Lawrence does “believe in facials,” she tells me when I admit to skipping them. “Yeah, because I can’t really get very much done. I need to have movement in my face—I get baby Botox, but I can’t do a lot,” she says of the industry term for microdosed injections meant to smooth without totally freezing muscles. “If my skin is going to be a little saggier than I would like, at least it looks dewy and pretty.” She’s open about the plastic surgery on her mind in this era of secret tweakments and deep-plane facelifts. “Oh, I’m really nervous about these fat transfers. I support other people doing them because I want to continue to watch and see what happens, but I don’t know about that,” she says. “I mean, I would love to have a buccal fat removal. I can’t because everybody would know, but just know that I want that.”
Instead, during these hours of high-touch luxury, Lawrence prefers Dior’s signature Mascarade treatment inspired by mascheri, the Venetian artisans who handcraft elaborate masks. It blends manual facial massage, techy machines (Radiofrequency! Microcurrent! Ultrasound!) and many, many mask applications (Cryo! Cream! LED!). “I do like the radiofrequency because I have huge cheeks and so I feel like exercising them as much as possible,” she says. When one machine misted oxygen over a layer of Dior Prestige skincare, “I thought she was smoking in my face,” Lawrence laughs. “When you’re in Europe, you never know. But I just felt, like, this poof. But it turned out to not be a cigarette and it was really, really hydrating and refreshing.”
Photographed by Marco Lessi
Lawrence has just started a “retinol journey” (she’s on Tretinoin, or “Tret”), so hydration is top of mind. “I fell for that Desitin, the diaper cream at night, which I do stand by—not permanently because it’s not moisturizing. But when you’re going up on retinol and your face gets red, sleeping in the Desitin, I noticed that it did make my pores smaller and it healed the redness.” When I tell her I’ve been off Big Retinol after it turned my skin into a shallow scab in my teens, she reveals her friend Tracy Dubb’s tip. “Well, you have to sandwich,” Lawrence says. “You have to use night cream, like something really moisturizing. Then Tret. Then a spritz of water and oil, because what I didn’t realize for so long, and I’m really happy to tell you this: Oil traps the water in, so you have to give oil some water that the oil sits on top of so that it seals it into your skin.” It’s one of the beauty tricks she learned IRL instead of on Instagram or TikTok.
