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April 02, 2014

Q&A: Drew Barrymore on ’90s Beauty, How Concealer Can Be Empowering, and More

Filed Under: Articles,Flower Beauty,Interviews

New York Magazine did a Q&A with Drew and it includes a video tutorial about using concealer.

Although celebrities like Blake Lively, Reese Witherspoon, and Cameron Diaz are eager to become lifestyle brands, Drew Barrymore isn’t in any rush. Despite penning 1,000-word odes to egg sandwiches, releasing a best-selling heart-based photography book, and launching her own beauty company, Flower Beauty, Barrymore says she doesn’t consider herself in the lifestyle-brand game. “If it organically morphed and evolved into that, it would be something,” she told the Cut. “But I don’t have any plans for that yet.”

She talked to the Cut about how she would respond to critics who don’t see makeup as empowering, her planned expansion into skin care, and how she’s just “trying to get shit done.” Plus, watch the exclusive video tutorial above, in which she teaches us how to achieve a modern take on ’90s beauty.

A few years ago, you were People Magazine’s “Most Beautiful Woman in the World.” How do you feel about beauty now versus then?
That’s so nice they put me on that list again. I don’t take things like that for granted or assume. But I feel no different, really. I think about beauty more in terms of how to make women feel good and empowered through this beauty company. I think about beauty on a business level. My own personal routine hasn’t really changed much.

What is your skin-care routine like?
I still wash my face twice a day. That’s probably my one sanctuary. I use a cleanser from the facialist Christine Chin. It’s super-expensive and that bums me out because I’m used to drugstore brands. I also love brightening serums now. I have the patchiest, reddest, most hideous/discolored skin, so those brighteners are really a lifesaver.

I’ve been a green-drinker for years. I’m part of that old, original posse of people. I love it. I go and buy fresh ones. I’m not into the pressed ones. I like the ones that are freshly made right there. It’s so amazing how much it affects everything.

But otherwise, it’s just toners, brighteners, and any under-eye love I can possibly get. I have such lack of sleep from raising kids. It’s more like a three-step skin-care routine. I like misters for revitalizing makeup; it’s a great way to wear makeup all day for work. It’s like, “What do you do at 3 p.m. in the afternoon?” You do a mister with a little bit of water, which gives it life again and adds dewiness.

Have you tried those newer cleansers, like the oil-based types?
I’m so scared to try the oil-based cleansers. I still have yet to find a sunscreen that doesn’t make me break out. So I feel like my choices are zits or brown patches. I don’t tan in the sun, so I’m not in danger so much. A lot of stuff just makes me break out.

I have a few cleansing oils that beauty-editor friends have given me, but I’m going to wait until after the pregnancy to try it out. I can’t take acne on top of the pregnancy and feeling like an Oompa Loompa.

So how do you create an “empowering” makeup company?
I don’t respond to a beauty company that’s selling that you have to wear a lot of makeup and is all about glamour against a gold-rain backdrop. That’s not real life. I much more like dancing around in my closet to music. I don’t love overairbrushing or weird fake jungles or CGI. I kind of just like flowers. I like white backdrops and stuff that’s just very grounded in reality.

When you see women who have warmth to them, that’s beautiful. It’s about a good heart and a smile that is coming across. I don’t really connect with a cold, aggressive-type thing. My personality doesn’t really magnetize to that. It’s more joyful than serious beauty. That’s what I did as a creative director at Cover Girl for seven years and what I try to bring to Flower Beauty.

It’s about sitting around in sweatpants — but we need to believe that we are women, too. It’s about dancing around your closet and getting ready for a date or to go to work; that’s more true to life.

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March 21, 2014

Drew Barrymore, Kate Hudson and Others Celebrate Kids!

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Extra shares the news that Drew is one of the celebrities supporting SafeKids.org and the Safe Kids Day.

Safe Kids Worldwide announced that annual Safe Kids Day events will be held around the country throughout April.

These events will bring together families, celebrities and donors to raise awareness and funds to prevent childhood injuries, the number one killer of kids in the United States.

