Lupita Nyong’o Talks About Being Banned From Wearing Make-Up!

Lupita Nyong’o Talks About Being Banned From Wearing Make-Up & Dealing With Fame In LUCKY Magazine March 2015 Issue

 

 

You’ve seen her stunning cover for Lucky magazine’s new spring issue. Now find out why Lupita Nyong'o was banned from wearing make-up and how she’s coping with her new found fame inside….

 

Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o is the cover girl for LUCKY magazine’s March 2015 issue. Her breathtaking cover was released last week, now her interview, which reveals a few things you may not have known about the award-winning actress, has surfaced. 

 

In the cover story, the Kenyan beauty (above styling in a neon Novis dress, Christian Louboutin "Riri" pumps and an Ela clutch) talks about how, as a child, she was banned from wearing or using any cosmetics until she was nearly 18-year-old. She said,

 

“My mother has never ever worn a drop of makeup in her life—not even at her wedding,” she recalls. As a girl, Nyong’o’s only real exposure to the world of creams, sticks and shadows came via an aunt who would occasionally visit with the contraband materials and paint her face while her mother was out. “Honestly, my mother’s outlook was hard for me to take when I was a teenager and I wanted to experiment. But in the end I appreciated it, because today I can look in a mirror with no makeup on and love myself.”

 

But nowadays, the cover girl is the face of a few cosmetics brands, including Lancome. So what’s her “go-to” make-up item? She spilled,

 

“I always have a Lancôme Lip Lover, in one shade or another, in my purse. They just add a little something. I’ll choose the color depending on what I’m wearing and how much tint I want—this one is really, really light, but it dresses you up immediately.”

 

The fab YBF actress also talked about how she’s dealing with fame, social media and getting nervous before speaking engagements.

 

Below are the highlights:

 

On the frustration of being a high-profile celebrity:

“The not-so-fun part of all this is that when I don’t feel like being famous, I still am,” she admits. “When you’re in the middle of Manhattan and you have to pop into Starbucks to use the restroom and everyone recognizes you when you’re waiting on line, it’s awkward.” I ask if she’s come up with a way to cope: some clever disguise, a wig, a hoodie, a full-body Snuggie, maybe? She admits that she has. So, what is it? “I’ll never tell,” she says slyly, raising an eyebrow and putting a polite end to the discussion.

 

On accepting the fame:

“All of my life, my father was a high-profile person,” says Nyong’o, whose dad, Peter, a professor and political activist, is now a senator in the Kenyan parliament. If there is a slacker in the Nyong’o family, we can’t find one: Her mother, Dorothy, is on the board of the Africa Cancer Foundation; her cousin Isis is a technology executive who was voted one of the most powerful young women in Africa; and her cousin Tavia is a respected cultural critic. “Being brought up in the family that I was brought up in, we were always in a position of example. So it’s something I don’t wrestle with. I don’t question it. I accept it.”

 

On social media:

“I’m governed by things that made me smile, laugh and think,” she says. “And if they do that to me, then I ask myself, Would anybody else care to see this? If I can think of one person, I post it.”

 

On speaking engagements:

“It makes me very nervous. My heart is on my sleeve when I do those things, but the only way I know to do them is to speak from my heart. So it costs me a lot … and then I need to take a nap.”

 

NICE! Peep the rest of her gorgeous spring ready spread and her designer deets below...