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Inside Amanda Seyfried’s Glamorous Beauty Prep for the 2021 Golden Globes

“Everybody wants to see a behind-the-scenes story,” Amanda Seyfried said recently about Mank, David Fincher’s black-and-white movie that follows Herman Mankiewicz as he labors over the Citizen Kane script. Seyfried, in a Golden Globe–nominated performance as the screen star Marion Davies, plays the effervescent wife to newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst (“Pops,” she calls him)—a real-world relationship that becomes not-so-sly inspiration for Mankiewicz and Orson Welles.

Of course, on Sunday Seyfried turned up in a different behind-the-scenes Story—once again playing a sparklingly funny actress, only this time in color. That’s how you can tell at a glance which Girl Scout cookie flavor (Samoas!) she’s dipping into while hairstylist Renato Campora preps her waves. Seyfried’s face (mid-bite) and hand gesture (proudly pointing to the box) seem to say, This is how you kick off awards season.

In any other year, Amanda Seyfried’s lead-up to the Globes—where she was also one of this year’s presenters—might have panned out differently. “Body scrub at Crystal Korean spa,” she wrote by email, “and a facial with Shani Darden.” Instead, the actor has spent the past stretch of months far from Los Angeles. Until recently, she was stationed at her farm in upstate New York, with her husband, Thomas Sadoski, their 4-year-old daughter, and a new infant son.

Seyfried in Genevieve Herr’s makeup chair ahead of the Globes, wearing jewelry by Forevermark. Hairstylist Renato Campora used FEKKAI products to create the screen-star waves.

Courtesy of Genevieve Herr.

As for the Globes, the family spent the evening watching from a hotel room in Georgia, where Sadoski, also an actor, currently has a project. “I waxed my legs myself this week as my daughter danced around me on the floor of the living room—it made the task fun,” Seyfried said of her awards-show routine, now a communal experience. As for skin prep, she took matters into her own hands: “I’m using twice as much and spending more time luxuriating in the Lancôme Advanced Génifique serum at night,” said Seyfried, who is a brand ambassador. “Luckily, since everything happens at home these days, no one gets in the way of my nighttime routine—but I cannot say the same about the day!”

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While Seyfried’s Mank character was firmly planted in Old Hollywood glamour (peroxide waves and red lips, the latter of which the actor has adopted for herself), what makeup artist Genevieve Herr created for the Globes was “more classical,” she explained by phone, “but with a bit of a modern touch.” Seyfried’s coral Oscar de la Renta dress, its neckline ringed by monochromatic flowers, led the makeup direction. Herr accentuated the top of Seyfried’s eyes with brown kohl liner, sweeping it out into a slight upturned wing; a palette of earth-tone shadows lent dimension to the lids, overlaid with peach for a hit of warmth. The individual lashes along the outer corners of Seyfried’s eyes gave a nod to the 1920s heyday of Marion Davies. But the impression was soft, radiant, understated—from the nectar-colored lip to the subtle contouring. “With Amanda, I feel that less is more on her,” Herr said, acknowledging unseen touches, like Lancôme’s primer, “that gives her makeup a really creamy and glowy [finish].”

If the day started off as a family-oriented affair—Seyfried posted a behind-the-scenes photo of her daughter’s hand holding a makeup brush, with the caption, “I wouldn’t let her do my makeup tonight so she brushed my hand”—it likely ended as one, too. As Seyfried told a Globes roundtable, “I’m not putting my 4-year-old to bed early [Sunday] night. I’m just not!” she smiled. “She can stay up as late as she wants. It’s once in a lifetime!” 

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