Allure Cover Star Allison Williams’s Beauty Secrets

By Lexi Novak

Allison Williams—intelligent, well spoken, funny, and supremely polite—has an extreme fondness for organizing. “I always joke that I have a tendency to just clean things up when I’m with a friend,” Williams tells Allure writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner. “It brings me joy.” In our December issue, the hyper-tidy Girls and Peter Pan Live!actress revealed the most crucial products in her beauty routine—and the asset she’s not faking (but everyone else is).

Her beauty must-have: “I use Homeoplasmine. It’s like Vaseline, basically, but it’s French, so in my head it’s really special and fancy.”

Her favorite new product discovery: “L’Occitane makes an almond shower oil, and I shave with that now—and my world is different. I have dry skin, so the almond oil is incredible.”

Her typical workout: “SoulCycle hurts my knees, so I started doing Pilates. I love it.”

The makeup she won’t leave the house without: “Mascara. There are my eyelashes, and they used to be considered good, until everyone started wearing fake ones.”

Read more with Allison Williams in the December issue of Allure, on newsstands now.

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