Exclusive! The Daily Show's Olivia Munn's Beauty Secrets

Allure Daily Beauty Reporter

By Kate Sullivan, Allure magazine

Olivia Munn is pulling double duty on opposite coasts: She's acting on the new NBC sitcom Perfect Couples and working as a correspondent for The Daily Show. We chatted up the comedic actress and author of Suck It, Wonder Woman! about beauty. (For more on Munn's career, check out her interview in our March issue.)

Let's talk beauty routine. You get spray tans. Ugh, yes. I feel like a dog being dipped for fleas. [There are some] heavy-handed spray tanners-no offense, but it's usually the blonde girls. If you get a blonde girl she'll get you so much oranger and darker. I look like Mowgli from The Jungle Book right now."

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Does it change what you use for makeup? "My makeup artist [on Perfect Couples] has to have two different set ups for me-two shades of foundation. They use a lot of base and foundation on TV, so I like a tinted moisturizer [offscreen]. Laura Mercier makes a great one."

What beauty products are always in your handbag? "I always have a Chapstick with me. I think sunglasses are a huge beauty tool-they protect your eyes and the skin around them. I'm a big blush girl-to a fault. I'm always like, 'Yeah, more blush!'"

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Any skin-care secrets? "I furrow my brow and I have a line that comes up. Before I saw a facialist, it was actually pretty prominent. Now I go to Cristina Radu. You have to get recommended to her. She called the person I used as a reference and said 'Do you know her?' Because I fly a lot now, I go twice a month. There are some people who have had plastic surgery that have done it really well-a little here and there-and they're in their 60s or 70s and look great. But the one thing you can't do anything about [at that point] is the texture of your skin."

You have a reputation for being a foxy lady. Do you feel you have to be hot or you're letting people down? "If I let you down because I didn't wear a push-up bra, that's not really my problem. And it's not my problem if I wear a push-up bra and I let you down. I'm just trying to be me."

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