Maren Morris Shares Her Favorite Products for Festival Season
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Maren Morris and festival season just seem to go hand in hand, so it's no surprise that the singer has some first-rate product recommendations for Stagecoach- and Coachella-goers. Plus, if you're going to Coachella this year, you won't want to miss this: She actually has a free concert featuring songs from her upcoming "Dreamsicle" album and more the day before Weekend 1 starts.
Catch Maren as a part of the multi-city concert series, the White Claw Sessions. She's headlining a free concert at the Saguaro Palm Springs on April 10. Her opener will be a White Claw "Next Wave Artist" — an emerging star that White Claw is spotlighting.
We caught up with Maren to chat all things her new album, plus her favorite products that can actually withstand the desert heat.
E! Are you going to be performing anything from your new album, "Dreamsicle," at your White Claw Sessions?
MM: I actually am, which I'm so excited about. It's nice to have a show like White Claw Sessions directly after announcing all of this exciting album stuff. So we've been in rehearsals this week, my band and I, and yeah, if you're at the show next week, April 10th, you might hear some stuff I haven’t put out yet. I'm so pumped, and it's gonna be such a fun, energetic, exciting kickoff to Coachella, and also feel intimate and be able to see people in the crowd and have a chance to just break in this new era.
E! Yeah, you're going to be able to see everyone's reactions and that's super exciting. Do you have a favorite White Claw flavor?
MM: Yeah, I feel like it's always been the black cherry one. I'll branch out sometimes, but I feel like that's the one that's usually gone first. The lime one’s really good on a hot summer day or at a summer festival when you’re outside and you want something that's not too fruity. I don't know why, but lime always hits, and you can mix it with stuff too.
E! I know you're always on stage in sweaty environments where your makeup needs to stay for a long time. Do you have any favorite products that you might recommend for people going to Coachella and Stagecoach that could make their makeup last a long time?
"My staples are just I want my brows done and I want my lip liner to stay on as long as humanly possible, so I feel like those liner peel off stains like from Sacheu. They come in every color you can think of, and they're all so good on every skin tone, I feel like, so even for me if I have a spray tan or I've gotten tan that summer, or if it's winter, they all look so good and they last all night."
Maren adds: "If I'm singing and I'm doing a show for 90 minutes to 2 hours with a normal lip, it's gone by song three or four because I'm singing on the microphone, and it just wipes away, and you're sweating. And especially at a festival, you're in the elements, so those have been amazing for me."
"And then also a brow stain like Wunderbrow. It lasts for at least 24 hours and you just don't have to think about it."
"I love the ONE/SIZE setting spray. I mean it's hardcore, but if you're doing an outdoor show, you want it to be locked in. If drag queens are using it, I will be using it."
E! Do you have a favorite sunscreen?
"I was in Australia for vacation last week, and I love going to Sephoras in different countries because they carry different brands that we don't have in the States, and I found this brand called Airyday. They make all of these sunscreens that are in these tubes. It’s the perfect amount of real skin looking glow, like slight tinted coverage, but not too much, and it's just light and doesn't break you out. So that brand I'm trying to find if they stock anywhere in the States because I'm just so obsessed with the consistency."
Unfortunately, Maren is right — this sunscreen does not ship to the U.S. — but if you live in Australia, New Zealand or Singapore, you're in luck. See Maren's other fave sunscreen below.
"I like the Supergoop! one as well."
E! It's pretty essential to wear a comfortable pair of shoes to a festival. Do you have a go-to pair of shoes that you think you could run around in all day?
"For festivals like Stagecoach or Coachella, I just feel like with the dust and different terrain, you have to have a boot on, whether that be a Doc Martin or just something, like, I can't do stiletto boots out there because they're going to get destroyed, but just something with a good heel that's stabilizing that if someone like smashes your foot in the pit or you're dancing a little too hard, you're not gonna break your ankle. You need some ankle protection. But yeah, boots are just the easy way to go at festivals, and just good socks."
E! Happy almost birthday! Is there a very Aries item that you own? MM: I feel like a lot of us are control freaks. In my purse I always want to be prepared, but I also don't want to carry a bunch of stuff, so it has to fit in a specific bag for me, but I think anything for touch-ups. I always have floss on me, because if I'm going out to a meal or whatever I want to be able to floss right after. Gum obviously is up there. I always have a travel-size perfume, so just no matter where you're at, you will be refreshed.
"I am such a collector of perfumes, so I will change it up each week, but I feel like as the months get warmer, I kind of move away from all my heavier wintry tobacco scents and I go into a good citrus like Tom Ford, and it's just so nostalgic for me. It's called Mandarino Di Amalfi, and it just reminds me of the summer of 2016, because I wore it all that summer on tour and it just makes me really happy. The bottle is beautiful."
"There's a lot I like wanna gatekeep, but I love Angel Dust by Fugazzi. That's such a clean skin scent, and it's always sold out, so it's probably moreso going to be now."
"And then one of my favorite perfumers is D.S. & Durga. They're based out of New York, but I think they have an LA location too. All of their scents are amazing. The first one I ever got from them is called Debaser, and it's a perfect spring/summer fig fragrance. I just had it on during so many titular moments of my career, and life, and vacations, so I love Debaser. It's a really electric green fig scent."
E! Scents totally bring back memories, so I'm also obsessed with perfume.
MM: Yeah, I love curating, like we always have a new scent each album tour, we always have a new candle that we're going to be burning in production and catering, and it just sets the tone — and on my bus. I just love being able to fully wrap the experience.
E! Do you already have your scent picked out then for this new album?
MM: No, but this album is called "Dreamsicle," so it's very summary and nostalgic to me. It's very ‘70s vibes, so I gotta come up with something candle- or scent-, or diffuser-wise, or incense that's gonna bring me into that boogie nights vibe.
E! So speaking of "Dreamsicle," in the promo I saw that you had such cute freckles, and I was wondering, is that a freckle pen, or are you just naturally blessed?
"I'm not blessed. My makeup artist Emily [Higgins] uses Beaubble on me a lot. They have a freckle pen, and it's really easy to use. I feel like you can't mess it up. It's one of those that's user-friendly."
"Freck [also] makes a great one. I'm not naturally blessed with [freckles], but I just feel like after so much makeup, especially like for a shoot or a show, freckles just make me feel like it's my skin again and just refreshes it and makes it look less two-dimensional."
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