From the surface wanting in, Dua Lipa appears indefatigable. Despite her insistence on turning worldwide work journeys into metropolis breaks, her demanding tour schedule and her forthcoming nuptials, the previous British Vogue cowl star has a battery that’s but to run flat. Supported by a complement regime (colostrum, electrolytes and magnesium all function) and common yoga observe, within the midst of the whirlwind Lipa manages to keep, effectively, effectively.
It’s her pores and skin, although, that I’m most fascinated with. Between the long-haul flights and the layers of stage make-up, how does she maintain her face from wanting like it ever experiences both of these issues? “My best friend Ella was really on it with her skincare from when we were young,” Lipa tells me on a wet afternoon in October. “Whereas I was a ‘fall asleep with my make-up on’ kind of girl.” These days, kipping in a full face is considered one of her massive no-nos—a lesson she discovered over years on the highway.
“In 2016, I started touring quite heavily and I needed a skincare routine that wasn’t high maintenance,” the Radical Optimism star explains. At 21, working with a “bunch of boys who didn’t do skincare”, Lipa got here to perceive the significance of a constant however concise routine. Simultaneously, her metrics for what good well being and good diet seemed like modified, too. “I think everything’s quite different now,” she displays. “Everything shifted.”
Cut to 2025 and Lipa is prepared to announce considered one of her most fun initiatives to date: DUA, a skincare line created in collaboration with luxurious skincare model Augustinus Bader. A longtime AB loyalist, DUA represents all the things the freshly-minted 30-year-old has discovered about efficient skincare that also feels elegant.
“I wanted to create something that felt like it could really restore and protect my skin,” she tells British Vogue. “I get the occasional breakouts and dryness, especially from long-haul flights,” she explains. “I did a lot of learning on the job and now I feel like I know how to combat the busyness and the madness of my schedule and still take care of myself.”
Her line is compact—simply what you’d count on from somebody used to enhancing down their necessities so as to jet throughout the globe—and consists of simply three merchandise: a creamy cleanser, an antioxidant-packed serum, and a nourishing moisturiser.
“I wanted a face wash that felt really moisturising but not tight or squeaky for all the wrong reasons,” she explains after I ask her to take me by the pondering behind every one, beginning with the Balancing Cream Cleanser. “Then, I wanted to have a serum that I felt had all the good vitamins in it to give you that glow, but also hydrate and support your skin barrier.”
Lipa’s Supercharged Glow Complex is chock stuffed with these “good vitamins”. There’s vitamin B7 and niacinamide for even pores and skin tone, together with firming marine bio-retinol, bounce-imbuing glycerol glucoside and strengthening ectoin. The conditions for her moisturiser—the Renewal Cream—have been that it be “bouncy, soft and nice”, and light-weight sufficient to reapply.
The secret sauce is one thing solely Professor Bader (creator of the unique eponymous model) and Lipa might have cooked up collectively: TFC5. A patented model of Augustinus Bader’s trademark hero-ingredient TFC8, TFC5 is Lipa’s child and underpins every of her merchandise.
“TFC5 is the fifth evolution of Augustinus Bader’s breakthrough TFCTM (Trigger Factor Complex) technology,” Aimee Nottingham, director of formulation for AB, informs me. For the uninitiated, this Trigger Factor Complex is the cornerstone of all Augustinus Bader merchandise and contains a patented mix of reparative and renewing amino acids, nutritional vitamins and peptides.
A new iteration, TFC5, is concentrated on preventative, on a regular basis pores and skin upkeep. If you relate to Lipa, with a busy, typically unrelenting schedule, TFC5 will counteract the results of dullness and dryness, and replenish the pores and skin with misplaced suppleness. TFC8, however, tends to denote one thing with a excessive efficiency, designed to deal with tougher pores and skin issues corresponding to pigmentation or lack of density.
Lipa’s line, due to its on a regular basis nature, is cheaper than the Augustinus Bader roster, too.
“A three-step skincare line feels really manageable and not so daunting,” Lipa says. “It’s easy to take with you, wherever you go, and it’s powerful.” In her phrases: “Three is a kind of magic number.” Which is why, after many conversations, the preliminary assortment ended up as a good trifecta.
It’s virtually time to wrap up—Lipa is in New York and her schedule, as ever, calls for her consideration—so I ask her the query I’m dying to know: how usually is she waking up nonetheless in her glam from the evening earlier than? “Never. Not a single chance. I could be absolutely exhausted and I would need to take my make-up off,” she laughs. “There’s no way.”
This story was initially printed on Vogue.co.uk.