Tracee Ellis Ross Residence Interview: On Crimson Lipstick, Baths, and the Energy of a Gown at Residence

For our June/July situation’s The place the Coronary heart Is portfolio, celebrities and wonder execs share portraits and ideas whereas staying at dwelling throughout the pandemic. Ellis Ross (above) is in L.A.

As informed to Cotton Codinha

My motto earlier than this was all the time, “Work arduous and handle your self,” and now it’s switched to, “Be simple, be mild, and be joyful.” I’m not a special individual in a pandemic. I’m the identical individual. I’m simply as aware of self-care — the straightforward issues carry me tons of pleasure. All of that’s the similar, however I am permitting a really totally different body round it. I fear for therefore many individuals which might be on the entrance traces which might be conserving our world transferring and dealing that we so typically take as a right. I miss hugs and sitting within the presence of those who I like and with the ability to lean on them bodily. And, actually, [I miss] individuals’s smells. I miss that quite a bit. A buddy of mine the opposite day stated I odor like oatmeal. I used to be like, “What? Come on. I don’t odor like oatmeal.” He stated it is a mixture of incense and oatmeal, like dwelling. I do know precisely what my mom smells like. There are issues that as human beings we’re so used to taking as a right. I’m actually trying ahead to smelling individuals I like once more.

I like a shower. I’m taking extra common baths and discovering all various things to place in my bathtub. I had a rose bathtub the opposite evening. I am by no means an enormous make-up wearer, however I like a lip, and I’ve performed a lip for some Zoom calls and likewise only for me. It type of brightens my face. It has been useful. You move by the mirror and also you type of need to smile. I’ve worn MAC Ruby Woo with the Cherry lipliner for years. I put on mascara for work and any of my buddies will inform you that one in every of my favourite issues to say is I lengthy for a interval after I will not should put mascara on. Taking mascara off is such a chore.

I’ve all the time been recognized for doing a minimal of 1, a most of 4 masks a day. I’ve a set of masks second to none. They’re all Biologique Recherche. That is my favourite line.

I used to be courting somebody. He was English, and he was like, “My God, you are all the time in a housecoat.” I used to be like, “Initially, it is not a housecoat.” He was like, “Housedress.” I am like, “Not a housedress. It is known as a gown.” And I’ve a set of robes. I’ve three of the d’Oro robes. I’ve satin robes, I’ve cotton robes, I’ve ripped-up, outdated robes, I’ve terrycloth robes. There’s been a whole lot of robing.

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