Numerous celebrities and athletes are joining the effort as Safe Kids Day Celebrity Heroes, including Drew Barrymore, Kate Hudson, Gwen Stefani, Kelsey Grammer and others.

Go to SafeKids.org for all the information!

March 10, 2014

Reese Witherspoon, Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz cook up girls trip

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We all know that Drew loves to cook and has been trying to learn more about the culinary arts the past few years, well it appears that she and some gal pals took a girls trip to learn how to make homemade pasta! The Los Angeles Times gives us a run down of their trip.

Reese Witherspoon and Cameron Diaz joined gal pal Drew Barrymore and others for a “girls trip” in Napa Valley this week that’s giving us major culinary envy.

The A-listers headed up to the Northern California wine country on Wednesday for what Witherspoon, 37, dubbed #girlstrip2014, or what we want to refer to as “Charlie’s Angels” meets “Eat Pray Love” with a dash of “Julie and Julia” and some “Legally Blonde” mixed in for good measure.

The leading ladies took a cooking class at the Culinary Institute of America in St. Helena, just north of Napa, at the majestic Greystone property. There they donned adorable white chefs’ hats and were joined by stylist Leslie Fremar, makeup artist Gucci Westman, hairstylist Lona Vigi and food enthusiast Emma Daley.

The gang created several authentic Italian treats as part of the institute’s “Cooking of Italy” course. Witherspoon made spinach ricotta ravioli, Diaz made lamb chops, Barrymore made fresh pasta and Fremar made pizza.

As with any getaway, the ladies snapped photos and shared some online with a healthy helping of teasing.

Diaz, 41 and the author of “The Body Book,” snapped a shot of Barrymore running pasta dough through a pasta maker. A typo in her caption could be interpreted either as “making” or “maiming.” Same difference, right?

“Thank you culinary institute of America ! I learned so much with my girlfriends #GT14,” Barrymore said.

“What an amazingly delicious, educational, and ridiculously FUN time I had with these awesome ladies!!! … #CIA #napavalley #culinarylove #goodfoodgoodfriends #GT14, Diaz wrote, captioning a group shot of the ladies on Instagram.

Anyone else starving now?

February 10, 2014

Drew Barrymore Says She Would Never Let Daughter Pose for Playboy

Filed Under: Articles,Videos

I found this interview Drew did last month with ABC’s Nightline and it is a beautiful article as she talks about her past, her family and the woman she is now.

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Actress Drew Barrymore posed for Playboy when she was 19, but doesn’t want her daughter Olive to follow in her footsteps.

“I would not let her [pose for Playboy],” Barrymore said in an interview with ABC News’ Amy Robach. “My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else’s. That’s my journey.”

While Barrymore said she has “no regrets in my life whatsoever,” becoming a mother has put her in “a different mind frame.”

“I celebrate that I had any sense of freedoms at a certain point, because I don’t feel like that now,” she said. “The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example, and whatever I’ve experienced in my life is a part of my story and I’m proud of that. But it’s someone who wakes up early, works all day, believes in charitable work.”

Barrymore, 38, is married to art consultant Will Kopelman. The couple have 18-month-old Olive together and are awaiting the birth of baby girl number two. The “Charlie’s Angels” actress, who is also an acclaimed producer and director, called motherhood the role of a lifetime.

“It’s a ride. I’m tired, but it’s the best ride I’ve ever been on in my life,” she said.

Aside from also creating a business empire with a production company called Flower Films, her own Barrymore Wines label, and a line of make-up called “Flower Beauty,” photography is another passion Barrymore said she cares deeply about. She said she has shot more than 30,000 pictures, including work for “V” magazine and a Tommy Hilfiger ad campaign.

“In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take a pause. Photography calms me,” she said.

Her latest endeavor is “Find It In Everything,” a compilation of her photographs of various shapes of hearts found in everyday life. Barrymore said hearts are a shape that has inspired her for nearly 30 years.

“I started finding hearts in things — whether it was like, a tree I was passing, a straw wrapper on the ground, I think the heart has one continuous line, which is very powerful,” she said.

Barrymore has come a long way from the child star who captivated audiences in the blockbuster film, “E.T.,” and then made headlines for her wild behavior — including drug and alcohol addiction, partying and a stint in rehab — as she grew up.

