Millie Bobby Brown Hair and Makeup Interview

How Shaving Her Head Shifted Millie Bobby Brown's Perception Of Beauty

For anyone who's emotionally attached to their hair, shaving your head can be tough — especially for a teenager — but Brown says it emboldened her. "Shaving my head was one of the most empowering decisions I think I've ever made," she said. "It wasn't easy. Well, the shaving your head part is easy. Being in your own home: easy. When you step out into society, into the outside world, it becomes so incredibly difficult. The things people think about you is crazy. I always got judged for what could potentially have happened to me, when it doesn't matter what happened to me. You should be looking at my face and my eyes — it doesn't matter what happened to my hair."

That constant scrutiny from strangers had a major impact on her, and those around her. "It made me grow up in a way and actually influenced my family and my fans to show that what's on your head doesn't define you. It doesn't mean you're a good person or a bad person; it just means you are you. I am who I am. I can choose what I want to choose. It's made me feel much more confident in the things I wear and the things I say. It's made me think not judge other people."

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The 1 Beauty Move Millie Bobby Brown Does To Feel Empowered

Brown experimented a lot with different makeup looks during the time she had a shaved head, and it led her to one particular beauty move: "Lipstick, especially reds," she said. "The one bold thing I loved to do was my lips. That was my favourite thing. Think about it — a lip with a shaved head, that is pretty cool."

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Millie Bobby Brown's Secret To Great Skin

While she was introduced to makeup early on, Brown didn't experiment with skin care until last year. "I'm very chill with my skin care — I keep it very simple," she said. "Moisturiser for me is number one. I don't usually like it because it can feel so heavy, but I also want it to feel like it's doing something, and this Dreamy Dew Moisturiser [from Florence by Mills] is so soft. It's not suffocating, but it also doesn't disappear after two seconds. It was hard actually to get that in between. Like there were so many back and forths of [the team] sending it to me and me saying, 'No this can't be it — I can't even feel it on my face' to 'Oh my god, I feel like I've got a face mask on.' We finally found it, and I am so pleased with the result. I use it every morning and every night."

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On the Nail Art Millie Bobby Brown's Characters Wear

Brown is no stranger to bringing her nail know-how to the movie set — for the most part. "I'm filming [Enola Holmes Mysteries] right now, so I can't have any [fake] nails on. "Enola Holmes does not have crazy nails. Eleven does not have crazy nails. I can assure you she does not go to the nail salon and like OK, ready go," she laughed.

There was one slight exception, however: "In Godzilla Vs. King Kong [Editors note: the film is slated to hit cinemas in 2020], I wanted my character to have army green nails so I brought the idea to set and they ran with it. She's cool. She's very much-Madison Russell is very much that tomboyish colour. I felt like that was her."

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Millie Bobby Brown's Biggest Gen Z Inspiration

"She's not in the beauty space, but in her own way Malala Yousafzai is so beautiful," said Brown. "She empowers and influences so many people. I actually just watched her documentary the other day, and I read her book last year, and for me she's one of my big influences because she inspires so much positivity and love. That's something I stand for as well. And she's young like me and yet she's so powerful — and she causes chaos and with her voice. The people are actually listening and if they're not she makes them listen. I love and live by that as well."

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