Beauty tips celebrities learned from their mums
To celebrate Mother's Day, we've rounded up the best beauty tips celebrities got from their mums, from Twiggy and Cate Blanchett to Abbey Clancy and Kate Hudson.
Twiggy
My mum always used an old-fashioned moisturising cream called Vanishing Cream. I remember when I was about 7 or 8, I got into a panic because I thought it would make her vanish!
She said 'this is to keep my skin nice and soft'. Although she wasn’t saying 'this is what you should use'. In those days it wasn’t like that. You were a little girl and you grew up. Mums didn’t do that sort of thing. I always had very dry skin so I started pinching some of hers when I was a teenager.
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Kate Upton
My Mum taught me to wash and tone my face every night. No matter what time of night I get home, I go straight to the sink to wash and tone. I’m like a robot! It’s ingrained in me.
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Abbey Clancy
She taught me less is more, she doesn't really do a lot to her skin. I was always messing around with creams but she swears by Skin So Soft by Avon bath oil. She used it with me as a baby and I still use it now on my bump as it's growing.
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Bobbi Brown
My mother taught me that confidence is the most compelling aspect of real beauty. My grandmother was another beauty role model. She used lipstick as blush and always ended with a splash of rose perfume.
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Andrea McLean
My mum had the most beautiful skin! I think it's because she always kept it really simple, always washed her face before going to bed, and I grew up with that.
One thing I'll pass on to my daughter (that my mum didn't give to me, as it's a generational thing) is always use some sun factor.
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Fern Britton
My mother always said don’t overpluck your eyebrows. She also said ‘Who’s looking at you anyway?’. It wasn’t meant unkindly, more just in a ‘get on with it’ way. It helped me get rid of my inhibitions – and I’m not vain!
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Heidi Klum
My mom was a hairdresser when I was growing up, and she loved experimenting. She taught me that trying new things could be fun, whether it was dyeing my hair or chopping my fringe.
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Lupita Nyong'o
The best beauty trick my mother taught me was to use garlic on zits – it dries them out. You want to do it at night so you don’t walk around smelling like garlic all day… nobody would want to be your friend.
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Salma Hayek
My mother taught me these three magical words: don’t overdo it. I stay consistent with the basics and stay away from aggressive ingredients.
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Kate Hudson
I would say application – she's so good at applying make-up. She can do it in five seconds and she can do it without a mirror, I remember watching her. I'd sit there as she put her make-up on and think, 'Gosh, she's an angel'.
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Cate Blanchett
She was quite obsessed quite early – before everyone was talking about it – with sun protection. She would always send us out in shirts or hats, which I was always trying to rip off.
So there was always a big awareness of that. She was big on moisturising, before you even think you need to. It didn't make me skin-obsessed, but it certainly made me aware.
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Kim Cattrall
My mum used Olay when I was a little girl. We lived in a real rural Vancouver Island town, and she loved the ads, she loved the romance. It was sort of this Ali Baba, liquid kind of mystery.
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Demi Moore
I moisturise, moisturise, moisturise – that's the most important lesson my mother passed on to me, and I say it to my daughters all the time.
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