Naomi Watts Reveals How Long It Takes Her to Get Ready to Go Out

Naomi Watts is on the cover of Shape‘s September 2019 issue.

Here’s what the 50-year-old actress had to share with the mag…

On her low maintenance look: “I’m not very good at putting on makeup or doing my hair, to be honest. I’m a five-minute girl with getting dressed. So the least amount of makeup is the best for me—I use about four products. I’m big on eyebrows, so I pencil those in. I don’t do mascara because my eyes are sensitive. I also love the Beautycounter blush stick and lipsticks. Its Dew Skin tinted moisturizer is a game-changing product for me—I like to be able to see the skin breathe. And I can do all that in the car.”

On her big-picture approach about dieting: “The minute I put myself in any kind of constraint with eating, I’ll end up rebelling and not doing the right thing. So I allow myself room for naughty and nice. I grew up in the ’70s, and my mom was a hippie in the day who baked her own bread and made vegetarian dishes. So that’s my comfort food. Superhealthy. It’s what I crave. When I was first trying to get pregnant, I cut out a lot of wheat, sugar, and dairy in my diet—and I remember drinking tons of wheatgrass juice. So I’ve tried to stay with that, but there’s wiggle room. It doesn’t mean I won’t eat french fries. I’m done with wheatgrass juice, though. In fact, it may make me gag just thinking about it.”

On being a clean-beauty mogul: “We’re not just artists anymore. This is a business, and you have to think in that way. I’ve kind of always been a planner and a list maker, someone who knows how to read people and put people together. They started sending me the products, and I was experimenting and continuing to immerse myself in the clean-beauty world.”

For more from Naomi Watts, visit Shape.com.