Candles, Concealer and Comparison Culture—The Jagger Sisters Just Shared Their Biggest Beauty Secrets
I sat down with Jo Malone London's global English Pear ambassadors, Georgia May and Lizzy Jagger, to ask them all of my burning beauty questions.
Welcome to The Glowdown, the series where we dive into the beauty secrets of our favourite celebrities as they get real about their routines and non-negotiables exclusively with us. Join them as they sit in our beauty hot seat, and we fire off a round of quick questions, giving you never-before-shared insight into the products they can't live without, their secrets to getting red carpet–ready, beauty pet peeves and the genius tips they've picked up along the way. This is no-holds-barred beauty at its finest.
This month, we sat down with Georgia May and Lizzy Jagger. The model and sister duo have just been named as Jo Malone London's global English Pear ambassadors, with a campaign centered around sisterhood. We were desperate to know all of their beauty secrets, so keep on scrolling for fragrance recommendations, makeup hacks and the affordable hair product they can't live without...
1. Which beauty product gives you the biggest mood boost?
Lizzy Jagger: Fragrance, for sure.
Georgia May Jagger: I feel like putting on fragrance is the last thing you do when you’re going on a night out, to make you feel like you’ve finished your hair, makeup and dress.
2. If you could steal someone else’s makeup bag, whose would it be?
GMJ: I feel like I would steal Emily Wood’s makeup bag because I bet she has so many fun glitters and colours. I would just like to have a look at it.
LJ: I quite fancy seeing Val Garland’s [makeup bag]. I think stealing a makeup artist's makeup bag would be the most rewarding!
3. You’ve got a spot. Are you team pop it or team leave it alone?
GMJ: I think we’re both team pop it.
LJ: I’m heavily team pop it. I’ll pop it for anyone!
4. You only have one product to use for the rest of your life—what is it?
GMJ: Moisturiser or lip balm.
LJ: The May Botanicals Super Balm.
5. What’s the best piece of beauty advice that you have ever taken from one another?
GMJ: I feel like Lizzy is very good at giving herself an amazing facial before a modelling job. She instilled that in me.
LJ: Georgia’s gotten me further into masks by making her own masks out of kelp. I feel like a mermaid every time I take one off. You’re just glowing.
6. What's your signature fragrance?
LJ: Jo Malone London English Pear & Sweet Pea is my signature fragrance. I like a light fragrance in the day that I can then layer with something a bit deeper, like rose.
GMJ: Mine is Jo Malone London English Pear & Freesia. I love that it’s very fresh and smells like spring.
7. Strong lip or a strong eye?
GMJ: A strong lip. I think we’re both on the strong lip. It’s just easier. We were talking a lot about how we do our makeup in the car, so it’s easier to do it on the go.
8. You’re having your nails done. What’s your go-to colour?
LJ: Either jungle red or emerald green.
GMJ: At the moment, I’ve been going for very sheer glitter nails, sort of early 2000s. I want anything sparkly and iridescent.
9. What's your beauty philosophy in a sentence?
GMJ: I feel like it’s about not taking yourself too seriously on the outside and not trying to compare yourself to others. I feel like we live in a real comparison culture. Try to embrace the individual things that you like about yourself.
LJ: With makeup, especially at night, more is more!
10. What’s your biggest beauty no-no?
LJ: Shimmery bronzer for me. Too much iridescence on the skin.
GMJ: I struggle with eyeshadow with no mascara. I know it’s trendy at the moment...
LJ: I agree with that one!
11. Candles, reed diffusers or nothing at all?
GMJ & LJ: Candles, for sure.
GMJ: I love the Jo Malone London Red Roses Candle.
LJ: And the English Pear & Freesia candle.
12. Name one beauty product that is always in your handbag
GMJ: In my handbag, the May Botanicals Super Balm for sure. Just because it’s multipurpose.
EJ: And me too!
GMJ: Also, I usually have a concealer as well. The Clé de Peau Beauté Concealer [Stick].
LJ: I always have a Charlotte Tilbury mascara in my handbag.
13. The greatest drugstore product for under £10?
GMJ: The Bleach London Hair Elixir for split ends—it’s the best.
LJ: For both of us! I’m using like a quarter of a bottle a week!
GMJ: The No7 under-eye concealer pen from Boots is really good as well.
14. Describe your brows in one word:
GMJ: I was going to say undecided because I’m always bleaching them or wanting them dark!
15. Your worst hairstyle (or hair moment) ever…
LJ: A wispy fringe when I was pre-teen. A wispy fringe on someone who has naturally curly hair is really high maintenance.
GMJ: I like a lot of mine. I’m sure not everyone will agree with me because I’ve had like a purple mullet [at one point]!
16. Makeup primer: love it or hate it?
LJ: I just got into it. I’m experimenting more with 40-plus makeup primer, like the line filler, the pore filler...
GMJ: I have never used makeup primer on myself. I am aware it’s a thing, and I’m sure that’s why when people do my makeup, it looks better, but I have gotten very into setting spray, which I’ve never used before.
17. Confession time–how often do you clean your makeup brushes?
LJ: Once every three months, and I know that’s not enough, but that’s about as much as I can remember.
GMJ: I’m quite guilty for not really using brushes and using my hands more, unless it’s eyeshadow. In which case, rarely!
18. Which celebrity’s hair would you love to steal?
GMJ: I would say my mum, but I wish I could pull off a Drew Barrymore in the ‘90s, short bleached crop.
LJ: Oooh, me too! I wish I could do a little Linda Evangelista short hair do, but I’m happy with my own hair.
19. Which era of beauty inspires you most?
GMJ: I quite like the ‘90s, where it’s like grunge goth beauty, but it’s also glam as well.
LJ: I quite liked it in the ‘90s when it was the bare skin look that took you an hour and a half. But I’m really inspired by the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘70s (even though they’re quite inspired by the ‘20s and the ‘30s). That ethereal glowing look that’s not afraid of a bright eyeshadow.
20. Best beauty hack?
GMJ: I feel like there are so many. Using a hair dryer to warm your eyelash curlers is a thing I’ve seen.
LJ: And I’ll do that after I put my mascara on!
GMJ: I’ve never been able to do liquid eyeliner as well as our mum, but she does a thing where she puts her whole head on the side, and draws like that, and every time I see it, I’m like, I just don’t understand how you’re doing that, and it works!
LJ: One last hack. Beetroot juice instead of blushers. And rubbing chilli on your lips makes them bigger.
21. What do you do in your downtime to relax and reset?
GMJ: Spending time with my son and walking my dogs.
LJ: We love going to spas and getting massages. And we both really like a nice long bath.
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