After years of experimentation, Sabrina Carpenter has finally perfected her signature beauty look. “Glowing skin, a statement lip, blushed cheeks, and fluttery lashes,” the 25-year-old singer tells me.
Photo: Luis Alberto Rodriguez
And it couldn’t come at a better time: Carpenter just finished the first week of a 29-city concert tour. “I try to keep it simple, fresh, and natural so that it looks like I’m wearing the makeup instead of the makeup wearing me.”
It’s been a massive year for five-feet-nothing Carpenter. After opening for Taylor Swift on the Singapore and Australia legs of Eras Tour, she dropped the single “Espresso,” officially kicking off the phenomenon that became Pop-Girl Summer. Next came a surprise appearance at Vogue World Paris and her sixth studio album, Short n’ Sweet, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart and has already turned out two more iconic singles: “Please, Please, Please” and “Taste.” The accompanying music videos, which racked up a combined 184 million views and starred important figures in Carpenter’s real life, also had another thing in common: Right before diving into the fun, the singer always shared the screen with a silver tube of Prada Beauty. To some, it was just a pretty product in a video. But for Carpenter, it was an Easter egg pointing to some big news being announced today: Prada Beauty and Carpenter are making it official with a collaboration.
Photo: Luis Alberto Rodriguez
“It was so fun to drop little hints for my fans,” Carpenter says. “My music videos are such a labor of love, so I love incorporating elements that are authentic to me and add to the overall storyline. One of the reasons I’m excited about launching this with Prada Beauty is because their products emphasize some of my favorite features and give the perfect level of glam that makes me feel feminine but still sophisticated.”
Carpenter’s obsession with the brand was first chronicled in the video for “Please, Please, Please” (released in June), in which the doe-eyed blonde finds herself sprung from jail—somebody paid her bond!—and the two possessions returned to her are a pair of Projekt Produkt sunglasses and Prada Lip Balm. “I had to think, Okay, what product is on me at all times that I’d truthfully be picking up from jail?!” Carpenter muses. “Ever since I was first introduced to it by my makeup artist a few months ago, it’s without a doubt the Prada Blue Balm.” In the video, she dabs it on just before making eye contact with her love interest—Barry Keoghan—and the trouble begins.
Carpenter going in for a touch-up with Prada Beauty in “Taste” Photo: Courtesy of Island Records
