Lili Reinhart on Her Longtime Love For Makeup and YouTube Tutorials
Scroll down far enough on Reinhart's Instagram and you'll notice a lot of photos of the now-actress painted in SFX makeup or particularly polished Halloween looks. Turns out, she took up the skill when she was just 16.
"I started watching YouTube tutorials when I was young, which really sparked my interest in makeup. I moved to North Carolina from Ohio at 16 and I used beauty as a way of therapy. When I did my makeup, I was in my own little world," Reinhart told POPSUGAR. "I used it as something to dive into and take on as a hobby."
Eventually, Reinhart decided to level up her makeup skills by taking on SFX makeup after watching more tutorials and decided, I can do that! "I went to Spirit Halloween and slowly started building my collection with liquid latex and stuff like that," she recalled. "It was basically playing around and looking at the Halloween makeup tag on Instagram and seeing what I could replicate."
"I love the opportunity for expression. There's a huge freedom right now in makeup to really do whatever you want."
Reinhart's talent for makeup ran so deep she even considered it as a career after moving back to LA for the second time. "I told myself that I'd keep acting, but if I didn't book anything or things don't seem to work out for me, I'd go to makeup school,'" she recalled. Of course, acting did work out for her. Reinhart never went to makeup school, but she said she still enjoys doing her own: "I love the opportunity for expression. There's a huge freedom right now in makeup to really do whatever you want."