Sarah Pidgeon on the Unlikely Inspiration for Her Dewy Spring Eye Makeup

Hi Vogue, it's Sarah Pidgeon,

and today I'm gonna walk you through

my sensitive skincare routine and spring makeup look.

I guess we'll start

with these temple patches that I have on.

I've been trying to wear them more

'cause I pick at my skin.

So I use a little bit of Bioderma.

I also recently found out that it helps with discoloration.

And then this is part one of my face wash.

I recently switched this two months ago

because I was getting a lot of congestion,

and for a long time I didn't really believe

in the whole non-comedogenic stuff.

But it turns out it is science-backed.

I don't know if this is the right way to do it,

but I put it on dry.

I feel like it sort of starts working faster [chuckles],

but I do have these cute little puffs today.

Okay.

Now I add a little water.

Well I'm getting so wet.

Now I wash it off.

I wanna be transparent:

I'm not always doing a second cleanse.

I can get a little lazy,

but I'm really trying to do it more

'cause I think it is helping me.

This is IS Clinical's warming honey cleanser.

You cannot eat it,

but sometimes it does get sort of close

to my mouth and it tastes kinda good.

My hormonal acne sort of came about

in my early 20s, and it's painful.

I started working with a dermatologist,

got me on spironolactone, which helped a lot.

But, you know, right now it's not too bad

and I feel like I've really tried to stay on top of it.

It will inevitably flare up again.

It's a constant journey,

and hopefully one day it'll just sort of go away forever.

Okay, next step is my eye cream.

This is by MBR, but I also really like my under eye bags.

I don't know if I'm the only one.

I think they kind of bring like some more dimension

to your face.

Don't try that at home.

Pro tip: put these on, and your eye cream will absorb.

I feel like everybody knows that, but in case you don't.

This thing's amazing.

It's the Therabody Depuffing Wand,

and it has heat and cold.

Just feels really, really good on your face.

I also get styes a lot,

and you're supposed to do hot compresses.

Weird plug for size.

I'm gonna do hot first.

I don't really know the method to the madness,

I just know it feels good,

and you can sort of like sculpt if you want.

Another thing that sort of makes my skin freak is traveling.

But I've been lucky enough to be able to do a lot of it,

because this love story, getting to be so close

to Carolyn is that, for really the past year has been

I think something that is very important to me.

I feel very lucky that she sort of rubbed off on me,

or I hope all of her incredible qualities

have rubbed off on me.

And she didn't wear much makeup.

Her skin always looked like real skin to me.

I switched to the cooling setting

all the way up.

When we were filming in New York,

which was so helpful in many ways

just feel dropped into these characters

of thinking about, you know, 30 years before,

they were sitting in these same restaurants

or walking their dog Friday,

and on these same streets.

Just filming in New York in general,

there's a lot of tension,

'cause there's so many people walking on the streets,

and there's this giant film crew.

Paparazzi showed up occasionally,

which has never happened to me before.

I think more than anything, while I was sort

of an out of body experience many times,

I feel very grateful to have been in something that people

are so invested in the, you know, the real life subjects

of, and I feel like I can't overstate

how grateful I am to have embodied her.

And, you know, now I'm blonde.

I went in to audition for Carolyn

as with long, dark brown hair,

and have since gone blonde, which is a whole process.

But we also have to be really careful

because I have psoriasis,

and obviously it's quite an intense treatment,

sort of lightening such dark hair.

This is a steroid [chuckles]

and I put it right on my scalp,

'cause it can get aggravated from dyeing my hair,

and also just like my diet.

I have yet to have the self-control

to get rid of gluten, or dairy, or sweets.

I'm gonna put May Lindstrom's Blue Cocoon,

and it smells amazing,

and it's this balm that, I think it has a blue algae

or something in it, and I just sort of lock

that in and give it a little moisturization.

But I think I'm gonna stay with a blonde,

'cause one, it took us I think 20-something hours

over two days

to get my hair right.

Her hair really changes throughout her evolution.

In the beginning, it's much more curly,

and there's more dimensionality,

just maybe some more low lights.

And then throughout the show,

it gets much blonder, much straighter.

I think it's also really

so pivotal in helping me just spend time sitting

in the chair watching this transformation happen

and leave behind a bit of Sarah.

Also, it's called CortiBalm,

and it's for treatment for severe chapped lips,

and mine were severely chapped a couple days ago

when I started using this again,

and no longer.

Next step is this IS Clinical Pro Heal serum.

I think there's vitamin C in this,

and after using it consistently,

I think it's helped my redness a lot.

Patch, and you have to go all the way down,

because I think, isn't your face

from like your forehead to your boobs?

Then we've got BIOEFFECT's EGF Serum.

I've gone through, I think, three bottles of this.

When I do have a blemish, it heals it faster,

it gets the redness down faster.

I was in a show called Stereophonic.

2023 we started, we were at Playwrights Horizons,

and then we went to the big Broadway,

which was so wild.

I think it was unexpected for everyone in the cast.

Also this is, I love this stuff.

I just started using it.

Trio Rebalancing Moisture Treatment

by skinbetter science.

It's kind of hard to get, no,

and it smells like oatmeal to me,

which I like.

The prep for a play,

I guess just the sort of immediacy

of everything is very different in theater.

You know, you have your audience there that night.

