British actress Thandie Newton, best known for The Pursuit of Happiness, Mission: Impossible II and Crash, has launched a beauty blog with her makeup artist and friend Kay Montano. The blog, called Thandie Kay, is described by the pair as being about “liberation, celebration and living life to the fullest.”
In a recent post, Thandie opened up about her lifelong battle with acne and shared her favorite products for tackling blemishes. She says she prefers these products because, having “more melanin,” she’s more prone to hyperpigmentation and dark spots left by pimples.
Here’s what Thandie recommends:
“For exfoliation on my face I use the gorgeous Eminence Strawberry Rhubarb Dermafoliant — completely natural and organic, it smells divine and is gentle enough (but properly effective) to use morning and night. After that I use Eminence Bright Skin Licorice Root Booster-Serum. This stuff rocks! The element found in most skin ‘lighteners’ is hydroquinone, and the good people at Eminence have discovered that this property occurs naturally in stone crop and licorice root. Bingo.”