How Lana Condor Navigated Beauty Growing Up With a Mom Who ‘Looks Different Than I Do’
usmagazine.comLana Condor’s beauty evolution was a voyage of self-discovery as she grew up with a mom who “looks completely different than I do.” “I’m Asian American.
I grew up in a household that was not Asian at all, but my brother was Asian,” Condor, 26, told Allure in an interview published on Thursday, July 13. “My parents did a really fantastic job of always encouraging me to know where I came from.
However, I kind of grew up the way they grew up.” Condor explained that when it came to makeup and skincare, she had to figure out things for herself as her mom “could only help me so much.” “I’m adopted,” she told Allure. “The products that work for [my mom] don’t work for me.
Ways of application for her don’t work for me because I am Vietnamese and she’s Irish …. We have different faces, different features.” Navigating the world of glam was also challenging as Condor began to act with specific roles requiring her to look a specific way. “I know that I might look beautiful, but I don’t feel like myself,” she told the publication.
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