There's no sort of cutting,

or going back every show, you know, you gotta give it,

you gotta send it all the way to the back row.

One last IS Clinical.

We've got Reparative Moisture Emulsion,

and I tried to do oils for a while,

but I think they're just clogging my skin.

I do have quite dry skin despite having acne,

and I find that these don't make my acne worse,

but it also just helps make skin feel really bouncy

and hydrated.

And then finally, arguably the most important step:

sunscreen.

And this has seen better days in there.

There's just, maybe I'll get some of that out now.

I have had a few bad burns as we all have.

I'm quite fair.

My mother, she really cautioned me to avoid the sun.

Every year, I will get a bad burn,

and I forget to put it on my shoulders,

and I don't realize how intense the UV is.

And you gotta put it all the way down

in the back of your hands.

Hopefully that will absorb.

When I was shooting Love Story,

we were out in Hyannis.

I was in a cashmere turtleneck and jeans,

and I got a heat rash 'cause it was like 90 degrees outside,

and then that turned into psoriasis all over my body.

Yeah, like I've got some right there.

Get it on my chest, get it on my tummy.

It's really everywhere, it comes in waves,

it'll go away,

and you can always cover it up.

I have had this for a really long time,

but I put my concealer on the back of my hand,

and sometimes I use a brush

and most of the time I just use my finger,

and I'll like kind of pop those, and I'll, heavy.

Once that's on, I use, see, this is, I've used this a lot.

It's Lisa Eldridge's Enhanced Tint,

and I just use a little bit on my T-zone.

I went to a Catholic school growing up,

and I wasn't allowed to wear makeup

with my uniform.

When I turned 13,

I remember the first makeup I got was a Bobbi Brown

brown eyeliner, I think a sheer lip balm,

and a little sort of mauve eyeshadow.

And I would wear it and go to school,

and my French teacher would bust me for it.

I mean just because she busted me

to mean I stopped wearing it.

But it was very, very subtle.

Next step is contour.

I sort painted onto this brush.

I hope I look back at my career in 15, 20 years,

and there is no sort of definable Sarah Pidgeon movie

or Sarah Pidgeon TV show,

that it's sort of lots of different genres.

I would like to work with such incredible actors

and just learn from them.

I loved working with Alessandro Nivola

and Constance Zimmer.

They're so expert at what they do,

and getting to be in the same room as them,

like, through rehearsal and seeing the questions they ask.

I just found that to be such a gift to this part of filming.

Also, something that I like doing

is taking this brush,

and I like carving out my eyes a little bit,

and then going down my nose.

Next step is a little road in teacup,

and I've found that my lush attraction,

what I'm attracted

to in blush, has changed since being blonde.

I used to like a sort of darker like winier color.

Now I'm liking, I'm into pink.

I feel like it is sort of stereotypical,

the sort of yellow tones with the pink.

It's just, it's really pretty.

I just do little, that's kind of cute.

I felt so lucky to be able

to wear these clothes from the '90s.

It really is armor,

clothes speak first,

and understanding Carolyn's relationship to clothes,

and then actually being able to wear them was so incredible.

I think understanding her relationship

to tailoring was something that has really played

a part in how I dress really.

If something fits you well and if it's clean,

you always kind of look put together.

You know when you cry and you're having a really big bawl,

and then for some reason you're like, Lemme just look,

see what I look like. [chuckles]

Lemme look in the mirror,

like, lemme take a selfie.

I think there's something so beautiful

about the way your eyes look after you cry.

So I like to take a little bit of blush

and put it on my eyes.

I've definitely taken some photos after I've cried,

'cause then you get it out

and then you cry a little bit more.

I haven't done that in a minute.

After the red bush, we're gonna take a little powder.

I take a little bit of the bronzer, and I [whistles].

I'm gonna take a little blush

and just [beatboxes].

Next step is freckle pen.

Now it's lip time.

I do really like this.

I lose pigment on the corner of my lips,

so I like filling them in there

so my smile seems bigger.

I like getting in there.

Good stuff I took from Love Story.

It's a juicy lasting tint,

and I just sort of hood it in the middle.

While that sort of sets up,

I'm just gonna do a little powder, Make Up For Ever.

The stuff tastes,

and I like eating the warming honey cleanser,

and this road pretzel, it smells so good.

I just put that right in the middle.

Final bit.

I love this stuff.

It smells good. Lasts all day.

Honestly, if I could only choose one thing,

two things, need deodorant, and a blush.

'cause on blush, you can do it on your cheeks,

you can do it on your eyes,

you can do it on your lips, you know, everything.

I'm gonna do a little bit of this.

I like this DedCool Extra Milk.

I feel like it's a really good,

I sort of drown myself in it,

'cause it doesn't, it's not like an overwhelming scent.

Comme des Garcons, Blackpepper.

Comme des Garcons.

Well I only need a little bit,

so I do like a.

[bottle spritzing]

And I'm gonna take these out.

Let me give the ends a little bit of a brush,

'cause I've got more weaved to my hair now,

and sometimes I don't mind when it's totally,

when it's like big and sort of frizzy.

I think that's kind of cool.

It's just volume.

And final, final step is this Crown Affair oil.

It smells so good, especially after going blonde,

my hair's been a lot drier, so.

But I just.

That's the look.

Thank you so much, Vogue.