She attempted suicide, and became emancipated from her parents by the time she was 15 years old.

When asked if she ever looked back on her past and wondered how she got to where she is today, Barrymore replied: “I love the wonderful, awkward journey that I’ve been on in my life. I never have to worry that, like, I didn’t get anything out of my system.”

The photography book isn’t Barrymore’s only new project. She is gearing up for the summer release of “Blended,” her third romantic comedy with Adam Sandler, and says she believes she and Sandler work well together.

“I think we challenge each other,” she said.

Barrymore is also taking cooking classes. “I’m not good at it, but I love it so much,” she said.

February 10, 2014

‘My husband thinks I’m insane!’

Filed Under: Articles,Family

She’s heavily pregnant with her second child.

But that didn’t stop Drew Barrymore from going on a furry shopping spree and coming home with a pooch, much to her husband Will Kopelman’s despair.

Drew told People magazine: ‘Our plate is so full right now. I got a puppy while pregnant with the toddler and my husband was like, “You are insane!” I was like, “I am!”‘

But apparently that’s just how the 50 First Dates actress rolls.

‘I mean, let it rain. When it rains, it pours,’ she said. ‘That was my mentality!’

During a candid chat, the bubbly 38-year-old actress also confessed that she and her husband Will Kopelman will be ignoring the grandeur of Valentine’s Day this year.

‘When you’re pregnant, it’s just so different,’ Drew explained, speaking about the notoriously loved-up February holiday.

The Never Been Kissed star revealed that she and Will plan on laying low on the 14th, implying that she doesn’t expect any grand gestures from Will, whose father is former Chanel CEO Arie Kopelman.

‘It’ll just be all about food and hanging out,’ she continued. ‘Next year, it’ll be [a] fabulous bottle of wine and maybe something extraordinary.’

Drew is already a starry eyed mother to her 16-month-old daughter Olive, and told the magazine that the toddler is helping her gear up to give birth for the second time.

‘She just really loves babies and kids,’ she said, adding: ‘I have her in a lot of classes.’

And it sounds as though Olive is already taking on the very mentality that Drew herself preaches and practices so avidly when it comes to approaching life with love.

Speaking about how her daughter operates around other children, she declared: ‘I like when she’s so open-hearted to people and her surroundings.’

The pretty blonde explained that as hard as she tries to stay on top of a fitness routine, she has not found it easy to fit it into her packed routine.

‘We don’t have a babysitter on the weekends,’ she told the magazine. ‘There’s a Saturday class that I basically have to turn my life upside down to get to and sometimes I simply can’t.’

But it seems there are some formalities and chores Drew will be able to forego given that she is expecting another girl.
‘I’m relieved I’m having another girl. I have everything I need,’ she said. ‘It’s all about hand-me-downs and room sharing and all that stuff. I’m pretty psyched about that!’

(Source)

February 04, 2014

Godiva Chocolatier Partners With Drew Barrymore To Find It In Everything For Valentine’s Day

Filed Under: Articles,Find It in Everything

Drew has partnered up with Godiva Chocolate (yummmy!) for Valentines Day. PR Newswire has shared this press conference.

NEW YORK, Jan. 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — This Valentine’s Day, GODIVA Chocolatier is celebrating every day’s heart-melting moments. To kick-off the season of love, GODIVA is partnering with Drew Barrymore and her new coffee table book, Find It in Everything, a collection of photographs of heart-shaped objects. Through this heart-felt partnership, the brand synonymous for their iconic heart-shaped boxes will join the actress in recognizing love and romance can be found everywhere.

Beginning February 1st, GODIVA will be offering Find It in Everything as a gift with purchase of $50 at over 200 GODIVA boutiques nationwide and for $65 on GODIVA.com. Together, GODIVA and Drew Barrymore are encouraging chocolate lovers to share photos of heart-melting moments as a part of GODIVA’s Heart-Melting Valentine’s Day Sweepstakes. Consumers uploading photos to GODIVA’s Facebook Page have the opportunity to win GODIVA Valentine’s Day favorites and one lucky winner will have the chance to attend a meet and greet with Drew Barrymore, receive a signed copy of Find it in Everything and relish in a year’s worth of GODIVA chocolate.

