Sarah Jessica Parker on Her Best Beauty Looks

“My natural hair texture is wavy, but if I use a diffuser I can give it the power to be curly like this—a diffuser gives my hair ten times the power it has alone.

I’m not a lipstick girl, I think I look awful with it on. This was a lip liner from either Clinique or an Estée Lauder. In the ’80s, we felt enormous pride if we could do our lips without a mirror, which I could do. I don’t like this look on me.”

“That’s a wig! Though I was that blonde for a minute when I was working with Garnier. There were no notes in the script about how any of the witches looked, so we—Bette, Kathy and I—just sorted it out in concert with the director, Kenny Ortega.

We just finished filming the second one. We recreated the beauty looks! But it’s really a different time because it isn’t film, it’s digital. But the wig makes a comeback.”

“An outside marketing team put together the Sex and the City title sequence with a totally different hair and makeup team, which is why it looks so incongruous. to the rest of the show. Pat Field, the stylist, was the only connective tissue. We had so many of that dress made because it was splashed over and over. That’s how we had one to wear in the movie, too.”

“I don’t have a beauty routine when I’m leaving the house to run errands—I’m a mom! There’s just no freaking way. I love sunglasses, especially wraparounds because that’s what my mom wore growing up.

I can’t carve out more time getting ready just because I might get photographed on the street. So sunglasses can be really helpful.”

“Elaine Offers did my makeup for this night. I love a smokey eye, and I have forever. I don’t know how to contour, I don’t know to apply good base makeup, but I can do a smokey eye and it just works on me. It makes me feel good, which was why I wore it for the And Just Like That… premiere. I used a Laura Mercier Caviar Eye Stick, that’s what makes it easy.”