Sarah Jessica Parker finds sunglasses "helpful" when she's running errands and doesn't have time to get glammed up.
Sarah Jessica Parker loves sunglasses when she isn't working
The 'And Just Like That...' actress - who has kids James, 19, and Marion and Tabitha, 13, with husband Matthew Broderick - doesn't have time for a beauty routine when she isn't working so just puts on a pair of shades if there's a chance she might get photographed by paparazzi.
She said: "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."
When she does have time for glam, the 57-year-old star loves a smokey eye, but admitted she isn't very good at contouring or applying her foundation herself.
She told Elle.com: "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."
The actress thinks she looks "awful" in lipstick.
Discussing a 1991 red carpet look at the 'For The Boys' premiere, she said: "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."
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