“For decades, I’ve been collecting images of hearts and I am excited that I am finally able to share them. I’m inspired by the shape and the many emotions that the heart symbolizes. No other brand honors love and heart-melting moments like GODIVA so working with the brand feels like a perfect fit” said Drew Barrymore. “I’ve even photographed exclusive GODIVA hearts that can only be seen on GODIVA.com and by following @GODIVA.”

Hearts are at the core of GODIVA’s decadent gift offerings throughout the Valentine’s Day season. These tempting treats include classic GODIVA Keepsake Hearts ($50 for 15 pcs), new limited-edition Valentine’s Day Truffle Flights ($16), iconic Valentine’s Day Gold Ballotins ($15 for 8 pcs) and Milk and Dark Chocolate Message Truffles ($12). Boutique exclusive items include Freshly Dipped Chocolate-Covered Strawberries (from $7 each to $48 for 6 strawberries) and Fudge Heart Pops ($3).

January 14, 2014

Drew Covers Marie Claire as The Rebel Next Door

Filed Under: Articles,Interviews,Magazines,Press

Drew is on the cover of the new issue of Marie Claire. Such a great article … Drew talks about her love of cooking, motherhood & family, and her new photography book. Plus we get to hear from her friend and partner Nancy Juvonen.

“I found the porn section!” Drew Barrymore is shouting through the narrow aisles of Book Soup in West Hollywood. An older woman perched behind the counter narrows her eyes, watching while Barrymore longingly strokes the spines of several hardback books, none of which contain anything saucier than, well, sauce.

“I looooove cookbooks,” Barrymore, 38, exclaims. “I cook a lot when I’m pregnant.” The actress-producer-entrepreneur and, with her recent photography volume Find It in Everything, author has a 16-month-old daughter, Olive, with art consultant husband Will Kopelman and is due with their second daughter in March. “When I got pregnant the first time, I couldn’t even boil water.” By logging long hours on food channels and poring over recipes, she taught herself to cook. “Now I can make the most spectacular slow-roasted pork tacos you will ever have, an incredible verde sauce with ancho chilies—so fucking good.” Barrymore eagerly scrolls through her iPhone for her latest triumph: “A Greek yogurt pie with lemon zest and pepper filling on a gingersnap crust with black seedless grape compote,” plated on vintage china, a hand-embroidered napkin folded off to one side. “Amazing!” she beams.
The same could be said of Barrymore’s transformation from the fast-and-loose genial wild child who trumpeted her bisexuality and flashed her breasts at David Letterman when he turned 48 (there are worse birthday gifts) into an organic-omelet-whisking, cabbage-rose-gardening, modern-Martha wife and mother. Gone is the “love of love” that for decades magnetized her to dubious dudes (Tom Green, Fabrizio Moretti, Justin Long) and kept her in a sudsy romantic churn. Instead, a cozier, cultivated domesticity has her house-hunting and school-screening in New York City to nest closer to her in-laws, Coco and Arie Kopelman, the former head of Chanel. This is New Barrymore, or, as her sister-in-law and writer Jill Kargman labels her, “Jew Barrymore.”

“I try to be a good shiksa wife,” explains Barrymore. “I go to Central Synagogue in New York.” She also attempted to prepare a Passover Seder when she and her husband were courting. “It was a disaster. I screwed everything up. And I got the date wrong. I ended up taking him to a really awesome Seder at [Working Title president and producer] Liza Chasin’s house.”

Casual friends for several years, Kopelman and Barrymore reconnected in January 2011. A year after their first date, they were engaged. Six months after that, they were married. “Sometimes whom you least expect is the person you fall for,” Kopelman, 36, says. “It was a combination of moments: watching her with my nephew. Traveling with her. Going to museums with her. I knew, adding them up, this was it.” He laughs when recalling her reaction to him not seeing key films in her oeuvre. “She was angry and surprised I hadn’t seen Grey Gardens or Ever After and immediately sat me down and had me watch them.”

