The Glowdown: Helena Christensen Shares the Beauty Secrets We All Want to Know

Welcome to The Glowdown, our new beauty series where we'll be diving into the beauty secrets of our favourite celebrities. We're putting them on the beauty hot seat with our quick-fire round of questions to find out the products they cannot live without, their skincare secrets and the beauty tips and tricks they have picked up along the way.

This month, we're talking to iconic supermodel, Helena Christensen. The Danish model and photographer was one of the most iconic models in the '90s and now fronts the new Cellular Goods campaign. You’ll find all her beauty secrets and musings ahead.

1. Which makeup product gives you the biggest mood boost? Bright-red lipstick

2. If you could steal someone else’s makeup bag, whose would it be? Hung Vanngo

3. You’ve got a spot. Are you team pop it or team leave it alone? Both

4. You only have one product to use for the rest of your life—what is it? Cellular Goods Rejuvenating Face Serum (£99)

5. What’s the best piece of beauty advice that you have ever received? Dab on your blush

6. It’s a bad hair day. What do you do? My bad hair days are my good ones

7. What is your signature fragrance? Strangelove Dead of Night (£360)

8. Strong lip or a strong eye? Red lip and kitten liner

9. You’re having your nails done. What’s your go-to colour? I usually do a different color on thumbs than rest of hands, and it might be a combo of red and pink

10. What is your beauty philosophy in a sentence? Nature will make you the most beautiful inside out, so be in it as much as possible

11. What is your favourite lipstick colour? Velvet Ribbon by Lisa Eldridge (£26)

12. What’s your biggest beauty no-no? Tons of foundation and powder 

13. Candles, reed diffusers or nothing at all? Tons of candles

14. If you could share one piece of beauty advice, what would it be? Go cold water dipping

15. What beauty product do you recommend to everyone? Strangelove Luminizing All Over Oil (£145)—I use it on my shoulders, arms, collar bones, cheeks and eyelids

16. Name one beauty product that is always in your handbag? Fenty Beauty Flyliner Longwear Liquid Liner in Black (£18)

17. Are you team dewy or matte? Dewy all the way

18. Your brows, in one word: Self-sufficient

19. Your worst hairstyle (or hair moment) ever: Permed hair and straight bangs

20. You have to wear your hair crimped or blue eye shadow for the rest of your life: Which do you choose? Blue eye shadow 

21. Makeup primer: love it or hate it? Don’t use it 

22. Confession time–how often do you clean your makeup brushes? I use my fingers 

23. What beauty rule do you always break? I don’t really know any beauty rules 

24. Would you rather have ultra-skinny brows or bleached brows? Ultra skinny 

25. Which celebrity’s hair would you love to steal? Frida Kahlo

26. Which era of beauty inspires you most? The '20s

27. Eyelash curlers: love them or hate them? Don’t use them

28. Best beauty hack? Use lipstick on cheeks and as eye shadow as well

Shop Helena Christensen's beauty favourites:

Cellular Goods CBG & CBD Rejuvenating range is fronted by Helena Christensen and features three all-new products, the Night Cream, SPF 25 Day Cream and Day Mousse, joining the best-selling Face Serum.

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