Nice little tip that I know many of us use.
12:35When the lashes are on their last leg,
12:37the extensions, put mascara.
12:39It gives them a little bit more life.
12:41Doing the spray.
12:44Angelshare Killian.
12:45Is that basic?
12:48Baby, this is Gigi Balmer.
12:50Hair is done.
12:52The fro is fro.
12:53The face is naturally beat.
12:54We're ready to go outside and say,
12:55hey, yeah, girl.
12:58Sending you love.
12:59You know, just very like in and out.
13:00It's like, does she have makeup on?
13:01Does she not?
13:02Does she have makeup on?
13:03She does, but you wouldn't know.
13:05Highlight your girl.
13:06Thanks, Vogue, for chilling with me.