If you’re like us, you’ve probably wondered what famous people add to their carts. Not the JAR brooch and Louis XV chair but the hair spray and the electric toothbrush. We asked actress Leslie Bibb — who’s starring in the AppleTV+ series Palm Royale (out March 20), Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2, and season three of the White Lotus — about her “healing” skin care, go-to cookware, and combat boots she can’t live without.
The first thing I do in the morning is drink this. I love that it simplifies taking a shit ton of supplements. It doesn’t have a weird taste to it. People see it’s green and think: Oh, it must taste like shit. The color green gets a really bad wrap. Dare I say there’s a hint of vanilla in this, but it doesn’t taste the way it looks.
My facialist, Faith Tatro at Touch of Faith Aesthetics, is like Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind but with skin. She’s talented and passionate and she literally saved my skin. I’ve been going to her for about 15 years now. She tipped me to this combo. My skin is very sensitive, and New York in the winter is terrible for my skin. You go from freezing cold into hot buildings. This stuff, like it says in the name, is really soothing. If I burn myself or get a facial or chemical peel, I put this on. It heals everything. It’s magic in a little jar. Every time I put it on, I feel like my skin’s going, “Oh, thank you so much.”
I’m a lotion-and-potions girl. You’ve got one face — hopefully — so I try to be really good to my skin. Like I said, I have sensitive skin. It can be really moody. These face masks and eye masks are incredible, especially if I’m shooting. I’m so shameless with them. I was just doing a Clint Eastwood movie in Savannah, and I would throw on my eye mask, jump in my rental car, and go to the coffee shop with it on. It became such a joke that anytime someone from the accounting department would walk through hair and makeup, they’d be like, “So who makes those masks again?” These are not cheap, but they do work. I switch between the de-puffing, the rose gold, the black diamond, and blue cryo ones, depending on my mood. The other day, Sam [Rockwell, Bibb’s partner] had to do press, so I threw them under his eyes. I took them off, and I was like, “Yep, your eyes look good.”
Every makeup artist uses this on me, and it’s what I use in real life now. I tried to find other ones, but this one is easy, light, and beautiful. I don’t wear a lot of makeup because I don’t know how to do it. But, if I want a little coverage so I don’t look like Shrek, I use this and its blush on my cheeks and call it a day.
I bought these in 2018. I remember going downtown to the Prada store early in the morning and buying them. I wore them so much that I went back the following year and bought a slightly different pair. My original pair had zippers on both sides, and the second has a zipper on one side. I still wear the original pair. I take them to my incredible cobbler, Yakob on Sullivan in the Village, who puts them back together because I wear them so much. I’ve worn them all over the world. They’re easy to travel with because of the zippers on the sides. They’re so stylish and well made. Like my mom used to say, “Don’t buy a lot of cheap shoes. Just buy fewer more expensive ones that are timeless.” These feel timeless.
I am a cook. It’s one of my love languages. I make homemade veggie broth and chicken broth, and I spent all last weekend making soup for Sam and me. I’m very lucky to have a nice kitchen in our apartment in New York, and I love cooking with my Le Creuset. I really treasure it. I would rather buy a piece of cookware than a purse, as corny as it sounds. These are my go-to for cookware because they last forever and cook really evenly. When you first start cooking, if you have bad pots and pans, they won’t cook food evenly. You can burn stuff and get frustrated. This definitely helps as you start to cook.
Tracey Cunningham tipped me on this. I have baby-fine hair, and it just loves this stuff. I try washing my hair with other brands, and my hair ends up looking like a drowned mouse or something. It also prolongs my hair color. I’m not a natural blonde. I don’t know about anyone else, but getting your hair colored is tedious. Sitting in a hair chair for three or four hours is not something I find fun. Olaplex gets me an extra week out of the chair. If that’s what I have to do to get that time back, I’ll do it. They also have a product for getting chlorine out. As corny as this sounds, I do water aerobics in Los Angeles, like I’m somebody from the movie Cocoon. I’ll use Olaplex, and it works like a charm.
If you live in New York, you’ve got to get a subscription to New York Magazine. When I got my subscription maybe a year or two ago, they sent me my tote bag, and now I drag it with me everywhere. I’m such a cornball. Friends always ask, “Do you ever carry a real purse?” I’m like, “No, I just throw everything in my tote.” I get the functionality of it: I can throw my wallet in, go to the store, throw a carton of milk in. But this one’s more than that. It’s cool and classic. Some of them have weird logos or say something corny. The other day, I saw my neighbor out walking around with hers. I was like, “You have the New York tote bag, too?” It was the greatest thing. When I was just in Savannah, it reminded me of home. I really do love my little New York tote bag. I’m going to Thailand to shoot White Lotus, and I just threw it in my suitcase.
[Editor’s note: We did not pay Leslie Bibb to say this!]
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