Kargman says Barrymore reminds her of their mother, who would pull exquisitely roasted lamb from the oven while wearing ballgowns: “That combination of glamour and homeyness is so Drew!” The familial comparison brings tears to Barrymore’s eyes. Over lunch at the decidedly old-fashioned joint The Musso & Frank Grill—a favorite of her grandfather John Barrymore, whose Hollywood star sits outside the entrance—she confesses, “I don’t know anybody in my family of origin. The other day someone asked me what my mother’s mother’s name was, and I was like, ‘No idea.'” In the dim light, Barrymore resembles her famous kin, with a gently sloping face and the bow lips of a 1930s screen gem. She says she feels of a different time, and though dressed in a white quilted “$19 Princess Leia–looking tunic from Topshop” and jeans, Barrymore rhapsodizes about pouring herself into a gown and teasing her hair into a giant beehive.

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September 25, 2013

The Very Sweet Drew Barrymore on Hotel Feng Shui, Her Childhood Bedroom, and Collecting Dictionaries

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Vulture’s Darla Murray did this fun interview with Drew at the Elle Decor Fashion Issue Party last night!

Drew Barrymore showed up a bit late to Elle Decor’s fashion issue party, which took place last night at John Demsey’s impeccably designed Manhattan home. But because she is the sweetest (she actually has a heart-themed photography book coming out in January — you can’t make this up), she took a few moments out of her evening to talk to Vulture anyway. Here’s our lovely conversation with the lovely Drew Barrymore.

We’re asking everybody at this party, which features this beautiful décor, if you can remember your childhood bedroom and how you decorated that.
Oh, yes. I had KISS [posters], which gave me nightmares, and Blondie, the whole band, and Pippy Longstockings, and Superman.

That’s quite an array.
Lots of empowerment going on.

And these were posters you chose yourself?
Oh, yeah, absolutely.

Now in your current house, do you have any house rules that you enforce when you have guests over, like, “No shoes in the house,” “No red wine”?
Oh no. God no. Put your feet up anywhere, drink anywhere, I don’t really have coasters … you can use a book. I want people to be comfortable.

So you must have good parties, too, then.
I think so. I hope so.

I told John Demsey [who is standing there with her]: It’s probably not fair to ask what his house rules are, because we’re probably breaking all of them right now.
I’m certainly not an uptight home owner.

What’s the most unusual item in your home? Or something you could never part ways with?
God, that question stumps me; there’s so much stuff in my home. I’ve been refurbishing it for fourteen years.

Really? Is that because you’re indecisive, or … ?
No, it’s a labor of love, this great house that I have. It’s just really, really special.

So you’ve always been into design?
I’ve always been a homemaker, like I like creating spaces. Even if I stay in a hotel, I’ll unpack, I’ll put my books out, I’ll put my camera out, I’ll throw a sweater over the lamp to get better light. I am a homemaker. So it’s hard for me to answer that question about my home. I just have a lot of, you know – probably my dictionary collection. I have a lot of dictionaries.

You know you can do that on the Internet now, right?
I know, I know, it’s true. I even have an app on my phone and it just makes me sick every time I use it.

How often do you look up words in dictionaries?
A lot, it’s actually something I studied as a kid. I just love words.

Anything to do with acting?
No, I just think dropping out of school early I had to learn things that I was really passionate about and wanted to keep studying and I fell in love with the dictionary. Words are very powerful.

As a writer, I completely agree.
I still can’t spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words. My vocabulary is awesome; my grammar is shit.

It’s okay, that’s why there are editors.
Yes, exactly.

Are you interested in writing?
Yeah. I have a book coming out in January, but it’s photography.

Your photos or something you curated?
My photography.

Really, what’s in it? What can we expect from it?
It’s called Find It in Everything, and it’s just heart shapes I’ve found in things over the course of the decades.

Very nice. I love the little bit about the hotels — that’s hilarious. So you say you bring your own candles and stuff, but are you rearranging their stuff?
Sometimes a little bit, but mostly just decorative. I don’t really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.

Little casual reconstruction.
Just kind of make it mine immediately.

Well, thank you very much. Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you, too. I liked your questions very much!