Candice Swanepoel is a busy mother-of-two, so it should come as no surprise that the model has mastered the art of giving herself a ‘fake natural’ makeup look complete with painted on freckles in just ten minutes.
The 29-year-old Victoria’s Secret star is the latest celebrity to share her step-by-step makeup routine with Vogue, and in the new video the South African beauty dishes about everything from her beloved $4 lip balm to her ‘crazy veins from breastfeeding.’
However, before she applies any beauty products, Candice demonstrates her trick for easily adding waves to her ‘super straight’ blonde hair.
She explains that she likes to have a ‘little bit of curl,’ so after she messily dries her long locks, she throws them up into two Princess Leia-inspired buns on the top of her head.
‘Sometimes I’ll get the curling iron out, but I don’t have time for that kind of thing these days and I get lazy,’ the mom admits. 
Candice gave birth to her first son, Anacan, in October 2016, and she welcomed her second son, Ariel, this June, so it’s safe to say she has her hands full.
In the clip, she starts off by applying face oil, but she notes that if she has time, she likes to use eye masks.
‘Lord knows I haven’t slept in two years,’ she jokes.
Candice, who often shares Instagram pH๏τos of herself nursing Ariel, then points to the ‘crazy veins’ on her chest, explaining that they are from breastfeeding.
Interestingly, she opts to apply a liquid bronzer before her concealer, noting that her face is always lighter than her body because she uses sunscreen daily.
As a model, she often gets her makeup professionally done, and she credits the makeup artists she has worked with for helping her learn the tricks of the trade.
Candice uses Kryolan Dermacolor Camouflage Creme ($18.75), a heavyweight concealer that she likes to mix with oil or other liquids to smooth out.
She spritzes her Beauty Blender sponge with rose spray before dabbing the concealer under her eyes and on her forehead.
‘I have some sun damage and markings from my pregnancy. It’s a normal thing that happens,’ she says before using a brush to apply MAC Prep + Prime setting powder ($29) all over her face. 
‘My skin is oily so shine comes through quickly,’ she notes. ‘By the time we finish this video, I will be shiny again.’
She then uses her hands to dab Stila Convertible Color ($25) as a cream blush on the apples of her cheeks, eyelids, and nose.
‘I just feel like it makes you look a little more alive,’ she explains. ‘Blush on the nose kind of gives a fake sun-kissed look because that is where you look sunburned naturally.’
After applying the blush, she goes back to her concealer and uses her fingers to apply even more under her eyes to ‘really get those little bags.’
Candice notes that when she is at home, she likes to do half of her makeup and then spend some time with her kids or eat breakfast to give it some time to set before finishing it up.
However, for the sake of the video, she moves on to curling her eyelashes with the Kevyn Aucoin Eyelash Curler ($21).
‘When men see you doing this, they feel like you are torturing yourself,’ she jokes.
The blonde beauty uses two different brow pencils, one from Burberry ($33) and one from Laura Mercier ($24), to fill in the hairs, while admitting that her brows weren’t always so thick.
‘I used to pluck my eyebrows in high school, and it was the first thing my French agency told me to stop doing,’ she reveals. ‘Thankfully they grew back. The bushier the better.’
Candice likes to use MAC Haute & Naughty Lash Mascara ($24) on her lashes, and after applying it, she takes a cotton swab and dips it in concealer to clean up the ‘messy mascara bits’ that ended up under her eyes.
As she nears the end of her makeup routine, she uses a sponge to press setting powder all over her face and then adds even more blush to her cheeks.
At this point, she takes her locks down to show off her ‘lazy girl’s curly hair’ before spraying Living Proof Dry Shampoo ($13) to add volume to her ‘do.
‘Not bad for not doing anything,’ she says with a laugh.
Candice ends the video by demonstrating how she uses Dior Diorshow Pro Liner ($33) to add faux freckles to her nose and cheeks, a trick she learned from a Brazilian makeup artist she likes to work with.
She admits it ‘looks crazy at first,’ but after she uses the pads of her fingers to pat the spots, they look completely natural.
‘I always felt like freckles look really youthful, like you have been in the sun,’ she explains.