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Iris Apatow Did Her Own Eyeliner For Pretty Lethal

Director: Gabrielle Reich
DP: Beth Fletcher
Editor: Sara Rao

Associate Producer: Lea Donenberg
Line Producer: Natasha Soto-Albors
Production Manager: Kristen Helmick
Production Coordinator: Tanía Jones
Talent Manager: Phoebe Dishner

Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Post Production Coordinator: Holly Frew
Supervising Editor: Kameron Key
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
Filmed at: Modernhaus Soho 

Released on 03/06/2026

Transcript

Hey Vogue, it's Iris Apatow

and today I'm going to be walking you

through my everyday skincare routine

and do a little red lipstick look.

I'm gonna go in with this Dr Hauschka toner.

I'm using the Dr. Sturm hyaluronic serum.

My mom has the most incredible skin

and so does my grandma,

so I think that's where I got some of those good genes.

But I did go through a period of time

where I had pretty bad hormonal acne

when I was in high school, middle school

I would take my makeup off with hand soap.

So I have come a long way.

It has not always been good.

My next step is this DearKlairs moisturizer.

It's just like thicker

'cause in the winter in New York you become a little lizard

and you don't want that.

I grew up in a mostly female led household

and my dad was a great girl dad,

but everything was makeup and clothes

and girly things

and I think was very good that he was in on it and loved it

and wanted us to be happy.

Sunscreen is very important.

I use a lot of sunscreen

because I feel like that's gonna be the thing

that saves me one day

when everybody's looking raisin-like,

I'm gonna be fine because of this.

I've watched all my favorite idols

and they always have the greatest skin

because they just slather themselves in sunscreen

and your neck,

'cause your neck is a part of your face.

Now to like top it all off, I just use this oil.

It's Virgin Marula Luxury Facial Oil by Drunk Elephant.

I remember when Drunk Elephant like first came out

and I had just this oil

and I've used it since I was like 12.

Growing up on sets, you learn a lot about what works

for your skin and what makes you break out

because of what other people use on you.

And so my mom has, you know, always told me

to just check and see the ingredients.

Just make sure and just always know

what you're putting on your skin.

I'm gonna come in with this stuff,

really like the way it smells.

[upbeat music]

I'm gonna go in with this, the Lip Oasis, the outset.

I start with my eyebrows

because I don't like touching my face

with makeup on.

I've never really understood

how people wouldn't do this as the first step.

I just kind of lightly fill in my eyebrows

'cause I grew up without them

and they kind of weirdly grew in

over the years, I just had blonde eyebrows

and I would tint them really dark and it would look crazy

and people would tell me they look crazy.

I did not care.

So I used this Benefit,

it's completely cleaned off.

I couldn't tell you anything about the shade

or the name of the product, but it's an eyebrow gel

and it works great.

But I love bleached eyebrows to this day

and I would go back to it.

[upbeat music]

I use a little bit of this eyebrow brightener,

I mean under eye brightener on my eyelid

'cause I just have really, I don't know how to describe it.

They just look quite gray and sad,

my eyelids and filled with veins.

But that's beautiful too and you can embrace that.

But I just like to lightly cover them

and then go over with little powder,

'cause I get, and it's Pat McGrath and it's the Baby Pink.

It's really good if you're really pale.

But I just put powder over it.

So what I always do is I line up the tip of my eyebrow

to right here, not like there, but right here.

Okay, I won't ruin it.

Okay, let's see if we can do the other eye.

[upbeat music]

Did that work?

I'd say so, yeah.

I've used this for a long time,

it's also kind of destroyed the Telescopic lash

and this is just a tried and true.

It's very good if you want like just long looking lashes.

I feel like this video

is like my magnum opus of makeup.

I really thought about it.

I sat with my makeup

and I was like, which one of you

are my most reliable soldiers?

So I did a movie called Pretty Lethal

and in the movie I did this exact cat eye

every day I did it on myself.

It's kind of surreal working with people

that you admire at this young,

like you feel like you're in a dream

and that's what kind of being around Uma Thurman felt like.

Okay, so I'm gonna go in with the Benetton.

This is like my first makeup thing I owned.

So in this movie we do a lot of ballet

and we did have to come a few weeks early

and do what they told me

it was called Ballet Bootcamp

and then everyone laughed at me for calling it that.

It was brutal.

It was the summer in Budapest

and it was really hot in this like gymnasium

and everybody is like real dancers

and needs to be warm and they didn't want the fans on

and I'm just pouring sweat

and it was amazing to be around real dancers

and watch them shine.

Also, I put a little bit of this in my eye.

I go in with this MERIT concealer, which I really like,

I do a little like that for no reason.

I don't know what it does.

And then I just put like under there

on my chin, my T-zone

'cause that's where I have a little more discoloration.

But this is how my friend did it once and I'm copying her.

But I take this brush, oh wait,

I'm using this Personal Day spray.

It is great for sanitizing your face

after you've like worked out and stuff.

But I put it on my brushes just to clean them.

I don't clean my brushes as much as I'm meant to.

And so if it's a few days

then, you know, you should put that on.

[upbeat music]

I go back in with the eye brightener

and I just do it right here.

I've auditioned for a couple of the Hunger Games movies

and I always have fun with it 'cause I love the books.

I got this audition for this character Proserpina

and I was immediately excited about it,

but I was like, I have no shot, no way.

What I did right before

is I put on like crazy pink lipstick and eyeshadow

and a big pink dress

and I was just like, I'm just gonna go for it

because either way, it's a cool thing to get

to say you played a character even for two minutes.

The callback was terrifying

and I found out that I got it a little while later.

I was so happy.

I'm gonna set my face

with this same powder I used on my eyelids earlier.

The first person I call when I get a part is my mom,

because she is the most supportive

ride or die friend and mom.

It's more exciting to tell her

that I got the part than getting the part

because she's so happy.

I tell my other friend Layla,

'cause she's always like, you need to enjoy this.

This is very important that you take this.

And I'm like, it's just the perfect combo

of like stay grounded but be excited

and those are my two go-tos.

Next step, I go in with this fun blush from MAC.

I use this spray on the brush

to make it like pick up a little more pigment.

I don't know where I learned that from.

I feel like that's like an old YouTuber,

beauty YouTuber thing that people did.

I used to make my own makeup tutorials.

Hello everyone, today I'm going to be doing

my very honest school get ready with me

because, oh yes, I know people

like to do really cute ones.

Look at me now doing the same makeup, the same blush.

Just in that video I just pour it directly on my face.

I feel most confident in a red lip

and I kind of always have.

So I'm using Shade Eight

in this Armani lip pencil

that I stole straight from my sister.

I love how it's really just not sharpened at all.

[gentle music]

Since I've always felt more confident in this kind of look,

I usually do it for red carpets and stuff.

I think about this one look I pulled

at the ParaNorman premiere,

which was a beautiful Popsicle dress.

It was so cute, I was like 10

when I do walk straight to the face paint counter

and get a zombie on my face.

I looked so cute right before too

and I copped on that carpet quick.

I'd beelined to the carpet.

I'm always jealous of people who are just able

to really be confident on the carpet.

But no, it was very scary.

But I grew up loving fashion

and my sixth grade teacher,

she would show us the Met Gala coverage of all the outfits

and we just more obsessed with it.

Last little bit of this,

there's a fake eyelash connected to this.

If you feel so inclined, you can put a little bit of.

[upbeat music]

Okay, so this is the full look.

A red lip is always very cute, bye Vogue.

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