Jessica Alba on The Worst Beauty Advice She's Ever Received

"I love a full brow," Jessica Alba told us on the set of her Allure cover shoot, demonstrating her beauty-insider cred with the use of the singular. Her natural beauty brand, the Honest Company, has new skin-care and makeup lines that include a brow filler. How did they make it? "It's a secret sauce," she says. But there are some beauty secrets she's willing to share.

Who taught you about beauty? "My mom. 'Put your face on before you leave the house'—that's her thing. I also was raised by my grandma on my dad's side. She [used] one product: red lipstick. She dabbed it on her cheeks and put it on her lips, and that's all she needed."

What was your look in high school? "Nineties grunge. Doc Martens. I got my bellybutton pierced the second I could. I wanted to shave my head and pierce my nose, and my mom said she was going to make me stop acting. I was like, 'Oh, that's so mean.'"

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What's your biggest skin issue? "Dry and dehydrated skin. The hydrating mist [by Honest Beauty] is amazing. That's big for travel, also to refresh your makeup in the middle of the day."

Do you wear fragrance? "Not usually. If I wear anything, I'll wear a mix of some essential oils, like gardenia and jasmine, a little bit of vanilla. I like bergamot as well."

What's the worst beauty advice you've ever gotten? "That you need to pound on the powder to set your makeup. It's just not true, and it looks cakey. Just spot where you need it."

Have you ever had a bad spa experience? "I went to a Chinese-medicine reflexology place in the Bahamas. I think they were going for blood. I did cupping after that, and I ended up having, like, 12 bruises on my back—and that was relaxing [in] comparison."

What's one part of your beauty routine that you don't do around your husband? "It shocks him whenever I wear masks. Especially when I wear those big paper masks that make you look like a serial killer. My kids don't like that, either."

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