Avril Lavigne “can’t stand other people doing” her makeup.
The ‘Sk8ter Boi’ hitmaker is very particular about what she wants her face to look like and needs to be involved with the process as “no one can do it right”.
The 37-year-old singer told Allure: "I just can't stand people doing my makeup, because I know how I like it. If anything, I do half of it or let them touch me up.”
"No one can do it right. Plus, I can't sit in a chair for an hour while someone's doing my makeup. It drives me nuts, especially when I can do my smoky eye in two minutes."
On days when she has to be on a shoot, Avril will begin her beauty routine when she “literally” wakes up.
She said: "I literally wake up, I go to my bathroom, and start my makeup,” starting with her skincare routine before working in this order; a brows, foundation and eyes.
Despite using the same MAC eyeliner - in the shade Smoulder - to rim her eyes that she did 20 years ago, Avril now understands that you have to mix up the colour to “get it a good shape”.
Avril told the magazine: "I've learned over the years that you want to do some browns in there and some gray in with it, too. Then you use the black. If you just do solid black, it's really hard to get it a good shape."
Another additional step, the ‘Girlfriend’ singer has added to her look is liquid eyeliner, which took her until relatively recently to master.
Avril said: "It's a little more glamorous, I'll wing it out with a liquid liner.It took me literally up until a year ago to figure out how to use liquid eyeliner. It was always so hard for me. And now I can just — ha, ha, no pun intended — wing it and do it really fast."
