Ariana Grande's Skincare and Makeup Routine: A Step-by-Step Guide

This step-by-step guide captures Ariana Grande’s complete skincare and makeup routine from her Vogue video. It walks you through each product she uses and how she applies it, while also sharing her personal reflections on beauty, self-expression, and confidence.

1. Skin Prep
Step 1: Apply Sarah Ford Bio Cell Oxygen Serum. This helps improve skin texture and keeps it calm, especially when wearing heavy makeup.
Step 2: Mix and apply La Mer Moisturizer with SPF. It hydrates the skin and provides essential protection against sun damage, which Ariana emphasizes due to her time growing up in sunny Florida.
Step 3: Apply r.e.m. beauty Under Eye Cooling Balm. It plumps and smooths fine lines, creating a perfect base for concealer.
Step 4: Use CH I Patches (eye masks). She wears these during early morning meditations to de-puff and refresh under-eye areas, typically for around an hour.

2. Face Makeup
Step 5: Apply r.e.m. beauty Sweetener Foundation in the shade Light 8 NW. She uses about a pump and a half for a smooth, even base.
Step 6: Apply r.e.m. beauty Sweetener Concealer in the shade Light 4G.
Step 7: Set the face with Anastasia Beverly Hills Vanilla Setting Powder. Ariana does this quickly after concealer to ensure nothing shifts or creases.

3. Brows
Step 8: Fill in brows using MAC Eyebrow Styler in the shade Fling. She shapes them in a straight, lifted Audrey Hepburn–inspired style. Since she bleaches her brows, she first shortens the ends and then redraws the shape she likes.

4. Contour & Highlight
Step 9: Contour using her makeup artist’s palette labeled “NUA 2.” She focuses on the hairline to balance her forehead, and defines her cheeks and nose using a button-nose trick.
Step 10: Highlight with r.e.m. beauty Miss Mercury Highlight.

5. Eyes
Step 11: Apply Bobbi Brown pink eyeshadow across the full lid and slightly beyond for a soft, all-over look.
Step 12: Create a 60s-style cat eye using r.e.m. beauty Eye Stick in Intergalactic. This creamy stick gives a defined yet soft wing.
Step 13: Apply Dior Rosy Glow blush. Ariana sweeps it across her cheeks, into her eyebrows, and on the temples for a lifted effect.
Step 14: Add a shadowy cat-eye effect by mixing two more Bobbi Brown shades to deepen the outer corners instead of using liquid liner.

6. Lips
Step 15: Use a lip stain, apply gloss over it, then blot. This leaves a natural tint that mimics pigment in the lips.
Step 16: Apply r.e.m. beauty Pink Razor and Mod Vanilla for a soft, nude-pink finish.
Step 17: Optionally, use the Laneige Lip Mask in Watermelon or Birthday Cake for extra hydration and shine.

7. Final Touch
Step 18: Set everything with Fenty Setting Spray. Though discontinued, Ariana still loves it for the lasting hold it gives her look.