What I love about Ocasio-Cortez's makeup routine is that she uses products the same as the rest of us non-YouTubers, plus everything is under $50. In the video, we catch glimpses of her sharing her regimen, which includes toner, vitamin C serums, moisturizers and SPF. 'Don't play games with sunscreen!' she tells the camera. Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez shared her beauty and makeup routine in a series of Instagram stories 'People want me to post my skin-care routine,' she wrote in a story. To avoid being 'too product.
Going the full Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has joined the crowd:
But unlike the celebs, who don't take themselves too seriously, Ocasio-Cortez sees all sorts of significance in her makeup routine, and demands respect and power for it.
And she's upset that no one takes her seriously:
According to the New York Post:
'I used to think that I would be taken less seriously, and as the youngest woman in Congress and as a woman of color, it's so hard to be taken seriously,' the 30-year-old Democratic socialist told Vogue magazine in the video clip, just before showing her gold glittery eyeshadow palette.
'It's like any workplace, where sometimes it feels like you just have to jump up and down for someone to listen. It's just really difficult because some people are just born in bodies that are naturally taken more seriously.''
Instead of just saying 'this is a makeup video and people were asking for one and it's not political,' she has to make it political. In the video made for Vogue, she rhapsodizes about how 'beauty is power' as if that's exactly the right message to send to the less than beautiful, including the handicapped, the injured, the elderly, and the insecure.
More to the point, as she spends time doing her makeup and lecturing us all how 'empowering it is,' what she's not doing is anything that would make anyone take her seriously.
She's a representative for Queens and Bronx and right now, some ten thousand of her constituents are standing in line waiting for food, thrown out of work by the coronavirus lockdowns and literally struggling for survival.
According to the New York Post:
Until the pandemic struck the city, La Jornada food pantry used to hand out groceries to roughly 1,000 families a week. Now, the number tops 10,000. And volunteers serve lunch every day to 1,000 — many of them kids with growling stomachs. Across the five boroughs, the hungry is in the hundreds of thousands, the Food Bank of New York estimates.
'It reminds me of the picture from the Great Depression where a man in a suit and tie is giving another man in a suit and tie an apple. That's all he had,' La Jornada's Pedro Rodriguez told The Post. 'We give all we have, but that's not enough.'
That's her district and those are her constituents. For them - some 10,000 waiting in line on a Saturday, a makeup video is solid Marie Antoinette stuff, about the last thing they're thinking about as they wait for some kind of sustanance and pray like heck that their jobs will return and the COVID crisis be over.
Is she helping them? Not in the least, based on what's known.
It's just too fun to claim to be a victim herself, whipping out the compact and smearing the greasy sticks across her face, all to the adoring applause of her audience.
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Image credit: Screen shot from Vogue video via shareable YouTube.
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While walking Vogue through her daily skincare and makeup routine, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, 30, shared that spending so much time traveling and fighting for political causes can really take its toll.
'I have not gotten much sleep,' she said. 'Welcome to life in politics. We are trying to get people health care, making sure that they are taken care of in a pandemic, people are fighting too much, and so I have bags under my eyes.'
In addition to sometimes putting on a hydrating face mask during trips between Washington, D.C. and New York City, the progressive lawmaker always makes sure to use toner, vitamin C serum, moisturizer and a 'generous' amount of SPF — which she even rubs into her eyelids.
Although Ocasio-Cortez loves a glam moment, for her daily looks she usually chooses between wearing a tinted moisturizer or a longer-lasting foundation. From there, she'll apply a color corrector and concealer, using her fingers to help melt the product into her skin, before moving on to a light contour and a wash of color on the cheeks.
'I'm not trying to change my features or shape-shift—I'm just trying to accentuate my existing features,' she said. 'I'm just trying to show people what I got.'
When it comes to eye makeup, the lawmaker said that she loves to 'experiment' — including with glittery shades, which she used to believe would make her be 'taken less seriously.'
Video: Alanis Morissette's Nighttime Skincare Routine | Go To Bed With Me (Harper's Bazaar)
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'As the youngest woman in Congress—and as a woman of color—it's so hard to be taken seriously,' she said. 'People already try to diminish me and diminish my voice as young and frivolous and unintelligent.'
But after trying out a shimmery look, Ocasio-Cortez realized that not only did it look good, it also helped her 'feel better.'
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Feeling powerful and confident is also part of the reason behind the lawmaker's signature red lip — which she really embraced for the first time while on the campaign trail back in 2018.
'When you're always running around, sometimes the best way to look put together is a bold lip,' she said. 'I will wear a red lip when I need a boost of confidence.'
Even though she likes to try out different shades, her go-to is still Stila's 'Stay All Day' Liquid in Beso. 'I really don't have time to be running in and out of the bathroom to be doing touch-ups, and so I really prefer liquid lipsticks that just are indestructible.'
Although Ocasio-Cortez loves a glam moment, for her daily looks she usually chooses between wearing a tinted moisturizer or a longer-lasting foundation. From there, she'll apply a color corrector and concealer, using her fingers to help melt the product into her skin, before moving on to a light contour and a wash of color on the cheeks.
'I'm not trying to change my features or shape-shift—I'm just trying to accentuate my existing features,' she said. 'I'm just trying to show people what I got.'
When it comes to eye makeup, the lawmaker said that she loves to 'experiment' — including with glittery shades, which she used to believe would make her be 'taken less seriously.'
Video: Alanis Morissette's Nighttime Skincare Routine | Go To Bed With Me (Harper's Bazaar)
Ocasio-cortez Makeup
'As the youngest woman in Congress—and as a woman of color—it's so hard to be taken seriously,' she said. 'People already try to diminish me and diminish my voice as young and frivolous and unintelligent.'
But after trying out a shimmery look, Ocasio-Cortez realized that not only did it look good, it also helped her 'feel better.'
RELATED: Wonder Woman's Lynda Carter Tells Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to 'Never Stop Being Fierce'
Feeling powerful and confident is also part of the reason behind the lawmaker's signature red lip — which she really embraced for the first time while on the campaign trail back in 2018.
'When you're always running around, sometimes the best way to look put together is a bold lip,' she said. 'I will wear a red lip when I need a boost of confidence.'
Even though she likes to try out different shades, her go-to is still Stila's 'Stay All Day' Liquid in Beso. 'I really don't have time to be running in and out of the bathroom to be doing touch-ups, and so I really prefer liquid lipsticks that just are indestructible.'
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Although Ocasio-Cortez's political opponents have been known to try and use her physical appearance to discredit her policies, the lawmaker has never been shy about standing up for the power of makeup.
'In politics there is so much criticism and nitpicking about how women and femme people present ourselves. Just being a woman is quite politicized,' she said. 'There's this really false idea that if you care about makeup or your interests are in beauty and fashion that's somehow frivolous but I actually think these are some of the most substantive decisions we make and we make them every morning.'
'Our culture is so predicated on diminishing women and preying on our self-esteem, and so it's quite a radical act—and it's almost like a mini protest—to love yourself in a society that's always telling you you're not the right weight, you're not the right color, you're not the right, you know, whatever it is,' the congresswoman added.
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However, the true 'key to beauty' is loving yourself.
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'If you need a little boost or if you're feeling particularly challenged that day, look in the mirror and say, ‘I'm the bomb, and I will make the world a better place in my own little pocket because that's what I'm here to do'…. There's something that you bring, and you need to know that, and that is the best beauty secret of them all.' she continued.
