https://www.vogue.com/article/madonna-mdna-skin-care-line-health-japan-beauty-advice
The Perfect 24-Hour Spa Day Involves This, According to Madonna
“You have M from MDNASkin.com,” is how Madonna answers the phone while doing press for her new skin-care line out of Japan,
MDNA, named after her 12th studio album, which was named after the pop icon herself. Cutting right to the chase—you’d expect nothing less from a music legend and cultural symbol who has made a career out of self-empowerment—she delves right into the eight-product line that now includes a light, water-based finishing cream that is packed with hydrating ceramides and derived from the shimmering mineral mica. It is the culmination of a life spent on the road, she says, where much activity and little sleep is had. After all, good products, sleep, and water are the answer to perfect skin: “Juice is not water!
Water is water!” says the 59-year-old, her enthusiasm making way for her Midwestern accent.
The sun-conscious, Michigan-born mogul, who now has six children, the eldest of which is
Lourdes Leon, 21—“I have dreams of her laying out by the pool without wearing any sunscreen and I go ballistic,” she says—prides herself on having always taken care of her skin, even when she was a broke artist just starting out on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. “When I was making the transition from dance to music, I would save the little money I had and get a facial on Seventh Street, sandwiched in between all of the punk stores, once every couple of weeks,” she says. “I don’t know why we took care of our skin, but we did.” The “we” she is referring to is her and best friend Debi Mazar, the actress who moonlighted as her makeup artist at the time, not she and then-boyfriend Jean-Michel Basquiat or good friend Keith Haring. No, she says with a laugh, “the boys did not take care of their skin. But they were artists and painters and everything was about visuals.”
And if her three-decades-long career—full of countless jaw-dropping music videos, groundbreaking outfits, and sensationally theatrical tours replete with dancers suspended in the air and sword fighters set against high-tech set designs—is any indicator, visuals are still very important to Madonna, and M from MDNASkin.com. And so,
Vogue asked her to visualize this: A day without work, email, and kids. “Please god,” she whispers at the prospect. What would it look like?
“Well, I would wake up and put my
eye mask on. I would lay there for a little while and take the rose mist spray—I wouldn’t get out of bed—and then use my
Cryo-Sticks, which I store in the freezer,” she says of the stainless steel sculpting tool that reduces redness through the use of thermal energy. She continues, gaining excitement: “Then, I’d lay there for 10 or 20 minutes, until my puffy eyes go down, while I’m served coffee, of course.” The rest of the day includes more pampering, such as a full-body oxygen treatment, courtesy of her at-home Intraceuticals Oxygen machine (she purportedly owns a few because “it’s all about hydration,” she says), and a
clay mask not only on her face but on all dry body parts. “My knees, my elbows, even my butt.” After a final cleanse of her face, she would apply her new MDNA skin-perfecting
finishing cream and then get her hair and makeup done before going out. Where’s out? “Depends,” she says, like a true person who has zero responsibility for a day. “An art exhibit or gallery, perhaps, maybe even the theater! I’d do all the things I never get to do. And I would look amazing and my skin would be glowing.” Spoken like the true boss she is.
