Hollywood icon Drew Barrymore chats exclusively to us about beauty, balance and her brilliant new eyewear range

<p>Drew Barrymore is busy: she acts on both the big screen and the small (you can catch her now in Netflix zombie romcom <em>Santa Clarita Diet</em>); she's a mum of two (to Olive, six, and Frankie, four) and an entrepreneur, running her own FLOWER Beauty brand. She's also just launched new designs for her FLOWER Eyewear range &ndash; luckily, she found the time to chat to us... </p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="drew-baryymore__square" class="ci-image ci-square" src="https://ui3.assets-asda.com/dm/drew-baryymore__square_GL?scl=1"></p><h2>You're a self-confessed beauty junkie. How did you get into make-up?</h2><p>I started acting when I was young, so I've been in make-up chairs from the age of six, and I used to love watching women like Dee Wallace (her co-star in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial) and Shelley Long (Irreconcilable Differences) transform. It's like watching the secrets of a woman. They'd come in all tired and closed up, then get their rollers in and their make-up done. I loved how the make-up made these women stand more elegant, more confidant. It had a huge impression on me and I was really into finding any make-up I could &ndash; putting eyeshadow on my temples and heavy rouge on my cheeks from the age of nine or ten.</p><p> </p><h2>WHAT'S YOUR TOP BEAUTY TIP?</h2><p>A smile is better than any lipstick. Frankly, I don't care how good your hair and make-up is &ndash; the better you feel on the inside, the better it's going to make you look. Beauty is so within.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="drew-barrymore-glasses" class="ci-image ci-original" src="https://ui3.assets-asda.com/dm/drew-barrymore-glasses_GL?scl=1" style="width: 581px; height: 300px;"></p><h2>Smoky eye or a red lip?</h2><p>A red lip. I do love a smoky eye, I can just throw on a lip any time. It's so simple but really effective.</p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="drew-barrymore-main__square" class="ci-image ci-square" src="https://ui3.assets-asda.com/dm/drew-barrymore-main__square_GL?scl=1"></p><p> </p><h2>Do you have a hero skincare product?</h2><p>I'm really into sheet masks. The ones from South Korea are real game changers. I use one twice a week.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="drew-glasses-2-" class="ci-image ci-original" src="https://ui3.assets-asda.com/dm/drew-glasses-2-_GL?scl=1" style="width: 581px; height: 300px;"></p><h2>How do you find balance when you're feeling stressed out?</h2><p>Balance...Ha! I feel like the last few years of my life have been so chaotic and overwhelming that I've made a promise to myself not to refer to 'balance' any more. 'Overwhelmed' just sounds like an excuse and you allow yourself to feel like you're constantly under things and that's a very helpless feeling. So I try to focus on words like 'proactive' and 'problem-solving' and concentrate on knowing where the light is at the end of the tunnel.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="drew-barrymore3__square" class="ci-image ci-square" src="https://ui3.assets-asda.com/dm/drew-barrymore3__square_GL?scl=1"></p><h2>Where is your happy place?</h2><p>At night in bed with my kids, when I ask them the same question I ask them every night of our lives: 'What was your favourite part of today?' And they tell me, and it's that moment when everything makes sense. It's the best part of my day.</p><p> </p><h2>Out of all your screen characters, who had the best style?</h2><p>Dylan Sanders in Charlie's Angels comes to mind. I got to go undercover &ndash; one minute I was a race-car driver, the next I'd be in black tie or cool streetwear. That was the most fun, for sure.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="drew-barrymore4__square" class="ci-image ci-square" src="https://ui3.assets-asda.com/dm/drew-barrymore4__square_GL?scl=1"></p><h2>Tell us about your eyewear range for Asda Opticians. Which is your favourite design?</h2><p>I love eyewear so much I feel like it would be easier for me to create 100 pairs of glasses rather than four or six at a time &ndash; I just want to throw the kitchen sink at it! I try to be timeless, expressive but not over the top. I take a really feminine approach to it, like, what is going to make a woman look and feel good? Eyewear is like make-up in that you're choosing whethee to wear a transclucent frame, or a taupe or rose one. I have lots of different favourites, but at the moment I love the Maggie frame in olive green, which is so flattering. Also, I'm really fond of translucent frames, like our Lilly design.</p><p><em>Drew's FLOWER Eyewear range is exclusive to <a href="https://opticians.asda.com/" target="_blank">Asda Opticians</a></em></p>

All Eyes on Drew

By Asda Good Living,18th January 2019

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