“In my day-to-day life, I’m not a girl who’s going to walk around and do errands all glam,” Sanaa Lathan told Yahoo! Style about her fashion ethos. “I love comfort, so my style is whatever’s comfortable. In the spring and summer, I’ll wear a dress with flip flops; it’s easy. I wouldn’t necessarily call myself a ‘fashionista.’” The actress, 45, may not always follow trends to a tee, but she remains a leader when it comes to championing representation in Hollywood. “I am a black woman. I am an American. Our stories are just as important as any other story that gets told. So for me, it’s been a long time coming. I’m glad that we’re finally getting our due,” she told Vibe. Stylish looks back at the Yale School of Drama grad’s top hair and makeup looks.
Beauty of the Day: 5 Secrets of Sanaa Lathan’s Style
“In my day-to-day life, I’m not a girl who’s going to walk around and do errands all glam,” Sanaa Lathan told Yahoo! Style about her fashion ethos. “I love comfort, so my style is whatever’s comfortable. In the spring and summer, I’ll wear a dress with flip flops; it’s easy. I wouldn’t necessarily call myself a ‘fashionista.’” The actress, 45, may not always follow trends to a tee, but she remains a leader when it comes to championing representation in Hollywood. “I am a black woman. I am an American. Our stories are just as important as any other story that gets told. So for me, it’s been a long time coming. I’m glad that we’re finally getting our due,” she told Vibe. Stylish looks back at the Yale School of Drama grad’s top hair and makeup looks.
“In my day-to-day life, I’m not a girl who’s going to walk around and do errands all glam,” Sanaa Lathan told Yahoo! Style about her fashion ethos. “I love comfort, so my style is whatever’s comfortable. In the spring and summer, I’ll wear a dress with flip flops; it’s easy. I wouldn’t necessarily call myself a ‘fashionista.’” The actress, 45, may not always follow trends to a tee, but she remains a leader when it comes to championing representation in Hollywood. “I am a black woman. I am an American. Our stories are just as important as any other story that gets told. So for me, it’s been a long time coming. I’m glad that we’re finally getting our due,” she told Vibe. Stylish looks back at the Yale School of Drama grad’s top hair and makeup looks.
The Shots Fired lead (at a screening in NYC March 8, 2017) told Cosmopolitan that she and the show’s director, Gina Prince-Bythewood, have the same taste in clothing. So much so, in fact, that they gift each other clothes that they think the other will like (at one particular press event, they showed up in the same off-the-shoulder sweater!).
“I always deep condition,” the 5-foot-7 stunner (at an event in Park City, Utah, on January 25, 2017) told The Huffington Post. “It’s really important to keep my hair moisturized, not put too much heat on it and keep the ends trimmed. Also, I like to rotate my hairstyles. I’ll do straight and then when I’m in-between, I’ll wear my natural texture.”
The Nookie-clad star wore stick-straight bangs and a fuchsia lipstick to an event in NYC May 16, 2016. But her signature shade, she told The Huffington Post, is MAC’s Ruby Woo. “I love the matte finish and it looks different on so many skin tones,” she says. “Part of the fun in being an actress is that I can have so many personas. I think every woman should be that way. Yet, when it comes to my makeup, there’s been two go-to’s: the dark eye with nude lips or a red lipstick."
For the February 26, 2016, Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Lathan paired a Roberto Cavalli gown with old Hollywood waves, courtesy of hairstylist Larry Sims. “I’m loving my own hair especially because I’ve been taking good care of it and can go without [extensions],” she told The Huffington Post. “I like wearing it in a cool chignon or really wild."
“For my skin, I like using organic because it goes straight into your bloodstream. It’s like putting something in your mouth,” the NYC native (in Badgley Mischka at an event in Pasadena, California, on February 5, 2016) told The Huffington Post. “It was instilled in me at a young age how you treat your body is really important."
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