Billie Eilish Shares Her Pre-Show Makeup Routine—and Her Waterline Liner Hack

A tight brown waterline for ‘siren eyes’, a smattering of freckles, a ’90s lip: it could only be Billie Eilish. And in a rare enough appearance for the singer on TikTok, she’s shared her full pre-show glam routine—her “everyday tour pre show glam routine or whatever” to be exact.

“Leave me alone I barely know what I’m doing but here’s what works for me [and] what I do before every show on tour,” she captioned the video. Contrary to what you may expect, the “Birds of a Feather” singer doesn’t have a glam team with her on tour. And, she uses a mix of cult favorites, highend buys, and drugstore products. It’s a look that’s remained her go-to throughout her Hit Me Hard and Soft world tour.

She begins the video with her hair, spraying her bangs and the back of her head with water before blowdrying with her Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer to “tame the cowlick”. Next she ties it in a ponytail, and clips her bangs back.

Taking a cotton pad, she swipes the Biba de Sousa Micellar Water across her face to cleanse and brighten her skin, and then pats on the brand’s moisturizer—a lightweight, non-greasy product that’s great for acne-prone skin and incorporates squalene, hyaluronic acid, and vitamin C. Eilish is consistent and loyal with her skincare—she repped the LA brand in her 2022 Vogue Beauty Secrets routine. Biba de Sousa is also Eilish’s faciallist, and boasts her brother Finneas, Miley Cyrus and Hailey Bieber as clients too.

Next, she goes to do her recognisable eye makeup. She takes a q-tip and dabs at her waterline, then she takes the Maybelline TattooStudio Gel Pencil in Bold Brown and draws it soft and rough, from her waterline and pulling it out to the sides onto her skin to elongate her eyes and create an almond shape. It doesn’t have to be perfect, she says, as she’ll come back to it. “Trust the process plz”. Then she goes in with her Makeup by Mario: The Neutrals palette (and she uses the medium brown shade “MN10”), taking the similarly brown shade and subtly smoking it out. She returns to the micellar water with a q-tip to clean up and sharpen her lines. The soft and rich colors make her blue eyes pop.