María Zardoya, Musician, The Marías

“I want to title Submarine an album of solitude, exploration, and alter. Josh [Conway]The Marías’ producer and drummer, and I had been in a relationship for seven years. We ended the romantic part of our relationship after our first album, and that threw us right into a particular state of consciousness the place we’d rediscover who we had been in a model new dynamic. ‘No One Seen,’ thought of certainly one of my favorite songs from the album, fully encapsulates what I was feeling on the time. As for our tour, we would have liked to create an otherworldly experience for our followers for a couple of hours, and I consider we did that.

In LA, my mannequin of ‘going out’ is just going to dinner, after which coming residence and watching The Good British Bake Off. [Laughs] I actually like Izakaya Osen and Kenbey in Silver Lake. They’re every sushi spots and truly delicious. I ate at Amour, a French spot in West Hollywood, not too way back. It’s pretty pricey, nonetheless I would eat there as soon as extra as quickly as in a blue moon. Oh, Lolo is a tried-and-true staple. If I would like a fundamental branzino and a salad, I’ll go there. Nevertheless all by our tour, ‘going out’ means web internet hosting our ‘Freak Marine After Occasions.’ Josh DJs, and they also’re rather a lot fulfilling.

SKINCARE
After I’m on stage, my look needs to have the flexibility to face as much as the whole thing of the current, along with a component the place I submerge myself in a shower filled with water. That talked about, I don’t do one thing crazy to prep for make-up. I cleanse with Cerave to get regardless of mud and make-up are already on my face. I actually like that it doesn’t foam because of foam cleansers are inclined to dry my pores and pores and skin out. I’ve moreover used toners beforehand which have broken me out, and so far, Barbara Sturm’s hasn’t. It’s pretty pricey, nonetheless I do suppose it’s value it. Plus, you can truly stretch it out to make it closing.

My dermatologist, Dr. Heather Roberts, helpful her vitamin C. I pat it on, stay up for it to dry, after which throw on squalane oil from The Extraordinary, which she moreover helpful years prior to now as soon as I had crazy dermatitis. I actually like that the vitamin C doesn’t have a scent, and I’ve truly seen a distinction since I started using it. My pores and pores and skin is every brighter and additional even in texture.

With reference to hydration, I like SkinCeuticals’ Triple Lipid Restore 2:4:2 moisturizer. It leaves my pores and pores and skin feeling plump and dewy. I completed using it as soon as I pared down my routine as soon as I used to be dealing with dermatitis, and I would truly see the excellence in hydration. After I started using it as soon as extra, I was like, ‘OK. That’s good. For my eyes, I like Biossance’s squalane eye cream because of it’s truly light nonetheless moisturizes merely ample. I’ve tried a bunch of eye lotions and it’s my favorite. I swear by it.

MAKEUP
Leticia Llesmin, my make-up artist, travels with me. We’ve been working collectively for 3 years now, and he or she truly understands that I like a pure, almost no-makeup look. In spite of everything, we do define all of the issues a bit further since I’m on stage beneath vivid lights. We start off with Chanel’s Vitalumière Aqua. It’s large light and silky and covers merely ample to even out my pores and pores and skin. I will on no account use the remainder, I consider. It merely gives me this truly good dewy finish.

I actually like Make Up For Ever’s eye pencil—it obtained’t budge the entire night time time. I moreover love the best way it goes on simply and doesn’t drag. For eyeshadow, we’ve been using Chanel’s Venetian adornment quad. We use various browns with a bit little little bit of coral, nonetheless we’ve moreover experimented with some blues and glitters and that’s always fulfilling.

Chanel’s waterproof mascara is nice all-around with amount and measurement—and it doesn’t clump and it’s not too dramatic—so I exploit it for reveals however as well as in my every day life. It lasts by way of my water second, however it certainly’s not too troublesome to get off on the end of the night time time. And I’ve been using Glossier’s Boy Brow for a really very long time. It’s truly versatile. If I must have a full eyebrow second, I can accomplish that, and if I must go large pure, I can accomplish that, too. I’ve used completely different ones and I’ve thought, ‘No, this doesn’t hit as arduous.’

I wish to overline my lips a bit bit with Make Up For Ever’s lip liner in 3C—I exploit it every day. The color blends out very properly with my Chanel liquid lipstick in Mushy Rosewhich is simply concerning the equivalent color as my lips, merely enhanced a bit bit. It goes on like a gloss nonetheless then it dries matte and stays on the entire night time time. I haven’t used one different lip product pretty desire it.

HAIR
On tour, Leticia will do these ‘90s twisties in my hair to current me a sort of grunge moist look. We use R+CO’s pomade and the look lasts the entire night time time. It was important to me that the product be alcohol-free and by no means horrible for my hair because of I’d be using it night time time after night time time. And considering the amount of product we’ve used all by the tour, my hair’s in pretty good situation. I’ve to clean it every night time time in any case. Davines’ Love shampoo and conditioner are so gentle and scent so good. I put some Davines hair oil on my ends as soon as I get out of the bathe, too. I blow dry it after however it certainly takes me all of 10 minutes because of I obtained a gentle keratin treatment at Hairroin sooner than the tour. That’s been a life-changer.

NAILS + FRAGRANCE
I actually like darkish nails, nonetheless I don’t want a stark black shade. As an alternative, I always paint them with the equivalent shade of darkish purple from OPI—Lincoln Park After Darkish. After which I placed on Maison Louis Marie’s No.04 Bois de Balincourt perfume oil. I’m not the easiest at describing it, however it certainly’s woody and spicy. I actually watched a TikTok that talked about Harmful Bunny wears it, too. In my rental, I’ve been burning Glossier’s Orange Blossom Neroli candle. It smells so good, and I actually just like the vessel.”

—As instructed to Daise Bedolla

Photographed by Brittany Bravo in Los Angeles on August 27, 2024